Matt's Movie Lodgecast

The best reviewed movie of the year is here! Holding strong at 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, we headed off to the Arclight Hollywood to see this critical darling. South Korean film director and screenwriter Bong Joon-ho received the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for this movie. Safe to say there ain't nothing remotely like Parasite coming out from American filmmakers. A mixture of g...

You may have not heard of Natalie Portman's new film Lucy in the Sky. It was quietly released into theaters with negative reviews from both fans and critics. Despite the negativity, our love for Natalie Portman drew us in as we went to the AMC theater for one of the last screenings of this movie. Natalie Portman plays astronaut Lucy Cola who slowly begins to lose her grip on reality due to a case...

It's Gemini time! The hotly anticipated 120-frames-per-second feature film Gemini Man has finally arrived, and we were there to witness it opening night in all its 3D high-frame-rate glory! In the intro to this Lodgecast, we tell the tragic tale of seeing director Ang Lee's first 120fps feature film Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016). After that bomb, studios somehow let Ang Lee direct another...

The highly controversial Joker movie dropped into American theaters like an atomic bomb this October. The last remaining Lodgecast Boyz who hadn't yet seen it went to the Los Feliz Vista Theatre and joined a packed house for this dark visionary film from director Todd Phillips and actor Joaquin Phoenix. The violence and mental illness of the Joker permeated our minds and produced quite a wide rang...

Whoa daddy! After a brief review of the Rambo movies, we weren't quite prepared for the carnage that Sylvester Stallone dished out in this blood-soaked sequel for the MAGA-era. Rambo crosses back and forth across the Mexican border and kills and kills and kills. We'll let you know all the gritty details in this epic account of Rambo: Last Blood.

Every Tuesday is Discount Night at AMC Theatres. And luckily we chose a Tuesday evening to see Hustlers in a jam-packed screening at the AMC Burbank 16. Jennifer Lopez has returned at the age of 50 for an incredible performance in every way! Constance Wu is the lead character who goes from stripper to mother to straight-up hustler. J.Lo, Cardi B, and Lizzo guide her along the way. It was a rowdy n...

A 2 Hrs. 50 Min. horror movie? Yes please! We revisit Derry, Maine 27 years later to see what our lovable group of Losers is up to. Director Andy Muschietti adapts the second half of Stephen King's It word-for-word in this epic horror masterpiece. Before floating into IT Chapter Two we give our thoughts and feels on the recently revisited IT Chapter One. Then we settle into the AMC Dolby Digital r...

Ready or Nawt for the Ready or Not Hawt Take? We discuss the spoiler trailer of this movie and a giant movie theater pretzel before we dig into this acclaimed black comedy horror movie. A young lady marries into a rich family who play a murderous game of hide-and-seek the night of the wedding. A very hawt debate ensues over Andie MacDowell's performance! We'll spoil everything about this movie in...

An unnamed Lodge member confessed to the Lodgemaster that he had never seen The Matrix! So when the 20th anniversary screenings popped up at AMC Dolby Cinema we knew we had to go. Six of us embarked on the journey and most of us hadn't seen it in 20 years. And we were red pilled so hard! Whoa! We'll give you the lowdown on the philosophy of the Matrix, as well as if Keanu Reeves’ performance holds...

Apocalypse When? Apocalypse Now! The Lodgecast does their first review of an older movie to see if it stands the test of time. This screening was on August 15, 2019, 40 years to the day after Apocalypse Now was released on August 15, 1979. We scored tickets a little late for this one and were forced to sit in the second row of the AMC CityWalk IMAX which strained our necks and melted our faces off...

It's the dog days of summer and not much good is coming out at AMC Theatres before Oscar season starts heating up. So we decided to see Crawl (2019) directed by Alexandre Aja and starring Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper. A hurricane hits Florida and a father and daughter get trapped in a crawlspace with alligators. Not much more to it, but we mostly had fun!

Where'd You Go, Bernadette has finally arrived in theaters. The Richard Linklater film starring Cate Blanchett was set for release on May 11, 2018, but it was pushed back four times until it was dumped into theaters on August 16, 2019. We knew something was amiss with this one from seeing the trailers ever since we began the Lodgecast last year. Oh boy were we correct. Where'd we go for this one?...

Another billion dollar grossing Disney remake has hit the multiplexes. Director Jon Favreau sets out to create a photorealistic computer animated remake of the beloved 1994 film The Lion King. There's maybe a reason that people like anthropomorphic characters instead of photorealistic animals... because anthropomorphic animals can express emotion! These dead-eyed lions and hyenas and warthogs drai...

The Lodgecast continues the pursuit of finding a good horror remake. We try out Child's Play(2019) based on the horror classic Child's Play(1988). This technological update on Chucky does away with the supernatural element and it also does away with the concept of a logical script. Lodgemaster takes on the role of hothead in this hawt take as his anger at this ridiculous remake slowly boils over....

The most anticipated movie of the year is finally here! Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time In...Hollywood has been released, and a large group of Lodgers went to the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood to see it opening weekend on glorious 70mm film. We were transported to 1969 Los Angeles for 2 hours and 45 minutes! After this epic comedy-drama many, Lodgers fled into the night, but five of us remained...

The Poison Rose is now the 5th straight John Travolta movie to receive 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. After seeing Trading Paint (2019) earlier this year we promised ourselves we would only see the next Travolta movie if got 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. Well it did. Even with co-stars Morgan Freeman, Famke Janssen, and Brendan Fraser, the movie couldn’t get a single positive review. It features a breakout perfo...

From the mind of Ari Aster comes Midsommar. Last year Ari brought us Hereditary, and without taking a breath he went into production on Midsommar which he delivered to us on July 3rd of this year. The promise of Swedish cultists had us licking our lips for this folk horror epic. Four members of our movie cult experienced the 147 minute motion picture starring Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Ja...

Glenn Danzig showed the L.A. premiere of his debut film Verotika at the Ricardo Montalbán Theatre, and five Lodgers were there to witness it. The venue was sold out and packed with Danzig super fans adorned in black. Verotika mashed up violent and erotic imagery like never before as the crowd howled with laughter during this low budget horror anthology film, featuring three tales of increasing per...

You ain't never had a friend like Will Smith as a motion-captured genie! The Disney IP machine is at it again with Guy Ritchie's Aladdin. While we were all big fans Aladdin (1992), the only reason we came out for this live action edition was Will Smith. And Will Smith does deliver, adding a hip hop homage to Robin Williams' ultimate voiceover performance. The music in this film is incredible with...

Master of the Macabre Brian De Palma is back with a new direct-to-video film called Domino. The movie was produced at a low cost by Saban Films (the masterminds behind Dark Crimes and Speed Kills). At age 78, De Palma wants to go out with a bang as he tackles ISIS in Europe killing people on the red carpet of a film festival. That really happens in the movie Domino, along with some other unbelieva...

Director Dexter Fletcher is back! After ghost-directing last year's smash hit Bohemian Rhapsody, Dexter Fletcher has officially directed this year's smash hit Rocketman! And it's all about one of the greatest rock musicians ever, Sir Elton John. The film combines two genres that are troublesome to some Lodgers: the music biopic and the contemporary musical. All this adds up to some groans and eye...

Don't make me drink alone! The Lodgecast reaches its 50th episode with a special MA-di Gras Celebration at the AMC DINE-IN Marina 6 in Marina Del Rey. We drink, we eat, and we take in the pleasures of Octavia Spencer as Ma! This highly anticipated psychological horror movie had us buzzing since we first saw the trailer and while our reaction is a little mixed there's still some fun to be had. Tune...

The Lodgecast Boyzzz rejoin with the Sinisisters, as we head to beautiful Santa Monica to experience the spiritual sequel to last year's Eighth Grade. This year we talk 12th grade and our senior year of high school before we head into Olivia Wilde's delightful coming-of-age comedy Booksmart starring Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever. Does the film live up to its universal critical acclaim? Is it...

We venture way outside of our demographic comfort zone for a little pom-pom cheerleader love from some senior citizens including Diane Keaton, Jacki Weaver, Pam Grier, and Rhea Perlman. Life is too short and being elderly is too depressing, so break out your cheerleader uniforms and bust a move! As the poster promised, one of the old ladies in this movie does the splits! Nice to see Diane Keaton a...

Join us as we re-enter the John Wick Cinematic Universe and travel deep inside the Parabellum. Actually Parabellum means a type of semiautomatic pistol or machine gun. Keanu Reeves is back kicking butt and taking no names until the plot kicks in and we have to wander aimlessly in the desert until the next action sequence. The audience is there for Keanu, but the movie also has Halle Berry, Laurenc...