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This week, dear listeners, we catch up with Ryan Coogler’s new film Sinners, recent film Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, and, for some reason, clothing-related things!

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And just because, here is a photo of Claudette Colbert shoving onions in her mouth:

Claudette Colbert in Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938)

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Dearest listeners — WE HAVE CAUGHT UP! Today we bring you our most recent joys, cinematic and otherwise, from distressingly hot young Walter Matthau to novel uses for Australian cookies!

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The post Episode 212: Cleaner / A Face in the Crowd / Mickey 17 appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dearest listeners, our episodes are almost caught up to the current day! In this episode, we have so much joy to share, from low-budget beavers to blacklight cryptid mini golf to the Chernobyl disaster!

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Dearest listeners, we bring you yet another of our already-recorded-never-posted episode! This one was recorded in November 2024. We have even more spooky season content for you, plus a Ginger Rogers movie because sure, why not!

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The post Episode 210: The Shining / Doctor Sleep (recorded November 2024) appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Once again this week, we bring you another one of our already-recorded-never-posted episodes for your pleasure! This one is also from October 2024. Please join us for more spooky season content!

And we apologize to the ghost of Tony Todd.

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The post Episode 209: The Pajama Game / Al Aakhar / Candyman (recorded October 2024) appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Hello again, dearest listeners! We are back from a long, unintentional hiatus! We have several already-recorded-never-posted episodes for your edification, and this is the earliest one, recorded in October 2024. Please join us for the things that brought us joy during last year’s spooky season!

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The post Episode 208: Saturday Night (recorded October 2024) appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.

Dearest listeners, we have missed you! We come to you today from B-Fest 2025, a long-running annual 24-hour movie marathon of B movies, run on campus at Northwestern University in Chicago. Melissa is joined live on the ground by Kelvin Hatle and Noel Thingvall for all manner of travails and gloriously weird cinema.

Please pardon the sound quality of this episode. We were recording in environments with lots of background noise.

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Dear listeners, we come to you today from Fantastic Fest 2024! We will be posting every day to bring you news of all the wonderful, wild, and bizarre things we saw!

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Dear listeners, we come to you today from Fantastic Fest 2024! We will be posting every day to bring you news of all the wonderful, wild, and bizarre things we saw!

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Dear listeners, we come to you today from Fantastic Fest 2024! We will be posting every day to bring you news of all the wonderful, wild, and bizarre things we saw!

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