Episode 22: Dysfunctional Is Still Functional

This week, Windy and Melissa make use of listener Ryan Alexander’s suggestion and talk about BOOZE MOVIES! (“Because meta,” writes Ryan.) We, of course, did not do this episode sober. We found a bottle of wine with a sheep on it (Le Grand Noir Malbec) and enjoyed it very, very thoroughly. Show notes behind the cut! Movies mentioned: The Thin Man Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle Withnail and I Hudson Hawk Cocktail The World’s End Shawn of the Dead Sideways Flight The Hangover The Saddest Music in the World Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Lost Weekend Days of Wine and Roses M*A*S*H Arthur A Star Is Born The Player Barfly Bad Santa Strange Brew People mentioned: Ryan Alexander Richard Burton Elizabeth Taylor Patrick Stewart Mercedes Ruehl Richard E. Grant Gary Oldman Michael Caine Bruce Robinson Paul McGann Edgar Wright Simon Pegg Nick Frost Paul Giamatti Thomas Hayden Church Denzel Washington John Goodman Guy Maddin Mark McKinney Isabella Rossellini Johnny Depp James Mason Eddie Izzard Orson Welles Robert Altman Mickey Rourke Peter O’Toole Mark Linn-Baker Billy Bob Thornton Rick Moranis Max von Sydow Books mentioned: With Nails, by Richard E. Grant Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson Places mentioned: The Heights Theater The Walker Art Center Other things mentioned: War of the Worlds concept album The post Episode 22: Dysfunctional Is Still Functional appeared first on Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome.