Nora Isabella returns with her favorite movie, Lars von Trier's Melancholia, and her best friend, Alec Lambert (Black Fax), before leaving for Los Angeles.

Maria Wojciechowski dishes on the seedy, racist world of cruise ships, the allure of gambling, and Pedro Costa's Colossal Youth.

Andy Bankin is invited on the program to watch Luchino Visconti's adaptation of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and brings along some of his famous friends too.

Maria Heinegg (The Worst Thing) joins us to talk about parental romance, expatriates, and Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother.

Joe Rumrill (Cartoon Monsoon, Down at the Duckpond) is on a very special episode of the podcast where we watch our first silent film, G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box, but we aren't silent at all! We talk through this whole thing!

Colin Burgess (Late Mic, Parental Approval) buys a SuperLotto ticket the night of that big one, remember? We also watch Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï.

Mary Houlihan (Cartoon Monsoon, MEAT) talks about Yankee swaps, artistic family members, and the Soviet rom-com By the Bluest of Seas.

Ryan T Bennett (Jana & Shasta, Halloween: The Movie) is a movie hound and here he is to talk about them. We watch Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli (1950), the film that started the controversial affair between director and American movie star Ingrid Bergman.

Sandy Honig (Three Busy Debras) is really funny and this movies podcast episode is funny because of how funny she is.

Nick Naney has seen the new Star Wars movie five times in theaters but this was recorded before that was released so we didn't talk about that. Instead, we watched Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth (one of his tragedies).