Melissa Kaercher

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Episode 217: Fantastic Fest 2025 Day 3

, with special guest:

Fantastic Fest 2025We are podcasting daily from Fantastic Fest 2025! Today we bring you news of the movies we saw on Day 3!

Movies discussed:
The Forbidden City
A Useful Ghost
Beast of War
Luger
Haunted Heist
Freaked
Before the Fall
Black Phone 2
Bulk

Episode 216: Fantastic Fest 2025 Day 2

, with special guest:

Fantastic Fest 2025We are podcasting daily from Fantastic Fest 2025! Today we bring you news of the movies we saw on Day 2!

Movies discussed:
Her Will Be Done
The Ice Tower
When We Were Live
Reflection in a Dead Diamond
Mother of Flies
Sirat
Vicious
Silencio

Episode 215: Fantastic Fest 2025 Day 1

, with special guest:

Fantastic Fest 2025It’s the most wonderful time of the year, dear listeners: we are podcasting daily from Fantastic Fest 2025! Today we bring you news of the opening day movies!

Movies discussed:
The Piano Accident
Ikatan Darah

Episode 214: Black Bag / Wick Is Pain / Murderbot

Episode 214Hello again, dear listeners! We’ve finally edited the last of our episode backlog, which means a) you get to hear it now, and b) it is almost time for the onslaught of Fantastic Fest episodes! Please join us today for a whole slew of movies and TV shows we’ve enjoyed this year, including Murderbot, Black Bag, and the documentary Wick Is Pain.

Movies and TV discussed:
Black Bag
Andor
Murderbot
Mickey 17
Sinners
Wick Is Pain
The Watermelon Woman
Project Runway
Stranger by the Lake

Other things discussed:
The Mason-Dixon Line
The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One Hundred Years
The term Nacirema
Hump amateur porn film festival

Episode 213: Sinners / Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Episode 213This 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!

Movies mentioned:
Sinners
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
The Phantom Thread
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife

Other things mentioned:
Making Lwaxana Troi’s clothing
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Le Poisson Steve https://www.tiktok.com/@vigzvigz/video/7488800734520036630

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

Claudette Colbert shoving onions in her mouth

Claudette Colbert in Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938)