Matt's Movie Lodgecast

Blink and you might've missed it! A new unique film called Bliss starring Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek arrived on Amazon Prime in February. The film's trailer gave away way too much but also led to us determining that it was definitely Lodgecast-worthy. We won't spoil anything in this write up, but we will give away everything in this Lodgecast, including all the psychotic twists and turns that thi...

Listen to our new Hawt Take and take in our brand new Hawt Take Theme Song sung by Sister Jessee!! This week we examine the pitch-black comedy I Care a Lot starring Rosamund Pike and directed by J Blakeson. It's a nasty little movie that has been garnering critical praise and even earned Rosamund a Golden Globe! We'll let you know if it lives up to the hype as it attempts to skewer "late-stage cap...

In one of the most divided episodes we've ever had, the Lodgecast takes on Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar! We've always said comedy is subjective, but Barb and Star have taken that to a whole new level! Either we witnessed one of the funniest comedies in recent memory, or we witnessed a film as bad as the worst Adam Sandler comedies. Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo are Barb and Star in this highl...

To celebrate the Lodgecast surviving one year of being locked down, we watched an HBO Max Original movie called Locked Down! The movie is directed by Doug Liman (Swingers) and written by Steven Knight (Serenity) and stars Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor. With all this talent, we thought it might have something to offer! Written, financed, and filmed entirely during the COVID-19 pandemic, the mo...

An Amazon Original Movie called Nocturne came out a while back. The schnapps is "An incredibly gifted pianist makes a Faustian bargain to overtake her older sister at a prestigious institution for classical musicians." Writer/director Zu Quirke conducts this symphony starring Sydney Sweeney, Madison Iseman, Jacques Colimon, and Ivan Shaw. Three Lodgers perform their own trio of criticism, lyricall...

"You don't get it do you? Me and you. It's madness!" It sure is madness in this new film written, directed, produced, and starring Louise Linton. For those of you who don't know, Louise Linton is married to ex-U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Mnuchin is worth about $300 million and I'm sure a bundle of that money went into his wife's vanity project entitled Me You Madness. In this movie Lou...

Lodgers didn't know how good they had it when they viewed Ad Astra for Episode 68 of the Lodgecast! George Clooney's The Midnight Sky continues in the tradition of what is being termed the "Sad Dadstra" genre of melancholic space movies. George Clooney directs and stars in this $100 million Netflix movie. Clooney is stuck with child actor Caoilinn Springall in the Arctic Circle as they try to tell...

It's The Little Things. A new neo-noir crime thriller from boring writer/director John Lee Hancock. With an Oscar-winning cast in Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto we were hoping for a little magic, but we'll let you know what we got. Denzel Washington & Rami Malek play the hard-charging detective duo trying to track down a serial killer that might be Jared Leto. Denzel & Rami mope aro...

After months and months of failed attempts to see Christopher Nolan's Tenet on the big screen, the Lodgecast finally settled for watching it in the comfort of our homes. The home viewing of this film allowed us to pause, rewind, and reflect on this mind-bending story of time travel and inverted entropy. We try our damndest to explain what we saw as the 150-minute spectacle unfolded. The movie star...

Matt's Movie Lodgecast recommends you see the new movie Promising Young Woman. Writer/director Emerald Fennell has delivered a stunning debut feature with an all star cast lead by Carey Mulligan. Because the movie features so many dark twists and unexpected turns, we do our best to avoid spoilers on this one. The Lodgecast Boyz are joined by two amazing women on this 'cast as we do our best to cov...

Hey y'all! We watched this brand new Oscar bait movie about white trash called Hillbilly Elegy. It's directed by Ron Howard and was meant to win all the awards, but it ain't gonna win nothin'! We'll let you know why in this wild Lodgecast review. The movie is based on the completely unadaptable and overrated 2016 memoir by J.D. Vance. Little J.D. and his mama played by Amy Adams and his Mamaw play...

Prestige season continues with the 97% Fresh, critically acclaimed movie Sound of Metal. Riz Ahmed gives an Oscar nominated performance. He hasn’t been nominated yet but he will be! Mark our words! Riz plays a drummer in a metal band who loses his hearing and struggles to deal with this new reality. Through the power of sound design the movie takes us into his world. This movie will be nominated f...

It is thyme to tell you about this little known movie called Wild Mountain Thyme. Long ago in a land called Ireland, John Patrick Shanley wrote and directed a movie based on his play about a very strange Irish family. Emily Blunt throws herself at her next door neighbor Jamie Dornan, who constantly refuses her. Then Jon Hamm throws himself at Emily Blunt. It's all very lyrical and magical and whim...

Son of Cronenberg (Brandon) grabs the torch from his father David and runs with it in the new ultra-violent sci-fi horror film Possessor. A contract killer implants her consciousness into other bodies so she can brutally assassinate people. Andrea Riseborough stars as the contract killer. She is implanted into Christopher Abbott who kills a bunch of people in the most graphic way possible. Definit...

Mank! The most prestigious Hollywood picture of the year is here! David Fincher directs! Gary Oldman stars! As Mank! Herman J. Mankiewicz, the brilliant mind behind the writing of the greatest film of all time: Citizen Kane! Mank! The picture they tried to stop! A Netflix production. With an all star cast! Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsle...

Time to get Freaky! A new movie called Freaky was getting buzz, so we watched this new comedy slasher film directed by Christopher Landon. Serial killer Vince Vaughn switches bodies with a teenage girl played by Kathryn Newton. Blumhouse Productions serves up blood and laughs in this twisted take on Freaky Friday. The movie also stars Katie Finneran, Celeste O'Connor, and Alan Ruck. We let you kno...

From the director of Welcome to Marwen (2018) comes a new dark fantasy comedy called The Witches (2020). That's right ladies and gents, Robert Zemeckis is back adapting Roald Dahl's book The Witches (1983) and remaking Nicolas Roeg adaptation of The Witches (1990). Why would Zemeckis remake a classic adaptation of a classic book? Because we now have the power of computer animation! Zemeckis miscas...

Writer/director Sofia Coppola has a new movie out on Apple TV+ called On the Rocks starring Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, and Marlon Wayans. After some discussion of Sofia Coppola's career, the Lodgecast analyzes her latest film. Rashida Jones plays a mother of two who suspects that her husband, played by Marlon Wayans, might be cheating on her. Bill Murray plays the father of Rashida Jones and he j...

We watched another VOD indie horror movie called The Wolf of Snow Hollow. Writer/director Jim Cummings stars as a stressed-out police officer when folks from his small Utah town keep getting killed by a werewolf. I guess it's a horror comedy but we weren't laughing too much. It's definitely The Jim Cummings Show as he steamrolls through his audition scenes that he wrote and directed for himself. I...

The Lodgecast takes on a popular documentary called The Social Dilemma available on Netflix. This movie is a must-see for all teenagers. Sit your teen down, take away their phone, and watch this movie. Then have a discussion with your teen about social media and the negative impacts it may be having on their life. This docudrama lays out a whole host of reasons that social media has been damaging...

David A.R. White is back with an AR-15 in the new ultraviolent Christian action film Beckman from PureFlix. Last time we covered David A.R. White was in Lodgecast Episode 4 where we reviewed God’s Not Dead 3: A Light in Darkness. Since then David A.R. White has been wrestling with some demons and he decided he wanted to make his own Christian version of John Wick. David A.R. White plays Aaron Beck...

Jagshemash! I like! Wa wa wee wa! These are some of the phrases you'll hear on our review of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Sacha Baron Cohen snuck up a Borat sequel on us and we watched it immediately and laughed heartily! Borat returns from Kazakhstan to the USA with his fifteen-year-old daughter Tutar and attempts to deliver her as a gift to Mike Pence and then Rudy Giuliani. Along the way Borat a...

With Election Day 2020 right around the corner, the Lodgecast took on one of the most anticipated and dreaded movies of the year: Dinesh D'Souza's Trump Card! Two years ago we stomached Dinesh D'Souza's Death of a Nation in Episode 19 of the Lodgecast. Now Dinesh is back to take on socialism, corruption, and the Deep State, and to sing praise to President Donald Trump. Despite this movie's popular...

Happy Hubie Halloween Lodgecast listeners! What is Hubie? Who is Hubie? Hubie Dubois is the latest Adam Sandler character in the new Happy Madison Production from Netflix! While in any normal year we would be knee deep in prestige season watching Oscar contenders on the big screen, in the fall of 2020 we are covering the hottest streaming movie on Netflix called Hubie Halloween. Sandler as Hubie i...

Are movies just supposed to curl up in a ball and die because there's a global pandemic? No! Do movies have to permanently live in some fantasy world that pretends that coronavirus never existed? Hell No! This is the future of cinema! The 57-minute horror movie Host is the first of many post-COVID films that the Lodgecast will tackle. Drawing on the desktop filmmaking genre that was established wi...