Matt's Movie Lodgecast

Spooky season is upon us, Lodgecast listeners, and we got some scary listens coming up, including this new Evil Dead movie called Evil Dead Burn. It's the sixth entry into the Evil Dead film series. It's nasty, it's mean, it's icky, it's gross. Everything you go see an Evil Dead movie for, I guess. The movie is directed by Sebastien Vanicek and stars Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright, Hunter Doohan, L...

Everybody's talking about Digger! But apparently no one is seeing it! The movie is set to lose $250 million! 64-year-old Thomas Cruise Mapother IV might not be the box office gold that he once was. But box office bomb aside, this movie is one to contend with. It's directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, who has brought us Amores Perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003), Babel (2006), Biutiful (2010), Birdm...

From writer/director Casper Kelly, who created the Adult Swim classic short "Too Many Cooks", comes his theatrical debut in the new film Buddy. The film follows children trapped inside a surreal 1990s Barney & Friends-style children's television show who must find a way to escape their malevolent unicorn television host. This surreal comedy horror movie stars Cristin Milioti, Delaney Quinn, Patton...

We heard rumblings about this Hong Kong action film called The Furious. Xie Miao plays a hard-charging dad who is fighting a criminal empire to rescue his kidnapped daughter. The film is all bloody, non-stop action and stunts, and is recommended to those who like that sort of thing. The cast also features Joe Taslim, Yang Enyou, Brian Le, Joey Iwanaga, Yayan Ruhian, and Jeeja Yanin. It is directed...

At age 79, Steven Spielberg has made yet another alien film called Disclosure Day. In this movie, a television meteorologist (Emily Blunt) and a cybersecurity analyst (Josh O'Connor) go on a mission to disclose the existence of extraterrestrial life to the world. As if anyone would believe or care about it at this point! We were pretty harsh on this one. The movie also stars Colin Firth, Eve Hewso...

From the visionary director Simon McQuoid, who brought you Mortal Kombat (2021), comes Mortal Kombat II (2026)! More of the same from the Mortal Kombat film series. But this time we get a whole lot more Johnny Cage, played by Karl Urban. The film also stars Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Ludi Lin, Mehcad Brooks, Lewis Tan, Max Huang, Damon Herriman, Chin Han, Tadanobu Asano, Joe Taslim, Hiroyuki Sa...

The Invite (2026) is the third Olivia Wilde movie we have covered after Booksmart (2019) and Don't Worry Darling (2022). With The Invite, she directs a screenplay by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones. She also stars, along with Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz, and Edward Norton. Set in a huge San Francisco apartment, married couple Rogen & Wilde invite over their raucous upstairs neighbors, Cruz & Norton...

One of the most talked-about movies of the year is the horror movie Backrooms, directed by 21-year-old Kane Parsons! Parsons made the jump from YouTube with his web series to his directorial debut on the big screen, which has grossed over $350 million. It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as a furniture store owner who finds an endless dimension in the basement of his store. His therapist, played by Renate R...

Back in 2018, we covered writer/director Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You in Episode 18 of the Lodgecast. In 2026, Boots Riley has returned to the big screen with his wild new crime comedy I Love Boosters. The movie follows a group of professional shoplifters who are targeting a fashion mogul. The film stars Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza Gonzalez, LaKeith Stanfield, Wil...

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From the director of Wet Hot American Summer (2001) comes a new comedy called Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026). Gail Daughtry (Zoey Deutch) is a hairdresser in small-town Kansas who chooses Jon Hamm as her "celebrity sex pass". After her fiance sleeps with Jennifer Aniston, Gail heads to LA with her friends to find Jon Hamm. The movie stars Zoey Deutch, John Slattery, Ken Marino, Mi...

Homer! Nolan! Damon! Epic! Hawt! Take! The ancient Greek epic poem has been adapted into a 173-minute epic action fantasy film. Shot entirely on IMAX 70mm film cameras, we definitely saw this in IMAX. With a $250 million budget, it doesn't get any bigger than this! The stacked cast includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o, Samantha Morton, Zendaya, Charlize...

It was time for the Lodgecast to finally face the Michael Jackson biopic. We gathered up our collective Michael Jackson knowledge to discuss him and speculate on what this biopic was going to be. Then we entered the Dolby Cinema to witness his life and music from the 1960s to the late 1980s. Michael Jackson's nephew Jaafar Jackson plays Michael, with Juliano Valdi playing him as a child. The suppo...

Writer/director Kristoffer Borgli is back! If you've not heard of him, he was the comedic writer/director behind Sick of Myself (2022) and Dream Scenario (2023) (both worth seeing). He returns to his dark cringe comedy with The Drama, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson as a happily engaged couple whose relationship takes a bad turn a week before their wedding. Alana Haim serves as the maid of h...

You may have forgotten about Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, but back in March, we covered this Frankenstein goth romance starring Jessie Buckley as The Bride and Christian Bale as Frank. It’s set in 1936 Chicago and is quite unhinged. It also features Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Penelope Cruz. Maggie Gyllenhaal wrote and directed this film, in case you didn’t know. The m...

The Lodgecast triumphantly returns to cover a new adaptation of the Masters of the Universe! After the success of Mattel's Barbie, $200 million was poured into this sword-and-sorcery comedy. Nicholas Galitzine stars as He-Man, and Jared Leto as Skeletor. They battle it out along with Camila Mendes, Jared Leto, Alison Brie, James Purefoy, Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Charlotte Riley, Kristen Wiig,...

To those following the Lodgecast, we are still on Spring Break. But in the meantime, during the break, we have been underground and cooking up something top secret. A very special member of the Lodgecast has stepped forward to create something beautiful, which we will reveal in this "Special Lodgecast Emergency Announcement Broadcast"! Take a listen to this new transmission and discover the hidden...

We're taking a Lodgecast Spring Break! We must give our dear Lodgemaster a much-needed editing break after splicing together over 350 four-bone episodes in the last eight years! We'll be recording episodes of notable movies here and there while we rest up, but they won't be released until after our break. Fear not, dear listener; we shall return! Love & Eternal Light!

Celebrate Hollywood and the movies as the Lodgecast presents our Oscar Extravaganza & 2025 Movie Favorites! Host Brother Bischke leads a hard-charging examination of the Academy Award nominations as five prestigious Lodge members lay down their picks for what should win and what will win in twenty-four Oscar categories in under 30 minutes! Then it's onto our special award, where we'll all give our...

85-year-old writer/director James L. Brooks returns with the political dramedy Ella McCay (2025). This movie bombed so hard that it was yanked from theaters before we could see it there, but we vowed to catch it on VOD, and we did! The film features an ensemble cast with Emma Mackey as Ella McCay, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Lowden, Kumail Nanjiani, Ayo Edebiri, Spike Fearn, Julie Kavner, Rebecca Hall,...

Have mercy! But there was no mercy shown when having to confront Mercy (2026) in IMAX! From desktop film auteur Timur Bekmambetov, Mercy (2026) features Detective Chris Raven (Chris Pratt) sitting in a chair trying to prove to artificial intelligence Judge Maddox (Rebecca Ferguson) that he is innocent of murdering his own wife. He’s got 90 minutes to do so using all the bells and whistles of a des...

Prestige season is winding down, but not before we cover Park Chan-wook's highly anticipated black comedy thriller No Other Choice. Chan-wook has given us other cinematic gems like Oldboy (2003) and The Handmaiden (2016), so we were excited for his new offering. In No Other Choice, paper industry expert Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) is fired from his job and has no other choice but to kill off his compet...

The 28 Days Later film series continues with 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. This time, directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Alex Garland. Coming right after 28 Years Later (2025), this film follows Ralph Fiennes and his Bone Temple. It also follows around Satanist "Sir Lord" Jimmy Crystal (Jack O'Connell) and his Fingers gang, played by Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, Emma Laird, Sam Locke, and...

The $75 million dollar Melania Trump documentary hit theaters this weekend, and we were there to witness it on opening night. In this emergency episode of the Lodgecast, we tell you all we encountered on the screen and in the Burbank 16 theater that projected this movie. This film takes place in the 20 days before Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration. We witnessed all 104 minutes and wi...

King Chalamet is back in Marty Supreme! This time as the fast-talking, super-confident ping pong player Marty Mauser. Safdie bro Josh wrote and directed this picture. It also stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion, Kevin O'Leary, Tyler "the Creator" Okonma, Abel Ferrara, and Fran Drescher. The movie features an exceptional soundtrack of 80s music and synth score by Daniel Lopatin. Timothee Chalamet...