Matt's Movie Lodgecast

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...

The anticipation was high for Baz Luhrmann's Elvis biopic! Mostly because of the shots we'd seen of Tom Hanks as Elvis's manager Colonel Tom Parker. Like all Baz Luhrmann movies this film looked bonkers and it is definitely not a conventional music biopic. Austin Butler plays rock and roll icon Elvis Presley, with a supporting cast including Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thomson, Richard Roxbur...

In this urgent Lodgecast a group of adventurous Lodgers attended the Fathom Event on June 14, 2022 of Kirk Cameron Presents: The Homeschool Awakening. This is the latest controversial documentary from actor and Evangelical Christian Kirk Cameron. We discussed our long history with Kirk Cameron and our feelings on homeschooling. Then we proceeded up to the Burbank 16 to witness Kirk Cameron. This s...

Writer/director Alex Garland returns with his new folk horror film called Men. His last film Annihilation (2018) was one of the most hotly debated movies in the Lodge, so we were excited to see and fight about Men. The film stars Jessie Buckley who goes to a small village in the countryside after the death of her husband. Actor Rory Kinnear shows up there in many forms, and the holiday quickly spi...

With widespread critical and audience acclaim, we were excited to see Everything Everywhere All at Once, written and directed by the Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) who previously did Swiss Army Man (2016). Michelle Yeoh leads a great cast including Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., James Hong, and Jamie Lee Curtis. The film features an intense multiverse mix of b...

The Lodgecast embargo on Marvel movies has been lifted, as Marvel released a film so reviled that we had to see it for ourselves. Jared Leto is Dr. Michael Morbius in this critically panned Marvel vampire movie. The movie cost about $80 million but it looks like it cost about $5 million. It also stars Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Al Madrigal, and Tyrese Gibson. Hopefully Morbius spreads...

Madea is back! We knew she would be. While Tyler Perry claimed to retire her after A Madea Family Funeral (2019), we knew we hadn't seen the last of the Madea cinematic universe. Writer/director Tyler Perry plays Mabel "Madea" Simmons in this new Netflix film. Actually we watched and talked about this back in early March so our memory is foggy, but there is a big scene at a Red Lobster. The film a...

Some said it would never happen, but we survived to watch the movie Top Gun: Maverick! After waiting three long, arduous years since its initially scheduled release, we finally witnessed Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick. In this episode we express deep nostalgia and love for Top Gun (1986) before heading into the Universal CityWalk. We saw it in IMAX opening night with a rowdy packed house, and we...

We're taking a Lodgecast Spring Break! We'll be heading to tropical areas for a few months, but actually we just need to give the Lodgemaster a much needed editing break after putting together over 200 four bone episodes in the last four 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...

Ti West's new slasher film X was receiving positive reviews so we had to see it. A crew of six Lodgers jumped in a van and drove down to the Burbank 16 to witness this horror movie with a packed audience in the infamous Theater #13. In the film, a pornographic film crew goes on a road trip through Texas to shoot at a farm owned by a creepy elderly couple named Howard and Pearl. Sex and violence en...