Matt's Movie Lodgecast

There's a new Avatar movie out in theaters called Avatar: The Way of Water. We saw it opening weekend in 3D high-frame-rate IMAX. This movie took James Cameron over ten years to make! Is it better than Avatar (2009)? Will it gross more than any film ever? Who is this "Spider" character everyone keeps talking about? All these questions will be answered as we dive into this epic sci-fi film that ran...

Holy Smokeo! There were two major Pinocchio films that came out late this year and we opted for the most painful one! Director Robert Zemeckis, the genius behind the movie Welcome to Marwen (2018), has returned with a direct-to-Disney-Plus live-action remake of Walt Disney's beloved 1940 animated film Pinocchio. We knew this one was gonna hurt, but we were unprepared for the level of pain Zemeckis...

Merry Chongsmas and Happy Chongnukkah! Yes indeed we did see the lauded new Spielberg film The Fabelmans AKA Spielberg: The Boy Genius Origin Story. Oh man do we have things to say about this film! As it is going to be bulldozing its way through awards season, we have to try to inject some sense of sanity into the Spielberg-worshipping publicity machine. We went into this film with open minds and...

We shed love and light on "Weird Al" Yankovic in this ode to the funny man who played a role in all our childhoods. We introduce this episode with our Weird Al origin stories before we review his new music biopic satire Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. The movie is streaming for free on The Roku Channel and stars Daniel Radcliffe as the adult Weird Al, Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna, Rainn Wilson as Dr....

Dine with us on a Tuesday Discount Night as we digest the new black comedy The Menu directed by Mark Mylod. Feast your eyes on actors Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Reed Birney, Judith Light, and John Leguizamo. Taste each delectable course in this full meal served at this elite dinner where celebrity chef Ralph Fiennes serves up a healthy portion of murde...

We are drowning in prestige season, so it was time to see one of the most prestigious films of the year entitled Triangle of Sadness. Directed by acclaimed Swedish filmmaker Ruben Ostlund, this film won the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Set mostly on a luxury cruise, this is a hilarious satirical black comedy making fun of the wealthiest people in the world. It stars Harris Dickinso...

Happy Thanksgiving! We have a Thanksgiving feast of a Lodgecast today starring none other than Kirk Cameron. It's one of our longest episodes serving up Salad Dragons for everyone. Before we entered this Fathom Event, we went even deeper into our history with Mr. Kirk Cameron. The last Kirk Cameron movie we covered was about homeschooling, but this heartwarming Christian drama is about adoption. I...

We had to cover the new David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream directed by Brett Morgen. For this screening, we brought on an extra special Bowie super-fan as a guest. To start the episode, we all talked about our deep relationship with one of the greatest musical artists of all time. Then we proceeded into the IMAX theater to witness this loud, trippy doc on the big, big screen. Certainly not y...

Olivia Wilde's new film Don't Worry Darling is now streaming on HBO Max. We saw it a while back in IMAX and gave our gut reactions. Florence Pugh is living in an idyllic 1950s-styled neighborhood, but not everything is what it seems. We've seen this scenario before. Harry Styles plays her husband, and her neighbors include Olivia Wilde, Gemma Chan, KiKi Layne, and Nick Kroll. Chris Pine plays the...

With Election Day right around the corner, the Lodgecast drops a bombshell episode covering the new movie from Breitbart News called My Son Hunter directed by Robert Davi. In this cast we'll expose all things Hunter Biden and cover The Laptop from Hell! The movie was filmed in Serbia and stars Brit actor Laurence Fox as Hunter Biden, John James as U.S. president Joe Biden, and Gina Carano as secre...

We saw the last Halloween film that will ever be made! It was time for the saga of Michael Myers to end once and for all! Evil Dies on Discount Night! Jamie Lee Curtis plays Laurie Strode for the last time in movie history! In this movie she kills Michael Myers in a kitchen island massacre! Director David Gordon Green completes his masterful trilogy with Halloween Ends! This time Mikey Myers has a...

The new horror movie Smile had been haunting us for quite some time. We had seen the trailer at least a dozen times in the past six months, so it was inevitable that we had to see it on a packed Tuesday discount night. Sosie Bacon (daughter of Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick) is the star of this supernatural horror film. She plays a psychiatrist who witnesses a bizarre suicide and then is forced to...

Warning: This is not a very uplifting film or podcast episode. Filmmaker Gaspar Noe has returned with a film about dementia and death starring Dario Argento, Francoise Lebrun, and Alex Lutz. If you saw the last Gaspar Noe movie we covered called Climax (2018), then this is a wildly different experience. We saw this at the dying and now permanently closed Landmark Theatres' Pico. Vortex has been wi...

Lot of buzz around the new film Barbarian so we checked it out to get a hawt take. Zach Cregger is basically a first time writer/director who brought this unique horror film to the screen. Set in Detroit (but filmed in Bulgaria), the film stars Georgina Campbell and Bill Skarsgard who both check into the same double booked Airbnb. We won't say anything more, but if you're a horror movie fan you pr...

The classic Steven Spielberg film Jaws was re-released into IMAX theaters this Labor Day weekend so we decided to see it big! And we took a Lodger to see it who had somehow never seen it before! The 1975 blockbuster changed the course of cinema and it still holds up today. You know all about it, but we'll mention that it stars Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hami...

September 3rd, 2022 was National Cinema Day and we celebrated by seeing the new horror movie Orphan: First Kill. The theater was packed as everyone was pumped to see the prequel to the 2009 film Orphan. It somehow stars the same actress Isabelle Fuhrman as Esther, along with Julia Stiles, Rossif Sutherland (son of Donald), and Hiro Kanagawa as a hard-charging detective. This horror movie was direc...

Director George Miller returns at the age of 77 with his first feature film since Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). This one is called Three Thousand Years of Longing and stars Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba. Based on the 1994 short story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" by A. S. Byatt, this movie has Elba star as a genie who tells mythical recollections to a lonely British scholar played by Tilda Swin...

Terror on the Prairie is one the first films released by The Daily Wire Plus! A new streaming service from Ben Shapiro's right wing media company The Daily Wire. This western set in Montana stars cancelled MMA fighter Gina Carano and is directed by Michael Polish (Twin Falls Idaho). Some other actors in the film are Nick Searcy, Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone, Tyler Fischer, and Daniel Day-Lewis's son Ga...

French film director Claire Denis returns to the international film scene with her new film Both Sides of the Blade. The last film she directed called High Life (2018) left quite an impression on us when we did a podcast review of it back in May of 2019. That film starred Juliette Binoche, and now Binoche is back in Both Sides of the Blade alongside actor Vincent Lindon (Titane). We had heard that...

The schnapps of this film from IMDb: "It is the year 2025: Since the outbreak of the Corona virus in 2020, the world has not been the same: A communist system with a single world government has been established, English has been chosen as the world language, contacts have been reduced to a minimum. Christianity has been banned completely; the constitution how we knew it no longer exists. In German...

Let the bodies, bodies, bodies hit the floor, floor, floor in A24's new Gen Z slasher whodunit directed by Halina Reijn. Two Gen Z lovers played by Amandla Stenberg and Maria Bakalova head to a secluded house for a "hurricane party". At the house they meet up with Myha'la Herrold, Chase Sui Wonders, Rachel Sennott, Lee Pace, and Pete Davidson. Tensions mount when the power goes out and somebody is...

One of the favorite movie genres amongst Lodgers is the all but defunct erotic thriller genre. Yet at the ripe age of 81, director Adrian Lyne is back with a new erotic thriller to hopefully revive the genre he popularized with classics like Fatal Attraction (1987), Indecent Proposal (1993), and Unfaithful (2002). Adrian Lyne's new film, which is his first in 20 years, is called Deep Water and it...

After witnessing the trailer at least a dozen times, we finally got to see Jordan Peele's Nope! We saw this big screen spectacle in IMAX the way it was intended. After Jordan Peele's last film Us (2019), our expectations weren't too high as we were all kinda lukewarm on that movie. This time around we were very divided in our reaction to Nope! In this movie a UFO descends on a horse ranch in Calif...

Body horror master filmmaker David Cronenberg is back with a new body horror film! After spending most of the 2000s making excellent non-body horror movies, he's returned to his roots for a dark cinematic voyage of sex & surgery called Crimes of the Future. We were all fans of Cronenberg to varying degrees, and we talk about his filmography before entering this futuristic tale starring Viggo Morte...

On a whim we decided to see The Black Phone, the new Blumhouse horror movie directed by Scott Derrickson and adapted from a short story by Joe Hill (Stephen King's son). Ethan Hawke plays a child abductor nicknamed "The Grabber" in 1978 suburban Denver. It also stars Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and James Ransone. We got all hot and bothered about the film and the theatrical expe...