Matt's Movie Lodgecast

Oh hai Tommy! Some brave Lodgers traveled to Westwood for one of the first screenings of Tommy Wiseau's new movie Big Shark (2023). Twenty years ago writer/director/actor Tommy Wiseau released one of the all-time greatest bad movies called The Room (2003). If you haven't seen it, then it is your duty to watch it immediately! It's now 20 years later, and Mr. Wiseau still looks and acts about the same. He was in the house to introduce and answer questions about his new horror comedy Big Shark. This one is set in New Orleans and features many CG shark attacks. Tommy plays a firefighter alongside Isaiah LaBorde and Mark Valeriano, and they take it upon themselves to kill the shark. This movie is probably not coming to video-on-demand anytime soon, so see the movie through our eyes! Oh hai Shark!

Comedy is back in theaters with the new teen sex romp Bottoms! We joined a packed house of youngsters for this high school flick about two senior girls who start a fight club. The girls are Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri, and they're committed to losing their virginity with cheerleaders Havana Rose Liu and Kaia Gerber. Former NFL running back Marshawn "Beast Mode" Lynch oversees the fight club. Emma Seligman directs this zany comedy! Hear our hawt take!

77-year-old writer/director Paul Schrader returns! We haven't given up on Uncle Paul, and we'll keep covering his movies as long as he's alive. This is the third Lodgecast outing for The Schrader Patrol. In the past, we've covered The Card Counter in Episode 109 and First Reformed way back in Episode 10. Now, we cover a new chapter in Uncle Paul's diary entitled Master Gardener. Joel Edgerton plays a horticulturist and former White supremacist. He's presided over by a rich Southern widow played by Sigourney Weaver. He grows close to gardener apprentice Maya (Quintessa Swindell). It's about as exciting as it sounds. Keep 'em coming Paul!

It's been a minute since we saw this in theaters back in March. But we remember having a good time at this D&D fantasy comedy. Based on the popular and Satanic role-playing game from Hasbro. This game brand adaptation stars Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Rege-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, and Hugh Grant. Directed by the talented duo of Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, who brought us Game Night (2018), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), and Horrible Bosses (2011). If you liked any of these, then you might like Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves!

Beau Knows High Anxiety in the nightmarish dark comedy from filmmaker Ari Aster! Joaquin Phoenix plays the hell out of Beau in this epic three-hour fever dream. A24 seemingly gave Ari Aster complete creative control with a $35 million budget to put this crazed vision on the screen. We saw this movie back in April in IMAX and in this episode we'll break down for you every act of this five or six act film. Along with Joaquin, the movie features Patti LuPone, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Kylie Rogers, Parker Posey, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires, Michael Gandolfini, Zoe Lister-Jones, Armen Nahapetian, and Richard Kind. While the movie received wildly different reviews from the Lodgers who attended this screening, it absolutely demands to be seen! Watch Beau Is Afraid and then listen to this Lodgecast!

You haven't seen Mindcage? You haven't heard of Mindcage? Lodgemaster was determined to watch this VOD homage to Silence of the Lambs, starring Martin Lawrence and John Malkovich. After months of dragging our feet, we finally sat down to watch it. The movie was filmed in Arkansas and also stars Melissa Roxburgh, Robert Knepper, Jacob Grodnik, and Aiden Turner. We'll let you know what we witnessed in this hawt take!

It's a movie that was seemingly made for the Lodgecast. It opened on July 4th, 2023, and has since grossed $170 million! The child trafficking sleeper hit of the summer called Sound of Freedom. Produced by Angel Studios (creators of The Chosen), Sound of Freedom stars Jim Caviezel as real-life anti-human trafficking vigilante Tim Ballard. Before we headed into this movie, we talked about our latest findings on Ballard and Caviezel. Then we joined a sold-out crowd for this 2-hour and 10-minute action movie. Is the movie really a MAGA Q-Anon adjacent piece of propaganda like the mainstream media is conveying it to be? Or is it merely an innocent revenge flick shining a light into the darkness of the global sex trafficking trade? We'll let you know everything we saw. Sound of Freedom was directed by Alejandro Monteverde and stars Caviezel, Bill Camp, Jose Zuniga, Eduardo Verastegui, along with a very small role for Mira Sorvino. God's Children Are Not for Sale!

At long last, the Barbie Dreamcast has arrived! Find out what our sparkling crack team of pink-clad ladies think of this hotly-anticipated Greta Gerwig joint!

Booking our tickets months in advance, we scored hot seats for the opening weekend 70MM IMAX screening of Oppenheimer! We were in the third-row center face-melt zone for the Trinity test conducted by J. Robert Oppenheimer and his friends at the Manhattan Project on July 16, 1945. Director Christopher Nolan captured it in all its horrifying glory. And Nolan captured much more than Trinity and Los Alamos in this three-hour epic biopic. Cillian Murphy pours his heart and soul into portraying the tragic Oppenheimer. He's accompanied by a stacked cast including Robert Downey Jr., Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Kenneth Branagh, Benny Safdie, Alden Ehrenreich, Gary Oldman, and Rami Malek as Chee-Chee. Feel the heat with us as we deliver this 100 million degree Celsius Atomic Bomb of a Hawt Take! Not only is this Hawt Take 100 million degrees, but according to our calculations, it's also our 100th Hawt Take!

Way back in April of 2018, the Lodgecast reviewed a documentary by director William Friedkin called The Devil and Father Amorth. The doc was about Father Gabriele Amorth, who performed tens of thousands of exorcisms, including one on screen which William Friedkin filmed. It was an unforgettable night at the movies. Little did we know that five years later, Russell Crowe would burst onto the screen playing Father Gabriele Amorth in the horror film The Pope's Exorcist (2023)! It has been a number of months since we recorded this podcast, but we had a blast watching this and then talking about it. We can only hope for a Father Amorth horror franchise!

We're back in the saddle again! Galloping along with our archeologist friend Dr. Indiana Jones played by Harrison Ford, who just turned 81 years old! We prepared for this adventure by recently rewatching the first four Indiana Jones movies in one day. The first three Jones movies from the 1980s were wonderful. But needless to say, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) did not hold up, and our expectations for this fifth installment of the Dr. Jones saga were low. Director James Mangold takes the reigns from Spielberg this time, along with many credited screenwriters. This time it's 1969, and we're searching around the globe for Archimedes' Dial of Destiny. Harrison Ford leads the cast, which includes Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook, Ethann Isidore, and Mads Mikkelsen. Returning characters include John Rhys-Davies as Sallah and Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood. Composer John Williams does some heavy lifting, scoring the heck out of this one at the age of 91!

We're taking a Lodgecast Spring Break! We need to give our dear Lodgemaster a much-needed editing break after splicing together over 250 four-bone episodes in the last five years! We'll be covering some of the hawtest films that come out in the next few months, but we won't release these episodes until summertime. The Lodgecast Boyz & Girlz of Summer will return! Just in time for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny!

Lily Tomlin! Jane Fonda! Rita Moreno! Sally Field! We had to see what these 80-year-old ladies were up to in the geriatric sports comedy 80 For Brady. The story features four lifelong friends who travel to watch Tom Brady play in Super Bowl LI in 2017. The movie offers supporting roles from Tom Brady, Billy Porter, Rob Corddry, Alex Moffat, Bob Balaban, Glynn Turman, Sara Gilbert, Patton Oswalt, Rob Gronkowski, and the one and only Guy Fieri. The witty screenplay was written by Sarah Haskins and Emily Halpern, who were the writers of Booksmart (2019). The cinematography is by the great John Toll, who shot Braveheart, The Thin Red Line, and Cloud Atlas. Laughs were had by most of the audience for this wacky comedy. We'll tell you all the trouble that these ladies get into!

The gravitational pull of the viral marketing campaign for Cocaine Bear sucked us into the theaters. That title! That poster! The memes! This horror comedy is based on a true story of a bear that ate cocaine in the 1980s in the wilderness of Tennessee. Elizabeth Banks directed this movie with a solid cast of Keri Russell, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Christian Convery, Alden Ehrenreich, Brooklynn Prince, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Margo Martindale, and Ray Liotta (Rest in Peace). But this crazy movie wasn't the barrel of laughs we were hoping for, at least amongst this Lodgecast crew. We'll let you know how quickly the drugs wore off in this coked-up hawt take!

Son of Cronenberg (Brandon) Returns! Deep in lockdown, we covered his film Possessor (2020) which pulverized us. This time around Alexander Skarsgard plays a struggling writer in a resort town who gets killed and cloned with the help of Mia Goth and her sordid cohorts. Sex & drugs & violence were amply served to us, but was that enough to win us over? Brandon Cronenberg and Mia Goth were in the AMC Burbank 16 to introduce the film, and Kevin Sorbo also made a cameo appearance! We'll tell you all about our experience of this twisted sci-fi horror flick!

Celebrate Hollywood and the movies as the Lodgecast presents our Oscar Extravaganza & 2022 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 on to a new award this year. 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 2022 movie favorites as we all count down from #10 to #1 of our very favorite films of 2022. 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 Sorbo (KSorbs) has directed a new Left Behind movie which we encountered in theaters as a Fathom Event. For those unfamiliar with Left Behind, they were a series of 16 bestselling Christian novels covering the End Times and authored by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. In the early 2000s, Kirk Cameron starred in three films which were adaptations of some of these novels. Then in 2014, Nicolas Cage starred in a big-budget reboot of the series, entitled simply Left Behind. Nine years passed until Kevin Sorbo took up the torch, directing and starring in this new sequel to the Nicolas Cage movie entitled Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist. This time Kevin Sorbo is playing the lead role of Rayford Steele, accompanied by co-stars Neal McDonough, Corbin Bernsen, Sam Sorbo (Kevin's wife), Braeden Sorbo (Kevin's son), and Bailey Chase playing the rising Antichrist named Nicolae Carpathia. Before we entered this movie, we take you to school on the ideas of premillennial dispensationalism which is a widespread bel

We return to the computer screen in the new film Missing which takes place almost entirely on laptops and mobile phone screens. The film is from the creators of the 2018 film Searching, which we covered way back in Episode 22. The other special thing about this film is it stars Storm Reid, the lead girl from A Wrinkle in Time, which we covered in our very first Lodgecast and which gave us the Salad Dragon. In this movie Storm Reid's mom goes missing on a trip to Colombia and she does her best to track her down using the power of the Internet. It's got many twists and turns which we will spoil. It also stars Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, and Nia Long. Join us for a thrilling screenlife adventure!

Oscar buzz is heating up and the award for Best Actor goes to Brendan Fraser in The Whale! There is no doubt Brendan is winning Oscar night for his role as a 600-pound man named Charlie in Darren Aronofsky's new film. We talk about director Aronofsky and his wild career before witnessing his latest. While the marketing made it look uplifting, this film was rather unpleasant and drew a mixed reaction from this Lodgecast audience. The movie also stars Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Ty Simpkins, and Samantha Morton. Based on a play by Samuel D. Hunter. Congratulations Brendan Fraser! Well deserved!

Our boy Timothee Chalamet plays a cannibal?! You know we had to cover director Luca Guadagnino's new film Bones and All. In 1980s Virginia, Chalamet and Taylor Russel play fine young cannibals as they drive across the United States in search of Russel's mom in Minnesota. They are stalked by a super creepy cannibal named Sully played by Mark Rylance. This bleak romantic horror movie definitely has its qualities and we'll let you know how that factored into our bone count in this Bones and All Hawt Take!