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The Rip | Mercy | Jeff York | Top 5 Male Performances 2025 | CinemaJaw 733

Reviewed: The Rip, Mercy Top 5: Male Performances of 2025 Guest: Jeff York Monthly Theme: Ben Affleck Get a load of those Oscar announcements eh?? That’s right – they announced the nominees for this year’s Oscar ceremonies, and you bet your sweet buppie we’re gonna talk about that. And we’ve got somebody great to talk about that with. We’ve brought our old friend and annual guest: Jeff York! He’s a critic and cartoonist here in Chicago, and a fellow member of our very own Chicago Indie Critics group. Just like Brian, just like Mark, AND just like Cati – Jeff is an annual friend at our yearly wrap-up, and Jeff’s job is to rank the Top 5 Male Performances of 2025. Plus, we’ve got a review of the new Matt Damon and Ben Affleck detective thriller: The Rip! For everybody wondering why we’re celebrating Ben Affleck this month: here ya’ go! We’ve got some fun trivia. We’ve got a capsule review of Mercy. We’ve got it all boy, girls, and enbies. I love you all, -KP

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple | Cati Glidewell | Top 5 Female Performances of 2025 | CinemaJaw 732

Reviewed: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Top 5: Female Performances of 2025 Guest: Cati Glidewell Monthly Theme: Ben Affleck There are only a few things you can truly count on in this world. 1.) Death. 2.) Taxes. And 3.) CinemaJaw’s yearly recap of the Top 5 Best Female Performances of the year with returning guest Cati Glidewell. And, lucky for you, number three is the one we went with this week! That’s right boys, girls, and enbies – we’ve got long-time friend of the show, seller critic, and The Blonde In Front herself, Cati Glidewell. And in addition to the Top 5 Female Performances of 2025, she’s also here for our review this week. We’ve got the follow up to last year’s hit zombie movie 28 Years Later, and Matt, Ry, AND Cati all caught The Bone Temple. And, if that wasn’t enough – we’ve also got an absolute banger for trivia this week. Ryan wrote “Devil’s Play” trivia for Matt and Cati. It’s a great start to the year, and if you aren’t excited about The Bone Temple then you clearly didn’t see 28 Years Later. You won’t wanna miss it y’all. I love you all, -KP

Marty Supreme, Wake Up Dead Man, Primate | Mark Dujsik | Best Scenes of 2025 | CinemaJaw 731

Reviewed: Marty Supreme, Primate, Wake Up Dead Man Top 5: Scenes of 2025 Guest: Mark Dujsik Monthly Theme: Ben Affleck Oookeeee okeeee. Oou ouuh oh. Oookeee. And for those of us who are *NOT* capuchins – let me translate this episode’s writeup: We’re reviewing Primate BABYYYY. It’s our first review of 2026, and Matt, Ryan and myself are known to be kinda like our furry ancestors, so we were excited to find out if this new horror film will drive us bananas. AND – to contrast this show’s hosts being monkey-adjacent, we have THE HARDEST working critic on the planet; our friend Mark Dujsik! And I’m not kidding – the guy goes ape s*** insane on watching movies. He’s always in the ball park of 500+ movies a year. He’s a friend of the show. He’s a hell of a critic. And we couldn’t be happier to have him in on all our monkey business. Plus, c’mon guys. We’ve been off for 3 weeks eating leaves and bananas. And we didn’t spend all that time picking flies off our backs. We also grabbed some movies from last year that we wanted to review too! We’ve got the ping pong… I mean *table tennis* flick Marty Supreme. And we even logged on to Netflix to screen the new Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man. Plus… listen… If you couldn’t tell by the bad monkey jokes already – this is KP writing this week’s writeup. And let. Me. Tell. YOU: this is the best trivia week of my life, because we are playing MONKEY MOVIE TRIVA!!!!! I cannot emphasize enough how much I like monkeys guys. I wish every week was monkey movie trivia week. This is a good one! We’re welcoming in 2026 with our bests… our at the very least – our most… *us*. We’re ready to rock the new year with y’all. Love, -KP

Best of 2025 with Brian Tallerico | CinemaJaw 730

Top 10: of 2025 You know it. You love it. It’s the annual top 10 lists for the year with our dear friend, Brian Tallerico. Ryan’s got his top 10. Matt’s got HIS top 10. And, if you can even believe it, Brian has HIS top 10 also! That’s 30 times one of Chicago’s finest critics touches on all the things that made this year so magical. Horror. Comedy. Drama. And the expected levels of “you put that at number _____???” bickering ya’ love to hear from CinemaJaw! This one’s the last episode of the year, so please PLEASE have a great holiday season. We’re super excited about 2026, and believe you me – everybody on this podcast would agree that all of you listening are a huge reason we’re so excited.  Love you all, -KP

Review-O-Rama: Jay Kelly, Train Dreams, The House Made | CinemaJaw 729

Reviewed: Jay Kelly, Train Dreams, The House Made It’s that time of year. We’re cramming in our last few movies before the year ends, and boy HOWDY is CinemaJaw having fun clearing up our final watchlist. And we want to share that fun! We’ve got a review-o-rama for ya’ this week JawHeads where we go over 3 movies. Jay Kelly – the new Netflix film starring Adam Sandler and George Clooney. Speaking of Netflix, Matt and Ryan also caught Train Dreams, the meditative period piece about a man working on a railroad during the western expansion. And finally, Ryan also caught The Housemaid, a steamy thriller flick starring Sydney Sweeny and directed by Paul Feig. It’s a good one guys! -KP