Jeff "Jmunney" Malone's Self-Styled "Expert" Thoughts on Movies, TV, Music, and the Rest of Pop Culture
February 4, 2026
Best in Film 2025, Best of 2025, Cinema Best of 2025, Blue Moon, Bring Her Back, Companion, Drop, Highest 2 Lowest, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, KPop Demon Hunters, Marty Supreme, movies, Novocaine, Oh Hi!, One Battle After Another, One to One: John & Yoko, Sentimental Value, Sinners, Spinal Tap II, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, The Day the Earth Blew Up, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, The Luckiest Man in America, The Naked Gun, The Naked Gun 2025, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, Weapons Leave a comment
CREDIT (Clockwise from Top Left): Ketchup Entertainment; A24; Paramount Pictures; Warner Bros.
It was a great year at the movies in 2025, just as it was last year, and will be every year in the future as long as cinema continues to exist. Here are my 20 favorites, along with quick summations of why I would recommend them.
February 4, 2025
Cinema, Movie Reviews Companion, Drew Hancock, Harvey Guillén, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Rupert Friend, Sophie Thatcher 2 Comments
The Face of Companionship (CREDIT: Warner Bros. Pictures/Screenshot)
Starring: Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillén, Rupert Friend
Director: Drew Hancock
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Rating: R
Release Date: January 31, 2025 (Theaters)
We all need a companion (or several), but what if our real-life companions were like the companions in the 2025 movie Companion? Alternatively, what if we were the companions? I suspect the world would have a lot more empathy if everybody had to spend at least a year working a companion job. (I’m playing a little coy in this review in an effort to avoid spoilers.) Anyway, now that I’ve seen Companion, I promise to follow best practices in how I treat my companions. I hope I was doing this adequately already, but now I’ll make sure to audit myself.
Grade: 12 Mods out of 15 Warranties
January 31, 2025
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Television A Shaw Deal, Companion, Dog Man, Geologist & D.S., Grammys, Hurry Up Tomorrow, Love Me, Saturn Awards, The Weeknd Leave a comment
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–Companion (Theaters)
–Dog Man (Theaters)
–Love Me (Theaters) – An experimental flick starring Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun.
TV
-67th Grammys (February 2 on CBS) – Trevor Noah hosts again.
-52nd Saturn Awards (February 2 on ElectricNOW and The Roku Channel – Hosted by Joel McHale for the third year in a row.
Music
-Geologist & D.S., A Shaw Deal – I think this is a super-duo.
-The Weeknd, Hurry Up Tomorrow
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