PREVIEW - #486 - Dream Story
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To celebrate Christmas (and at the behest of our Superdelegate patrons), we took a flight on Victor Ziegler's Lolita Express to a big mansion in Long Island, where we watched Stanley Kubrick's EYES WIDE SHUT (1999). We had a great time revisiting a movie that only gets richer and stranger with every viewing. PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/95244713
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