Matt's Movie Lodgecast

Take the Bird Box blindfold challenge with us as we blindfold ourselves while watching Bird Box and then review it. Actually we watched this Netflix movie starring Sandra Bullock and then we went insane. John Malkovich is in it and so is B.D. Wong. Does this meme-generating machine live up to its hype or is it all a public relations stunt? Chirp with us and find out.

Get Hawt & Wet with Us in our movie review of Aquaman directed by the great James Wan. The movie has grossed over $300 million in China and we try to figure out why. It stars Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, and Dolph Lundgren. Can't wait for Avatar 2 to blow this out of the water!

Lodgecast hits up the Cinerama Dome at ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood to takes in the sights, sounds, and smells of Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite featuring our favorite actresses Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz. We generally feel that Lanthimos has hit his stride and we relish all the strange little details in this 18th century period dramedy.

Natalie Portman stars in Vox Lux written and directed by Brady Corbet. A gang of Lodgers went to see Natalie & Brady at a special screening at the AMC Century City 15. Natalie stars as pop star Celeste Montgomery and so does Raffey Cassidy, but then stars as Natalie's daughter. Jude Law also stars and Willem Dafoe narrates. Pop songs by Sia.

Welcome to Marwen is recommended viewing by the Lodgemaster. The film was a box office bomb with projected losses for the studio at $60 million. That being said, there is no film quite like Welcome to Marwen. Robert Zemeckis takes his motion capture obsession to the next level capturing foot fetishes and doll fetishes and torture and all sorts of weird stuff. Zemeckis twists the documentary Marwencol into a PTSD nightmare that will haunt you for a long time. Steve Carell, Leslie Mann, Diane Kruger, Merritt Wever, Janelle Monáe, Eiza González, Gwendoline Christie, Leslie Zemeckis, Siobhan Williams and Neil Jackson star in it. I hope Marwencol creator Mark Hogancamp never has to watch this!

You gotta see The Mule. Clint Eastwood directs and acts in this geriatric comedy at age 88! He's still got it. And by got it, we mean he is able to maneuver in a threesome at a party held by the Mexican drug cartel. This movie had us in tears laughing and we had a lot of fun talking about ol' man drug mule Clint and the hard-charging DEA played by Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, and Michael Peña who are hot on his tail. Dianne Wiest and Andy Garcia also star.

What's up with Creed 2? We'll let you know in this latest Hawt Take. Drago returns with his son and they want revenge, but they also want love and forgiveness. Or do they? Russia wants to be our friends but they also want to murder us. Things get confusing and they star Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Dolph Lundgren, Florian Munteanu, Wood Harris, and Phylicia Rashad. With a very special cameo from Brigitte Nielsen as Ludmilla Drago.

Lodge Boyz review of Widows directed by Steve McQueen. Based on a 12-hour British TV series from the 80s, McQueen and Gillian Flynn try to cram it all into 2 hours. But they fail in our opinion. Should've been a TV series. Oh well. It is chock-full of stars including Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Jacki Weaver, Carrie Coon, Robert Duvall, and Liam Neeson.

Speed Kills (or as we like to refer to it, Yotti) is a 2018 movie starring John Travolta as a speedboat racing champion. It features a Virtual Reality component that we explore. It also features many similarities to John Travolta's 2018 film Gotti. This movie covers the adventures of boat racer Ben Aronoff. Matthew Modine co-stars as George H.W. Bush. Join us for this wet and wild ride!

Modern auteur Tyler Perry dazzles us with our second cinematic masterpiece of the year in Tyler Perry's Nobody's Fool. Tiffany Haddish is a force of nature and we were psyched to see her team up with T.P. Add Whoopi Goldberg into the mix and you know you've got a winning combination. Tyler Perry, we salute you sir!

From the bowels of hell of a Burbank parking garage we secretly recorded our thoughts and feels about director Luca Guadagnino's re-envisioning of Dario Argento's horror classic Suspiria. The film doth star Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, and Chloë Grace Moretz with a cameo by the original Susie Bannion, Miss Jessica Harper herself.

We took a trip to the IMAX to see the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. This movie sucks! It's probably gonna win Best Picture at the Oscars but it's terrible! Anyway it stars Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury and it also features Mike Myers. Bryan Singer directed until he fled and then Dexter Fletcher took over, but the movie could've been directed by anybody or a biopic robot.

Wonderboy Damien Chazelle wows us into outer space with First Man: A Neil Armstrong Biopic. Ryan Gosling gives it a go as Neil Armstrong and is teamed up with Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll, Ciarán Hinds, Christopher Abbott, Patrick Fugit, and Lukas Haas. Technically sound, but does the story hold water? We'll let you know.

Venom! Go get em! We all saw Venom separately but came together to discuss it and tear it pieces. Must we keep going to these superhero movies Lodgemaster? Spare us the pain of low-rated Marvel movies please! Tom Hardy does his best but can't save this movie although Eminem provides music over the credits that we loved.

A Star is Born is one of the greatest movies of the year! We love it! Go see it! Then listen to our Hawt Take Movie Review! We love you! We love Lady Gaga! We love Bradley Cooper! We love Andrew Dice Clay, Dave Chappelle, and Sam Elliott! On Oscar night we are rooting for A Star is Born!!

David Gordon Green did a Halloween movie. It's called Halloween. It's got Jamie Lee Curtis in it. We went to see it. We talk about.

Writer/director Dan Fogelman brings his dreams to the screen in Life Itself (2018). Unlike the Roger Ebert movie of the same name, this movie features Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Mandy Patinkin, Olivia Cooke, Laia Costa, Annette Bening, and Antonio Banderas. And you might even see a little Samuel L. Jackson! This is Life Itself!

We swing wildly to the Left in this politically charged podcast as we take in Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 11/9. Us Lodgers analyze all parts of this film about how we got here as a nation with this President Trump guy.

Son of Levinson (Sam) chases the Zeitgeist in his stylish Assassination Nation. The world of the Internet and social media merge with reality in a violent witch hunt to the death starring Odessa Young, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef, Abra, Anika Noni Rose, Colman Domingo, Maude Apatow, Bill Skarsgård, Joel McHale and Bella Thorne.

A gang of Lodgers descend on Santa Monica to see that Mandy movie on the big screen. Recorded in Palisades Park, we discuss Nicolas Cage and the hallucinogenic nightmare he starred in. Director Panos Cosmatos has given us a vision that haunted our dreams and we will never forget.