Matt"s Movie Lodgecast

00:39:40

Hawt🔥Takez - Buddy

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2026/10/01

From writer/director Casper Kelly, who created the Adult Swim classic short "Too Many Cooks", comes his theatrical debut in the new film Buddy. The film follows children trapped inside a surreal 1990s Barney & Friends-style children's television show who must find a way to escape their malevolent unicorn television host.This surreal comedy horror movie stars Cristin Milioti, Delaney Quinn, Patton Oswalt, Clint Howard, Michael Shannon, Topher Grace, and Keegan-Michael Key as the voice of Buddy

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00:35:22

Hawt🔥Takez - The Furious

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2026/09/23

We heard rumblings about this Hong Kong action film called The Furious. Xie Miao plays a hard-charging dad who is fighting a criminal empire to rescue his kidnapped daughter. The film is all bloody, non-stop action and stunts, and is recommended to those who like that sort of thing.The cast also features Joe Taslim, Yang Enyou, Brian Le, Joey Iwanaga, Yayan Ruhian, and Jeeja Yanin. It is directed by Kenji Tanigaki. Check it out and listen to our hawt take!

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00:58:47

Hawt🔥Takez - The Odyssey Review

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2026/08/06

Homer! Nolan! Damon! Epic! Hawt! Take! The ancient Greek epic poem has been adapted into a 173-minute epic action fantasy film. Shot entirely on IMAX 70mm film cameras, we definitely saw this in IMAX. With a $250 million budget, it doesn't get any bigger than this! The stacked cast includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o, Samantha Morton, Zendaya, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal, Elliot Page, and John Leguizamo. Damon is Odysseus heading home by sea after

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02:30:32

Brother Bischke Presents: The Lodgecast Oscar...

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2026/03/05

Celebrate Hollywood and the movies as the Lodgecast presents our Oscar Extravaganza & 2025 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-four 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

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00:40:13

Hawt🔥Takez - Mercy Review

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2026/02/20

Have mercy! But there was no mercy shown when having to confront Mercy (2026) in IMAX!From desktop film auteur Timur Bekmambetov, Mercy (2026) features Detective Chris Raven (Chris Pratt) sitting in a chair trying to prove to artificial intelligence Judge Maddox (Rebecca Ferguson) that he is innocent of murdering his own wife. He’s got 90 minutes to do so using all the bells and whistles of a desktop film, and the clock is ticking! He’s on FaceTime, he’s accessing emails and texts, he’s bringing

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00:34:34

Hawt🔥Takez - No Other Choice Review

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2026/02/13

Prestige season is winding down, but not before we cover Park Chan-wook's highly anticipated black comedy thriller No Other Choice. Chan-wook has given us other cinematic gems like Oldboy (2003) and The Handmaiden (2016), so we were excited for his new offering.In No Other Choice, paper industry expert Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) is fired from his job and has no other choice but to kill off his competition to keep his standard of living. The film stars Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee

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01:13:39

Episode 205 - Melania Review

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2026/02/01

The $75 million dollar Melania Trump documentary hit theaters this weekend, and we were there to witness it on opening night. In this emergency episode of the Lodgecast, we tell you all we encountered on the screen and in the Burbank 16 theater that projected this movie.This film takes place in the 20 days before Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration. We witnessed all 104 minutes and will tell you all of our observations in this special episode!

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01:25:55

Episode 203 - Avatar: Fire and Ash Review

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2026/01/08

Avatar: Fire and Ash exploded into theaters this holiday season. Spider and the gang are back in James Cameron's third installment of the Avatar saga. We traveled to the tundra of Minnesota to join a special group of adventurers for this trip to Pandora.Jake Sully and Neytiri return, along with their family, battling RDA forces and a fiery Mangkwan tribe. The movie stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement, Giovanni

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01:05:16

Episode 201 - The Running Man (2025) Review

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2025/12/19

Director Edgar Wright has remade The Running Man! The Richard Bachman (Stephen King) 1982 novel was set in a dystopian United States during the year 2025, so I guess this is the year to remake it. We talk about the superior adaptation from 1987 starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then we get into the new one starring Glen Powell.The cast of the new Running Man also features William H. Macy, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, Daniel Ezra, Jayme Lawson, Sean Hayes, Colman Domingo, and Josh Brolin

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00:57:36

Hawt🔥Takez - Die My Love Review

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2025/12/11

Die My Love received a D+ CinemaScore, which pretty much made it a must-see for the Lodgecast!The movie is directed by Lynne Ramsay and based on a 2012 novel by Ariana Harwicz. It stars Jennifer Lawrence as Grace, a young mother in rural Montana grappling with severe postpartum depression and psychosis that unravels her marriage to her husband Jackson (Robert Pattinson). The supporting cast includes LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, and Sissy Spacek. We’ll give our thoughts on the cinema of Lynne

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01:02:36

Episode 200 - Bugonia Review

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2025/12/04

Matt's Movie Lodgecast Episode Number 200 is upon us! For this, we picked the highly anticipated and prestigious film Bugonia from Greek god and director Yorgos Lanthimos.For this film, Yorgos has remade a 2003 South Korean movie called Save the Green Planet! Jesse Plemons plays a conspiracy theorist who, along with his cousin, abducts the CEO of the pharmaceutical company played by Emma Stone. Plemons' character delves into all sorts of alien conspiracy theories as Emma Stone's character tries to

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00:44:57

Episode 199 - Eddington Review

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2025/11/21

Writer/director Ari Aster's Eddington is now available to watch on HBO Max. We caught it in theaters back in July, and we'll tell you all about our experience. We knew after Beau Is Afraid (2023) that we were in for a wild ride, and we were correct in that assumption. Only a trickster provocateur like Ari Aster would have the gall to make a 150-minute set during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic! For many people, the trauma of that period is too soon, but not for the Lodgecast.The movie features an

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00:37:36

Hawt🔥Takez - The Toxic Avenger Unrated

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2025/11/10

The Toxic Avenger remake finally made its way to theaters in all its unrated glory. It's a remake of the classic Troma film The Toxic Avenger (1984). This reboot stars Peter Dinklage as Winston Gooze, who becomes the Toxic Avenger!The movie also stars Jacob Tremblay, Taylour Paige, Julia Davis, Jonny Coyne, Elijah Wood, and Kevin Bacon. It was written and directed by Macon Blair. We saw it on the big screen and we'll let you know just how gross it got!

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00:43:41

Hawt🔥Takez - Hell of a Summer Review

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2025/10/09

Renaissance man Finn Wolfhard is having a helluva year. In June, he released his first album called Happy Birthday, featuring the single "Choose the Latter". And back in April, Finn Wolfhard's directorial debut horror comedy film Hell of a Summer was released in theaters. We saw it on the big screen!It's a summer camp slasher starring Fred Hechinger, Abby Quinn, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Billy Bryk, Pardis Saremi, Rosebud Baker, Adam Pally, and Finn Wolfhard himself. We have a long and complex history

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01:04:48

Episode 196 - The Shrouds Review

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2025/10/02

David Cronenberg directed a new body horror film this year. Released back in April, it's called The Shrouds and stars Diane Kruger, Vincent Cassel, Guy Pearce, and Sandrine Holt. Four years after his wife Becca's death from cancer, businessman Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has invented "GraveTech", a tombstone that broadcasts a live, interactive 3D image of a deceased's decomposing corpse. Sound tasty? Then dive into our episode covering director David Cronenberg's examination of grief!

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00:58:17

Hawt🔥Takez - Weapons Review

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2025/09/25

Horror auteur Zach Cregger wrote and directed Barbarian back in 2022, which delighted most of us. Now he returns with his follow-up film Weapons (2025). At 2:17 AM seventeen children from the same third-grade classroom suddenly run away from their homes. That's the premise.The film features an ensemble cast including Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Toby Huss, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan. The film received critical acclaim and was a minor hit,

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00:32:33

Hawt🔥Takez - Mickey 17 Review

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2025/08/28

It's been a number of months since we saw this one, but we did cover Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17 back in March. Director Bong follows up his masterpiece Parasite (2019) with this sci-fi dark comedy starring Robert Pattinson as Mickey. Warner Bros. gave Bong over $100 million to make this movie, and unfortunately, it was a commercial flop with middling reviews. Our takes on it were quite middling as well. Set in the year 2054, the plot follows a man who joins a space colony as an "Expendable", a

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00:36:05

Hawt🔥Takez - The Surfer Review

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2025/08/21

All Nicolas Cage wants to do is surf in the new movie The Surfer. But he's thwarted at every turn by surfing gangs and much more in this unique psychological thriller directed by Lorcan Finnegan and written by Thomas Martin.It's the Nic Cage show as he struggles with anguish in the hot sun, and his life falls apart. It's a movie called The Surfer without much surfing, but plenty of Cage! We'll let you know what we thought!

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00:01:38

Special Lodgecast Update!

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2025/05/22

It’s almost summer time and almost time for the Lodgecast to come back from Spring Break 2025! A perfect time to take a look at the brand new merchandise in our store and maybe buy some hawt new threads for those summer dayz and nitez. We got hats, we got totes, we got Salad Dragon definition shirts! We now have shirts and stickers that say “Sexy Certified”! Check out all our new merch in our merch store by clicking the link in the bio or going to lodgecast.com and clicking the top link. All

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00:01:29

Lodgecast Merch Announcement!

Matt"s Movie Lodgecast ·

2025/03/06

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

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