Matt's Movie Lodgecast

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!

"Why'd ya spill yer beans?!" The Lodgecast Boyz spill their beans on this highly anticipated film directed by Robert Eggers, who directed The Witch (2015). The Lighthouse stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson duking it out by a lighthouse in late 19th century New England. The film was shot on black and white 35mm film with a 1.19:1 aspect ratio. Without spoiling too much of our reaction, give Willem Dafoe a damn Oscar already! Tune in to find out why.

Get interstellar with Brad Pitt as he travels to the outer reaches of the solar system in search of his long last daddy Tommy Lee Jones. Writer/director James Gray guides us into space for a serious outing that is mostly devoid of action or comedy, but features much ambient music and lens flares. Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, and Donald Sutherland lend their support. We saw this in IMAX and then we butt heads over the power of this solemn cinematic meditation.

The best reviewed movie of the year is here! Holding strong at 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, we headed off to the Arclight Hollywood to see this critical darling. South Korean film director and screenwriter Bong Joon-ho received the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for this movie. Safe to say there ain't nothing remotely like Parasite coming out from American filmmakers. A mixture of genres is blended into this bizarre tale of a poor family infiltrating the lives of a rich family in modern day South Korea. We'll let you know how we felt and how the Arclight audience reacted.

You may have not heard of Natalie Portman's new film Lucy in the Sky. It was quietly released into theaters with negative reviews from both fans and critics. Despite the negativity, our love for Natalie Portman drew us in as we went to the AMC theater for one of the last screenings of this movie. Natalie Portman plays astronaut Lucy Cola who slowly begins to lose her grip on reality due to a case of space madness! The movie is loosely based on a true story of a crazed astronaut named Lisa Nowak. Jon Hamm, Zazie Beetz, Dan Stevens, and Ellen Burstyn co-star.

It's Gemini time! The hotly anticipated 120-frames-per-second feature film Gemini Man has finally arrived, and we were there to witness it opening night in all its 3D high-frame-rate glory! In the intro to this Lodgecast, we tell the tragic tale of seeing director Ang Lee's first 120fps feature film Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016). After that bomb, studios somehow let Ang Lee direct another movie at 120fps. They also let him digitally de-age Will Smith so he looked about the age of his son Jaden Smith. The results are spectacular and we'll tell you all about them! This movie also stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, and Benedict Wong.

The highly controversial Joker movie dropped into American theaters like an atomic bomb this October. The last remaining Lodgecast Boyz who hadn't yet seen it went to the Los Feliz Vista Theatre and joined a packed house for this dark visionary film from director Todd Phillips and actor Joaquin Phoenix. The violence and mental illness of the Joker permeated our minds and produced quite a wide range of reactions. You're gonna wanna tune in to hear our visceral review as we try to unpack Joker!

Whoa daddy! After a brief review of the Rambo movies, we weren't quite prepared for the carnage that Sylvester Stallone dished out in this blood-soaked sequel for the MAGA-era. Rambo crosses back and forth across the Mexican border and kills and kills and kills. We'll let you know all the gritty details in this epic account of Rambo: Last Blood.

Every Tuesday is Discount Night at AMC Theatres. And luckily we chose a Tuesday evening to see Hustlers in a jam-packed screening at the AMC Burbank 16. Jennifer Lopez has returned at the age of 50 for an incredible performance in every way! Constance Wu is the lead character who goes from stripper to mother to straight-up hustler. J.Lo, Cardi B, and Lizzo guide her along the way. It was a rowdy night at the AMC and you best believe we'll be returning for discount night when it comes to movies this fun!

A 2 Hrs. 50 Min. horror movie? Yes please! We revisit Derry, Maine 27 years later to see what our lovable group of Losers is up to. Director Andy Muschietti adapts the second half of Stephen King's It word-for-word in this epic horror masterpiece. Before floating into IT Chapter Two we give our thoughts and feels on the recently revisited IT Chapter One. Then we settle into the AMC Dolby Digital recliners for an eternity of thrills and chills. We also eat a giant movie theater pretzel. The movie stars Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, and Andy Bean as the adult versions of the Losers Club. Jaeden Martell, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Jack Dylan Grazer, and Wyatt Oleff reprise their roles as the younger Losers, while Bill Skarsgard also returns as Pennywise the Dancing Clown.