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 series The Office. We'll let you know how weird it gets in this terrifying episode of the Lodgecast!

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 we loved it!

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 Infiniti. It is loosely based on Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel Vineland. It's got a wild score by Jonny Greenwood. It's undoubtedly going to be up for a bunch of Oscar nominations. Check it out! Then hear our hawt take review!

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 with Mr. Finn Wolfhard, and we'll explore it all in this episode.

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, grossing $264 million. We'll let you know what all the buzz is about in this episode!

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 witnessed!

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 surveillance expert that utilizes the Amazon Prime delivery service in order to save the world. No one could've predicted what dropped onto Amazon Prime Video on July 30, 2025. Due to popular demand, we fast-tracked this episode so we can tell what we watched so that you never have to watch it!

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 did not laugh as much. Tune in to find out about the latest filing of The Police Squad!

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 disposable worker who is cloned every time he dies. It features a good cast, including Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Patsy Ferran, Cameron Britton, Daniel Henshall, Stephen Park, Anamaria Vartolomei, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo. The film is currently streaming on HBO Max, if you wish to fire it up!

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!

The new body horror movie Together made a little splash this summer, and we decided to cover it. It stars real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie. The two move to the countryside to work on their troubled relationship, but Dave Franco drinks some supernatural water and begins merging physically with Alison Brie. Then the sticky body horror starts! Get sticky with Dave Franco and Alison Brie, written and directed by Michael Shanks in his directorial debut. We'll let you know how our bones converged!

We took in the sixth installment of the Final Destination film series in 4DX! We talk about the Final Destination movies and about our previous adventures in 4DX before we enter Final Destination Bloodlines. Just like the film Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (2023), Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) starts out in the year 1969. It begins with a thrilling high-rise Space Needle restaurant tower collapse, then flashes forward to 2024 to follow a family haunted by Death. The movie stars Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Anna Lore, Brec Bassinger, and Tony Todd in his final film performance. We'll report back on how much the Regal Pepsi 4DX rocked us!

You might've forgotten about Disney's Snow White (2025), but we did not forget about it! We went to theaters to take in this disastrous live-action reimagining of Walt Disney's 1937 classic animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The film generated all sorts of controversies that we'll remind you of. Thanks to an army of trolls, it currently sits at 2.1 stars out of 10 on IMDb. It stars Rachel Zegler as Snow White, Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen, and seven horrific voice/facial motion-captured, computer-animated dwarfs. We'll tell you all you missed in Disney's Snow White (2025)!

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Director Osgood Perkins is back after last year's sleeper hit Longlegs (2024)! This time he's adapting a 1980 short story by Stephen King called "The Monkey" featuring a cursed monkey toy. Theo James and Theo James star as twin brothers who face random horrific deaths due to the monkey toy. The movie also stars Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Colin O'Brien, Rohan Campbell, Sarah Levy, Adam Scott, and Elijah Wood. It got decent enough reviews and good box office. This is our third Oz Perkins film that we've covered and we'll let you know how his career is progressing!

Sinners recently dropped on HBO Max! We caught Ryan Coogler's film on the big screen a few months back. It stars Michael B. Jordan and Michael B. Jordan as twin brothers who return to their hometown in Mississippi in 1932 to take on some sort of evil that we won't spoil here. The film also stars Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, and Delroy Lindo. This movie was met with critical acclaim and got people talking, so let's talk about it!

The Lodgecast is back and so is M3GAN! Writer/director Gerard Johnstone returns to reinvent the M3GAN character as she battles with a new AI foe in humanoid military robot AMELIA. This PG-13 sequel veers away from horror into the sci-fi/comedy realm, and we’ll let you know just how well this genre-bending follow-up works. Allison Williams returns along with her niece, played by Violet McGraw. Amie Donald plays M3GAN and Ivanna Sakhno plays AMELIA (Autonomous Military Engagement Logistics & Infiltration Android). And Jemaine Clement is in the mix for some corrupt tech bro comic relief. The film wasn’t the box office hit the producers were hoping for, but we do hope for a M3GAN 3.0! I guess a spin-off erotic thriller SOULM8TE is in the works, which sounds promising! ❤️✨

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 Break!

We're taking a Lodgecast Spring Break! We must give our dear Lodgemaster a much-needed editing siesta after splicing together over 300 four-bone episodes in the last seven 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!