Popcorn Junkie

It's our first SUPER MEGA AWESOME MOVIE REVIEW MADNESS of 2019. We have three 2019 releases with The Upside, A Dog's Way Home, and Replicas, and then three 2018 carryovers with On the Basis of Sex, Mary Queen of Scots, and Ben is Back.

The first episode of 2019 is a light one. After reviews for Escape Room and a Netflix and Chat about Outlaw King, Jon covers the winners of this year's Golden Globe Awards.

2018 is coming to a close, and after reviews for Holmes and Watson and Vice, followed by a quick Netflix and Chat about Watership Down, Aggretsuko: We Wish You a Metal Christmas, Roma, and Bird Box, Jon lists his Top 7 Favorite, Least Favorite, and Blandest Movies he saw in 2018.

Since this week's episode is being released on Christmas Eve, Jon has a special treat. After reviews for Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins Returns, Aquaman, Bumblebee, Second Act, Welcome to Marwen, and They Shall Not Grow Old, we celebrate the holidays like any entertainment producer: a holiday special. Featuring reviews of It's a Wonderful Life, Scrooged, The Grinch, Love Actually, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Happy Holidays from the Popcorn Junkie to you.

This week, Jon reviews Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Peter Jackson’s new production Mortal Engines, Clint Eastwood’s new movie The Mule, and a repackage of Deadpool 2 with Once Upon a Deadpool. Plus, a discussion on seeing rereleases of movies in theaters in the age of home video.

Since the only new release near Jon this weekend was the 25th Anniversary rerelease of Schindler's List, Jon has a Netflix and Chat of Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Season 1 of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, then a discussion about the ramifications of having no new releases and the hierarchy of release platforms.

This week’s episode is a light one. After reviews for The Possession of Hannah Grace, Border (Gräs), Pokémon: The Power of Us, and a Netflix and Chat for MST3K: The Gauntlet, Jon breaks down his thoughts on what movies should be seen in theaters.

This Thanksgiving brings another SUPER MEGA AWESOME MOVIE REVIEW MADNESS with reviews of both Wreck-It Ralph movies, all 7 previous Rocky movies leading up to Creed II, the hot mess that is Robin Hood 2018, plus the biopics Green Book, The Front Runner, Beautiful Boy, and Boy Erased.

With the release of the latest entry in the Wizarding World franchise, Jon revisits all 8 Harry Potter movies and the previous Fantastic Beasts before reviewing The Crimes of Grindelwald. Then, after reviewing Instant Family, Widows, and A Private War, Jon breaks down his feelings on the Wizarding World as a franchise.

On this week's episode, Jon reviews Illumination's adaptation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, 2011's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its new rebootquel(?) The Girl in the Spider's Web, the Nazi-sploitation movie Overlord, plus a Netflix and Chat on Latin History for Morons, South Park Season 22, and Hasan Minhaj's Homecoming King and Patriot Act. Then, a brief discussion on the abuse of padding in movies.