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It’s spooky season, dear listeners, so we are talking about our early choices for Halloweentime watching! Movies discussed: Tales from the Hood The Craft Scream The Sentinel VHS Halloween Bone Lake Other things discussed: Spooky Lakes Month Fat Bear season The post Episode 223: Tales from the Hood / Scream / The Sentinel appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This is our final podcast from from Fantastic Fest 2025! Today we bring you news of the movies we saw on Day 8! Movies discussed: Dolly Lunatic: The Luna Vachon Story Found Footage Festival (performance) Whistle The post Episode 222: Fantastic Fest 2025 Day 8 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

We are podcasting daily from Fantastic Fest 2025! Today we bring you news of the movies we saw on Day 7! Movies discussed: Deathstalker Reflections in a Dead Diamond The Vile Her Name Is Mother The Evil That Binds Us Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die Coyotes Death by Stereoscopy (clip show) The post Episode 221: Fantastic Fest 2025 Day 7 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

We are podcasting daily from Fantastic Fest 2025! Today we bring you news of the movies we saw on Day 6! Movies discussed: Bad Haircut Silver Screamers Tree of Knowldege One Battle After Another Dracula Tie Man The Restoration of Grayson Manor The post Episode 220: Fantastic Fest 2025 Day 6 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

We are podcasting daily from Fantastic Fest 2025! Today we bring you news of the movies we saw on Day 5! Movies discussed: Luger Penance Road to Vendetta The Cramps: A Period Piece Bugonia Hide and Go Shriek Girls’ Night Out (short) Animal Math (short) Shrine of Abominations (short) (link to animation sample) The post Episode 219: Fantastic Fest 2025 Day 5 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

We are podcasting daily from Fantastic Fest 2025! Today we bring you news of the movies we saw on Day 4! Movies discussed: Marama Embalmer The Restoration of Grayson Manor Sisu: Road to Revenge Angel’s Egg Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025 remake) The post Episode 218: Fantastic Fest 2025 Day 4 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

We are podcasting daily from Fantastic Fest 2025! Today we bring you news of the movies we saw on Day 3! Movies discussed: The Forbidden City A Useful Ghost Beast of War Luger Haunted Heist Freaked Before the Fall Black Phone 2 Bulk The post Episode 217: Fantastic Fest 2025 Day 3 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

We are podcasting daily from Fantastic Fest 2025! Today we bring you news of the movies we saw on Day 2! Movies discussed: Her Will Be Done The Ice Tower When We Were Live Reflection in a Dead Diamond Mother of Flies Sirat Vicious Silencio The post Episode 216: Fantastic Fest 2025 Day 2 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, dear listeners: we are podcasting daily from Fantastic Fest 2025! Today we bring you news of the opening day movies! Movies discussed: The Piano Accident Ikatan Darah The post Episode 215: Fantastic Fest 2025 Day 1 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Hello again, dear listeners! We’ve finally edited the last of our episode backlog, which means a) you get to hear it now, and b) it is almost time for the onslaught of Fantastic Fest episodes! Please join us today for a whole slew of movies and TV shows we’ve enjoyed this year, including Murderbot, Black … Continue reading The post Episode 214: Black Bag / Wick Is Pain / Murderbot appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This week, dear listeners, we catch up with Ryan Coogler’s new film Sinners, recent film Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, and, for some reason, clothing-related things! Movies mentioned: Sinners Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris The Phantom Thread Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife Other things mentioned: Making Lwaxana Troi’s clothing Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, … Continue reading The post Episode 213: Sinners / Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dearest listeners — WE HAVE CAUGHT UP! Today we bring you our most recent joys, cinematic and otherwise, from distressingly hot young Walter Matthau to novel uses for Australian cookies! Movies mentioned: Cleaner A Face in the Crowd Mickey 17 Other things mentioned: Hamilton (yes, again) The Wheel of Time (TV) Tim Tams Nominative determinism The post Episode 212: Cleaner / A Face in the Crowd / Mickey 17 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dearest listeners, our episodes are almost caught up to the current day! In this episode, we have so much joy to share, from low-budget beavers to blacklight cryptid mini golf to the Chernobyl disaster! Movies mentioned: Sweethearts Flow Hundreds of Beavers Heart Eyes Other things mentioned: Hallmark holiday movie parties Cryptid Mountain Miniature Golf (Morgantown, … Continue reading The post Episode 211: Flow / Hundreds of Beavers (recorded February 2025) appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dearest listeners, we bring you yet another of our already-recorded-never-posted episode! This one was recorded in November 2024. We have even more spooky season content for you, plus a Ginger Rogers movie because sure, why not! Movies mentioned: The Shining Doctor Sleep The Ring The Bat Hush Vivacious Lady Heretic Tumbbad Other things mentioned: Chocolate … Continue reading The post Episode 210: The Shining / Doctor Sleep (recorded November 2024) appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Once again this week, we bring you another one of our already-recorded-never-posted episodes for your pleasure! This one is also from October 2024. Please join us for more spooky season content! And we apologize to the ghost of Tony Todd. Movies mentioned: The Pajama Game The Other (Al Aakhar) Candyman Other things mentioned: Candlelight orchestra … Continue reading The post Episode 209: The Pajama Game / Al Aakhar / Candyman (recorded October 2024) appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Hello again, dearest listeners! We are back from a long, unintentional hiatus! We have several already-recorded-never-posted episodes for your edification, and this is the earliest one, recorded in October 2024. Please join us for the things that brought us joy during last year’s spooky season! Movies mentioned: Saturday Night Pitch Black V/H/S Beyond Starry Eyes … Continue reading The post Episode 208: Saturday Night (recorded October 2024) appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dearest listeners, we have missed you! We come to you today from B-Fest 2025, a long-running annual 24-hour movie marathon of B movies, run on campus at Northwestern University in Chicago. Melissa is joined live on the ground by Kelvin Hatle and Noel Thingvall for all manner of travails and gloriously weird cinema. Please pardon … Continue reading The post Episode 207: B-Fest 2025 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dear listeners, we come to you today from Fantastic Fest 2024! We will be posting every day to bring you news of all the wonderful, wild, and bizarre things we saw! Movies discussed: Else She Loved Blossoms More Nine Queens Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire Mr. Crocket Universal Language Other things discussed: … Continue reading The post Episode 206: Fantastic Fest 2024 Day 8 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dear listeners, we come to you today from Fantastic Fest 2024! We will be posting every day to bring you news of all the wonderful, wild, and bizarre things we saw! Movies discussed: I, The Executioner Ebony & Ivory Heavier Trip MadS Don’t Mess With Grandma / Sundown Superman Queens of Drama The Draft Little … Continue reading The post Episode 205: Fantastic Fest 2024 Day 7 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dear listeners, we come to you today from Fantastic Fest 2024! We will be posting every day to bring you news of all the wonderful, wild, and bizarre things we saw! Movies discussed: Children of the Wicker Man Parvulos The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee Cloud Spermageddon Bookworm Commercial: The Movie (Museum of Home … Continue reading The post Episode 204: Fantastic Fest 2024 Day 6 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.