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The new body horror movie Together made a little splash this summer, and we decided to cover it. It stars real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie. The two move to the countryside to work on their troubled relationship, but Dave Franco drinks some supernatural water and begins merging physically with Alison Brie. Then the sticky body horror starts! Get sticky with Dave Franco and Alison Brie, written and directed by Michael Shanks in his directorial debut. We'll let you know how our bones converged!

We took in the sixth installment of the Final Destination film series in 4DX! We talk about the Final Destination movies and about our previous adventures in 4DX before we enter Final Destination Bloodlines. Just like the film Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (2023), Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) starts out in the year 1969. It begins with a thrilling high-rise Space Needle restaurant tower collapse, then flashes forward to 2024 to follow a family haunted by Death. The movie stars Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Anna Lore, Brec Bassinger, and Tony Todd in his final film performance. We'll report back on how much the Regal Pepsi 4DX rocked us!

You might've forgotten about Disney's Snow White (2025), but we did not forget about it! We went to theaters to take in this disastrous live-action reimagining of Walt Disney's 1937 classic animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The film generated all sorts of controversies that we'll remind you of. Thanks to an army of trolls, it currently sits at 2.1 stars out of 10 on IMDb. It stars Rachel Zegler as Snow White, Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen, and seven horrific voice/facial motion-captured, computer-animated dwarfs. We'll tell you all you missed in Disney's Snow White (2025)!

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Director Osgood Perkins is back after last year's sleeper hit Longlegs (2024)! This time he's adapting a 1980 short story by Stephen King called "The Monkey" featuring a cursed monkey toy. Theo James and Theo James star as twin brothers who face random horrific deaths due to the monkey toy. The movie also stars Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Colin O'Brien, Rohan Campbell, Sarah Levy, Adam Scott, and Elijah Wood. It got decent enough reviews and good box office. This is our third Oz Perkins film that we've covered and we'll let you know how his career is progressing!

Sinners recently dropped on HBO Max! We caught Ryan Coogler's film on the big screen a few months back. It stars Michael B. Jordan and Michael B. Jordan as twin brothers who return to their hometown in Mississippi in 1932 to take on some sort of evil that we won't spoil here. The film also stars Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, and Delroy Lindo. This movie was met with critical acclaim and got people talking, so let's talk about it!

The Lodgecast is back and so is M3GAN! Writer/director Gerard Johnstone returns to reinvent the M3GAN character as she battles with a new AI foe in humanoid military robot AMELIA. This PG-13 sequel veers away from horror into the sci-fi/comedy realm, and we’ll let you know just how well this genre-bending follow-up works. Allison Williams returns along with her niece, played by Violet McGraw. Amie Donald plays M3GAN and Ivanna Sakhno plays AMELIA (Autonomous Military Engagement Logistics & Infiltration Android). And Jemaine Clement is in the mix for some corrupt tech bro comic relief. The film wasn’t the box office hit the producers were hoping for, but we do hope for a M3GAN 3.0! I guess a spin-off erotic thriller SOULM8TE is in the works, which sounds promising! ❤️✨

We're still chilling on Spring Break 2025, but we wanted to announce that we're now selling some hawt new Matt's Movie Lodgecast Merch designed by Brother Nathan! We got t-shirts, we got magnets, we got mugs, we got stickers, we got tote bags, and much more. Everything comes in all shapes and sizes and variations. Go over to lodgecast.com and you'll see a link up top to "Matt's Movie Lodgecast Merch!". We'll keep adding to the store as time goes on. Love and light to you all in this time of Spring Break!

We're taking a Lodgecast Spring Break! We must give our dear Lodgemaster a much-needed editing siesta after splicing together over 300 four-bone episodes in the last seven years! We'll be recording episodes of notable movies here and there while we rest up, but they won't be released until after our break. Fear not, dear listener; we shall return! Love & Eternal Light!

Celebrate Hollywood and the movies as the Lodgecast presents our Oscar Extravaganza & 2024 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 onto our special award, where 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 2024 movie favorites as we all count down from #10 to #1 of our very favorite films of 2024. 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 Spacey made his comeback movie in 2024 called Peter Five Eight. We've been sitting on this one for a long while but wanted to drop it on you before we take our Spring Break. This neo-noir thriller went directly to video-on-demand and stars Spacey, Rebecca De Mornay, Jet Jandreau, and Jake Weber. Spacey plays Peter who is an assassin who comes to a small mountain community to wreak havoc. "In this town NOTHING is what it seems." We talk all things Spacey in this controversial new episode of the Lodgecast!

The goddess of AMC Theaters, Nicole Kidman, hits the silver screen with the new erotic thriller Babygirl. Whether or not it was erotic or a thriller will be debated in this steamy episode. The film is written and directed by Halina Reijn (Bodies Bodies Bodies) and stars a high-powered CEO, played by Kidman, who begins an affair with young intern Harris Dickinson. Kidman's husband is played by the always sexy Antonio Banderas, and the film also stars Sophie Wilde as Kidman's assistant. We caught this one in theaters with a full audience that was ready for a sexy good time. This A24 movie was a box office success, which will hopefully pave the way for future erotic thrillers!

It's December 31st, 1999. The last party before Y2K. That's the setting for the new A24 movie written and directed by Kyle Mooney. Mooney is known for being a Saturday Night Live cast member from 2013 to 2022. In his directorial debut, he directs Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, Julian Dennison, Tim Heidecker, and Alicia Silverstone. Mooney is also in the film, along with somebody special who shows up in the third act that we won't spoil here. The movie features a stacked late 90s soundtrack. This could be a late 90s nostalgia slam dunk, but is it? We'll let you know in this packed episode we assembled for Y2K!

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Does the title of this movie grab your attention? It did for us! We went in knowing nothing about this movie other than it starred Amy Adams. The movie is based on a 2021 novel by Rachel Yoder and directed by Marielle Heller, who also directed Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). Amy Adams is the star, and she is supported by Scoot McNairy, Arleigh Snowden, Emmett Snowden, Mary Holland, Ella Thomas, Archana Rajan, and Jessica Harper. It was in theaters for a minute, where we caught it on the big screen. You can now watch it on Hulu. But maybe listen to our review before you do so!

We’re all safe from the fires in LA so far! So let the Lodgecast whisk you away to the tundra of Minnesota where we recently watched A Complete Unknown about a young Bob Dylan played by Timothee Chalamet. This movie covers Dylan’s early folk period up to his controversial decision to go electric in 1965. James Mangold directs this conventional biopic which also stars Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, and Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez. We got way into Dylan for this one! Enjoy this Minnesota winter special Lodgecast with some hot cocoa!

Happy New Year! It's the new musical film everyone is talking about, so we figured we'd talk about it. Wicked: Part I! This 160-minute movie covers the first half of this epic adaptation of the popular musical adaptation Wicked by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, which is based on the 1995 novel Wicked by Gregory Maguire, which comes from the universe of L. Frank Baum's Oz books which were adapted into the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Cynthia Erivo is Elphaba Thropp, who eventually becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, but it's gonna take a long time for her to get there. Along the way, she befriends Ariana Grande who plays Galinda Upland and encounters Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible and Jeff Goldblum as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The film is directed by Jon M. Chu and also stars Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Marissa Bode, and Peter Dinklage. In this movie you'll hear hit songs like "The Wizard and I", "Popular", "Defying Gravity", and so much more. Listen to our thoughts and feelings on t

Merry Chongsmas and Happy Chongnukkah! Back in Episode 134 of the Lodgecast we covered a little movie called "2025 - The World Enslaved by a Virus" and it was a special experience. The movie has received the lowest possible rating on IMDb at 1.0. It was written and directed by the Wesely Brothers. Since then, we've been tracking these bros and they released a new movie called A Law for Christmas which currently has a 1.1 rating on IMDb. We saved it for the holidays and watched this entire movie with a running time of 2 Hrs. 21 Min. The movie stars Savannah Lathem as Gloria Winters who has just become the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. She travels to a small rural town to interview farmers. There she meets the love of her life Christian Baker (Chase Giacomo). The movie carries all the signature filmmaking techniques of a Wesely Brothers production, which we will tell you all about in this stuffed holiday episode! Enjoy!

At age 94, Clint Eastwood is back! He directed the new legal thriller Juror No. 2 to critical acclaim! The courtroom isn't our favorite place to be in movies and we certainly had some issues with Clint's latest and last (?) film. The movie stars Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons, Chris Messina, Zoey Deutch, Cedric Yarbrough, and Kiefer Sutherland. Hang in there Clint!

You might've just missed this recent little supernatural horror movie that dropped onto Netflix called The Deliverance. But the Lodgecast knows that a horror movie directed by Lee Daniels deserves to be covered! We talked about our history with Mr. Daniels' films, most notably Shadowboxer (2005), Precious (2009), and The Paperboy (2012). Then we watched The Deliverance, which did not disappoint, serving up many salad dragons to our delight. The movie stars Andra Day, Rob Morgan, Caleb McLaughlin, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Tasha Smith, Omar Epps, Mo'Nique, and Glenn Close as the unforgettable Alberta Jackson! You're gonna wanna tune into this episode and possibly fire this movie up on Netflix. Movie critics be damned, this movie is a wild ride!