Matt's Movie Lodgecast

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...

We're back in the AMC Theatres again! We took a nice summer break but we are back for a stellar lineup of fall films starting with Candyman (2021), which is the direct sequel to Candyman (1992) and ignores the films Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995) and Candyman: Day of the Dead (1999). Directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, and DaCosta, we get a new cast of chara...

Hope your summer is going well Lodgecast listeners! We wanted to send you a dose of summer love and sunlight with our review of In the Heights. We'll be back in September officially, but take this episode as a summer bonus. The Lodgers are currently watching classic cinema and resting up for a helluva prestige season. In the meantime hear our voices as we sing the praises of Lin-Manuel Miranda's I...

After over three years of Lodgecasting every single week, we’ve decided to take a brief two month summer break to recharge our batteries, heal our souls, and bleach out our eyes from some of what we’ve seen. In this mini-episode we’ll mention some of the movies we’ll be missing along with what we have to look forward to when we make our return in September. Enjoy the rest of your summer Lodgecast...

The Lodgecast is about to take a two month summer break, but before we do we wanted to go out with a bang! That bang was F9 in 4DX which includes motion seats, water spritz, wind, and strobe lights! We had varied histories with the Fast & Furious films which we discussed before we headed into the brand new Regal North Hollywood 4DX. And then we got pummeled! Vin Diesel and company shook our chairs...

The Woman in the Window seemed to have the ingredients for a successful psychological thriller. It is directed by Joe Wright, written by Tracy Letts from a bestselling novel, and stars Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore, Anthony Mackie, and even our favorite Jennifer Jason Leigh. But it got sold to Netflix and we overheard that the movie was getting "scathing reviews" from critics and audience...

Francis Ford Coppola's granddaughter Gia Coppola has made her second feature film called Mainstream. It was released with little fanfare in May and was generally disliked by audiences and critics. But it starred Andrew Garfield (Under the Silver Lake) and had an intriguing trailer so we decided to cover it. Maya Hawke (daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke) plays an aspiring YouTuber who meets a...

After watching the trailer for A Quiet Place Part II for a year and a half, the movie has finally arrived! First we reminisced on the original film which we Lodgcasted and discussed the infamous whiteboard. Then we re-entered the post-apocalyptic world of John Krasinski, starring Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Cillian Murphy, and Djimon Hounsou. A group of us saw it in IMAX and can co...

Writer Derek Kolstad is back! He wrote John Wick: Chapters 1-3, and this new film called Nobody (2021) starring Bob Odenkirk. We didn't know this going into Nobody, but we soon discovered the film had striking similarities to the John Wick franchise. Odenkirk definitely worked out to star in this violent action flick, as he harnessed his latent rage into the killing of a lot of Russians. The direc...

Chris Rock Torture Porn in IMAX! What could go wrong?! In our excitement to get back into movie theaters, we made the hasty decision to drive up to the Universal Cinema AMC at CityWalk Hollywood to see Spiral: From the Book of Saw. Our histories with the Saw film series were minimal and, to our astonishment, this is the 9th installment in the series! Things went very badly with this screening and...

We're back! After successful vaccinations, a group of us climbed the hallowed steps of the AMC Burbank 16 to see the new Mortal Kombat! First we entered The Edge and recounted our history with the Mortal Kombat media franchise. Then we ascended to the Dolby Cinema and the joy enveloped us as we reclined into our reserved seats to take in the cutting-edge image and sound technologies. It was nothin...

The highly anticipated abortion movie called Roe v. Wade has been on our radar for a long time. After a hilarious teaser trailer was released in 2018, we waited three long years before it was finally released on VOD. Roe v. Wade is produced, written, directed, and stars a man named Nick Loeb, who we'll tell you everything we know about in this Lodgecast. The film also features a conservative ensem...

We have reached Episode Number 100! We wanted to make it extra special so we timed it out to coincide with the highly anticipated Coming to America sequel. Coming 2 America dropped onto Amazon Prime in March and the world tuned in to see what was happening in Zamunda. We also scored an extra special first time guest named Brother Eric who many Lodgers know and love. So plug in those ear buds to he...

GODZILLA VERSUS KONG!!! Who will win?! Many Lodgers call into the Lodgecast Hawt Line and weigh in on who the big winner will be. It was a closely split vote but one monster did emerge the winner of our poll. We watched this epic monster battle on opening night on HBO Max. And there was a winner in the movie, which we won't spoil here, but we do spoil on the Lodgecast. Alongside our two CG monster...

Celebrate Hollywood and the movies as the Lodgecast presents our Oscar Extravaganza & 2020 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 Oscar categories in a little over 30 minutes! Then it's on to the very serious business of picking ou...

Listen to our new Hawt Take and take in our brand new Hawt Take Theme Song sung by Sister Jessee!! Have you seen the new hidden camera comedy movie called Bad Trip? A lot of people have watched this movie on Netflix. The film features best buddies Eric Andre and Lil Rel Howery going on a road trip in pursuit of Eric's high school crush played by Michaela Conlin. Lil Rel Howery's criminal sister is...

"Get a girl, I'll get a boy! One plus one!" Time to explore the controversial film debut of Australian singer, songwriter, and director Sia! Her film Music was released to much derision for its portrayal of autism. We'll get into that and so much more with our review of Sia's Music starring Kate Hudson as Zu, Maddie Ziegler as Music, Leslie Odom Jr. as Ebo, and Hector Elizondo as George. This musi...