Matt's Movie Lodgecast

Exactly 50 years ago today on March 24, 1972, The Godfather was released in theaters in the United States. To coincide with this 50th anniversary, the Lodgecast has a very special episode we are releasing. In late 2020, Francis Ford Coppola released his recut of The Godfather Part III which he called The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. We watched this recut and talked about it at le...

Celebrate Hollywood and the movies as the Lodgecast presents our Oscar Extravaganza & 2021 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 a little over 30 minutes! Then it's on to the very serious business of pick...

Leatherface is back in what is apparently the ninth installment of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise. This "requel" does away with all the sequels and brings back the legacy characters of Leatherface, Sally Hardesty (the lone survivor from the first one), and the voice of John Larroquette as the narrator. The film didn't feel like Texas and was in fact shot in Bulgaria. While certainly grisly,...

The Master of Disaster director Roland Emmerich has returned with a $140 million sci-fi disaster movie called Moonfall. It was a total bomb at the box office with terrible reviews, so we had to see it in IMAX! The stupid plot involves the Moon as a megastructure built by aliens that is now on a collision course with the Earth. Only Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, and John Bradley flying the Space Shu...

Desktop films meet COVID lockdown films when agoraphobic techie Zoe Kravitz discovers a murder online in Steven Soderbergh's new thriller Kimi. Kimi is a smart speaker much like Siri or Alexa, and Zoe Kravitz's job is to moderate how Kimi is performing. All is well and good until she uses her high tech expertise to pick up the audio of a murder. She is then forced to leave her apartment and confro...

Those Jackass boyz are back for the last time (until the next time)! If you like to hear about boyz getting hit in the nuts, then this is the Lodgecast episode for you! Lots of wieners in the movie. But it's probably a more successful outing than Johnny Knoxville's Action Point (2018), which we covered way back in Episode 11 of the Lodgecast. This movie features Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius,...

Hail Macbeth! It was time for the Lodgecast to take in some theater with Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth. We were tipped off to an IMAX screening and jumped at the chance. We talk all things Shakespeare and Macbeth before we proceeded to this black & white adaptation. While the play is undoubtedly four bones, we had some differing opinions on this version as we hash out what is foul and what is...

Scream 5 AKA Scream came out and we went all-in for the Scream film series. Not only did we see the fifth Scream in theaters, but beforehand we watched all four of Wes Craven's Screams in a row! We were well educated into the world of Sidney Prescott, Gale Weathers, Dewey Riley, and Ghostface when we entered this one. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette all return for Scream 5, along...

Tune in for a Royal Rumble Hawt Take as the Lodgecast argues about one of the most viewed Netflix movies of all time! Writer/director Adam McKay's latest film Don't Look Up sparked much divisive debate about whether its contemporary satire worked or was even funny. The bones are up for debate, but the cast is undeniably great, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blan...

A gang of Lodgers traveled to the Regency Village Theatre in Westwood to witness an early screening of Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza in 70mm. We didn't know if we were gonna Lodgecast this one, but after the film we felt compelled to give our first reactions in this hawt take. We briefly discuss our thoughts on writer/director P.T. Anderson before tackling this sprawling film set in the Sa...

Prepare yourself to get blue pilled! At an AMC Theater in Maple Grove, Minnesota three Lodgers swallowed the blue pill of the fourth movie in The Matrix franchise. We went to the IMAX at the AMC Arbor Lakes 16, which we have learned has since permanently closed! After the movie, as a snow storm began, we piled into a minivan and discussed WHAT is The Matrix, and also WHY is The Matrix in 2021. Dir...

Why would Steven Spielberg want to make a straightforward remake of the 1961 Best Picture-winning musical West Side Story? And could such a musical remake be good in the year 2021? The Lodgecast is joined by some magical musical sisters as we try to answer the many questions we had about Spielberg's West Side Story (2021). The Jets face off against the Sharks in Manhattan's West Side, and the movi...

Take the cannoli, toss the pizza pie, and slice the garlic so thin that it liquefies in the pan! The Lodgecast is getting extra spicy and Italian in our new episode on House of Gucci! It's all about the day-to-day operations of the Italian fashion brand Gucci. The film is directed by 84-year-old Ridley Scott and stars Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jeremy Irons, Salma Hayek, a fat-suited Jared Leto, and...

Merry Christmas! Celebrate the Christmas holiday with a good Christian movie from director Paul Verhoeven! Travel back to 17th century Italy for some blasphemous fun with a lesbian nun who has mystical visions. The movie is based on the real life nun Benedetta Carlini who is played by Virginie Efira, and co-stars Daphne Patakia, Lambert Wilson, and the great Charlotte Rampling. As with all Verhoev...

Let's get nostalgic with Finn Wolfhard and remember everything we loved about Ghostbusters (1984)! Ivan Reitman's son Jason Reitman directs this sequel to Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989). But this time we ain't in New York City. We're in rural Oklahoma! Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) has passed on and his daughter played by Carrie Coon and his grandchildren played by Finn Wolfhard and...

It was time to Do The Dune! For some reason we saw this movie at 10AM on a Saturday, but we all stayed awake for director Denis Villeneuve's envisioning of Dune: Part One. Based on Frank Herbert's 1965 best-selling science fiction novel of all time, with a budget of $165 million, and a star studded cast, the stakes couldn't have been higher. The entire future of cinema rested upon Dune's shoulders...

No More Time to Die! As the Lodgecast survived to witness the 25th film in the James Bond series. No Time to Die was originally supposed to come out in April of 2020 but was delayed by the pandemic until October of 2021. We drove to see it at the brand new AMC Porter Ranch 9 for a very special reason relating to Nicole Kidman. Once there we talked all things Bond, and then took in all 163 minutes...

Prestige season is in full effect and what better to kick it off than with the Palme d'Or winner Titane! Writer/director Julia Ducournau serves up a healthy helping of French body horror that was consumed and digested in a variety of ways on this contentious Lodgecast. Was it Salad Dragon City, or Salad Dragon Exploitation? A profound and moving reflection on the human condition, or a repulsive an...

You might've forgotten or not known that 91-year-old Clint Eastwood directed and starred in a movie this year called Cry Macho. Well the Lodgecast did not forget, as we are hell bent on covering every Clint Eastwood movie until his dying day. This time around, Clint plays an ancient Texan rodeo star named Mike Milo who goes to Mexico to find his buddy's 13-year-old son Rafo. There ain't much to th...

Writer/director Glenn Danzig has returned to the silver screen with his new western horror film Death Rider in the House of Vampires! In Episode 53 of the Lodgecast we attended the LA premiere of Danzig's directorial debut Verotika (2019) with Danzig in the house for a Q&A. This time it was a more subdued affair as we traveled deep into the San Fernando Valley to the Regency Theatres Van Nuys Plan...

For such a time as this! David A.R. White has returned as Reverend Dave Hill in God's Not Dead: We The People, also known as God's Not Dead 4! Way back in Episode 4 of the Lodgecast we covered the third installment of the God's Not Dead series called God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness. Reverend Dave was quite conflicted in that one, but in this one he has a clear mission to save homeschooling fro...

Halloween fuckin' Kills y'all! The dreaded followup to the wretched Halloween sequel called Halloween (2018) has arrived in theaters. The good news? The kitchen island burned to the ground! The bad news? Michael Myers did not burn and he's out for many more brutal kills in Haddonfield, Illinois. This time the whole town of Haddonfield joins in an angry mob to kill Michael Myers. As Lodgemaster pre...

It's not every day you get a musical based on a teenage boy suffering from social anxiety. In fact, there are no musicals like Dear Evan Hansen. After winning a Tony Award for Best Actor for portraying Evan Hansen from 2015–2017, Ben Platt is now on the big screen reprising the title role. Platt is supported by a strong cast including Kaitlyn Dever, Amandla Stenberg, Nik Dodani, Colton Ryan, Danny...

A new horror film entitled Malignant dropped into theaters and on HBO Max recently. The Lodgecast was reluctant to review it after seeing the trailer, but a few Lodgers tipped us off that it was worth watching. Caution Lodgecast listeners! This movie has a twist and we spoil it big time in this Hawt Take. The director is James Wan, who created the Saw, Insidious, and Conjuring franchises. Is Malig...

Writer/director/bad boy Paul Schrader has returned with a new movie about counting cards called The Card Counter! The last time the Lodgecast tussled over a Schrader movie was in our hot Prius fight in Episode 10 covering First Reformed. This time five Lodgers descended upon the newly branded AMC Americana at Brand 18 to take in Schrader's latest effort. We do a thorough examination of this one co...