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Happy holidays, dear listeners! Our gift to you this year is an extra-long and exuberant episode about our experiences at Butt-Numb-a-Thon 2014! We are also pleased to welcome back our guest star, awesome artist and fellow BNATer Meghan Murphy! If you would like to drink along, we suggest a delicious milkshake made with (512) Pecan … Continue reading The post Episode 46: Let’s Punch Each Other and Become Friends appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This is our 45th episode, which means it is time for our third Off Topic extravaganza! If you’re a longtime listener, you already know what this means, but in case you’re new to the Pleasure Dome, here’s what’s going on: Our episodes are heavily edited, because we record drunk and edit sober. Most of what … Continue reading The post Episode 45: Time Is a Beard appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Oh wow, listeners. This week, we bring you the drunkest drunk we’ve ever drunked. Author and storyteller Rob Callahan returns to join us for an episode about philosophy movies, which is absolutely the sort of brainy episode you want to embark upon after killing three bottles of wine before even starting to record. Seriously. We recorded … Continue reading The post Episode 44: If You Can’t Feel Your Nose, Is It Still There? appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This week, we talk about a fine selection of book-to-movie adaptations! And yes, dear listeners, even though this episode runs extra long, not all of it is about The Lord of the Rings. If you would like to drink along while we get down with our literary selves, we suggest a bottle of Foghead Red … Continue reading The post Episode 43: Ri-cray-culous appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This week, dear listeners, we talk about HOLIDAY MOVIES! And before you run away screaming, we assure you that we will only be talking about holiday movies that don’t get enough love during the holidays. If all this holiday talk makes you want to drink along, we suggest Yellowtail Cabernet Sauvignon, which gets the job done … Continue reading The post Episode 42: A Yertle of Turtlenecks appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Good afternoon, dear listeners! This week’s episode is our long-awaited movie trade marathon! For this episode, Windy and Melissa spent an entire weekend watching movies, recording bits of podcast between films.That’s why this episode is super-duper sized (even though it’s not as super-duper sized as it was originally supposed to be, due to a microphone … Continue reading The post Episode 41: Flower Arranging for Goons appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This week, dear listeners, Sharon Stiteler (aka Birdchick) joins us again for an episode about Mel Brooks movies! We chat about his filmography, his collaborators, and, of course, My Favorite Year. If you would like to drink along with us, we suggest Jameson Irish Whiskey, which steered us reliably into silliness by the end of … Continue reading The post Episode 40: Better Living Through Jameson appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This week, dear listeners, we are joined by Rob Callahan and Chris Bowlsby for an episode about game movies! Movies about video games, movies about board games, movies that feature games heavily… all are fodder for this episode! Or, rather, we intended to cover such a broad swath, but we somehow managed to never really escape … Continue reading The post Episode 39: Nerd Police, I Need Backup. appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

In this week’s episode, dear listeners, we are joined once again by Matt Kessen for a discussion of Planet of the Apes! Matt Kessen, as you may recall, is the gentleman behind Reverend Matt’s Monster Science, and he is also a complete and total Planet of the Apes nerd. If you would like to drink … Continue reading The post Episode 38: I’ve Got No Quarrel with a Bomb appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This week, dear listeners, we have an episode all about ghost movies! Haunted houses, poltergeists, and children in peril… it’s all here! If you would like to enjoy some spirits with your spirits, we suggest you join us in drinking Fog Head Cabernet, because is fog is creepy and ghostly. If we sound like we’re recording … Continue reading The post Episode 37: Your Crazypants Are on Fire appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Hello, dear listeners! This week, Windy and Melissa talk about ROCK MUSICALS! Because, clearly, we don’t talk about musicals enough! If you’d like to drink along this week, well, you’ll need to BYOB, because we were drinking nothing but glorious water. We’d already killed a bottle of wine before the episode, and we were sleep … Continue reading The post Episode 36: Metal as F*ck appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This week, dear listeners, we get down and dirty with the Birdchick (aka world-renowned birdwatcher and author Sharon Stiteler) for an episode all about film director Douglas Sirk! Now, don’t worry if you don’t know anything about Mr. Sirk’s films, because we do our very best to drunk-describe the awesome, plump melodramas that make up Mr. … Continue reading The post Episode 35: Emotional Turgidity appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This week, dear listeners, we are joined by professional puppeteer Gordon Smuder for an episode all about PUPPET MOVIES! And, because we like a challenge, we have decided to discuss only non-Henson puppets, so no Muppets allowed! (Don’t worry, we still love Muppets — it’s just that everyone knows about Muppets already, right?) So bring … Continue reading The post Episode 34: Flatitudes, Y’all appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This week, we get our monster love on with an episode about Guillermo del Toro! To make this episode even better, we are joined in the Pleasure Dome by Matt Kessen, the very tall mad genius behind Reverend Matt’s Monster Science! If Reverend Matt’s resonant voice makes you want to join in our drinking rites, … Continue reading The post Episode 33: Pure Ejaculation of Awesome appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

In this week’s extra-boozy episode, we talk about heist movies! Because, seriously, don’t we all want to be part of a heist at some part of our lives? It’s even a great word. HEIST. Roll that around in your mouth for a while. HEISSSSST. Anyway, if you would like to drink along, we found a … Continue reading The post Episode 32: Ooh, Ruffians! appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This week, we share our love of REMAKES! Okay, we only love good remakes, but there are plenty of good remakes to talk about, right? We certainly thought so! We also thought this week’s wine selection was excellent: Castello di Volpaia Indue, which was given to us by one of our fine Brians, Mr. Donohue. … Continue reading The post Episode 31: A Lovely Forge to Hammer Upon appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This week, we celebrate our 30th episode with our second Off Topic extravaganza! If you missed our first Off Topic episode, here’s what’s going on: while we edit our regular episodes, many things get clipped out. Usually, the stuff that winds up on the cutting room floor is just long silences or drunken ramblings, but … Continue reading The post Episode 30: I Expect Jazz Hands appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Good tidings, dear listeners! This week, we are joined by Jennifer Menken of the Bell Museum of Natural History for an episode all about movie critters! That’s right, we’re bringing SCIENCE to creature features! SCIENCE also brought us the tasty Protocolo 2011 Tempranillo that we drank while recording this episode. Please feel free to sip along! Now, … Continue reading The post Episode 29: Kilt Weasels and Other Charismatic Macrofauna appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This week, we have part two of our discussion with screenwriter, author, and film critic C. Robert Cargill, which we recorded a few days after our live podcast at CONvergence 2014. That’s right: if you were at our CONvergence panel, there is still more podcast to enjoy! Once again, we apologize for the sound quality of this … Continue reading The post Episode 28: Sexism, Screenwriting, and Scotch: Part 2 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

This week, we have a very special thing for our fine listeners: our first two-part episode! In Part 1, you will hear us with screenwriter, author, and film critic C. Robert Cargill, in a discussion we recorded in front of a real live studio audience at CONvergence 2014. In this episode, we tackle the issues … Continue reading The post Episode 27: Sexism, Screenwriting, and Scotch: Part 1 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.