Matt's Movie Lodgecast

We're taking a Lodgecast Spring Break! We need to give our dear Lodgemaster a much-needed editing break after splicing together over 250 four-bone episodes in the last five 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 & Girlz of Summer will return! Just in time for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny!

Lily Tomlin! Jane Fonda! Rita Moreno! Sally Field! We had to see what these 80-year-old ladies were up to in the geriatric sports comedy 80 For Brady. The story features four lifelong friends who travel to watch Tom Brady play in Super Bowl LI in 2017. The movie offers supporting roles from Tom Brady, Billy Porter, Rob Corddry, Alex Moffat, Bob Balaban, Glynn Turman, Sara Gilbert, Patton Oswalt, Rob Gronkowski, and the one and only Guy Fieri. The witty screenplay was written by Sarah Haskins and Emily Halpern, who were the writers of Booksmart (2019). The cinematography is by the great John Toll, who shot Braveheart, The Thin Red Line, and Cloud Atlas. Laughs were had by most of the audience for this wacky comedy. We'll tell you all the trouble that these ladies get into!

The gravitational pull of the viral marketing campaign for Cocaine Bear sucked us into the theaters. That title! That poster! The memes! This horror comedy is based on a true story of a bear that ate cocaine in the 1980s in the wilderness of Tennessee. Elizabeth Banks directed this movie with a solid cast of Keri Russell, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Christian Convery, Alden Ehrenreich, Brooklynn Prince, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Margo Martindale, and Ray Liotta (Rest in Peace). But this crazy movie wasn't the barrel of laughs we were hoping for, at least amongst this Lodgecast crew. We'll let you know how quickly the drugs wore off in this coked-up hawt take!

Son of Cronenberg (Brandon) Returns! Deep in lockdown, we covered his film Possessor (2020) which pulverized us. This time around Alexander Skarsgard plays a struggling writer in a resort town who gets killed and cloned with the help of Mia Goth and her sordid cohorts. Sex & drugs & violence were amply served to us, but was that enough to win us over? Brandon Cronenberg and Mia Goth were in the AMC Burbank 16 to introduce the film, and Kevin Sorbo also made a cameo appearance! We'll tell you all about our experience of this twisted sci-fi horror flick!

Celebrate Hollywood and the movies as the Lodgecast presents our Oscar Extravaganza & 2022 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 under 30 minutes! Then it's on to a new award this year. We'll all give our pick for The Salad Dragon of the Year! Then we charge forward to the very serious business of picking our 2022 movie favorites as we all count down from #10 to #1 of our very favorite films of 2022. Some Lodgecast movies make the cut of our best films, but there are many surprises. Have a listen and let us know what you think!

Kevin Sorbo (KSorbs) has directed a new Left Behind movie which we encountered in theaters as a Fathom Event. For those unfamiliar with Left Behind, they were a series of 16 bestselling Christian novels covering the End Times and authored by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. In the early 2000s, Kirk Cameron starred in three films which were adaptations of some of these novels. Then in 2014, Nicolas Cage starred in a big-budget reboot of the series, entitled simply Left Behind. Nine years passed until Kevin Sorbo took up the torch, directing and starring in this new sequel to the Nicolas Cage movie entitled Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist. This time Kevin Sorbo is playing the lead role of Rayford Steele, accompanied by co-stars Neal McDonough, Corbin Bernsen, Sam Sorbo (Kevin's wife), Braeden Sorbo (Kevin's son), and Bailey Chase playing the rising Antichrist named Nicolae Carpathia. Before we entered this movie, we take you to school on the ideas of premillennial dispensationalism which is a widespread bel

We return to the computer screen in the new film Missing which takes place almost entirely on laptops and mobile phone screens. The film is from the creators of the 2018 film Searching, which we covered way back in Episode 22. The other special thing about this film is it stars Storm Reid, the lead girl from A Wrinkle in Time, which we covered in our very first Lodgecast and which gave us the Salad Dragon. In this movie Storm Reid's mom goes missing on a trip to Colombia and she does her best to track her down using the power of the Internet. It's got many twists and turns which we will spoil. It also stars Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, and Nia Long. Join us for a thrilling screenlife adventure!

Oscar buzz is heating up and the award for Best Actor goes to Brendan Fraser in The Whale! There is no doubt Brendan is winning Oscar night for his role as a 600-pound man named Charlie in Darren Aronofsky's new film. We talk about director Aronofsky and his wild career before witnessing his latest. While the marketing made it look uplifting, this film was rather unpleasant and drew a mixed reaction from this Lodgecast audience. The movie also stars Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Ty Simpkins, and Samantha Morton. Based on a play by Samuel D. Hunter. Congratulations Brendan Fraser! Well deserved!

Our boy Timothee Chalamet plays a cannibal?! You know we had to cover director Luca Guadagnino's new film Bones and All. In 1980s Virginia, Chalamet and Taylor Russel play fine young cannibals as they drive across the United States in search of Russel's mom in Minnesota. They are stalked by a super creepy cannibal named Sully played by Mark Rylance. This bleak romantic horror movie definitely has its qualities and we'll let you know how that factored into our bone count in this Bones and All Hawt Take!

We made it to Lodgecast Episode 150! We wanted to make this a special episode so we reserved the spot for the new robot horror movie M3GAN. Ever since the 4-bone M3GAN trailer dropped last year, the entire World has been abuzz about M3GAN. Who is this artificially intelligent doll turned fashion icon? Well we found out, and accurately predicted that this film is just the start of the M3GAN franchise as M3GAN 2.0 has already been green-lit for release in 2025. This first M3GAN movie stars Amie Donald as M3GAN with Jenna Davis supplying M3GAN's voice. Allison Williams plays M3GAN's creator and Violet McGraw plays the girl who becomes attached to M3GAN. As artificial intelligence rapidly advances and wreaks havoc on our lives and livelihoods, M3GAN will be there to remind us of the terrors we are actively unleashing!

As flash floods spread across Los Angeles, we risked our lives driving through torrential rain to see Damien Chazelle's 3-hour Hollywood epic Babylon. The movie massively flopped at the box office losing over $100 million, and it divided critics and audiences alike who either loved or hated it. It was rated R for severe sex & nudity, violence, drug use, profanity, and elephant defecation. We definitely had to see it on the big screen! The movie is set in the late 1920s and early 1930s as motion pictures transitioned from silent films to talkies. It stars Margot Robbie as a very coked-up aspiring actress, Brad Pitt as an aging silent film star, and Diego Calva as a film assistant who bears witness to the whole extravaganza. The movie has excellent supporting roles including Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, Lukas Haas, Katherine Waterston, Tobey Maguire, Flea, Jeff Garlin, Olivia Wilde, Spike Jonze, and even the great Eric Roberts! You might love it or you might hate it, but you owe it to yourself to witness

Lodgemaster braved the icy Minnesota tundra with a duo of extra special guests to witness a cinematic dramatization of the tumultuous life and times of the incomparable Whitney Houston. The pitch perfect cast features Naomi Ackie, Stanley Tucci, Ashton Sanders, Clarke Peters and Law & Order SVU's very own Tamara Tunie. Press play, pop some bubbly and dance with somebody!

There's a new Avatar movie out in theaters called Avatar: The Way of Water. We saw it opening weekend in 3D high-frame-rate IMAX. This movie took James Cameron over ten years to make! Is it better than Avatar (2009)? Will it gross more than any film ever? Who is this "Spider" character everyone keeps talking about? All these questions will be answered as we dive into this epic sci-fi film that ran 3 Hrs. 12 Min. Sam Worthington as Jake Sully and Zoe Saldana as Neytiri are back and married with children, including Sigourney Weaver as their teenage daughter Kiri Sully. Even villain Stephen Lang is back! Kate Winslet, Edie Falco, and Jemaine Clement also make appearances. But the real star is Jack Champion as "Spider". We'll tell you all about "Spider" and much more in our travel review of our epic return to Pandora!

Holy Smokeo! There were two major Pinocchio films that came out late this year and we opted for the most painful one! Director Robert Zemeckis, the genius behind the movie Welcome to Marwen (2018), has returned with a direct-to-Disney-Plus live-action remake of Walt Disney's beloved 1940 animated film Pinocchio. We knew this one was gonna hurt, but we were unprepared for the level of pain Zemeckis was going to inflict upon us this time. Will this $150 million soulless production finally put an end to Zemeckis's career?! Probably not! Tom Hanks is Geppetto, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth is the voice of Pinocchio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the voice of Jiminy Cricket, Keegan-Michael Key is the voice of "Honest" John, Cynthia Erivo is The Blue Fairy, and Lorraine Bracco is the voice of a new seagull character called Sofia. Brace yourselves for Pinocchio and have a Happy New Year! Holy Smokeo!

Merry Chongsmas and Happy Chongnukkah! Yes indeed we did see the lauded new Spielberg film The Fabelmans AKA Spielberg: The Boy Genius Origin Story. Oh man do we have things to say about this film! As it is going to be bulldozing its way through awards season, we have to try to inject some sense of sanity into the Spielberg-worshipping publicity machine. We went into this film with open minds and hearts, but after watching all 2 hours and 30 minutes, we came out with some harsh words for our boy Spielberg. This film is now on VOD so watch it and then hear our take. Or if you can't stomach watching it, just listen to us. And if you loved the film, then hear us out. It'll give you much to talk about over the holiday dinner table. The film stars Gabriel LaBelle as the boy wonder Sammy Fabelman, Michelle Williams as his mom Mitzi Fabelman, Paul Dano as his dad Burt Fabelman, and a horribly miscast Seth Rogen as their friend Bennie. Judd Hirsch also has a small role as Uncle Boris, and there's a very special film

We shed love and light on "Weird Al" Yankovic in this ode to the funny man who played a role in all our childhoods. We introduce this episode with our Weird Al origin stories before we review his new music biopic satire Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. The movie is streaming for free on The Roku Channel and stars Daniel Radcliffe as the adult Weird Al, Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna, Rainn Wilson as Dr. Demento, and a legion of other celebrity roles and cameos including Weird Al himself as a record producer. We had a barrel of laughs in this one with mostly glowing things to say. If you're an Alfred Yankovic fan, you have to see Weird: The Al Yankovic Story!

Dine with us on a Tuesday Discount Night as we digest the new black comedy The Menu directed by Mark Mylod. Feast your eyes on actors Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Reed Birney, Judith Light, and John Leguizamo. Taste each delectable course in this full meal served at this elite dinner where celebrity chef Ralph Fiennes serves up a healthy portion of murder! Savor the flavor of deliciously decadent delights in this spicy hawt take! Yum!

We are drowning in prestige season, so it was time to see one of the most prestigious films of the year entitled Triangle of Sadness. Directed by acclaimed Swedish filmmaker Ruben Ostlund, this film won the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Set mostly on a luxury cruise, this is a hilarious satirical black comedy making fun of the wealthiest people in the world. It stars Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly de Leon, Zlatko Buric, Henrik Dorsin, Vicki Berlin, and Woody Harrelson as the drunken cruise ship captain. The Lodgecast recommends seeing Triangle of Sadness!

Happy Thanksgiving! We have a Thanksgiving feast of a Lodgecast today starring none other than Kirk Cameron. It's one of our longest episodes serving up Salad Dragons for everyone. Before we entered this Fathom Event, we went even deeper into our history with Mr. Kirk Cameron. The last Kirk Cameron movie we covered was about homeschooling, but this heartwarming Christian drama is about adoption. It features a Christlike adopted teenage boy played by Raphael Ruggero, and their perfect adopted parents played by Kirk Cameron and Rebecca Rogers Nelson. There's a lot of crying in this movie, but also some comedic relief in the form of a kid named Nate played by Justin Sterner. Once you've had your turkey and stuffing, feast upon our story about a little faith-based movie called Lifemark. Streaming now exclusively on Pure Flix just in time for seeing it over the Thanksgiving holiday with your family!

We had to cover the new David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream directed by Brett Morgen. For this screening, we brought on an extra special Bowie super-fan as a guest. To start the episode, we all talked about our deep relationship with one of the greatest musical artists of all time. Then we proceeded into the IMAX theater to witness this loud, trippy doc on the big, big screen. Certainly not your average talking-head interview rock doc, we were treated to a 140-minute spectacle that features tons of amazing Bowie footage and music. We'll tell you all about it, but needless to say it is recommended viewing for Bowie fans!