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Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome Windy Bowlsby and Melissa Kaercher
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In the Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome, Windy and Melissa share a love of all movies, from big budget to low budget, from classics to the obscure, from highbrow to lowbrow. Join us in the Pleasure Dome!
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Episode 195: Totally Killer / Lady from the Black Lagoon
Dearest listeners, this week we bring you a time travel slasher and a book about a woman who made an iconic movie monster!
Movies mentioned:
Totally Killer
Other things mentioned:
Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
Valleyfair versus the Minnesota River -
Episode 194: Under Paris / Immaculate
Dearest listeners, today we bring you a whole buffet of joys! Crashing cars! Heroin aiiens! Armless cult leaders! Even more cults! AND SHARKS!
Movies discussed:
Duel
Liquid Sky
Santa Sangre
Under Paris
I Saw the TV Glow
Immaculate
Interstellar
Other things discussed:
Altering playback speed of podcasts
Towel racks -
Episode 193: Hit Man / I Was Born, But…
Dearest listeners (and John Travolta), we bring you glad tidings of Linklater and Ozu! And also maybe some John Travolta!
Movies mentioned:
Hit Man
I Was Born, But…
The Great Dictator
The Sting
King Lear
Other things mentioned:
Criterion 24/7
The Paramount Theater – https://www.austintheatre.org/
Agatha Christie
The 1986 Cannon Films promo reel – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crW6W-eLmyQ&ab_channel=TrailerWorld -
Episode 192: Atlas / Hump / Furiosa
Dearest listeners, this week our movie chatter turns to sex, cars, and home maintenance!
Movies mentioned:
Atlas
Midnight Madness
Hump (which is now streaming at https://www.humpfilmfest.com/)
Furiosa
The Big Bus
Other things mentioned:
DK Sushi karaoke
Heat pumps
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Episode 191: Your Name. / Field of Dreams
Dearest listeners, we return this week with the cinematic delights of Japan and… Iowa?
Movies discussed:
Your Name.
Field of Dreams
Other things mentioned:
The northern lights
Consumer Reports
Apple pie
Greek cherry phyllo strudel
Deep fried feta cheese -
Episode 190: Late Night with the Devil / Fall Guy / Argylle
Dearest listeners! We have so many cinematic delights to share this week that we can’t fit all of them in the episode title! We also have dogs!
Movies mentioned:
The Holdovers
Godzilla Minus 1
Late Night with the Devil
The Cleansing Hour
The Fall Guy
Argylle
Other things mentioned:
Cicadas
Peshwari naan and other Indian cuisine
Los Straitjackets’ cover of “My Heart Will Go On”