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Dearest listeners, we bring you our glimmers of joy this week, complete with space raccoons and bad French accents! Movies discussed: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Playtime Other things discussed: Clutch (band) Bake Off: The Professionals (TV) The Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros The post Episode 163: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 / Playtime appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This week, dear listeners, Windy has caught up with Barbie and goes into The Spoiler Zone! And Melissa has been catching up with Nobuhiko Obayashi movies and with Ted Lasso! Movies Discussed: Barbie The Rocking Horsemen Fargo Other things discussed: Genghis Khan (music video) by Miike Snow Mandom commercial by Nobuhiko Obayashi Ted Lasso (TV) … Continue reading The post Episode 162: Barbie (now with spoilers!) / The Rocking Horsemen appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dearest listeners, this week brought us so much joy that we had to make an extra-sized episode just to hold all our pink, rhinestoned, union-solidarity glee! Movies discussed: Oppenheimer Barbie Theater Camp Pride Other things discussed: Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour The SAG-AFTRA / WGA strike The post Episode 161: Oppenheimer / Barbie / Theater Camp / Pride / Beyonce appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dear listeners, we found a lot of joy this week, everything from Pakistani martial arts films to assassins on a train to cheap Beyonce tickets! Movies discussed: Star Trek Into Darkness Polite Society Bullet Train Wimbledon Hunt for the Wilderpeople Other things: Beyonce’s current tour The post Episode 160: Polite Society / Bullet Train appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dear listeners, today we bring you our myriad joys we had over the 4th of July week, from Indiana Jones to CONvergence! Movies discussed: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Nimona Other things discussed: Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas CONvergence The post Episode 159: Dial of Destiny / Nimona appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dear listeners, this week, we revel in the joys of the Spider-Verse, as well as comforting streaming movies and… Moroccan she-demons? Movies discussed: Across the Spider-Verse Ghosted Kandisha Also discussed: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Coco, Encanto, and Book of Life as a triple-feature The post Episode 158: Across the Spider-Verse / Ghosted / Kandisha appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dear listeners, today we wax rhapsodic about movies featuring Mars rovers and folklore horrors, with a chaser of Jason Momoa appreciation! Movies discussed: Goodnight Oppy Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror Fast X And also: Quantumania Mazes and Monsters Kier-La Janisse Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (book) Drama Gaze … Continue reading The post Episode 157: Goodnight Oppy / Folk Horror / Fast X appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dearest listeners, this week we discuss a trio of movies that poke at the art world! And then we discuss monster erotica for some reason! Movies discussed: Flux Gourmet Velvet Buzzsaw The Square Robocop Careful (this is the movie whose title Melissa could not remember) The Saddest Music in the World Other things: Guy Maddin … Continue reading The post Episode 156: Flux Gourmet / Velvet Buzzsaw / The Square appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dear listeners, this week we bring you a range of delights, from time loop romances to autopsies gone wrong! We also cannot remember the word “antipode”! Movies discussed: The Map of Tiny Perfect Things The Best of Me The Autopsy of Jane Doe Other things we liked: Jet’s Pizza Two Dots Civilization Zelda: Tears of … Continue reading The post Episode 155: Map of Tiny Perfect Things / Autopsy of Jane Doe appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dear listeners, this week we bring to you an episode about a 2019 Bollywood film named War, which brought us so much joy this week! Movies discussed: War Pathaan Other things we liked: Wonderspaces Animal Humane Society The post Episode 154: War appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Happy Memorial Day Weekend to our US listeners! This week, the movies that brought us joy are about… addiction and death? Sure, why not! Movies discussed: John Mulaney: Baby J Soul Other things we like: The music of Jon Batiste New Zealand Air’s SkyCouches The post Episode 153: Baby J / Soul appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dear listeners, this week we bring our joy to you with some of our favorite things: underdog sports movies and obscure French auteur movies that never got made! Movies discussed: Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno Air Other things we liked: Dancing Bear Chocolate Swirl Top Baking Exceptionally useful coffee tables The post Episode 152: Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno / Air appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dearest listeners, we apologize for skipping last week, but we now bring you two weeks worth of joy! Space aliens, time loops, punk rock, and Beyonce ahoy! Movies discussed: Arrival Boss Level The Decline of Western Civilization The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years The Decline of Western Civilization III Homecoming: A Film … Continue reading The post Episode 151: Arrival / Boss Level / Homecoming / Decline of Western Civilization appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Good morrow, dear listeners! Today we bring you the myriad delights of our previous week: Slings & Arrows, Dungeons & Dragons, prurience & Pittsburgh, and more! Things discussed: Slings and Arrows (TV) Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Court of the Underworld series by Alessa Thorn (books) Everyday Noodle (Pittsburgh) Vendor Bender (Pittsburgh) Getting a … Continue reading The post Episode 150: Slings & Arrows / Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dear listeners, we come to you this week with an episode about several things that made us happy recently: The Raid, Tetris, Martha Raye, and so many other delights! Movies discussed: The Raid The Night Comes for Us Tetris The Dirt Keep ‘Em Flying Monsieur Verdoux Pippin Also: Martha Raye Schmigadoon The post Episode 149: The Raid / Tetris appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dear listeners, today we bring you the exciting conclusion of our XanaCineHoliday disucssions! We surprise each other with movies new and old, silly and serious, and big and small. Movies discussed: Book of Eli In Fabric The 40 Year Old Version Cruella Prey Sorry to Bother You Dead Again The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent … Continue reading The post Episode 148: XanaCineHoliday 4, Part 2 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dear listeners, today we bring back one of our favorite traditions of Pleasure Domes past: the XanaCineHoliday! This esteemed holiday is when Windy and Melissa pick out a weekend, assign movies to each other, watch those movies, and meet up between films to talk about them. Today’s episode is the first half our XanaCineHoliday disucssions; … Continue reading The post Episode 147: XanaCineHoliday 4, Part 1 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Good morrow, dear listeners! In this episode, we discuss several films we recently watched on very long airplane flights, and we wax rhapsodic about food. (We might have recorded this podcast while we were hungry.) Movies discussed: Judas and the Black Messiah BlacKkKlansman Sorry to Bother You Son’t Worry Darling Other things discussed: Pain au … Continue reading The post Episode 146: Judas and the Black Messiah / BlacKkKlansman / Don’t Worry Darling appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dear listeners, this week we have some very special treats for you! Melissa and Windy sign in from London, where they bring tales of visiting the set of The Gorge, seeing the West End stage adaptation of Moulin Rouge, and watching the extended version of That Thing You Do. Movies Discussed: The Gorge Moulin Rouge … Continue reading The post Episode 145: Movie Set Visit / Moulin Rouge on stage / That Thing You Do appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dear listeners, we are still traveling, so today you are receiving a new “off topic” episode, which is constructed of some of the more interesting bits we edited out of our previous episodes. Some clips are new, some clips are many years old, and all clips are quite random. Voices heard in this collection, aside … Continue reading The post Episode 144: Off Topic Collection #9 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.