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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 Yimou Jessica Harper Tilda Swinton David Kajganich Timo Tjahjanto Th...

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 Fisher Jeremy Saulnier Jeffrey Wright Winston Azzopardi Joe Azzopardi Jovan...

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 podcast, mea culpa) Fran Kranz Alyson Hannigan Chuck Wendig Sam Sykes The post Epi...

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 Fabric People Discussed: Jamie Lee Curtis Adam Driver Jonathan Pryce The post Episode 133a: Viva la...

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 De...

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 Merciless Wheelman People Discussed: Devin Faraci Tim League Harry Knowles Ed Wood T...

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 Greenwood Terry Notary The post Episode 132d: Resurrection of the Eclectic...

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 Mom & Dad People Discussed: Vince Vaughn Takashi Miike Brian Taylor Nicol...

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 Saucers The Dundee Project Brimstone & Glory People Discussed: Mark Bo...

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 Discussed: Prince of Nothingwood Anyab Baasha Bad Genius Vampire Clay People Discussed: Raj...

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 discussed: Pitch Perfect Grand Piano Get O...

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 are arguably musicals. If you want to drink along, gr...

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 Irish Whiskey (Melissa’s choice),...

This week, dear listeners, we bring you an episode about Abel Ferrara’s 1992 movie Bad Lieutenant and Werner Herzog’s 2009 not-remake B ad 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 year ago, on February 23rd, 2016. It is one of...

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 films mentioned: Seahawks vs. Monsters Getting...

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!   Movies seen at B-Fest 2017: Hercules in New York The Ma...

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 us. Or a dog rampages into the room. Or we just can’t talk properly, because we’re drunk...

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 One Monsters Godzilla (2014) Doctor Strange Clone Wars (TV) Rebe...

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 working on. (If you do need to sleep, Melissa does not rec...

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 the cut! Movies Discussed: Fantastic Beasts and Wher...

This week, dear listeners, we bring you an episode about The Babadook, and boy do we have a lot to say about it! If you would like to drink along, we recommend Surly Brewing’s Todd the Axe Man IPA (Melissa’s pick) or Yellowtail Cabernet Shiraz (Windy’s pick). Show notes behind the cut! Movies mentioned: The Babadook Monster (short) Bad Batch Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses...

Lo and behold, dear listeners, we have returned! And with us, we bring special guest star Matthew Kessen, who has been dying to talk A LOT about Shin Godzilla! If you have not seen the film yet, do not worry, as the first many minutes of this episode are spoiler-free. We make it very clear before we move in to The Spoiler Zone. (And after that, you are on your own.) There is also a special segment...

Dear listeners, we have finally reached the end of Fantastic Fest 2016, so here is our recap of the final day of the festival! This time, we are joined by Susana Soliz, as well as Jerry Belich, who gives us a full rundown of the best games showcased in Fantastic Arcade. If you would like to catch up on all the previous Fantastic Fest 2016 episodes, here they are: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day...

Rejoice, dear listeners, for our recap of Day 7 of Fantastic Fest 2016 is here! Special thanks to guest star Adam Lueck, who was able to talk to Windy while Melissa is dying of consumption in the background! Movies mentioned: Kammattipadam Nova Seed Assassination Classroom: Graduation The Handmaiden The Autopsy of Jane Doe Sadako vs Kayako The post Episode 119g: The Return of the Eclectic Mayhem:...

Our health is failing, but our love of movies is relenteless! Our report from Day 6 of Fantastic Fest 2016 is here! Movies mentioned: Solid Silver Anus (short) Iron Spider (short) Clara’s Rage (short) Judy (short) 24×36 Asura: The City of Madness Raw Elle Shin Godzilla Call of Heroes People mentioned: Sammo Hung Surprise cameo appearance: C. Robert Cargill (as Abe Vigoda) The post Episo...