Matt's Movie Lodgecast

Charlie Kaufman wrote and directed a new movie for Netflix called I'm Thinking of Ending Things, based on a 2016 novel of the same name. Actress Jessie Buckley plays Lucy who heads with her boyfriend Jake played by Jesse Plemons to meet his parents. After a long car ride, they arrive and meet the parents played by Toni Collette and David Thewlis. Things get very weird, and then Jesse Plemons and J...

Russell Crowe is Unhinged! Four Lodgers drove 100 miles per hour down the freeway to the Mission Tiki Drive In Theatre to see Russell Crowe get Unhinged! In the first wide theatrical release since the COVID-19 pandemic, we had to see it on the big screen from the safety of our automobiles. Seeing this violent road rage flick at the drive in was a wise decision. From the opening scene Russell Crowe...

In this hawt political climate we decided to do another hawt take of a political documentary. It's called Boys State and follows a bunch of teenage boys that attend this week long political event called Boys State in Texas. In this hawt take we have a very special guest that actually attended Boys State years ago and he has quite a tale to tell about his experiences including meeting Bill Clinton!...

The Lodgecast faces one of the most highly anticipated movies of the year. Ted "Theodore" Logan and Bill S. Preston, Esq. are back for a third installment of the Bill & Ted franchise. It's 30 years later and Bill and Ted are now middle aged parents with daughters named Theadora "Thea" Preston and Wilhelmina "Billie" Logan. Before we Face the Music (2020), we examine our histories with Excellent Ad...

Remember the bestselling book and hit New Age movie The Secret (2006)? It's been a while since Oprah Winfrey pushed this book and movie on the law of attraction into homes across America. But there's a new movie out called The Secret: Dare to Dream which is revealing The Secret to a whole new generation. The film stars Katie Holmes, Josh Lucas, Jerry O'Connell, and Celia Weston. We opened our hear...

Did you know that there was a Crocodile Dundee 4?! There is and we watched this crazy sequel starring an 80-year-old Paul Hogan as himself, but also sort of as Mick Dundee. It's complicated and we'll explain to you everything in one of the Lodgecastiest movies we've ever seen. We set the tone with our feelings on the original trilogy: Crocodile Dundee (1986), Crocodile Dundee II (1988), and Crocod...

Seth Rogen plays a Jewish immigrant living in Brooklyn who falls into a vat of pickles in 1919, only to wake up in 2019 and encounter his great grandson who is also played by Seth Rogen. The stage is set for a high concept comedy as the bearded immigrant Seth Rogen is thrust into 21st century Brooklyn and has to deal with hipsters, Twitter, and a whole lot more. Five Lodgers streamed this new film...

8.1% of Hulu subscribers tuned into the new movie Palm Springs and the Lodgecast was among that viewership. The movie bears a striking resemblance to Groundhog Day (1993), but it may be a premise that just works. Andy Samberg & Cristin Milioti play characters trapped in a repeating day in Palm Springs. They engage in all sorts of shenanigans as they try to escape the infinite time loop. During thi...

There's a new horror movie out from Australia called Relic! It features a grandma, a mother, and a daughter in a haunted house. Robyn Nevin plays grandma, Emily Mortimer plays mom, and Bella Heathcote plays the daughter. Grandma goes missing and when she returns something ain't right. This movie saw a deep divide between critics and audiences in their scores on Rotten Tomatoes so we thought we'd g...

Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams star in Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. Hailing from the small town of Husavik, Iceland, these two best friends take the world by storm in the Eurovision Song Contest. A grizzly Pierce Brosnan stars as Will Ferrell's dad, and Dan Stevens stars as a flamboyant singer representing Russia. The film features Eurovision stars including John Lundvik, Anna...

Attention Dads! Tom Hanks has a new war film out called Greyhound on Apple TV+! The film has received generally positive reviews from critics! American hero Tom Hanks wrote the screenplay for this movie based on a 1955 nautical novel called The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester. Tom Hanks plays a flawless war hero in Commander Ernest Krause, commanding officer of the USS Keeling, codenamed Greyhound....

Filmmaker Judd Apatow returns with a new monumental comedy movie called The King of Staten Island. This 136-minute comedy is centered around tatted up slacker Pete Davidson in a semi-biographical look at his life in the New York City borough of Staten Island. Davidson's antics drew a mixed response from the Lodgers who witnessed him. Davidson is surrounded by talented actors including Marisa Tomei...

Mel Gibson, Emile Hirsch, and Kate Bosworth return to the home movie screen for this VOD flick filmed in Puerto Rico called Force of Nature. The Lodgecast gives its thoughts on Mad Mel before it dives into this wet heist film set during a hurricane. One half of the Polish brothers (Michael Polish) directs this film. If you don't remember the Polish brothers, they made a splash in 1999 with their d...

Jon Stewart is back! After proudly serving his country on The Daily Show from 1999 until 2015, Americans have been wondering what he has been up to. The answer is that he has been writing and directing the political satire Irresistible which just came out on VOD. The Lodgecast Boyzz dig deep into this strangely “off” comedy where the Lodgemaster declares that "something smells good in Stinkville"....

The Lodgecast would like to introduce you to Becky. She's a 13-year-old girl who likes to kill! In this movie Kevin James plays a Neo-Nazi who's escaped prison with fellow inmates named Apex, Cole, and Hammond. They think they're home free until they encounter Becky! Joel McHale is miscast as Becky's dad, but Lulu Wilson is well cast as Becky! Watch Becky foil the best-laid plans of Kevin James an...

Time for a new Spike Lee Joint! Spike takes us back to Vietnam where four Vietnam War veterans head to remember their squad leader and retrieve some buried treasure. Delroy Lindo leads this crew as they set out on a 154-minute quest complete with Vietnam flashbacks. Spike seemingly does whatever he wants to do in this Netflix production and the Lodgecast covers it in all its glory. Tune in to hear...

The time has come for the Lodgecast to cover a Happy Madison Production! The Lodgemaster watched the Netflix hit movie The Wrong Missy and said we had to cover it. 55-year-old David Spade is our male lead in this romantic comedy. But the real star of this show is actress Lauren Lapkus. Find out what happens when a corporate retreat to Hawaii goes terribly wrong! The movie also stars Nick Swardson,...

This week on the Lodgecast we go to the virtual arthouse cinema and see the recent French film Deerskin. This odd 77-minute movie is written and directed by Quentin Dupieux, AKA Mr. Oizo when he is being a French electronic musician. It stars Jean Dujardin who you might recognize from The Artist (2011) and Adele Haenel who you might recognize from Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019). Our main charac...

The #1 Movie in America for the last five weeks has been the indie horror movie The Wretched! Grossing over $800,000 at 75 drive-in movie theaters, we just had to check out what all the buzz was about. We headed again to the Mission Tiki Drive In Theatre for a double feature. After yawning through the first feature which was an indie thriller called Arkansas, we stuck around for The Wretched and i...

See a side of Al Capone you ain't never seen before! Tom Hardy stars as a dying, crazed Capone in the final year of his life. As neurosyphilis and dementia rot his brain, we get to witness Al Capone smoke cigars and eat carrots and shit himself three times! This is a special movie, folks - with a disgusting performance by Tom Hardy as he roams around his Florida estate muttering paranoid phrases a...

This week we cover the brand new documentary Spaceship Earth which explores the creation of a self-engineered replica of Earth's ecosystem, called Biosphere 2. We don't often cover documentaries, but we certainly picked the right one to discuss with Spaceship Earth. The documentary spans decades, covering the scientific hippie cult of Synergists who would eventually pull their resources together t...

We virtually travel to the seas of Ireland for this VOD release set on a boat with a crew subjected to a horrific parasitic infection. We had heard that the film had some parallels to the our ongoing coronavirus pandemic and we were not disappointed. Things get pretty real abroad the fishing vessel as crew members worry if they're infected and if they should go ashore and spread the virus. Sound l...

We summon the depths of the VOD market for this horror film about heavy metal music and Satanic cult killings. It sounded like a good time, but did this low budget film summon any Salad Dragons? It does feature a twist that we will spoil for you in this Hawt Take! The all-star cast includes Alexandra Daddario, Keean Johnson, Maddie Hasson, Amy Forsyth, Logan Miller, Austin Swift, and Johnny Knoxvi...

Eighteen years after Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jay and Silent Bob have rebooted with their new movie called Jay and Silent Bob Reboot. This is the eighth film in the View Askewniverse if anyone is counting. We joined forces in the virtual world to discuss this recent release that we watched on Amazon Prime. Jason Mewes and a silent Kevin Smith take a road trip adventure to Chronic-Con and en...

The closing down of movie theaters couldn't keep us from the big screen! The Lodgemaster had the brilliant idea of going to the Mission Tiki Drive In Theatre to see Vin Diesel's Bloodshot! Maintaining social distancing, we took three cars and drove 45 minutes east of Los Angeles to Montclair, CA to bask in the glory of Vin Diesel. Part of the Valiant Comics Shared Cinematic Universe, this superher...