Matt's Movie Lodgecast

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 Mckenna Grace go to live in Egon's old haunted house in Summerville, Oklahoma. Ghostly happenings haunt the family and familiar Ghostbusters relics appear including Ecto-1, Vinz Clortho the Keymaster, Zuul the Gatekeeper, Gozer the Gozerian, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, and Sigourney Weaver! The film also stars Paul Rudd, Celeste O'Connor, and Logan Kim as a character named Podcast. Did this nostalgic cash grab make us Woof hard, or were we delighted at the fan service? Listen and learn as we take Finn Wolfhard's hand into small town Oklahoma!

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. Did it rise to the occasion and surpass David Lynch's 1984 film? We will let you know in this epic Lodgecast. The movie stars Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgard, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, David Dastmalchian, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem. Omniscient editorial note: Dune: Part Two has a planned release for October 2023 and we will be there!

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 of Daniel Craig's final outing as 007. This one is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga with a theme song by Billie Eilish. It also stars Lea Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Rory Kinnear, Ralph Fiennes, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, David Dencik, and Dali Benssalah.

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 and gratuitous tale of violence for the sake of shock value? Or was it all of these things and more?! Titane stars Agathe Rousselle, Vincent Lindon, Garance Marillier, and Lais Salameh.

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 this movie, but we will explain to you just how old Clint Eastwood is. Clint is supported by a cast including Dwight Yoakam, Eduardo Minett, Natalia Traven, Fernanda Urrejola, Horacio Garcia Rojas, and a rooster named Macho! Stay Alive Clint!

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 Plant 16 to catch the last screening of Death Rider with an audience of about four other people. We were very curious as to how Danzig would follow up his hilariously puzzling debut Verotika. We shall let you know! Devon Sawa plays Death Rider, and the film also stars Julian Sands, Kim Director, Ashley Wisdom, Danny Trejo, Eli Roth, and Glenn Danzig himself!

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 from the intrusion of the United States government! It was an interesting night at this Fathom Event at AMC Theaters and we'll give the update on the ongoing saga of David A.R. White. The faith-based film also stars Isaiah Washington, William Forsythe, Antonio Sabato Jr., and Judge Jeanine Pirro!

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 predicted Jamie Lee Curtis is stuck in a hospital the entire movie. But Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Anthony Michael Hall, Thomas Mann, and an entire village of bloodthirsty suburbanites attempt to finish off Michael Myers once and for all. They don't succeed! Halloween Ends comes out October 14, 2022 and we will be there!

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 Pino, Julianne Moore, and Amy Adams. So why did this lauded coming-of-age stage musical flop at the box office and get panned by the critics? We got a tale to tell in our coverage of this unique cinematic experience!

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 Malignant bloody brilliant enough to launch its own horror franchise? We'll let you know in this brisk Hawt Take! The movie stars Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, George Young, Michole Briana White, and Jacqueline McKenzie.

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 covering the performances of Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, and Tye Sheridan as they order drinks and play cards. Willem Dafoe is also in the mix as a link into Oscar Isaac's dark, torturous past. Come play blackjack and poker with us! This is The Card Counter!

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 characters in modern day Chicago played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, Kyle Kaminsky, and Vanessa Williams. Tony Todd is also in the mix but you'll hear more of him in this Lodgecast than you will in the movie! We'll let you know precisely how scared we got in our returning episode!

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 In the Heights. We discuss our relationship with Lin-Manuel before experiencing the 143-minute filmed version of his Tony-winning musical. The film is directed by Jon M. Chu and stars Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins, Leslie Grace, Melissa Barrera, Olga Merediz, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Gregory Diaz IV, and Jimmy Smits! And if you pay attention you might even spot Marc Anthony. While the film was a box office bomb, it was not a bomb in our hearts. Sending summer love and light your way! Have a good time but remember, there is danger in the summer moon above! Hope to see you in September!

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 listeners! We’ll be back in September with a full slate of highly anticipated films to take us through the end of the year!

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 for 145 minutes and we'll tell you all about it. Fear not Lodgecast listeners, we'll be back in September and we may sprinkle in a few summer treats so stay subscribed!

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 audiences alike. So we knew we had to find out what was wrong. Joined by a guest who had read the novel, we were fully equipped to tackle this story about an agoraphobic woman who spies on her new neighbors. Join us as we find out what is wrong with The Woman in the Window!

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 man named Link (Garfield). Link's antics skyrocket him into viral video stardom. With the help of a manager played by Jason Schwartzman (Gia Coppola's uncle), Link's popularity catapults to the stratosphere and problems ensue. The movie also features Nat Wolff, Johnny Knoxville, Colleen Camp, and real life vloggers Juanpa Zurita and Jake Paul. Find out all about Mainstream in our latest Hawt Take!

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 confirm it is a movie for the big screen! Enjoy the silence in this thrilling post-apocalyptic horror movie!

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 director is Russian filmmaker Ilya Naishuller, who did Hardcore Henry (2015). Odenkirk is aided by the help of his daddy Christopher Lloyd, his wife Connie Nielsen, and his half-brother RZA. Fun was generally had at this badass flick that we saw at AMC Theaters!

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'll let you know all the bloody details. Chris Rock stars as Detective Zeke, and he's supported by his daddy Samuel L. Jackson, his buddy cop Max Minghella, and his mean boss Marisol Nichols. Find out what the Jigsaw copycat killer has been up to! Spiral is the #1 Movie in America!