Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)

An episode of the Cinema Joes podcast, hosted by Cinema Joes, titled "Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)" was published on June 23, 2022 and runs 86 minutes.

June 23, 2022 ·86m · Cinema Joes

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Summary

This week, we are down one Joe, but, in his stead, we are happy to welcome back onto the podcast Courtney Stevenson, the incomparably talented podcast host of Blerd Life with My Wife and Pop Break TV’s Blerd Watchers. She is joining us today as we review the Sundance darling dejour Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022), written, directed by, and starring young newcomer Cooper Raif, alongside Dakota Johnson, Leslie Mann, Raul Castillo, and Odeya Rush. The film, available now on AppleTV+, tells the story of a young man (Raif), refresh out of college, struggling to get his life in order when he meets an intriguing older woman (Johnson) with a daughter on the autism spectrum while chaperoning his younger brother at a series of Bar Mitzvahs around New Jersey.  We also check in on some recent releases including Fantastic Beasts and The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), Jurassic World Dominion (2022), and Bergman Island (2021). Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

Episode Description

This week, we are down one Joe, but, in his stead, we are happy to welcome back onto the podcast Courtney Stevenson, the incomparably talented podcast host of Blerd Life with My Wife and Pop Break TV’s Blerd Watchers. She is joining us today as we review the Sundance darling dejour Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022), written, directed by, and starring young newcomer Cooper Raif, alongside Dakota Johnson, Leslie Mann, Raul Castillo, and Odeya Rush. The film, available now on AppleTV+, tells the story of a young man (Raif), refresh out of college, struggling to get his life in order when he meets an intriguing older woman (Johnson) with a daughter on the autism spectrum while chaperoning his younger brother at a series of Bar Mitzvahs around New Jersey.

We also check in on some recent releases including Fantastic Beasts and The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), Jurassic World Dominion (2022), and Bergman Island (2021).

Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places!

Hosts' Other Pods

Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog - Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak