Matt's Movie Lodgecast

Happy 4th of July America! For such a time as this, writer/director Alex Garland dropped his latest flick Civil War into theaters. This $50 million A24 film actually made some money bringing in $120 million worldwide. In the film, the United States is engulfed in a Civil War, as President Nick Offerman has taken authoritarian control over the federal government. Meanwhile, various secessionist reg...

Director Luca Guadagnino returns. After his dark-hearted cannibal film Bones and All starring our boy Chalamet, Guadagnino has made a light-hearted tennis romance starring Zendaya. Challengers features a love triangle between her and Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist. We'll let you know if this movie is sexy! The film features plenty of tennis to the pulsing techno beats of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ros...

It was time to Do The Dune! Part Two! Yes, we got our Dune-themed sandworm popcorn bucket and we test it out live on the air. Then we snuggled in for another trip to the desert planet Arrakis to watch our boy Chalamet get all spiced up. And this time we got way more than just flashes of Zendaya! We rode this sandworm for 166 minutes and we'll let you know our reactions to this epic science fiction...

The Lodgecast boys and girls of summer have returned from our extended Spring Break! We've been secretly recording while we were away. And one movie we did not miss was the baffling Marvel superhero movie Madame Web! The Dr. Michael Morbius Memorandum states that any Marvel movie that falls below 20% on Rotten Tomatoes must be covered on the Lodgecast. And Madame Web scored an abysmal 11% on Rotte...

We're taking a Lodgecast Spring Break! We must give our dear Lodgemaster a much-needed editing break after splicing together over 280 four-bone episodes in the last six 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 & 2023 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...

This Is J.Lo…NOW! At age 54, Jennifer Lopez has released her ninth studio album, This Is Me... Now, and along with it, she financed a $20 million romantic musical film that dropped onto Amazon Prime last week! This Is Me...Now: A Love Story is loosely based on J.Lo's life as she falls in and out of love over the past decades. This visual album was only 65 minutes long, but we had much to say about...

Three boys ventured out into a cataclysmic rainstorm to tackle the appropriately waterlogged NIGHT SWIM, starring Kurt Russell’s son Wyatt and Academy Award nominee Kerry Condon. Did it scare our fins off or leave us cold in the shallow end? Dive in and find out!

Jason Statham is The Beekeeper. Requests were pouring in for us to cover this ridiculous action movie so we did. David Ayer directs and Kurt Wimmer writes (he also was one of the credited writers on Expend4bles). The movie features bees and honey and plenty of bee talk. Statham is an actual beekeeper on the property of Phylicia Rashad. When Phylicia Rashad gets fooled into a phishing scam and lose...

Nicolas Cage recently turned 60! And just when you think he's done it all, he delivers yet another fantastic performance in a movie like Dream Scenario. This dark comedy by Norwegian film director Kristoffer Borgli stars Cage as a biology professor who starts appearing in random people's dreams and becomes famous. It's a wonderful setup for exploring the ins and outs of modern fame. It also stars...

Poor Things was one of the most anticipated movies of 2023, and it did not disappoint! It is another unique vision from director Yorgos Lanthimos and is currently nominated for 11 Academy Awards. Emma Stone stars in a bravura performance after she is revitalized by an eccentric surgeon played by Willem Dafoe. The cast is rounded out by Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, and Jerrod Car...

For this episode, we ventured into new territory. We went to an AMC Screen Unseen mystery movie event. AMC Screen Unseen shows a movie that is coming out soon, but they don't tell you what it is. No one in the audience knows what the movie is until it hits the big screen! A cool idea from AMC, and at a price point of $5, our theater was packed. All we knew was that the mystery movie was R-rated, a...

There was a Pet Sematary prequel that came out late last year! A prequel to the Pet Sematary (2019) remake, to be precise, which was a remake of the 1989 film based on the 1983 Stephen King book. So Bloodlines is a prequel of a remake of an adaptation that went straight to Paramount Plus. We covered the Pet Sematary remake way back in Episode 43 of the Lodgecast. Bloodlines scored a woeful 22% on...

The Year of the Dragon is upon us! But before we get to dragons, let's get prestigious with Sofia Coppola's new A24 biopic Priscilla about Priscilla Presley. For this 'cast, we got the old Elvis (2022) crew back together to take a new look at The King from his wife's perspective. This movie is an adaptation of Priscilla Presley's 1985 memoir Elvis and Me. It stars Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla and Ja...

And so we close out the year 2023 with Timothee Chalamet's Wonka. This is a new musical fantasy prequel to Roald Dahl's story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. That 1964 book has been adapted twice: the classic version starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in 1971 and the not-so-classic Tim Burton 2005 remake starring Johnny Depp as Mr. Wonka. While this new Wonka movie didn't reach the dizzying...

Sean Hannity produced a Christmas comedy this year called Jingle Smells. The movie premiered on the video site Rumble, which is attempting to be a conservative version of YouTube. The premise involves quirky garbage men and canceled Christmas toys. It features John Schneider, Ben Davies, Eric Roberts, Victoria Jackson, James Storm, Jim Breuer, and, of course, Sean Hannity as himself! This one was...

If you see one movie between now and Christmas Day, make it The Holdovers! We share our love for director Alexander Payne in this episode before snuggling in for a very cozy comedy starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa. Set in December of 1970, Giamatti plays a curmudgeonly teacher at a boarding school in New England. He is tasked with looking after the students who have...

Director David Gordon Green returns to ruin another beloved horror franchise. After making three terrible Halloween movies that we covered, this time Gordon Green sets out to destroy The Exorcist franchise. We put off covering this for as long as we could but eventually had to face it. This wretched Exorcist sequel stars Leslie Odom Jr., Lidya Jewett, Olivia O'Neill, Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo...

Meg Ryan has a new movie out! It was in theaters for a minute, and we caught it. Meg stars in it and also wrote and directed it. It's a romantic comedy called What Happens Later and stars her and David Duchovny. They're exes who bump into each other at an airport. When their flights are delayed, they are forced to stay in the airport all night together. We'll let you know our history with Meg Ryan...

Just in time for Thanksgiving, we slipped into a screening of Eli Roth's new slasher film Thanksgiving! This movie is based on the superb fake trailer from Grindhouse (2007). One year after a Black Friday sale goes awry and numerous people die, a John Carver-masked axe-wielding maniac is killing the citizens of Plymouth, Massachusetts. It sounds like a layup, but does director Eli Roth rise to the...

The second highest-grossing tour of all time is now a concert film at your local AMC theater! We weren't sure if we were gonna Lodgecast this one, but by the time we walked out of this 2 Hr. 49 Min. concert movie, we had some things to say. When we finally got to the AMC Burbank Prime cinema to see this, all the Swifties had apparently already watched it because we had the theater all to ourselves...

David Fincher's The Killer is dropping on Netflix! It received a limited theatrical release, so we had to catch it on the big screen at the Laemmle Glendale. The film stars Michael Fassbender as an ascetic assassin who sticks to his plans and never improvises. But when a hit job goes awry, he's forced to go on the run while killing off some loose ends. The script is by Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en,...

Director Martin Scorsese returns with a 3 Hrs. 26 Min. epic Western crime drama called Killers of the Flower Moon. We spent an entire Sunday confronting this motion picture in IMAX! It brings together Marty's two favorite actors, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, who haven't starred together in a movie since This Boy's Life (1993). Lily Gladstone also stars as DiCaprio's wife. The film is base...

Four boys with an extremely shaky grasp on the lore of the 10-film SAW franchise attempt to take on the latest installment, featuring Tobin Bell as Jigsaw in a way you’ve never seen him before! Prepare to be grossed out by this sick and twisted Hawt Take just in time for Halloween!

Those burly boys known as The Expendables are back almost a decade after their last outing in Expendables 3 (2014). We were definitely not going to cover Expend4bles, but then it scored a remarkably low 13% on Rotten Tomatoes, which made it essential viewing. The cast is getting downright geriatric, with a 77-year-old Sylvester Stallone, a 65-year-old Dolph Lundgren, and a 67-year-old Andy Garcia...