We're taking a Lodgecast Spring Break! We must give our dear Lodgemaster a much-needed editing break after splicing together over 350 four-bone episodes in the last eight 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 & 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 p...
85-year-old writer/director James L. Brooks returns with the political dramedy Ella McCay (2025). This movie bombed so hard that it was yanked from theaters before we could see it there, but we vowed to catch it on VOD, and we did! The film features an ensemble cast with Emma Mackey as Ella McCay, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Lowden, Kumail Nanjiani, Ayo Edebiri, Spike Fearn, Julie Kavner, Rebecca Hall, Albert Brooks, and Woody Harrelson. We dive deep into the world of Ella McCay in this episode, anal...
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 bringin...
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 S...
The 28 Days Later film series continues with 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. This time, directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Alex Garland. Coming right after 28 Years Later (2025), this film follows Ralph Fiennes and his Bone Temple. It also follows around Satanist "Sir Lord" Jimmy Crystal (Jack O'Connell) and his Fingers gang, played by Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, Emma Laird, Sam Locke, and more. Ralph Fiennes and the Fingers eventually clash for a wild ending. You'll hear where we render...
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!
King Chalamet is back in Marty Supreme! This time as the fast-talking, super-confident ping pong player Marty Mauser. Safdie bro Josh wrote and directed this picture. It also stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion, Kevin O'Leary, Tyler "the Creator" Okonma, Abel Ferrara, and Fran Drescher. The movie features an exceptional soundtrack of 80s music and synth score by Daniel Lopatin. Timothee Chalamet shines on the silver screen and may just get Oscar gold for his electric performance! We'll let you ...
No one has heard of the movie called Going Viral, but it features actor and musician Corey Feldman, so we watched it to give us an excuse to talk about all things Corey. Feldman holds a deep place in Lodge history, so most of this episode consists of our stories about Corey. We do briefly discuss Going Viral which has no stars except for Corey, and is not worth watching! But enjoy our recollections on the legend of Corey Feldman!
From the bestselling book by Freida McFadden comes the big screen adaptation of The Housemaid. This erotic psychological thriller is directed by Paul Feig (Bridesmaids). Sydney Sweeney shows up to become a live-in housekeeper for a wealthy couple played by Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar. As Seyfried's character begins acting crazy, we quickly learn that all is not what it seems. Critics and audiences were generally favorable, but we'll let you know what we thought in this episode, stacked w...
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, Giovann...
Happy New Year! The Lodgemaster & Lodgemistress are back with another intimately Wicked episode! Will they love this epic conclusion to the popular musical tale, or will they rip it apart with tornados of scorn? You are but a clock tick away from finding out!
Merry Christmas! Our holiday special Lodgecast movie this year is Tyler Perry's Finding Joy. Tyler Perry has been churning out movies faster than we can cover them in the past few years. He wrote and directed 4 movies plus 40 episodes of TV in 2025! Finding Joy dropped onto Amazon Prime Video in November. It stars Shannon Thornton as Joy, along with Tosin Morohunfola, Brittany S. Hall, Inayah, and Aaron O'Connell. Joy is a fashion designer in New York City who travels to Colorado for the holiday...
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....
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 ...
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...
Happy Thanksgiving! Sit down to the table and enjoy our Lodgecast feast as we consume Predator: Badlands! We'll discuss the Predator franchise, including the six movies leading up to Predator: Badlands. Then we'll take you to the hostile planet of Genna, where Dek, a young Yautja, has to kill the apex predator Kalisk. It's a hostile environment, and Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) is joined by Thia (Elle Fanning), a damaged, legless Weyland-Yutani Corporation synthetic. Predator: Badlands ...
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 ex...
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!
Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen is given the music biopic treatment with the brand new film Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. Based on a 2023 book by Warren Zanes, the movie covers Springsteen's turbulent time around the making of his 1982 album Nebraska. Jeremy Allen White plays Springsteen as he battles his demons and tries to stay true to his working-class New Jersey roots. Jeremy Strong plays Springsteen's manager Jon Landau, and the movie also features Paul Walter Hauser, Stephen Graham, a...
Happy Halloween Lodgecast listeners! Blink and you missed this exorcism movie starring Al "Dunkaccino" Pacino. It played in theaters only one week, and we missed it there, but we caught it on VOD! Set in 1928 in Iowa, the movie follows Theophilus Riesinger (Al Pacino) and Joseph Steiger (Dan Stevens) as they attempt to exorcise the demon of a young woman named Emma Schmidt (Abigail Cowen). It is directed by David Midell in a truly bizarre manner, with cinematography resembling the American TV se...
As we near Halloween, we watched this spooky movie about a haunted house told from a dog's perspective. This low-budget 77-minute feature was directed by Ben Leonberg and stars his Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever named Indy. Indy is truly a good boy, putting up with filming for over 400 days to capture his incredible performance. In the movie, his owner is dying of chronic lung disease, and Indy sticks by his side. The film is beloved for Indy the dog's performance, but we'll let you know if ...
Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson returns to the big screen with his epic action comedy film One Battle After Another. We took in this $175 million budget, 162-minute film in full IMAX at the Burbank 16. It goes without saying, go see this movie on the big screen! Marvel at Sean Penn's beautiful mug as big as you can see it! Then once you've taken it all in, you might enjoy our hawt take. The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Inf...
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 hist...
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!
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, gro...
Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye plays himself in his movie Hurry Up Tomorrow. The movie serves as a companion piece to his latest album. We caught this vanity project in theaters. In the movie, The Weeknd is a pop superstar in crisis who has lost his voice. His manager (played by Barry Keoghan) is trying to boost his ego. Jenna Ortega plays a deranged fan hell bent on tracking The Weeknd down. Trey Edward Shults directs. This movie was reviled by audiences and critics alike. We'll let you know what we...
When H.G. Wells penned the classic 1898 science fiction novel The War of the Worlds, he could scarcely have predicted that in the futuristic year of 2025, a man named Ice Cube would be starring in a desktop cinema adaptation of the novel. Even Orson Welles, with all his imagination, when he produced the 1938 Mercury Theatre radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, couldn't have conceived that in 2025, a tech company called Amazon would create a Prime Video adaptation of the story featuring a su...
Slapstick comedy is back in theaters in the year 2025 with The Naked Gun! Liam Neeson stars as Lt. Frank Drebin Jr., son of the late Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen). We share our love and light for the original Naked Gun trilogy before taking on this legacy sequel directed by Akiva Schaffer. In this new one, Pamela Anderson stars as the love interest, Paul Walter Hauser stars as Drebin's right-hand man, and Danny Huston stars as the villain. The gags are many, and some of us laughed while others d...
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 dis...
