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Happy Halloween! We're closing out spooky season with our Lodgecast of the new slasher film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun. It stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, with Jack Haven and Patrick Fischler in supporting roles. The movie follows a filmmaker (Einbinder) who is hired to direct a new installment of the fictional slasher franchise Camp Miasma, and becomes fixated on casting the actress (Anderson) who played the final girl in the original film. The film was well-reviewed and won the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. We'll let you know what we thought in this horrific Lodgecast!

We saw Scary Movie 6, also known as Scary Movie, and immediately blocked it from our collective consciousness. Like a bad nightmare you wake up from and quickly forget, Scary Movie was wiped from our brains almost instantly. The movie is directed by Michael Tiddes and written by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Craig Wayans, and Rick Alvarez. It stars Marlon, Shawn, Anna Faris, and Regina Hall, with appearances by Cheri Oteri, Chris Elliott, and Dave Sheridan as Doofy. We have no idea what this movie was about and no recollection of any of the jokes it contained. Join us as we jog our memory banks of what was Scary Movie 6!

Spooky season is upon us, Lodgecast listeners, and we got some scary listens coming up, including this new Evil Dead movie called Evil Dead Burn. It's the sixth entry into the Evil Dead film series. It's nasty, it's mean, it's icky, it's gross. Everything you go see an Evil Dead movie for, I guess. The movie is directed by Sebastien Vanicek and stars Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright, Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan, Erroll Shand, and Maude Davey. Get ready for the family reunion from hell!

Everybody's talking about Digger! But apparently no one is seeing it! The movie is set to lose $250 million! 64-year-old Thomas Cruise Mapother IV might not be the box office gold that he once was. But box office bomb aside, this movie is one to contend with. It's directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, who has brought us Amores Perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003), Babel (2006), Biutiful (2010), Birdman (2014), The Revenant (2015), and Bardo (2022). After discussing Inarritu's career, we take on Tom Cruise as aging oil magnate Digger Rockwell. The outstanding Digger cast includes Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Huller, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Jesse Plemons. Love it or hate it! Drill baby drill! This is Digger!

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. Listen to our hawt take about this twisted anthropomorphic orange unicorn!

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!

At age 79, Steven Spielberg has made yet another alien film called Disclosure Day. In this movie, a television meteorologist (Emily Blunt) and a cybersecurity analyst (Josh O'Connor) go on a mission to disclose the existence of extraterrestrial life to the world. As if anyone would believe or care about it at this point! We were pretty harsh on this one. The movie also stars Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, and Colman Domingo. David Koepp wrote it. Janusz Kaminski shot it. And, at age 94, John Williams does the music!

From the visionary director Simon McQuoid, who brought you Mortal Kombat (2021), comes Mortal Kombat II (2026)! More of the same from the Mortal Kombat film series. But this time we get a whole lot more Johnny Cage, played by Karl Urban. The film also stars Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Ludi Lin, Mehcad Brooks, Lewis Tan, Max Huang, Damon Herriman, Chin Han, Tadanobu Asano, Joe Taslim, Hiroyuki Sanada, Adeline Rudolph, Martyn Ford, and Tati Gabrielle. Mortal Kombat II may possibly be followed up by Mortal Kombat III!

The Invite (2026) is the third Olivia Wilde movie we have covered after Booksmart (2019) and Don't Worry Darling (2022). With The Invite, she directs a screenplay by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones. She also stars, along with Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz, and Edward Norton. Set in a huge San Francisco apartment, married couple Rogen & Wilde invite over their raucous upstairs neighbors, Cruz & Norton, for dinner. This A24 film got rave reviews and has some big laughs and surprises! Find out all about in this sex comedy hawt take!

One of the most talked-about movies of the year is the horror movie Backrooms, directed by 21-year-old Kane Parsons! Parsons made the jump from YouTube with his web series to his directorial debut on the big screen, which has grossed over $350 million. It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as a furniture store owner who finds an endless dimension in the basement of his store. His therapist, played by Renate Reinsve, follows him in, and they get trapped in the liminal spaces. The film also features Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell. Join us for a special examination of this unique horror film!

Back in 2018, we covered writer/director Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You in Episode 18 of the Lodgecast. In 2026, Boots Riley has returned to the big screen with his wild new crime comedy I Love Boosters. The movie follows a group of professional shoplifters who are targeting a fashion mogul. The film stars Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza Gonzalez, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Don Cheadle, and Demi Moore. It's a chaotic capitalist critique that left us with much to discuss!

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From the director of Wet Hot American Summer (2001) comes a new comedy called Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026). Gail Daughtry (Zoey Deutch) is a hairdresser in small-town Kansas who chooses Jon Hamm as her "celebrity sex pass". After her fiance sleeps with Jennifer Aniston, Gail heads to LA with her friends to find Jon Hamm. The movie stars Zoey Deutch, John Slattery, Ken Marino, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Ben Wang, Sabrina Impacciatore, and Jon Hamm, along with plenty of fun celebrity cameos. Find out how much we laughed at this comedy directed by David Wain!

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 the Trojan War to get back to his wife Penelope (Hathaway). You've seen it. Now hear our hawt take. If you haven't seen it, go out of your house and see it BIG!

It was time for the Lodgecast to finally face the Michael Jackson biopic. We gathered up our collective Michael Jackson knowledge to discuss him and speculate on what this biopic was going to be. Then we entered the Dolby Cinema to witness his life and music from the 1960s to the late 1980s. Michael Jackson's nephew Jaafar Jackson plays Michael, with Juliano Valdi playing him as a child. The supporting cast includes Nia Long, KeiLyn Durrel Jones, Laura Harrier, Jessica Sula, Mike Myers, Miles Teller, and Colman Domingo as the villainous Joseph Jackson. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, this movie has grossed over $1 billion dollars! Join us as we review Michael (2026)!