Matt's Movie Lodgecast

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. Definitely designed for fans of David Cronenberg, we'll let you know if Possessor delivers! The film also stars Rossif Sutherland, Tuppence Middleton, Sean Bean, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

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 Kingsley, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke, Joseph Cross, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore, Monika Gossmann, and Charles Dance. Mank! Written by David Fincher's dad Jack Fincher. Mank! The greatest motion picture of our time!

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 know if we were feeling freaky in this locked down hawt take!

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 miscasts Anne Hathaway as the Grand High Witch in an attempt to fill the shoes of Anjelica Huston from the 1990 version. And that's just one of Zemeckis's sins that we'll talk about in our comprehensive review. The movie also stars Octavia Spencer, Jahzir Kadeem, Stanley Tucci, and the voice of Chris Rock. Watch this movie on HBO Max or don't.

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 joins his daughter for an undercover investigation of her husband. The Lodgecast debates the merits of what ensues with much disagreement. Lodgecast listeners, what is your take on the films of Sofia Coppola?

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. It is the final film of the great actor Robert Forster, and it also stars Riki Lindhome, Chloe East, and Jimmy Tatro. But all the actors are overshadowed by writer/director/star Jim Cummings!

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 society in the past ten years. The Lodgecast discusses these problems and then lays out clear solutions for how they can be solved in this coming decade. The Social Dilemma features a bunch of leading talking heads on the subject including Tristan Harris, Jaron Lanier, Roger McNamee, Shoshana Zuboff, and a ton of people that worked for Facebook, Twitter, and Google. It also features unique dramatic sequences where the horrors of social media are played out for maximum emotional impact. These dramatic sequences feature the actors Skylar Gisondo, Kara Hayward, Vincent Kartheiser, and other dramatic powerhouses. Put dow

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 Beckman who was a contract killer but becomes a pastor. Things go haywire when a cult leader kidnaps Beckman’s adopted daughter. William Baldwin plays the cult leader. The movie also features brief performances by Burt Young and Jeff Fahey. Join us for our review of one of the most violent and exciting Christian films of all time!

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 and Tutar encounter many adventures that we will reveal in our review of this movie that you should've streamed on Amazon Prime by now. If you haven't watched it yet, then watch it!

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 popularity in the iTunes Store, Trump Card has not been reviewed by any critic on Rotten Tomatoes. While most critics run in fear of Dinesh's propaganda, the Lodgecast runs toward Dinesh with furious anger at his astounding levels of bad filmmaking. We dismantle Dinesh's movie scene by scene and lay waste to his arguments with flawless logic and humor. Listen to our review of the movie that Dinesh D'Souza calls "Dinesh D'Souza's Most Important Film Yet!" This is Trump Card!

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 is surrounded by a whole gang of cameo performances that are happy to take an easy paycheck in this lazy Neflix hit. Gather the family around the 4K UHD LED Smart TV and take in all the spooks and giggles of this PG-13 horror comedy film. Along with Sandler you'll see Kevin James, Julie Bowen, Ray Liotta, Rob Schneider, June Squibb, Kenan Thompson, Shaquille O'Neal, Steve Buscemi, Maya Rudolph, Michael Chiklis, Tim Meadows, numerous members of Sandler's immediate family, and more.

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 with films like Unfriended (2014) and Searching (2018), the Shudder Original horror movie Host takes desktop horror filmmaking to a whole new level! The entire film is set during a seance conducted over a single Zoom chat session! The Lodgecast is excited for this new renaissance of desktop films that will be streaming into our living rooms as we detach from the outside world and drift deeper into the virtual realm of our screens. Host is directed by Rob Savage and written by Rob Savage, Gemma Hurley, and Jed Shepherd. It stars mostly British actors including Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova

Charlie Kaufman wrote and directed a new movie for Netflix called I'm Thinking of Ending Things, based on a 2016 novel of the same name. Actress Jessie Buckley plays Lucy who heads with her boyfriend Jake played by Jesse Plemons to meet his parents. After a long car ride, they arrive and meet the parents played by Toni Collette and David Thewlis. Things get very weird, and then Jesse Plemons and Jessie Buckley head out on another long car ride, and then things get even more weird. The film runs 134 minutes and we'll let you know what we thought of all this craziness!

Russell Crowe is Unhinged! Four Lodgers drove 100 miles per hour down the freeway to the Mission Tiki Drive In Theatre to see Russell Crowe get Unhinged! In the first wide theatrical release since the COVID-19 pandemic, we had to see it on the big screen from the safety of our automobiles. Seeing this violent road rage flick at the drive in was a wise decision. From the opening scene Russell Crowe is totally Unhinged! The movie also stars Caren Pistorius, Gabriel Bateman, Jimmi Simpson, and Austin P. McKenzie. It was directed by Derrick Borte and written by Carl Ellsworth. Come get Unhinged with us!

In this hawt political climate we decided to do another hawt take of a political documentary. It's called Boys State and follows a bunch of teenage boys that attend this week long political event called Boys State in Texas. In this hawt take we have a very special guest that actually attended Boys State years ago and he has quite a tale to tell about his experiences including meeting Bill Clinton! After listening to his tale, we discuss this compelling documentary about testosterone filled teens duking it out to rise to the top of their political simulation in Boys State. We follow four interesting boys along the way named Ben Feinstein, Steven Garza, Robert MacDougall, and Rene Otero. The film is directed by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine and is available to watch on Apple TV+.

The Lodgecast faces one of the most highly anticipated movies of the year. Ted "Theodore" Logan and Bill S. Preston, Esq. are back for a third installment of the Bill & Ted franchise. It's 30 years later and Bill and Ted are now middle aged parents with daughters named Theadora "Thea" Preston and Wilhelmina "Billie" Logan. Before we Face the Music (2020), we examine our histories with Excellent Adventure (1989) and Bogus Journey (1991). We then evaluate how effectively Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves have traveled through time and if their music can truly save the world in 2020. It's a new epic adventure also starring Kristen Schaal, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Anthony Carrigan, Erinn Hayes, Jayma Mays, Holland Taylor, Kid Cudi, and Jillian Bell. It is written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, who wrote the first two Bill and Teds. Dean Parisot, creator of Home Fries (1998) and Fun with Dick and Jane (2005), directs this Bill and Ted sequel. Hear our critical response in this full episode!

Remember the bestselling book and hit New Age movie The Secret (2006)? It's been a while since Oprah Winfrey pushed this book and movie on the law of attraction into homes across America. But there's a new movie out called The Secret: Dare to Dream which is revealing The Secret to a whole new generation. The film stars Katie Holmes, Josh Lucas, Jerry O'Connell, and Celia Weston. We opened our hearts and our minds to all the wisdom this movie possessed and we will reveal the love and light of The Secret to all listeners of this podcast episode. Nourish your spirit as we collectively dare to dream and send forth positive thought vibrations to attract all the love and prosperity that we've ever desired. This is The Secret: Dare to Dream!

Did you know that there was a Crocodile Dundee 4?! There is and we watched this crazy sequel starring an 80-year-old Paul Hogan as himself, but also sort of as Mick Dundee. It's complicated and we'll explain to you everything in one of the Lodgecastiest movies we've ever seen. We set the tone with our feelings on the original trilogy: Crocodile Dundee (1986), Crocodile Dundee II (1988), and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001). Then we bite right into The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee (2020). Paul Hogan interacts with a wide array of fading stars including Chevy Chase, John Cleese, Olivia Newton-John, Reginald VelJohnson, and Wayne Knight. The crocodile dragons were abundant and we hope we do them all justice in our explanation of Crocodile Dundee 4!

Seth Rogen plays a Jewish immigrant living in Brooklyn who falls into a vat of pickles in 1919, only to wake up in 2019 and encounter his great grandson who is also played by Seth Rogen. The stage is set for a high concept comedy as the bearded immigrant Seth Rogen is thrust into 21st century Brooklyn and has to deal with hipsters, Twitter, and a whole lot more. Five Lodgers streamed this new film on HBO Max which is directed by Brandon Trost, and based on a 2013 short story written by Simon Rich. In this locked down hawt take, the Lodgecast weighs in on how successful this ambitious high concept comedy is. It's Rogen vs. Rogen and we all got pickled!

8.1% of Hulu subscribers tuned into the new movie Palm Springs and the Lodgecast was among that viewership. The movie bears a striking resemblance to Groundhog Day (1993), but it may be a premise that just works. Andy Samberg & Cristin Milioti play characters trapped in a repeating day in Palm Springs. They engage in all sorts of shenanigans as they try to escape the infinite time loop. During this romantic comedy they encounter J.K. Simmons and the eyebrows of Peter Gallagher. The heartwarming film is written by Andy Siara and directed by Max Barbakow. Love & light converge on this Lodgecast as we join in a mystical union of bone counts. What bone count do you think that is? Listen and find out. Sound off in the comments!