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!
April 9, 2024
Cinema, Movie Reviews Catalina Saavedra, Greta Lee, Greta Titelman, Isabella Rossellini, James Scully, Julio Torres, Kelly McCormack, Laith Nakli, Larry Owens, Megan Stalter, Problemista, RZA, Spike Einbinder, Tilda Swinton 1 Comment
A Problemistamatic Man (CREDIT: A24)
Starring: Julio Torres, Tilda Swinton, RZA, Isabella Rossellini, Catalina Saavedra, James Scully, Laith Nakli, Spike Einbinder, Greta Lee, Larry Owens, Kelly McCormack, Greta Titelman, Megan Stalter
Director: Julio Torres
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Rating: R
Release Date: March 1, 2024 (Theaters)
There’s a problem out there, and it’s not Problemista.
So I just wanted to pop in and say that the American visa and immigration system is kind of crazytown bananapants. (Who among us hasn’t had the odd green card in his or her pants, right?) But at least it inspired Julio Torres to make a pretty good film. It’s about seeing a plan through and finding a kindred spirit through all the cacophony and rancor. Now, let’s go be assertive!
Grade: The Promise of Cryogenics is Alive in Brooklyn
July 20, 2023
Cinema, Movie Reviews Celine Song, Greta Lee, John Magaro, Past Lives, Teo Yoo 2 Comments
Inyeon Levels Reaching Critical Mass! (CREDIT: A24)
Starring: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro
Director: Celine Song
Running Time: 106 Minutes
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: June 2, 2023 (Theaters)
If you’re reading this review, clearly we share a lot of inyeon with each other. Perhaps in our next lives, we will be married to each other, or maybe we’ll write movie reviews together. I don’t always believe in destiny, but when I do, it’s usually so that I can open myself up to enjoying a movie as wonderful as Past Lives.
Grade: Seven Times Seventy-Seven Lifetimes of Inyeon
May 31, 2023
Cinema, Movie Reviews Amandla Stenberg, Andy Samberg, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Greta Lee, Hailee Steinfeld, Issa Rae, Jake Johnson, Jason Schwartzman, Joaquim Dos Santos, Jorma Taccone, Justin K. Thompson, Karan Soni, Kemp Powers, Luna Lauren Velez, Miles Morales, Oscar Isaac, Rachel Dratch, Shameik Moore, Shea Wigham, Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Spider-Verse 1 Comment
Tonight, we’re gonna Spider like it’s 2099 (CREDIT: Sony Pictures)
Starring: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Oscar Isaac, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez, Jake Johnson, Jason Schwartzman, Issa Rae, Karan Soni, Daniel Kaluuya, Shea Wigham, Greta Lee, Rachel Dratch, Jorma Taccone, Andy Samberg, Amandla Stenberg
Directors: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson
Running Time: 140 Minutes
Rating: PG for Mostly Mild Punches and Scrapes
Release Date: June 2, 2023 (Theaters)
What’s It About?: Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) really relishes getting to be Spider-Man, but if he’s being honest, his life is far from perfect. He loves his parents, but he doesn’t know how to be fully honest with them. And he’s excited about a college-bound future, but it won’t fill the multiverse-sized hole in his heart. He met a bunch of really cool spider-people from other universes during his first big adventure, and he spends most of his days wishing he could get to see them again. Then a certain version of Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) shows up once again to let him know that the multiverse is facing a greater threat than it’s ever seen before. A seemingly infinite amount of spider-beings are recruited for the mission, but if he’s not careful, Miles might actually stand in the way of everything working out.
What Made an Impression?: When Into the Spider-Verse came out in 2018, it was a breath of fresh air. Despite the weight of its multiversal ambitions, it was light on its feet and disarmingly accessible. Across the Spider-Verse doesn’t have the benefit of surprise, and it threatens to tip over by going deeper, heavier, and longer, but it still manages to be just as compelling. It helps to have pizzazz. The various animation styles are just so astoundingly intricate that I simply can’t look away. I imagine some viewers might find this outing overwhelming, but considering how saturated our culture currently is with superheroes, the buy-in isn’t that difficult.
The conflict at the heart of Across the Spider-Verse is an age-old one about free will. The oft-told origin story of the Peter Parker version of Spider-Man hinges on the death of his Uncle Ben, and it turns out that every other spider-hero has endured a similar mortal trauma. Everyone, that is, except Miles. He insists on trying to prevent any tragedy he can, while those with more experience in these matters warn him about tampering with “canon events” that will lead to “anomalies.” This sort of struggle has been mined for so much drama in the history of fantasy and science fiction, and it’s no less powerful here.
A couple of warnings: certain segments of the sound mix made it difficult to hear some dialogue over the din of the insistent score. Unless that was an issue with the theater, you may struggle with this as well, so seek out a showtime with open captions if possible. And it’s also worth noting that another sequel, Beyond the Spider-Verse, is already scheduled to arrive in March 2024, and it’s only the mildest of spoilers to reveal that it has some loose threads to tie up.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is Recommended If You Like: Spider-Man 2099, Spider-Woman, Scarlet Spider, Spider-Et Cetera
Grade: 4 out of 5 Anomalies
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