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We return with tales from Day 4 of Fantastic Fest 2018! Includes Drunk Windy content, plus the reveal of the secret screening and discussion of MEATY VIOLENCE. Show notes below the cut! Movies Discussed: Shadow Blood of Wolves School’s Out Suspiria (2018) The Night Comes for Us May the Devil Take You People Discussed: Zheng … Continue reading The post Episode 133d: Viva la Eclectic Mayhem! Part 4 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

We return with tales from Day 3 of Fantastic Fest 2018! Nazi zombies, ghost boats, and Nicolas Cage ahoy! Show notes below the cut! Movies Discussed: Level 16 Drug Stories (short film collection) The Trip Back (short) Slut in a Good Way Hold the Dark The Boat Overlord Between Worlds Folklore (TV) People Discussed: Florrie … Continue reading The post Episode 133c: Viva la Eclectic Mayhem! Part 3 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

We return with tales from Day 2 of Fantastic Fest 2018! Show notes below the cut! Movies Discussed: Keep an Eye Out (aka Au Poste!) Starfish Quake Apostle Sudden Fury Cam You Might Be the Killer People Discussed: Quentin Dupieux Dan Stevens Michael Sheen Mark Lewis Jones Gareth Evans (we probably said Edwards in the … Continue reading The post Episode 133b: Viva la Eclectic Mayhem! Part 2 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dear listeners, we are back again at Fantastic Fest 2018! In this episode, we bring you the tales of Day 1: the movies we saw, the movie we didn’t see (yet), and random Jamie Lee Curtis sightings. Show notes below the cut! Movies Discussed: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote The Wind White Fire In … Continue reading The post Episode 133a: Viva la Eclectic Mayhem! Part 1 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Our tales from Fantastic Fest 2017 conclude with the sixth and final installment of our series. If you missed the previous episodes, you can find them all here: Episode 132a: http://wp.me/p42Mnq-y0 Episode 132b: http://wp.me/p42Mnq-y5 Episode 132c: http://wp.me/p42Mnq-y7 Episode 132d: http://wp.me/p42Mnq-ya Episode 132e: http://wp.me/p42Mnq-yc Show notes below the cut! Movies Discussed: Topknot Detective Ron Goosens: Low-Budget … Continue reading The post Episode 132f: Resurrection of the Eclectic Mayhem: Part 6 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Our tales from Fantastic Fest 2017 continue (and we finally discuss the elephant in the room). Join us for the fifth installment in our six-episode series about all the films we saw, and check in tomorrow for the final installment! Show notes below the cut! Movies Discussed: Take It Out in Trade Maus Hagazussa The … Continue reading The post Episode 132e: Resurrection of the Eclectic Mayhem: Part 5 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Our tales from Fantastic Fest 2017 continue! Join us for the fourth installment in our six-episode series about all the films we saw, and check in tomorrow for the next installment! Show notes below the cut! Movies Discussed: Radius The Endless 3ft Ball & Souls Killing of a Sacred Deer The Square People Discussed: Bruce … Continue reading The post Episode 132d: Resurrection of the Eclectic Mayhem: Part 4 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

We return today with even more stories from Fantastic Fest 2017! Join us for the third installment in our six-episode series about all the films we saw, and check in tomorrow for the next installment! Show notes below the cut! Movies Discussed: Brawl in Cell Block 99 Jailbreak The Drop-In Blade of the Immortal Downsizing … Continue reading The post Episode 132c: Resurrection of the Eclectic Mayhem: Part 3 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

We return today with yet more stories from Fantastic Fest 2017! Join us for the second installment in our six-episode series about all the films we saw, and check in tomorrow for the next installment! Show notes below the cut! Movies Discussed: Solyut-7 Nothing a Little Soap and Water Can’t Fix 78/52 Haunters Love and … Continue reading The post Episode 132b: Resurrection of the Eclectic Mayhem: Part 2 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

The Pleasure Dome has come back to life with stories from Fantastic Fest 2017! Join us for the first installment in our six-episode series about all the films we saw, all the drama we endured, and all the feathers we inhaled. Plus, check in tomorrow for the next installment! Show notes below the cut! Movies … Continue reading The post Episode 132a: Resurrection of the Eclectic Mayhem: Part 1 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This week, dear listeners, we give you the second half of our XanaCineHoliday experience, where we continue to trade movies until we either fall dead of exhaustion or John Cusack shows up to punch ghosts! Show notes behind the cut! Movies watched: Jennifer’s Body Young Adult Seabiscuit Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte Team America: World Police 1408 Other movies … Continue reading The post Episode 131: XanaCineMovieTradeHolidayDayThing: Part 2 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This week, dear listeners, Windy and Melissa do another variant on the XanaCineHoliday, where they each spent an entire day watching movies they had never seen, as dictated by the other host. The movies range from ultra-obscure avant-garde to a movie where projectile vomiting happens before the opening credits end, and approximately 71% of them … Continue reading The post Episode 130: XanaCineMovieTradeHolidayDayThing: Part 1 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

We’re back, dear listeners, with an episode all about power dynamics in the MCU (Marvel Comics movie universe) and superhero movies in general! And for this extremely long (and kinda drunken) discussion, we are joined by geography professor David Tyler McKay! If you would like to drink along (and why wouldn’t you?), we recommend either Bushmills … Continue reading The post Episode 129: Thornado! appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This week, dear listeners, we bring you an episode about Abel Ferrara’s 1992 movie Bad Lieutenant and Werner Herzog’s 2009 not-remake Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans! Why? Well, Windy hadn’t seen them before, and Melissa had a need to talk about inexplicable iguanas. A special note about this episode: it was recorded over a … Continue reading The post Episode 218: A Nickel Short of Quasimodo appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

In this week’s episode, Windy and writer/TV show host/modern rogue Jason Murphy bring back tales of SFFSFF, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Film Festival in Seattle, WA! (Since Melissa got to have a B-Fest episode without Windy, it’s only fair that Windy also got a solo show!) Show notes behind the cut! Exclamation points!!! Short … Continue reading The post Episode 127: They Ask So Little of Me appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This week, dear listeners, we bring you straight into the heart of B-Fest 2017, as Melissa, Field Correspondent Kelvin Hatle, and special guest star Tim Lehnerer spend 24 hours in Chicago watching crappy movies! And if you are wondering what we were drinking, the answer is, “Not enough.” Click beyond the cut for show notes!   … Continue reading The post Episode 126: Everything Is Doors Now appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This week, we present to you our eighth Off Topic episode! That’s right folks! We haven’t had one of these in a while! In fact, our previous Off-Topic episode was in 2015! If you are a newer listener, here’s what’s going on: Windy and I sometimes wander off topic. Or one of our husbands starts talking to … Continue reading The post Episode 125: Not Enough Sharks appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Finally, dear listeners, it’s a new year, and we have a Star Wars movie to talk about: Rogue One! (Yes, here be spoilers!) If you would like to drink along, we suggest either Two Gingers whiskey (which isn’t Irish) or Bauhaus Brew Labs’ Wonderstuff (also not Irish). Show notes behind the cut! Movies mentioned: Rogue … Continue reading The post Episode 124: C-Snarkio and the Irish Whiskey Mafia appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

We’re back, dear listeners, and we bring you news from Butt-Numb-a-Thon 2016! Meghan Murphy returns as our special guest correspondent, and this year, we are also joined by BNAT newbie, Barb Lind! If you would like to drink along, we recommend just taking a long swig of sleep deprivation, because that’s what all four of us were … Continue reading The post Episode 123: Gettin’ Silly, Gettin’ Deep with Sex Canaries appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Windy and Melissa both spent the entirety of Black Friday in movie theaters, so this week’s episode is about all the shiny new movies they saw on their latest XanaCineHoliday! If you would like to drink along, we recommend Indeed Brewing’s Dandy Lager (Melissa’s pick) or Yellow Tail’s Sweet Red Roo wine. Show notes behind … Continue reading The post Episode 122: Dormammu, I’ve Come for a Cookie appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.