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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)!

Writer/director Kristoffer Borgli is back! If you've not heard of him, he was the comedic writer/director behind Sick of Myself (2022) and Dream Scenario (2023) (both worth seeing). He returns to his dark cringe comedy with The Drama, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson as a happily engaged couple whose relationship takes a bad turn a week before their wedding. Alana Haim serves as the maid of honor, and Mamoudou Athie is the best man. The movie involves confessing the worst things you've ever done, and some Lodgers give their own dark confessions of mayhem they caused in their youth. Tune into this darkly humorous episode!

You may have forgotten about Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, but back in March, we covered this Frankenstein goth romance starring Jessie Buckley as The Bride and Christian Bale as Frank. It’s set in 1936 Chicago and is quite unhinged. It also features Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Penelope Cruz. Maggie Gyllenhaal wrote and directed this film, in case you didn’t know. The movie was a box office bomb and got mixed reviews. Mostly, we covered it in order to say goodbye to an old friend, which you will hear about in this special episode!

The Lodgecast triumphantly returns to cover a new adaptation of the Masters of the Universe! After the success of Mattel's Barbie, $200 million was poured into this sword-and-sorcery comedy. Nicholas Galitzine stars as He-Man, and Jared Leto as Skeletor. They battle it out along with Camila Mendes, Jared Leto, Alison Brie, James Purefoy, Johannes Haukur Johannesson, Charlotte Riley, Kristen Wiig, Morena Baccarin, and Idris Elba as Man-At-Arms. It's a 140-minute epic return to the planet Eternia. The film was directed by Travis Knight with four credited writers. It received mixed reviews and performed mildly at the box office. We'll let you know what we thought in this epic Lodgecast!

To those following the Lodgecast, we are still on Spring Break. But in the meantime, during the break, we have been underground and cooking up something top secret. A very special member of the Lodgecast has stepped forward to create something beautiful, which we will reveal in this "Special Lodgecast Emergency Announcement Broadcast"! Take a listen to this new transmission and discover the hidden depths of the Lodgecast. We won't say any more! Listen and find out!