Matt's Movie Lodgecast

Well we had tickets to see The Hunt in theaters on Sunday, March 15th, but that didn't happen! Instead we were forced to watch this controversial movie on video-on-demand. If you can remember back to August of 2019, this movie's release was delayed in the wake of the Dayton and El Paso mass shootings. President Trump got the movie abruptly cancelled when he tweeted on August 9th, 2019 at 11:44 AM:...

In what will be our last theatrical outing for a very long time, the Lodgecast witnessed The Way Back on Tuesday, March 10, 2020. Little did we know when we entered the AMC Burbank 6 theater to witness this sports drama, that in one week AMC theaters would be closed worldwide due to the coronavirus pandemic. Actor Ben Affleck shows us The Way Back from alcoholism in this realistic performance that...

Writer/director Leigh Whannell returns with his bold new take on The Invisible Man. Last time we saw director Whannell's skills on display was in Episode 12 of the Lodgecast where we witnessed his movie Upgrade (2018). We had to see what this director was up to next, so on Super Tuesday we ascended to the AMC Burbank 16 IMAX movie theater and watched this unique blend of science fiction and horror...

Orion Pictures presents Gretel & Hansel based on the "Hansel and Gretel" story by the Brothers Grimm. This film is directed by Oz Perkins who is the son of actor Anthony Perkins. Oz Perkins shows us some visual talent in this grim fairy tale that somehow got a PG-13 rating. Sophia Lillis is Gretel, Sam Leakey is Hansel, and Alice Krige is The Witch. We'll report back what we witnessed in the dark...

"Ride Together. Die Together." That's the tagline for Bad Boys for Life (2020) and also our motto as we piled into The Edge to record our Lodgecast. We even brought a notorious guest who's officially known as The Lodge's Resident Bad Boy. But with the stakes this high and passions burning hot this episode turned into a contentious affair with a very dark and controversial twist. After this dark tw...

We don't often Lodgecast family movies, but we just had to see what Jim Carrey was up to in the hit film Sonic the Hedgehog! When last we left Jim, he was in a dark place in our Lodgecast Episode No. 8 where we discussed the Polish downer movie he starred in called Dark Crimes (2018). Would America's funnyman ever return to the big screen with that classic Jim sparkle? We shall let you know with o...

The Lodgecast would be remiss not to cover the horror movie The Lodge. We hoped for a classic movie that shared our namesake. We’ll tell you what we got! Directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala follow up their creepy Austrian horror film Goodnight Mommy with another bleak vision in The Lodge. It stars Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh, Alicia Silverstone, and Richard Armitage. One partic...

Tyler Perry wrote, directed, and produced his first Neflix movie! We heeded the call and watched this movie on Netflix opening night. It's a Tyler Perry thriller which follows our lead character Grace as she falls from a dangerous new love affair, but fights back in the movie's shocking conclusion. Once again Tyler Perry proves to be the fastest director around shooting this 2-hour movie in just f...

CinemaScore is a market research firm that polls audience members on the most recent theatrical releases and asks them to give the film a letter grade. In their 20 year history only 21 films have received an average of an "F" rating and the horror movie The Turning is one of those infamous films. We gotta start the movie year at the bottom and this is pretty damn close. The Lodgemistress joined us...

It was time to Do the Dolittle! We swore that if Dolittle dropped below 20% on Rotten Tomatoes, we were gonna see it and it now sits at 15%. So five Lodgers hit up the Studio Movie Grill in Glendale for a screening of Robert Downey Jr. as Dr. John Dolittle. RDJ is surrounded by an all star cast of CG animals voiced by Emma Thompson, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, Craig R...

Celebrate Hollywood and the movies as the Lodgecast presents our Oscar Extravaganza & 2019 Film 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 Oscar categories in a little over 20 minutes! Then it's on to the very serious business of picking our...

Have you heard of the movie Underwater? It is a movie that was shot in 2017 and finally released into theaters in 2020. It is the last film to be released under the name 20th Century Fox which is now the Disney-owned 20th Century Studios. It might be the last film starring actor T.J. Miller. It also stars Kristen Stewart and Vincent Cassel. The entire film takes place underwater. An underwater cre...

The world will know his name and the truth! We all thought The Mule (2018) would've been an ideal movie for 89-year-old Clint Eastwood to go out on last year, but ol' Clint is back with a new film called Richard Jewell about...Richard Jewell! We went into the movie vaguely remembering Jewell as the 1996 Summer Olympics bomber, but we found out that we were lied to by the FBI and the mainstream med...

Rian Johnson weaves a tangled web in this intricate whodunit that will keep you guessing until the final scene! Or will it?! Once again, the Lodgecast collides with a prestige movie that received almost universal critical and audience praise. Does this movie really live up to the hype? It has got quite an ensemble cast featuring Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Sh...

We didn't sleep on Doctor Sleep! Stephen King's sequel novel to his 1977 book The Shining has been adapted into a movie. It made its money back but it could've grossed $200 million more if it was just called The Shining, Book Two. Keep it simple Hollywood! Ewan McGregor stars as a grown up and messed up Danny Torrance. Rebecca Ferguson stars as Rose the Hat, head of the True Knot, a cult that feed...

The Jellicle Cats have finally come out to play! After the remarkable trailer that dropped last summer, no movie has been more heavily anticipated by the Lodgecast than Cats (2019). A very special crew with three new guests huddled into a Kia in Coon Rapids, Minnesota to discuss this human-cat hybrid spectacle. A never-ending salad dragon bowl was served to us all! Listen in as we take on the like...

It's the Lodgecast Star Wars Holiday Special! Fire up your podcast blasters and discover where your favorite Lodgers landed in a bone count spectrum as wide as the galaxy! Love & Lightsabers!

Happy Hanukkah, y’all! The dubious allure of the Hollywood Arclight pulled the boyz back for the hotly anticipated Uncut Gems. The Edge was cut right down the middle for this tale of chance and intrigue in the jewelry district. Listen now and find out precisely how brightly this opal glistened...

We were not motherless as we headed into Motherless Brooklyn, written, produced, directed, and starring Sir Edward Norton. Brother Lucas's mother joined us at the AMC Universal CityWalk for this neo-noir set in 1950s New York City. All we knew going into Motherless Brooklyn was the trailer in which Edward Norton has Tourette's syndrome. We discovered a lot more including a cast of Bruce Willis, Gu...

Set 25 years after the events of Terminator 2, Terminator: Dark Fate ignores the other Terminator sequels and wipes the slate clean for a fresh reboot of the Terminator franchise. Terminator: Dark Fate lost $130 million, but that wasn't enough to keep the Lodge's Terminator freaks away from seeing Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger kick butt one last time. Director Tim Miller and producer Ja...

After much resistance, the Lodgecast Boyz came together for a Hawt Take of the soon-to-be Oscar-nominated Ford v Ferrari. We saw the trailer to this movie at least a dozen times and felt that we'd already seen the film, but the universal critical and audience acclaim suckered us into seeing it at the AMC Dolby Cinema. Matt Damon and Christian Bale go VROOM VROOM in their Ford racing cars and we ch...

The Lodgecast hasn't covered a documentary film all year long, so when we saw that No Safe Spaces was coming to our local Burbank AMC Theater, we jumped on the chance. We had to see what right wing commentator Dennis Prager and comedian Adam Carolla were up to in this documentary on free speech. As left wing snowflakes, we were thoroughly triggered, and by the end of the movie fully owned by the o...

Happy Turkey Day, Lodgers! Marty Scorsese, Bobby De Niro, and Joey Pesci have joined forces one last time to bring you one last gangster film. Al Pacino joins them as Jimmy Hoffa and their de-aged faces exchange mafioso dialogue for 3 hours and 30 minutes! After you've filled up on turkey and stuffing, gather around the Netflix fire this Thanksgiving and unbuckle your belts for an epic crime film!...

"Why'd ya spill yer beans?!" The Lodgecast Boyz spill their beans on this highly anticipated film directed by Robert Eggers, who directed The Witch (2015). The Lighthouse stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson duking it out by a lighthouse in late 19th century New England. The film was shot on black and white 35mm film with a 1.19:1 aspect ratio. Without spoiling too much of our reaction, give Wi...

Get interstellar with Brad Pitt as he travels to the outer reaches of the solar system in search of his long last daddy Tommy Lee Jones. Writer/director James Gray guides us into space for a serious outing that is mostly devoid of action or comedy, but features much ambient music and lens flares. Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, and Donald Sutherland lend their support. We saw this in IMAX and then we butt...