Matt's Movie Lodgecast

Orion Pictures presents Gretel & Hansel based on the "Hansel and Gretel" story by the Brothers Grimm. This film is directed by Oz Perkins who is the son of actor Anthony Perkins. Oz Perkins shows us some visual talent in this grim fairy tale that somehow got a PG-13 rating. Sophia Lillis is Gretel, Sam Leakey is Hansel, and Alice Krige is The Witch. We'll report back what we witnessed in the dark woods!

"Ride Together. Die Together." That's the tagline for Bad Boys for Life (2020) and also our motto as we piled into The Edge to record our Lodgecast. We even brought a notorious guest who's officially known as The Lodge's Resident Bad Boy. But with the stakes this high and passions burning hot this episode turned into a contentious affair with a very dark and controversial twist. After this dark twist, we continued on to discuss Will Smith & Martin Lawrence and their return to their roles of Mike Lowrey & Marcus Burnett in the Bad Boys franchise after almost 20 years. These Miami detectives are joined by Joey Pants and a whole new gang of fresh faces known as AMMO. The movie was a smash hit at the box office but was it a smash hit in our heart of hearts? Most of us will let you know. But there's a new Bad Boy in town!

We don't often Lodgecast family movies, but we just had to see what Jim Carrey was up to in the hit film Sonic the Hedgehog! When last we left Jim, he was in a dark place in our Lodgecast Episode No. 8 where we discussed the Polish downer movie he starred in called Dark Crimes (2018). Would America's funnyman ever return to the big screen with that classic Jim sparkle? We shall let you know with our reporting on Sonic the Hedgehog (2020). We'll also give you the low down on the look of Sonic's design which caused quite a stir in the massive online Sonic fandom community. Also in this 'cast, one Lodgecaster gets very heated up about having to see this family movie. In this film, Ben Schwartz is the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog, Jim Carrey is Doctor Robotnik, and James Marsden is the lead guy.

The Lodgecast would be remiss not to cover the horror movie The Lodge. We hoped for a classic movie that shared our namesake. We’ll tell you what we got! Directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala follow up their creepy Austrian horror film Goodnight Mommy with another bleak vision in The Lodge. It stars Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh, Alicia Silverstone, and Richard Armitage. One particular Lodger gets quite heated. Not in the film The Lodge, but in the actual Lodgecast! Tune in for the hawtest of Hawt Takes as we set fire to the wintry Lodge on the Lodgecast!

Tyler Perry wrote, directed, and produced his first Neflix movie! We heeded the call and watched this movie on Netflix opening night. It's a Tyler Perry thriller which follows our lead character Grace as she falls from a dangerous new love affair, but fights back in the movie's shocking conclusion. Once again Tyler Perry proves to be the fastest director around shooting this 2-hour movie in just five days! He brings along a great cast including Crystal Fox, Phylicia Rashad, Bresha Webb, Cicely Tyson, and Tyler Perry himself. If you've never seen a Tyler Perry movie, then this is a great place to start!

CinemaScore is a market research firm that polls audience members on the most recent theatrical releases and asks them to give the film a letter grade. In their 20 year history only 21 films have received an average of an "F" rating and the horror movie The Turning is one of those infamous films. We gotta start the movie year at the bottom and this is pretty damn close. The Lodgemistress joined us to gaze upon her doppelgänger actress Mackenzie Davis who gets spooked over and over again. Actor Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things) proves to be as annoying as ever. Director Floria Sigismondi attempts to set the novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James in they year 1994 for some reason. Hear the Lodgecast describe the film's weird ending that forced audiences to give this film an "F"!

It was time to Do the Dolittle! We swore that if Dolittle dropped below 20% on Rotten Tomatoes, we were gonna see it and it now sits at 15%. So five Lodgers hit up the Studio Movie Grill in Glendale for a screening of Robert Downey Jr. as Dr. John Dolittle. RDJ is surrounded by an all star cast of CG animals voiced by Emma Thompson, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, Craig Robinson, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez, Marion Cotillard, and Rami Malek as Chee-Chee! Stephen Gaghan (Syriana) directed this movie for some reason. Stay tuned for a Salad Dragon scene that literally involved a dragon and a green leafy vegetable!

Celebrate Hollywood and the movies as the Lodgecast presents our Oscar Extravaganza & 2019 Film 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 20 minutes! Then it's on to the very serious business of picking our 2019 movie favorites as we all count down from #10 to #1 of our very favorite films of 2019. Some Lodgecast movies make the cut of our best films, but there are a few surprises. Have a listen and let us know what you think!

Have you heard of the movie Underwater? It is a movie that was shot in 2017 and finally released into theaters in 2020. It is the last film to be released under the name 20th Century Fox which is now the Disney-owned 20th Century Studios. It might be the last film starring actor T.J. Miller. It also stars Kristen Stewart and Vincent Cassel. The entire film takes place underwater. An underwater creature attacks the crew of an underwater station. Tune in for more interesting facts about the film Underwater on our podcast episode!

The world will know his name and the truth! We all thought The Mule (2018) would've been an ideal movie for 89-year-old Clint Eastwood to go out on last year, but ol' Clint is back with a new film called Richard Jewell about...Richard Jewell! We went into the movie vaguely remembering Jewell as the 1996 Summer Olympics bomber, but we found out that we were lied to by the FBI and the mainstream media! Richard Jewell is a hero! The FBI and the media are fake news! After the film we ponder why Clint would make such a movie demonizing the FBI and the media at this time in American history. Does it have anything to do with how Republicans feel about the FBI and the media today? Well 'ol Clint Eastwood didn't make the connections clear enough. Clint should've been on Fox News clearly explaining it to Sean Hannity. The Fox News crowd didn't get the message and the movie was a box office bomb! But we still saw it and had some major laughs. Paul Walter Hauser stars as Richard Jewell, alongside Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bate

Rian Johnson weaves a tangled web in this intricate whodunit that will keep you guessing until the final scene! Or will it?! Once again, the Lodgecast collides with a prestige movie that received almost universal critical and audience praise. Does this movie really live up to the hype? It has got quite an ensemble cast featuring Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Lakeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, and Christopher Plummer. Rian Johnson writes and directs this murder mystery that is an instant movie classic! Or is it?!

We didn't sleep on Doctor Sleep! Stephen King's sequel novel to his 1977 book The Shining has been adapted into a movie. It made its money back but it could've grossed $200 million more if it was just called The Shining, Book Two. Keep it simple Hollywood! Ewan McGregor stars as a grown up and messed up Danny Torrance. Rebecca Ferguson stars as Rose the Hat, head of the True Knot, a cult that feeds on children with psychic powers. Jacob Tremblay stars as a "baseball boy" that is brutally murdered by the True Knot. The movie has numerous references to Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror film The Shining, and we will talk about all of them!

The Jellicle Cats have finally come out to play! After the remarkable trailer that dropped last summer, no movie has been more heavily anticipated by the Lodgecast than Cats (2019). A very special crew with three new guests huddled into a Kia in Coon Rapids, Minnesota to discuss this human-cat hybrid spectacle. A never-ending salad dragon bowl was served to us all! Listen in as we take on the likes of Rebel Wilson, Dame Judi Dench, Idris Elba, Sir Ian McKellen, Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, James Corden, Jason Derulo, and Francesca Hayward as Jellicle Cats! We urge you to see Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Broadway blockbuster magically transformed into a sexy CG nightmare! Experience it on the big screen with the whole family! Meow Playing!

It's the Lodgecast Star Wars Holiday Special! Fire up your podcast blasters and discover where your favorite Lodgers landed in a bone count spectrum as wide as the galaxy! Love & Lightsabers!

Happy Hanukkah, y’all! The dubious allure of the Hollywood Arclight pulled the boyz back for the hotly anticipated Uncut Gems. The Edge was cut right down the middle for this tale of chance and intrigue in the jewelry district. Listen now and find out precisely how brightly this opal glistened...

We were not motherless as we headed into Motherless Brooklyn, written, produced, directed, and starring Sir Edward Norton. Brother Lucas's mother joined us at the AMC Universal CityWalk for this neo-noir set in 1950s New York City. All we knew going into Motherless Brooklyn was the trailer in which Edward Norton has Tourette's syndrome. We discovered a lot more including a cast of Bruce Willis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Bobby Cannavale, Cherry Jones, Alec Baldwin, and Willem Dafoe. If you've been wondering what Edward Norton has been up to, we'll fill you in on the blanks. "If!"

Set 25 years after the events of Terminator 2, Terminator: Dark Fate ignores the other Terminator sequels and wipes the slate clean for a fresh reboot of the Terminator franchise. Terminator: Dark Fate lost $130 million, but that wasn't enough to keep the Lodge's Terminator freaks away from seeing Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger kick butt one last time. Director Tim Miller and producer James Cameron follow the basic Terminator 2 blueprint, and it's probably safe to say this puts a nail in the coffin on the Terminator franchise... particularly when Arnold sorrowfully says, "I won't be back." This box office nuclear bomb also stars Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, and Gabriel Luna.

After much resistance, the Lodgecast Boyz came together for a Hawt Take of the soon-to-be Oscar-nominated Ford v Ferrari. We saw the trailer to this movie at least a dozen times and felt that we'd already seen the film, but the universal critical and audience acclaim suckered us into seeing it at the AMC Dolby Cinema. Matt Damon and Christian Bale go VROOM VROOM in their Ford racing cars and we cheered them along. Bring your Dad to see this slice of Boomer Oscar bait. He's gonna love it!

The Lodgecast hasn't covered a documentary film all year long, so when we saw that No Safe Spaces was coming to our local Burbank AMC Theater, we jumped on the chance. We had to see what right wing commentator Dennis Prager and comedian Adam Carolla were up to in this documentary on free speech. As left wing snowflakes, we were thoroughly triggered, and by the end of the movie fully owned by the onslaught of airtight conservative wisdom that we were served. While not as painful as Dinesh D'Souza's Death of a Nation (2018), we still had some criticisms for Prager and Carolla and some of their filmmaking methods and arguments. We definitely left our liberal safe spaces for this movie and we'll report back to you all the unseemly details!

Happy Turkey Day, Lodgers! Marty Scorsese, Bobby De Niro, and Joey Pesci have joined forces one last time to bring you one last gangster film. Al Pacino joins them as Jimmy Hoffa and their de-aged faces exchange mafioso dialogue for 3 hours and 30 minutes! After you've filled up on turkey and stuffing, gather around the Netflix fire this Thanksgiving and unbuckle your belts for an epic crime film! Six Lodgecast Boyz attended this very limited theatrical release at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. And we definitely had some words for this movie. We're gonna lose our podcasting license for this one!