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Reviewed: The Odyssey

This. Is. BIG. Epic – no less. We’re covering what is arguably the largest movie of the year, none other than Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster, The Odyssey. The film stars Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Zendaya, and many, MANY more. It’s adapted from the Greek epic from centuries ago. And it’s one of the most anticipated movies of the year!

To cover a moment this massive, we had to get a massive critic as our guest. And who’s more colossal of a critic than the Managing Editor over at Roger Ebert? That’s right everybody, we went there and we invited on Brian Tallerico on as a guest critic this week, a whopping 5 months early this year!

Plus, since it’s not every week a Nolan comes out, we figured why not keep the ball rolling and make it a Nolan-a-palooza and make our Top 5 this episode our Top 5 Nolan Scenes

This is a big one guys. Gigantic, no less. Have I not made that point clear? Must I buy a finer thesaurus to please you all???

Love,

-KP

Reviewed: Minions and Monsters, Moana (2026), Enola Holmes 3

This week, we’ve got a good one JawHeads. It’s a Review0-o-rama with three family friendly releases. To start, we have Minions and Monsters, the newest of the little yellow rascals. Then we take things to the sea with Disney’s new live-action Moana. And finally, we take things home with Netflix’s latest caper, Enola Holmes 3. It’s a jam-packed jaw like always guys. Enjoy.

Reviewed: The Invite

Dear Master/Madam Jawhead,

You are cordially invited to join Master Ryan of Movieguyland and Lady Kira P for an unforgettable evening of cinematic delights. 

Set your calendars at your soonest convenience to reserve time for the CinemaJaw review of Olivia Wilde’s newest film, The Invite. The itinerary for the episode is as follows:

Please RSVP at your soonest opportunity to this wonderful affair by downloading and listening to CinemaJaw Episode Seven-Hundred and Fifty Five. 

We hope to see you there

Regards and best wishes,

-Lady Kira P of Fishtankia

Reviewed: Supergirl, Leviticus

It’s a bird! It’s a plane!! It’s… the same damn joke I wrote for James Gunn’s Superman film last year??

Well, what can I say? Superhero CinemaJaw blog post fatigue is the new Superhero film fatigue. How’s about this you guys – I promise to make it up to you all with a kick ass guest this week for our review of Supergirl – the newest James Gunn-o-verse DCU flick.

We have the one; the ONLY Matt Kubinski on as our guest critic this week! None other than CinemaJaw’s actual best friend Matt K is back to cover what he knows best: comic book movies. And we couldn’t be happier that Matt’s back on the jaw — it just feels… right

Plus, in addition to this absolutely delightful episode, we have a second review to round out the tail end of the show. Ryan has a review of Leviticus – a new queer horror film. How does this movie hold up in an already stellar year for horror? Listen up to find out y’all.

I loved recording this episode guys. And I know you’re all gonna love the listen. And if you promise to listen, I’ll promise to have a more original opening bit for the post on the next Superman franchise blockbuster.

Love,

-KP

Reviewed: Toy Story 5

It’s play time y’all. 

In honor of Toy Story 5, I, KP Fujiwara, thought it would be fun if I wrote the strangest thing I could think of as this episode’s post intro. When ya’ grow up, you don’t really have toys to play with anymore, so you have to learn to make your own fun sometimes. And that’s what I did. Was it strange for you??? I think it waaaaas.

Anyways, Toy Story 5 came out, and Ryan and I caught it! We have a review for you guys coming your way and we also sat ourselves down and figured out our top 5 favorite Pixar characters. And we didn’t do that alone either.

Ryan Oestreich, the GM at The Music Box theater is back on the show with big BIG news! Our favorite theater is getting a major upgrade that we discuss in this episode. Plus, Ryan (Oestreich) is sticking around with us the whole time and givers us a few of his most memorable movie theater experiences too. 

This week is like a big old celebration of movies and toys. When it’s typed out like that it sounds weird, but I promise it’s fun. Plus, a lot of things are weird when they’re spelled out before us but are ultimately acceptable. This entire post proves that point and I will die on that hill.

Love,

-KP

Reviewed: Disclosure Day, The Furious

None of you know the lengths that Ryan and I had to go through to disclose this podcast to you all. And that’s because this is not just a regular episode of CinemaJaw… In this episode, we leak insane information. So insane, the government has been trying to stop us from giving out all of the juicy details. This week, we talk about Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day! This is—arguably—the first summer block buster of 2026, and we’ve got it reviewed for you early y’all!!

We also come bearing more hot information that the government doesn’t want you to know—we saw The Furious; a new Hong Kong kung-fu flick. The government has been keeping this review under wraps too, and our mission is to get the truth out there.

Plus, in honor of Disclosure Day AND Steven Speilberg month, Ryan and I wanted to recap our favorite Steven Spielberg films, which is really the hardest list I’ve ever had to make in my life. There are no wrong answers and it was tough as hell to narrow down.

…Wait… the review embargo is lifted… And we’ve got the clear to disclose whatever we wanted to?… So there’s no pressure whatsoever to keep things quiet? Damn…

Love,

-KP

Reviewed: Master of the Universe, Power Ballad

Jaw heads, there are many mornings just like this one where I wake and I step outside. And what ends up happening is, I take a deep breath and then I’ll step outside. Then, like, bloody murder, I’ll scream from the top of my lungs: “Hey! What’s going on with that new He-Man movie???”

It happens all the time, and I’m truthfully not entirely sure why. But there it is. And let me tell ya’ – I’ve stumbled upon the remedy for that little problem of mine. It’s listening to this episode of CinemaJaw. Because, believe it or not, we got out to see Master of the Universe and we were ALL excited to talk about it; including our guest, our friend, and our fan favorite critic: Cati Glidewell. That’s right The Blonde In Front herself is with us to talk about a movie based upon a cartoon from the 80s.

Plus, we always love having Cati on to do our top lists, in case it wasn’t obvious from her previous appearances, so we decided to bring one more top list her way to talk about the top 3 campy movies. Now, what constitutes a “campy” movie is… a little ambiguous and we talk about that. The last thing we want is another repeat of emo-gate 2024 after all. And Cati helps us tackle the important issues like this one.

Oh – and one more thing – We also got out to catch the new Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas flick: Power Ballad. It’s from director John Carney and is called “Power Ballad” so in case it wasn’t obvious, we’ve got a movie about music out in theaters.

This week’s got a lot to love everybody. This is a fun one.

Love,

-KP

Reviewed: Backrooms, Passengers, Pressure, I Love Boosters

Take a left. Now a right. This time go forward. Turn around. Then take the door three doors to the left of the one you came in from. Perfect. Follow this hallway down until it forks. Then, instead of going left or right, look up actually. There’s a pull cord to a square in the ceiling like an attic has. Go up there…

Oh. Sorry guys. I didn’t see you there. I was just giving my friend directions on where to find a review of the newest horror movie, Backrooms… don’t worry – I actually don’t like that friend very much so I gave them bogus directions. The real way is to turn left until you find your nearest chair and kick back, pop in your AirPods, and listen to this episode of CinemaJaw!

And, if you couldn’t tell I hate this particular friend enough, you should know that I’m guiding you to even more than just a review of Backrooms!!

It’s a Review-O-Rama this week on CinemaJaw, and we’ve also got reviews of Passengers – another horror movie, this time about hitchhikers, Brendan Fraser’s WWII historical flick Pressure, and Boot’s Riley’s I Love Boosters.

Plus, if that wasn’t enough; if your insatiable lust for movie reviews is still yet to be satisfied, we even have a bonus Retro Review of Working Girl. We missed it for Sigourney Weaver month by just one day, and we figured we’d make sure we’re no later than that.

This is a fun one you guys!! With all these reviews, there’s something for everybody.

Love,

-KP

Reviewed: Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu

My friend here doesn’t like your other movies podcast very much… I don’t like your other movies podcast very much.

And do you want to know WHY I don’t like that other movies podcast very much? Because it’s not CinemaJaw dip-dangit!! And over here on the greatest movies podcast ever, we’re talking (drum roll) STAR WARS!!!

Because, for the first time in what feels like forever, we have a new Star Wars movie. It is officially that time: The Mandalorian and Grogu is OUT. Ryan and I caught it, as well as our good friend, Jeff York. So, after our screening, we invited Jeff onto the show to pitch in his review for the new Mando movie.

Plus, it’s kind of a big deal when a new Star Wars movie comes out, so we’re not leaving it there guys. This doesn’t happen often. There are – all things considered – not that many Star Wars movies. So we’re going to turn this review into a Star Wars Special; the first Star Wars special since Rogue One, no less. And we’re talking our Top 5 Star Wars Scenes.

This one is fun as hell guys. It’s always great talking Star Wars. It’s always great hanging out with Jeff. And it’s always great jawing about the movies.

Love you guys,

-KP

-KP

Reviewed: Obsession, The Wizard of the Kremlin

I have absolutely no idea how old you are as a listener. For all I know, you – the Jaw head reading this – are 83 years old. Or maybe you’re 19. I really have no clue. All I will say is this:

To the 20-something that needs to hear this… no – it doesn’t get any better than this. You’re gonna look around and think to yourself: “this isn’t what they promised me adulthood would be like at all; this timeline sucks balls dude what the hell.”

Feeling better? Good, because that’s the EXACT kind of headspace we go into this week during our Top 5 Post-Grad movies! A list we came up with inspired by our guest Zach Schnitzer and his feature film Loafers. We discuss his film, which is about a group of young adults who just finish school, his experience playing at the Music Box Theater for the Chicago Critics Film Fest, and what’s next in the pipeline.

PLUS – we also have a review of the newest in a whole slew of YouTube Horror movies, this one’s titled: Obsession. And would you believe me if I told you we also prepped a capsule review of The Wizard of the Kremlin for you as well.

This is a good one guys! At the very least stick around for the Billie Eilish moment. That was awesome. You’ll know it when you hear it.

Love,

-KP