Jeff "Jmunney" Malone's Self-Styled "Expert" Thoughts on Movies, TV, Music, and the Rest of Pop Culture
October 31, 2025
Cinema, Movie Reviews A House of Dynamite, Abubakr Ali, After the Hunt, Andrew Garfield, Angel Reese, Anthony Ramos, Arielle Friedman, Arturo Castro, Ayo Edebiri, Aziz Ansari, Ben Leonberg, Brian Tee, Brittany O'Grady, Chloë Sevigny, Damian Lewis, Evan Peters, Francesca Carpanini, Gabriel Basso, Gbenga Akinnagbe, George Orwell, Gillian Anderson, Good Boy, Good Fortune, Greta Lee, Hasan Minhaj, Idris Elba, Indy the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, Jared Harris, Jared Leto, Jason Clarke, Jeff Bridges, Joachim Rønning, Jodie Turner-Smith, Jonah Hauer-King, Julia Roberts, Kaitlyn Dever, Kathryn Bigelow, Keanu Reeves, Keke Palmer, Kyle Allen, Larry Fessenden, Lío Mehiel, Luca Guadagnino, Malachi Beasley, Michael Stuhlbarg, Moses Ingram, Noah Oppenheim, Orwell 2+2=5, Raoul Peck, Rebecca Ferguson, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sandra Oh, Seth Rogen, Shane Jensen, Stuart Rudin, Tracy Letts, Tron, TRON: Ares, Willa Fitzgerald Leave a comment
Good Boy, Good Times at the Movies (CREDIT: Ben Leonberg/Independent Film Company and Shudder)
Okay, here we go. It’s time for me to release my thoughts about the new movies that I saw in the month known as October 2025 that I haven’t explicated until now. Trick-or-treat furever!
October 2, 2025
Cinema, Movie Reviews Chiwetel Ejiofor, Eleanor the Great, Ema Horvath, Erin Kellyman, Gabriel Basso, Jessica Hecht, June Squibb, Madelaine Petsch, Rachel Shenton, Renny Harlin, Rita Zohar, Scarlett Johansson, The Strangers, The Strangers: Chapter 2, Will Price Leave a comment
People are Strangers, when Eleanor is Great (CREDIT: Sony Pictures Classics/Screenshot; Lionsgate)
Starring: June Squibb, Erin Kellyman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jessica Hecht, Rita Zohar, Will Price
Director: Scarlett Johansson
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: September 26, 2025 (Theaters)
Starring: Madelaine Petsch, Gabriel Basso, Ema Horvath, Rachel Shenton
Director: Renny Harlin
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Rating: R
Release Date: September 26, 2025 (Theaters)
Sometimes when I watch two very different movies in quick succession, I like to ask which one of them feels more like home. First up we have Eleanor the Great, in which June Squibb plays a woman who moves in with her daughter and grandson and then befriends a young journalism student in the course of pretending that her recently deceased friend’s experience of surviving the Holocaust is her own story. Meanwhile, The Strangers – Chapter 2 (which is of course the fourth film in the Strangers franchise) is just the latest misadventure of masked killers delivering their lethal blows to ostensibly random targets.
November 13, 2024
Cinema, Movie Reviews Adrienne C. Moore, Amy Aquino, Cedric Yarbrough, Chikako Fukuyama, Chris Messina, Drew Scheid, Francesca Eastwood, Gabriel Basso, J.K. Simmons, Juror #2, Kiefer Sutherland, Leslie Bibb, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Zele Avradopoulos, Zoey Deutch Leave a comment
TFW you’re Juror #2 (CREDIT: Warner Bros. Pictures/Screenshot)
Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Zoey Deutch, Chris Messina, Gabriel Basso, J.K. Simmons, Amy Aquino, Leslie Bibb, Cedric Yarbrough, Francesca Eastwood, Adrienne C. Moore, Chikako Fukuyama, Zele Avradopoulos, Drew Scheid, Kiefer Sutherland
Director: Clint Eastwood
Running Time: 114 Minutes
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: November 1, 2024
I sure wouldn’t want to end up in the same predicament as Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult), the titular Juror #2 of Juror #2. Watching the movie about him is already stressful enough! But maybe it’s a good way for us to prepare ourselves in case we ever find ourselves in the scenario in which we realize that we might be guilty of the crime at the heart of the trial we’re on the jury of, or a similar situation. It would still be a dilemma, make no mistake about it, but at least one we’ve now been able to visualize.
Grade: 10 Not Guiltys out of 2 Guiltys
June 12, 2024
Cinema Adria Arjona, Amy Winehouse, Anne Hathaway, Annie Mumolo, Austin Amelio, Back to Black, Eddie Marsan, Ella Rubin, Ema Horvath, Evan Holtzman, Freya Allen, Froy Gutierrez, Gabriel Basso, Glen Powell, Hit Man, Jack O'Connell, Juliet Cowan, Kevin Durand, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Lesley Manville, Lydia Peckham, Madelaine Petsch, Marisa Abela, Michael Showalter, Nicholas Galitzine, Owen Teague, Perry Mattfeld, Peter Macon, Reid Scott, Renny Harlin, Retta, Richard Linklater, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Sanjay Rao, The Idea of You, The Strangers, The Strangers: Chapter 1, Wes Ball, William H Macy Leave a comment
CREDIT: Amazon Prime Video
There are a handful of movies I saw in May that I haven’t shared any extended thoughts about yet, so here’s a Spring Cleaning-themed review roundup. Typically May is considered part of the summer movie season, but that leaves short shrift to the time of year when it actually is spring. If May 1-Labor Day is Summer Movie Season, and October-December is Fall Movie Season, and Thanksgiving-New Year’s is Holiday Movie Season, and January-February is Awards Holdovers/Winter Dumping Ground Season, well then, we really only March and April for Spring Movie Season, and a good chunk of March is spent fretting about the Oscars! So let’s give some love to the month with the best weather of the year (apologies to those of you with vernal allergies) and check in on the May spring movies.
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