Matt's Movie Lodgecast

At long last, the Barbie Dreamcast has arrived! Find out what our sparkling crack team of pink-clad ladies think of this hotly-anticipated Greta Gerwig joint!

Booking our tickets months in advance, we scored hot seats for the opening weekend 70MM IMAX screening of Oppenheimer! We were in the third-row center face-melt zone for the Trinity test conducted by J. Robert Oppenheimer and his friends at the Manhattan Project on July 16, 1945. Director Christopher Nolan captured it in all its horrifying glory. And Nolan captured much more than Trinity and Los A...

Way back in April of 2018, the Lodgecast reviewed a documentary by director William Friedkin called The Devil and Father Amorth. The doc was about Father Gabriele Amorth, who performed tens of thousands of exorcisms, including one on screen which William Friedkin filmed. It was an unforgettable night at the movies. Little did we know that five years later, Russell Crowe would burst onto the screen...

We're back in the saddle again! Galloping along with our archeologist friend Dr. Indiana Jones played by Harrison Ford, who just turned 81 years old! We prepared for this adventure by recently rewatching the first four Indiana Jones movies in one day. The first three Jones movies from the 1980s were wonderful. But needless to say, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) did not h...

We're taking a Lodgecast Spring Break! We need to give our dear Lodgemaster a much-needed editing break after splicing together over 250 four-bone episodes in the last five years! We'll be covering some of the hawtest films that come out in the next few months, but we won't release these episodes until summertime. The Lodgecast Boyz & Girlz of Summer will return! Just in time for Indiana Jones and...

Lily Tomlin! Jane Fonda! Rita Moreno! Sally Field! We had to see what these 80-year-old ladies were up to in the geriatric sports comedy 80 For Brady. The story features four lifelong friends who travel to watch Tom Brady play in Super Bowl LI in 2017. The movie offers supporting roles from Tom Brady, Billy Porter, Rob Corddry, Alex Moffat, Bob Balaban, Glynn Turman, Sara Gilbert, Patton Oswalt, R...

The gravitational pull of the viral marketing campaign for Cocaine Bear sucked us into the theaters. That title! That poster! The memes! This horror comedy is based on a true story of a bear that ate cocaine in the 1980s in the wilderness of Tennessee. Elizabeth Banks directed this movie with a solid cast of Keri Russell, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Christian Convery, Alden Ehrenreich, Brooklynn Prince, I...

Son of Cronenberg (Brandon) Returns! Deep in lockdown, we covered his film Possessor (2020) which pulverized us. This time around Alexander Skarsgard plays a struggling writer in a resort town who gets killed and cloned with the help of Mia Goth and her sordid cohorts. Sex & drugs & violence were amply served to us, but was that enough to win us over? Brandon Cronenberg and Mia Goth were in the AM...

Celebrate Hollywood and the movies as the Lodgecast presents our Oscar Extravaganza & 2022 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 on to a new award this year. We'll all give our...

Kevin Sorbo (KSorbs) has directed a new Left Behind movie which we encountered in theaters as a Fathom Event. For those unfamiliar with Left Behind, they were a series of 16 bestselling Christian novels covering the End Times and authored by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. In the early 2000s, Kirk Cameron starred in three films which were adaptations of some of these novels. Then in 2014, Nicolas...

We return to the computer screen in the new film Missing which takes place almost entirely on laptops and mobile phone screens. The film is from the creators of the 2018 film Searching, which we covered way back in Episode 22. The other special thing about this film is it stars Storm Reid, the lead girl from A Wrinkle in Time, which we covered in our very first Lodgecast and which gave us the Sala...

Oscar buzz is heating up and the award for Best Actor goes to Brendan Fraser in The Whale! There is no doubt Brendan is winning Oscar night for his role as a 600-pound man named Charlie in Darren Aronofsky's new film. We talk about director Aronofsky and his wild career before witnessing his latest. While the marketing made it look uplifting, this film was rather unpleasant and drew a mixed reacti...

Our boy Timothee Chalamet plays a cannibal?! You know we had to cover director Luca Guadagnino's new film Bones and All. In 1980s Virginia, Chalamet and Taylor Russel play fine young cannibals as they drive across the United States in search of Russel's mom in Minnesota. They are stalked by a super creepy cannibal named Sully played by Mark Rylance. This bleak romantic horror movie definitely has...

We made it to Lodgecast Episode 150! We wanted to make this a special episode so we reserved the spot for the new robot horror movie M3GAN. Ever since the 4-bone M3GAN trailer dropped last year, the entire World has been abuzz about M3GAN. Who is this artificially intelligent doll turned fashion icon? Well we found out, and accurately predicted that this film is just the start of the M3GAN franchi...

As flash floods spread across Los Angeles, we risked our lives driving through torrential rain to see Damien Chazelle's 3-hour Hollywood epic Babylon. The movie massively flopped at the box office losing over $100 million, and it divided critics and audiences alike who either loved or hated it. It was rated R for severe sex & nudity, violence, drug use, profanity, and elephant defecation. We defin...

Lodgemaster braved the icy Minnesota tundra with a duo of extra special guests to witness a cinematic dramatization of the tumultuous life and times of the incomparable Whitney Houston. The pitch perfect cast features Naomi Ackie, Stanley Tucci, Ashton Sanders, Clarke Peters and Law & Order SVU's very own Tamara Tunie. Press play, pop some bubbly and dance with somebody!

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...