Matt's Movie Lodgecast

Renaissance man Finn Wolfhard is having a helluva year. In June, he released his first album called Happy Birthday, featuring the single "Choose the Latter". And back in April, Finn Wolfhard's directorial debut horror comedy film Hell of a Summer was released in theaters. We saw it on the big screen! It's a summer camp slasher starring Fred Hechinger, Abby Quinn, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Billy Bryk,...

David Cronenberg directed a new body horror film this year. Released back in April, it's called The Shrouds and stars Diane Kruger, Vincent Cassel, Guy Pearce, and Sandrine Holt. Four years after his wife Becca's death from cancer, businessman Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has invented "GraveTech", a tombstone that broadcasts a live, interactive 3D image of a deceased's decomposing corpse. Sound tasty? T...

Horror auteur Zach Cregger wrote and directed Barbarian back in 2022, which delighted most of us. Now he returns with his follow-up film Weapons (2025). At 2:17 AM seventeen children from the same third-grade classroom suddenly run away from their homes. That's the premise. The film features an ensemble cast including Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, To...

Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye plays himself in his movie Hurry Up Tomorrow. The movie serves as a companion piece to his latest album. We caught this vanity project in theaters. In the movie, The Weeknd is a pop superstar in crisis who has lost his voice. His manager (played by Barry Keoghan) is trying to boost his ego. Jenna Ortega plays a deranged fan hell bent on tracking The Weeknd down. Trey Edwa...

When H.G. Wells penned the classic 1898 science fiction novel The War of the Worlds, he could scarcely have predicted that in the futuristic year of 2025, a man named Ice Cube would be starring in a desktop cinema adaptation of the novel. Even Orson Welles, with all his imagination, when he produced the 1938 Mercury Theatre radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, couldn't have conceived that in...

Slapstick comedy is back in theaters in the year 2025 with The Naked Gun! Liam Neeson stars as Lt. Frank Drebin Jr., son of the late Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen). We share our love and light for the original Naked Gun trilogy before taking on this legacy sequel directed by Akiva Schaffer. In this new one, Pamela Anderson stars as the love interest, Paul Walter Hauser stars as Drebin's right-hand...

It's been a number of months since we saw this one, but we did cover Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17 back in March. Director Bong follows up his masterpiece Parasite (2019) with this sci-fi dark comedy starring Robert Pattinson as Mickey. Warner Bros. gave Bong over $100 million to make this movie, and unfortunately, it was a commercial flop with middling reviews. Our takes on it were quite middling as w...

All Nicolas Cage wants to do is surf in the new movie The Surfer. But he's thwarted at every turn by surfing gangs and much more in this unique psychological thriller directed by Lorcan Finnegan and written by Thomas Martin. It's the Nic Cage show as he struggles with anguish in the hot sun, and his life falls apart. It's a movie called The Surfer without much surfing, but plenty of Cage! We'll le...

The new body horror movie Together made a little splash this summer, and we decided to cover it. It stars real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie. The two move to the countryside to work on their troubled relationship, but Dave Franco drinks some supernatural water and begins merging physically with Alison Brie. Then the sticky body horror starts! Get sticky with Dave Franco and Alison Brie,...

We took in the sixth installment of the Final Destination film series in 4DX! We talk about the Final Destination movies and about our previous adventures in 4DX before we enter Final Destination Bloodlines. Just like the film Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (2023), Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) starts out in the year 1969. It begins with a thrilling high-rise Space Needle restaurant tower collapse...

You might've forgotten about Disney's Snow White (2025), but we did not forget about it! We went to theaters to take in this disastrous live-action reimagining of Walt Disney's 1937 classic animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The film generated all sorts of controversies that we'll remind you of. Thanks to an army of trolls, it currently sits at 2.1 stars out of 10 on IMDb. It stars Rac...

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Director Osgood Perkins is back after last year's sleeper hit Longlegs (2024)! This time he's adapting a 1980 short story by Stephen King called "The Monkey" featuring a cursed monkey toy. Theo James and Theo James star as twin brothers who face random horrific deaths due to the monkey toy. The movie also stars Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Colin O'Brien, Rohan Campbell, Sarah Levy, Adam Sco...

Sinners recently dropped on HBO Max! We caught Ryan Coogler's film on the big screen a few months back. It stars Michael B. Jordan and Michael B. Jordan as twin brothers who return to their hometown in Mississippi in 1932 to take on some sort of evil that we won't spoil here. The film also stars Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, and Delroy Lind...

The Lodgecast is back and so is M3GAN! Writer/director Gerard Johnstone returns to reinvent the M3GAN character as she battles with a new AI foe in humanoid military robot AMELIA. This PG-13 sequel veers away from horror into the sci-fi/comedy realm, and we’ll let you know just how well this genre-bending follow-up works. Allison Williams returns along with her niece, played by Violet McGraw. Amie...

We're still chilling on Spring Break 2025, but we wanted to announce that we're now selling some hawt new Matt's Movie Lodgecast Merch designed by Brother Nathan! We got t-shirts, we got magnets, we got mugs, we got stickers, we got tote bags, and much more. Everything comes in all shapes and sizes and variations. Go over to lodgecast.com and you'll see a link up top to "Matt's Movie Lodgecast Mer...

We're taking a Lodgecast Spring Break! We must give our dear Lodgemaster a much-needed editing siesta after splicing together over 300 four-bone episodes in the last seven 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 & 2024 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-three Oscar categories in under 30 minutes! Then it's onto our special award, where we'll all give ou...

Kevin Spacey made his comeback movie in 2024 called Peter Five Eight. We've been sitting on this one for a long while but wanted to drop it on you before we take our Spring Break. This neo-noir thriller went directly to video-on-demand and stars Spacey, Rebecca De Mornay, Jet Jandreau, and Jake Weber. Spacey plays Peter who is an assassin who comes to a small mountain community to wreak havoc. "In...

The goddess of AMC Theaters, Nicole Kidman, hits the silver screen with the new erotic thriller Babygirl. Whether or not it was erotic or a thriller will be debated in this steamy episode. The film is written and directed by Halina Reijn (Bodies Bodies Bodies) and stars a high-powered CEO, played by Kidman, who begins an affair with young intern Harris Dickinson. Kidman's husband is played by the...

It's December 31st, 1999. The last party before Y2K. That's the setting for the new A24 movie written and directed by Kyle Mooney. Mooney is known for being a Saturday Night Live cast member from 2013 to 2022. In his directorial debut, he directs Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, Julian Dennison, Tim Heidecker, and Alicia Silverstone. Mooney is also in the film, along with somebody special who shows...

Hawt🔥Takez - Drive-Away Dolls Review by Matt's Movie Lodge

Does the title of this movie grab your attention? It did for us! We went in knowing nothing about this movie other than it starred Amy Adams. The movie is based on a 2021 novel by Rachel Yoder and directed by Marielle Heller, who also directed Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). Amy Adams is the star, and she is supported by Scoot McNairy, Arleigh Snowd...

We’re all safe from the fires in LA so far! So let the Lodgecast whisk you away to the tundra of Minnesota where we recently watched A Complete Unknown about a young Bob Dylan played by Timothee Chalamet. This movie covers Dylan’s early folk period up to his controversial decision to go electric in 1965. James Mangold directs this conventional biopic which also stars Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, a...

Happy New Year! It's the new musical film everyone is talking about, so we figured we'd talk about it. Wicked: Part I! This 160-minute movie covers the first half of this epic adaptation of the popular musical adaptation Wicked by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, which is based on the 1995 novel Wicked by Gregory Maguire, which comes from the universe of L. Frank Baum's Oz books which were ada...