Mayfair Theatre: Recent Episodes
Mayfair Theatre
The Mayfair Theatre Podcast is a weekly show that takes you behind the scenes of one of Canada's oldest, and Ottawa's oldest movie theatre - open since 1932!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Mayfair co-owner Ian to discuss: Operation Manhunt, The Lost Missle, Tubi, The Hilarious House of Frightenstein, Saturday Night at the Movies / Magic Shadows, false childhood memories, various Star Trek stuff, Breathless / Silver Surfer, Don't Worry Darling, Rob Liefeld comics, a visit from Herbie The Love Bug, Prisoners of Gravity, and more!Plus, the movies screening the week of Friday August 7 - Thursday August 13: The Invite, Once Upon A Time In The Cinema, Mulholland Drive, The Petrified Forest, Stand By Me, Mary Poppins, and Her Private Hell!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Saturday Night Sinema co-host Daimion! They discuss: Box office adjusted for inflation, 101 Dalmatians, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, false memories, Messiah of Evil, executive producers, liminal movies, West Side Story, The Wonderful World of Disney, Star Trek 60th Anniversay, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday July 31 - Thursday August 6: The Invite, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Disclosure Day, and Robin Hood!They neglect to mention Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, and the return of The Sheep Detectives, both of which got booked at the last minute, after the podcast recording. You can always check up to the moment programming listings at mayfaitheatre.ca!
This week, Eric, Pascale, and Josh unveil news of limited edition The Room 200th screening pins and t-shirts!They also discuss: Waking up, Jam Filled animation studio / Final Space, Clive Barker, tattoos, Big Eyes, Eegah, Nic Cage, Condorman, 101 Dalmatians white chocolate bars, Sam Neill, and more!Plus, the movies screening the week of Friday July 24 - Thursday July 30: Backrooms, Saturday Night Sinema, One Hundred and One Dalmations, What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, and Trog!They neglect to mention Couture, and Le Rêve Américain, which were booked at the last minute, after the podcast recording.You can always check mayfairtheatre.ca for up to the moment program listings and Coming Soon movies.
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Newfoundland, Tunisia, our new theme song, Steamboat Willie, Kevin Smith, The Furious, Feud, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Back to the Future III, I Love Boosters, and more!Plus, the movies screening the week of Friday July 17 - Thursday July 23: The Sheep Detectives, Sick Puppy, The Room, Cinederella, Humoresque, and Through The Wall!They neglect to mention Michael, and a pair of Sam Neill tribute screenings: Jurassic Park, and In The Mouth of Madness, which were booked after the recording.You can always keep up to date with current listings and coming soon movies at mayfairtheatre.ca.
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Emily and chat about: our recent Cartoon Party, Jem and the Holograms, She-Ra, Project Hail Mary, different Batman's and James Bond's, Joe Dante, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Whalefall, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday July 10 - Thursday July 16: The Sheep Detectives, Maddie's Secret, I Love Boosters, The Furious, Saturday Night Sinema, Pinocchio, and Mildred Pierce!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Nick to discuss: MTV, Tubi, 1980s/1990s movie channels, Indiana Jones, Aliens, Disney's Robin Hood, Masters of the Universe, Master and Commander, and more! They also discuss the movies (and Saturday Morning Cartoons) screening the week of Friday July 3 - Thursday July 9: Unidentified, The Sheep Detectives, Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, Amores Perros, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Letty Lynton!They neglect to mention Stop! That! Train!, which was booked after the podcast recording. You can always keep up to date with the Mayfair schedule at mayfairtheatre.ca
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Pascale (official Mayfair sign and poster painter) to discuss: Big bike rides, home gardens, The Linden / The Towne (an old Ottawa cinema), Baywatch, SCTV, All The Money In The World, Betty White, Netflix, movie programming, summertime, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday June 26 - Thursday July 2: The Richest Woman In The World, Project Hail Mary, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Goodfellas, Saturday Night Sinema, I Confess, Trainspotting, and Strange Shadows In An Empty Room!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: technical difficulties, pizza beer, Rochester, high school bus road trips, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Fight Club, Everyone Is Lying To You For Money, movie trailers, old tv's, Captains Of The Clouds, Father's Day, Rooster, and more!They also mention movies screening the week of Friday June 19 - Thursday June 25: Tuner, A Private Life, The Room, Raging Bull, The Iron Curtain, The Adolescence of Utena, and The Birdcage!
2026, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, Mamma Mia, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday June 12 - Thursday June 18: The Art of Adventure, Ichi The Killer, Saturday Night Sinema, Captains of the Clouds, and Gazelle!They neglect to mention Calorie, and Mean Streets, which were last minute bookings after the podcast recorded. You can always check up to date listings at mayfairtheatre.ca.
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Sam from the Mayfair's resident Absent Friends Shadow Cast!They discuss: the correct halfway to Halloween date, Lego pranking, Saturday Night Sinema rules, the Mayfair's X-Rated past, poutine vs disco fries, caskets vs coffins, James Bond in Ottawa, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday June 5 - Thursday June 11: Little Lorraine, Silent Friend, Juesus Christ Vampire Hunter, 49th Parallel, and Class Of 1984!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Mayfair co-owner and newsletter writer, Ian!They discuss The Mandalorian and Grogu, Black Squirrel Books finds, The Great Glebe Garage Sale, Vac Shack, Deliverance, The Lift, Archie digests, RKSS, film production logos, Slush Puppies, Riverdale, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 29 - Thursday June 4: Holy Days, I Swear, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Saturday Night Sinema, True Stories, Chopping Mall, Farewell My Concubine, and They Are Sacred!
This week, Eric and Pascale trick Josh into making at least half the episode to be all about basketball (with some movie related basketball stuff in there, like Space Jam, Hoop Dreams, Hoosiers, and Air Bud, just to keep us on point).We also discuss Holey Confections, bartering, Herb Albert, The Mighty Ducks, Saturday Night Sinema, Wes Anderson's box office, Uncut Gems, the silent film era, and more!Plus, the movies screening the week of Friday May 22 - Thursday May 28: Everyone Is Lying To You For Money, The Drama, The Wicker Man, The Docks Of New York, and The Darjeeling Limited!
This week Eric and Josh discuss: Mother's Day, Animation Show 'N' Tell, The Wizard Of Oz, black and white television, drive-ins, Robocop, Free Solo, Mortal Kombat vs Street Fighter, Ottawa Charge, popcorn, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 15 - Thursday May 21: The Christophers, Calle Málaga, The Room, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Saturday Night Sinema, Exit 8, and Lorne!
St. Vincent, Cartoon Party kids, Saturday Night Sinema, Alanis Morissette, Barry Sonnenfeld, The Spirit, Black Bag, Free Comic Book Day, Robocop Vs Terminator, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 8 - Thursday May 14: Mile End Kicks, The Christophers, Middle Life, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Blade!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: the Ottawa Charge, Hijinx, The Two Jakes, Practical Magic, The Goonies, Back To The Future, Police Academy, Christopher Lee, Hercules In The Haunted World, Ed Wood, Venom, Entertainment Weekly, The Wicker Man, Family Man, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 1 - Thursday May 7, 2026: Kontinental '25, Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, Rushmore, Forbidden Fruits, Mile End Kicks, and the May The 4th weekend Star Wars Trilogy celebration with: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return Of The Jedi!
This week, Eric and Josh welcome Pascale back to the podcast to mainly dicsuss Breaking Bad style money laundering schemes.They also chat about: Superman Day, Record Store Day, hockey and basketball, Free Comic Book Day, Fan Expo, Clive Barker, making a will, Apocalypse Now, Blair Witch, The Blade (which was supposed to screen this week, but got pushed back), and more!Plus, the movies screening the week of Friday April 24 - Thursday April 30: The Blue Trail, Modern Whore, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, Saturday Night Sinema, The Big Red One, and Mountains On Stage!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Spencer, to discuss the upcoming Animation Show 'N' Tell Ottawa 4 screening at the Mayfair!They also discuss: artist deadlines, South Park, Spider-Verse movies, Brad Bird's Ray Gunn, the Disney Vault, The Princess And The Frog, Tangled, dinosaur nature documentaries, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, our upcoming Wes Anderson Fest, and more!Plus, the movies screening the week of Friday April 17 - Thursday April 23: Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other, Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, The Room, Palestine 36, Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die, and The Big Lebowski!
Arts Festival, Ottawa Charge, Disney's Zombies live concert, The Penguin Lessons, Hudson Hawk, The Warriors, air conditioning in cinemas, free Twin Peaks blu-rays, and more!Plus, they mention the movies the week of Friday April 10 - Thursday April 16: Miroirs No. 3, H Is For Hawk, Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, Taxi Driver, Saturday Night Sinema, and Tiger On The Beat!
This week, due to hectic schedules, Eric and Josh resort to a Zoom chat for the first time in ages.They discuss: birthday festivities, novelizations and comic book adaptations, The Last Ronin, incorrect movie listing websites, The Kissing Booth trilogy, elevator horror movies, forgotten sequels, Walker Texas Ranger, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 3 - Thursday April 9: Wuthering Heights, Alpha, Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, The Killer, True Grit, and Lone Wolf McQuade!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Eric's niece Abby, fresh off of a trip to France and Spain!They discuss subway and elevator dangers, Ready Or Not, The Curse Of The Necklace, Captain America: The First Avenger, our recent Cartoon Party, The California Raisins, Robot Chicken, Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, Disney's Zombies, Nefarious Comics, watching the Oscars in a different time zone, BlackBerry, and more!They also mention some of the movies screening the week of Friday March 27 - Thursday April 2, 2026: Song Sung Blue, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, To Kill A Mockingbird, Apocalypse Now: Final Cut, and Saturday Night Sinema.Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, and Alpha are discussed a week early, both will be on the agenda for the week of Friday April 3.They neglect to mention Hamnet being Held Over for a 5th Week, and the the new anime All You Need Is Kill, which were booked after the recording.You can always keep up to date with movie bookings and confirmed dates and showtimes at mayfairtheatre.ca
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Pi Day, Odd Burger, Friday The 13th YA books, tips, popcorn, Hellraiser comics, retro novelizations, anime, Academy Awards, ABBA, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 20 - Thursday March 26: Sentimental Value, Hamnet, Careful, The Phantom Carriage, Sunday Morning All-You-Can-Eat Cereal Cartoon Party, Marty Supreme, Scarlet, Tender Mercies, and Colors!
Psycho II, the state of comic books, Hoopla, The Three-Body Problem, newspaper movie ads, the Freddy vs Jason vs Ash comic, Catherine O'Hara, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 13 - Thursday March 19: Freddy Vs Jason, THX 1138, Nash The Slash Rises Again!, Sinners, Marty Supereme, Saturday Night Sinema, and the 98th Annual Academy Awards!They neglect to mention Sirāt, and encore screenings of One Battle After Another, which were booked after the recording.You can always keep up to date on screenings at mayfairtheatre.ca
Coffee, Paper Tiger, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 6 - Thursday March 12: All That's Left Of You, Pillion, The Room, Stagecoach, Housewife of the Year, and Thinking Beyond The Market!They neglect to mention House, and more encore screenings of Hamnet, which got booked after the recording.You can always check mayfairtheatre.ca for up to the moment movie listings.
This week, Eric and Josh are joined again by Usman Karimi to discuss his Back Pages radio show, and Reeled In podcast!(you can find info on Instagram for both, at @backpagescu and @reeledinpodcast)They also chat about Olympic hockey, baseball movies, Miracle, appointment television, Spider-Noir, Godzilla Minus One, Johnny Mnemonic, The Simpsons, Bob Dylan, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, the four Beatles movies, The Kissing Booth, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 27 - Thursday March 5: Hamnet, Pillion, A Better Tomorrow, Big Trouble In Little China, Saturday Night Sinema, and Space Jam: A New Legacy!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Pascale, mainly to unpack the aftermath of the Valentine's Day edition of our annual X-Rated Super Secret Saturday Night Sinema.They also discuss: Brief Encounter, Casablanca, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, movie walkouts, Euphoria, watching movies on planes, Backbeat, Resevoir Dogs, Gambino, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 20 - Thursday February 26: My Father's Shadow, Hamnet, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, City On Fire, A Mighty Wind, and Scum Of The Earth!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Saturday Night Sinema co-host Daimion, in honour of the X-Rated Super Secret Valentine's edition of Sinema!They also discuss: Scarlet Warning 666, G.I. Joe, Them!, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Batman '66, Samurai Cop 2, David Cronenberg, Ratatouille, Tank Girl, and more!They also mention the movies screening the busy Valentine's week of Friday February 13 - Thursday February 19: The Choral, All That's Left Of You, Jason X, Brief Encounter, Casablanca, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Best In Show, Blades Of The Guardians, and the aforementioned X-Rated Super Secret Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by resident Mayfair poster and Holiday Season card artist, and front door sign painter, Pascale!She has a pair of events in Ottawa at de Montigny Contemporary Art Gallery, and the Ottawa Design Club!They discuss: Mayfair Gold Cards, Clairtone, Pogs, Archie Digests, Death Of Superman, TV repair, Phantom Menace action figures, Valentine's Day, talking during trailers, Catherine O'Hara, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 6 - Thursday February 12: The Secret Agent, The Choral, The Room, Scarlet Warning 666, Waiting For Guffman, and Tank Girl!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Mayfair co-owner and newsletter scribe, Ian!They get together to gossip about the Oscar nominations, which leads them to also chat about: record levels of cold weather, Delroy Lindo, The Kissing Booth, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, I'm Just Ken, Hamlet, Logan, BlacKkKlansman, Universal Language, Don McKellar, the Safdie brothers, Vampyros Lesbos, Netflix, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 30 - Thursday February 5: Sound Of Falling, No Other Choice, Faceless, Misery, Saturday Night Sinema, and Anything That Moves!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Space Jam, Teen Titans Go!, Loonatics Unleashed, Aztec Batman, The Day The Earth Blew Up, end credits, John Woo, Marty Supreme, Scarlet Warning 666, and more!They also discuss the movies screening the week of Friday January 23 - Thursday January 29: The Princess Bride, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, No Other Choice, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hard Boiled, and Sinfonía Erótica!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Saturday Night Sinema co-host Daimion!They discuss: The Omen, audio commentaries, The Rock, Indy the Dog's acting award win, Stranger Things, no film ratings in Ontario, The Librarians, Aliens, Freddy vs Jason vs Ash comic, our new Saturday Night Sinema poster, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 16: Nuremberg, Father Mother Sister Brother, Vampyros Lesbos, When Harry Met Sally, Saturday Night Sinema, Goon, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, and The Running Man!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Eric's official Mayfair nieces, Abby and Norah!They discuss the overwhelming cinematic experience, and emotional breakdown, of watching the Stranger Things finale on our screen.Plus, they chat about: Holiday Season limbo, The Jonas Brothers, the Britney Spears memoir, Zootopia 2, movie montages, The Talisman, Uncanny X-Men 134, The Running Man, Bob's Burgers, and more!They also mention some of the movies screening the week of Friday January 9 - Thursday January 15: The Secret Agent, La Grazia, and Oldboy. And, neglect to mention The Room, and She Killed In Ecstasy, which were booked after the recording of the episode. You can always check mayfairtheatre.ca for up to the moment listings of current and coming soon movies.
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: re-recording this episode, projector technical difficulties, Pan's Labyrinth, Titanic, Flow, David Lynch, Alien 3 / Alien: Resurrection, No One Will Save You, library books, Barbarella, Scrooged, Stranger Things, and more!They also mention the screenings (and a live event) for the week of Friday January 2 - Thursday January 8, 2026: The Librarians, The Secret Agent, Frankenstein, Stars Of Magic!, Aliens, Logan's Run, and the short films Breaking the Line / House Rules / Operation Ex!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Nick for the first time since he joined the ranks of parenthood!They discuss: babies at movies, Little Golden Books, Elvira, Holiday Season work parties, Die Hard, The Last Action Heroes, Lauryn Hill, gift cards, Rob Reiner, Virtuosity, Megalopolis, and more!They also mention the movies (and an epic tv series finale) screening the week of Friday December 24 - Thursday January 1: Roofman, Nuremberg, Alien, Nouvelle Vague, After The Thin Man, Stranger Things 5: The Finale, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Pascale, to hype the new Mayfair themed It's A Wonderful Life holiday cards that she designed!They also chat about: visiting New York City, home ownership, TrueAnon, silent films with live bands, swapping out our projector, Stranger Things, CHUO, the Disney Vault, Canuxploitation, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday December 19 - Thursday December 25: The Tale Of Silyan, Die Hard, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Sense And Sensibility, It's A Wonderful Life, Ghostkeeper, and Sentimental Value!
Christmas Chaos, The Room, Saturday Night Sinema, and Mountains On Stage: Winter Edition!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Mayfair co-owner Ian Driscoll!They discuss: The Ottawan Best of Ottawa award win for the cinema and silver medal for the podcast, Margaret Atwood, Santa visiting the cinema, horrible AI slop, Jurassic Park, The Scorpion King, The Last Showgirl, our big screen DVD holiday fireplace, The Running Man, The Cultural Gutter book (which features writing from Ian), and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 5 - Thursday December 11: The Baltimorons, Tangerine, The Thin Man, Bugonia, Seven Minutes In The Closet (a short from the Mayfair's own Tatum Thompson, screening before Tangerine on December 5), The Polar Express, and the Sunday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!They neglect to mention The Mastermind returning for an encore week, that last minute booking happened after the recording.You can always check mayfairtheatre.ca for up to date showtimes and Coming Soon listings.
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Usman from the Reeled In podcast!They discuss: Camp Rock, Toy Story, radio vs podcasts, Bruce Campbell, Clerks, Tangerine, Touch Of Evil, Disney's Zombies franchise, Anatomy Of A Fall, Marty Supreme, Free Solo, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 28 - Thursday December 4: Meadowlarks, The Mastermind, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Good Boy, Saturday Night Sinema, The Smashing Machine, and Mountains On Stage: Winter On Stage 2025!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: knitting at the Mayfair, Mayfair ghosts, T-800 at the Mayfair, unwanted library donations, Encyclopedias, abandonned VHS movies, the Ben Solo movie, shelved movies, found footage movies, The Long Walk, Mayfair holiday season programming, and more!They also mention movies screening the week of Friday November 21 - Thursday November 27: Jay Kelly, It Was Just An Accident, One Battle After Another, The Room, Cassandra, Shelby Oaks, Pariah Dog, A Dog's Purpose, and Best In Show!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Sam from the Mayfair's Absent Friends Shadow Cast, to celebrate surviving another year of Halloween Month Rocky Horror Picture Show screenings!They also discuss: Vincent Price on The Muppet Show and Scooby Doo, people listening to the podcast, people getting caught trying to sneak in beer, trick or treaters, Satanic panic, Crispin Glover, being left handed, the Disney Vault, Freddy Got Fingered, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 14 - Thursday November 20: Left-Handed Girl, No! YOU’RE WRONG. or: Spooky Action at a Distance, It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine., What Is It?, Audiophile, It Was Just An Accident, The Long Walk, and The Nest!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: daylight saving time, audio books, Them!, The Phantom Menace, the Somerset Theatre, Netflix, Crispin Glover, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 7 - Thursday November 13: Train Dreams, One Battle After Another, Lesbian Space Princess, Saturday Night Sinema, The Blue Trail, and The Cruel Sea.They neglect to mention Weapons, which got booked after the podcast recorded. You can always check mayfairtheatre.ca for up to date info on current and coming soon movies!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Eric's niece Abby for the 2nd week in a row!They discuss: John Carpenter, crashing a private screening, the Blue Jays, Köln 75, Hereditary, Mac Tonight, AI always getting things wrong, Ethan Hawke, John Candy: I Like Me, SCTV, Home Alone, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 31 - Thursday November 6: Blue Moon, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, and Queens Of The Dead!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Eric's niece Abby!They discuss: the Mayfair's Welcome To Derry popcorn machine, Scooby Doo, the Blown Away glassblowing show, Fear Street, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Black Phone 2, KPop Demon Hunters, How To Train Your Dragon, Echo, Halloween, Dinosaucers, projector technical difficulties, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 24 - Thursday October 30, 2025: Ballad Of A Small Player, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Köln 75, and The Exorcist!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Friend-of-Mayfair Pascale Arpin to chat about a documentery crew following her around, her new hand-painted sign work addition to the front doors of our cinema, and the First Ladies of Film Fest postcards that she designed! They also discuss: Gongfu Bao, small business community support, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, big screen Netflix, Guinness World Records, Wikipedia, American Mythology comic books, and more!And, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 17 - Thursday October 23: Eleanor The Great, Ballad Of A Small Player, The Room, Nosferatu, Ju-on: The Grudge, The Return Of The Living Dead, Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, and Monster Pool 9!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Sam from the Mayfair's Absent Friends Shadow Cast!They, of course, talk a lot about The Rocky Horror Picture Show.They also discuss: The Panda Game, the It mini-series, Muppet Treasure Island, Legend, Clue, poster theft, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 10 - Thursday October 16: The Roses, Eleanor The Great, D(e)ad, Begotten, Saturday Night Sinema, Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror, The Fog, and Pressure Drop!
This week, to kick off the Spooky Season, Eric and Josh are joined by comic book creator and Friend-of-Mayfair, Tom Fowler!They chat about: dogs, Ottawa sports, Garfield Minus Garfield, newspaper movie ads, Mega Force, Cool World, Rob Liefeld, Treasure of the Four Crowns, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 3 - Thursday October 9: Peak Everything, The Roses, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Oval Portrait, Chain Reactions, and the Genre Gems Film Fest!You can check out Tom's art, and keep up to date on what comics he's working on at @tomfowlerart on Instagram, buy stuff at tomfowler.threadless.com, and his latest book -GAMEMASTERS: The Comic Book History of Roleplaying Games- is now available from your favourite local comic book / book store!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Ryan from Nefarious Comics!They accordingly chat about a bunch of comic book movie franchises like: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman, Wolverine, and Superman. Plus, a few non-comic book movies, like Trainspotting, Resevoir Dogs, and Breathless.They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 26 - Thursday October 2: Bau: Artist at War, Splitsville, The Room, The Sting, Saturday Night Sinema, Piranha, Jimmy & Stiggs, and the Nefarious Comics presentation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Pascale Arpin, to chat about all of the great poster artwork that she has been making for the Mayfair! And, to plug the new poscard set of the posters, that are now available!They also discuss: the Phantom Tits comic, COVID lockdown fundraisers, the Letterform Archive, the Deadly Prey gallery, working with Tim Burton, The Neon Museum Las Vegas, the Beetlejuice cartoon, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 19 - Thursday September 25: Splitsville, Riefenstahl, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, D(e)ad, Wolf Children, Megadoc, Megalopolis, and The Toxic Avenger!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Windows 95, James Gunn's Superman, multiplex woes, The Simpsons, Disney movie distribution, The Roses, Song of the South, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 12 - Thursday September 18: The Naked Gun, Naked Ambition, Jaws, Jaws 2, My Neighbor Totoro, and Saturday Night Sinema!They neglect to mention Relay, which was booked after the podcast recorded. You can always check mayfairtheatre.ca for up to date showtimes and coming soon listings!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Sam, from the Mayfair's Absent Friends Shadow Cast!They discuss: Archie Comics style antics, a museum calibre geek collection, The 501st Legion, Atari, Fan Expo, the Coen Brothers, One To One: John & Yoko, Megalopolis, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 5 - Thursday September 11: Honey Don't!, It's Never Over Jeff Buckley, Ebony & Ivory, Familiar Touch, and Orca!More info on current and coming soon movies can be found at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Monty Python, Night Of The Living Dead, Sneakers, horror vs thriller, Rifftrax, Megadoc, Begotten, and more!They also mention the movies screening from Friday August 29 - Thursday September 4: A Little Prayer, Born Yesterday, Saturday Night Sinema, Oh Hi, and Shin Godzilla!They neglect to mention Superman, and Showgirls, because this episode was recorded extra early, and the full schedule wasn't booked yet. You can always check mayfairtheatre.ca for showtimes!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Shook, the Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival, My Little Pony, Archie Comics, Drawing Blood, novelizations, 613flea, Adam Sandler's Netflix career, Saturday Night Sinema, Odd Burger, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 22 - Thursday August 28: Souleymane's Story, There Will Be Blood, The Last Class, Some Like It Hot, Manhunter, and The Room!They neglect to mention F1, which got booked after the podcast recording. You can always check current and coming soon listings at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: The Minecraft Movie, video game generations, our Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, a local ironman triathlon, The Little Mermaid, a visit from someone whose parents first date was at the Mayfair in the 1940s, Silver Surfer, Mayfair radio ads, and more!They also mention the movies screening Friday August 15 - Thursday August 21: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Saturday Night Sinema, Punch-Drunk Love, Funny Face, and Breathless! They neglect to mention Shook, and the return of My Mother's Wedding for a 2nd week, which were booked after the recording.For up to date listings, and coming soon info, you can always check mayfairtheatre.ca.
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Ren, who did the animation for the Mayfair coming soon and feature presentation bumpers!They chat about: Animation Show n Tell Ottawa, Leica vs Laika, aspect ratios, movie running times, end credits, DVD extended cuts, The Life Of Chuck, The Naked Gun, The X-Files, American Gigolo, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 8 - Thursday August 14: Sorry Baby, My Mother's Wedding, Thief, Magnolia, The Philadelphia Story, and Eddington!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: workplace birthdays, The Rise Of Skywalker, gimmick popcorn buckets, Saturday Night Sinema, our repaired marquee, Mayfair t-shirts, Paul W.S. Anderson, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 1 - Thursday August 7: Eddington, Sorry Baby, American Gigolo, Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, It Happened One Night, and Boogie Nights!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: 613 Flea, swag and promo materials, our marquee, field trips, ladder etiquette, Jaws vs Orca, The Dark Tower, Don Bluth, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday July 25 - Thursday July 31: Bad Shabbos, The Life Of Chuck, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Crash, Saturday Night Sinema, Pierrot Le Fou, and Felidae!More info on current showtimes and Coming Soon movies can always be found at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Hotspring Sharkattack, Saturday Night Sinema, falling asleep at a movie, leaving movies early, 30 Days Of Night, Cameo, Mayfair weddings, Bad Shabbos, Materialists, I Saw The TV Glow, Channel Zero, and more!They also discuss the movies screening the week of Friday July 18 - Thursday July 24: The Phoenician Scheme, The Room, To A Land Unknown, Videodrome, Band Of Outsiders, and Man Bites Dog!Check mayfairthetare.ca for more info on current and Coming Soon movies!
This week Eric and Josh discuss: Cosplay, multiplexes, Jurassic World: Rebirth, Hung Up On A Dream: The Zombies Documentary, Babar the Elephant, The Zodiac Killer, Method Man, Milana Vayntrub, Agents Of SHIELD, Birdemic, Batman 66, Michael Ironside, Neil Breen, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday July 11 - Thursday July 17: The Phoenician Scheme, Scanners, Hotspring Sharkattack, Saturday Night Sinema, and Contempt!They discussed Bad Shabbos, which got pulled by the distributor after the recording. Hopefully that will be back on the schedule in the near future. That meant that Materialists was booked in the 11th hour, and they missed out on chatting about that movie.Current listings and Coming Soon info can be found at mayfairtheatre.ca.
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Saturday Night Sinema, The Warriors, 48 Hours, King Kong, popcorn machine repairs, The Kinks, Odd Burger, The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday July 4 - Thursday July 10: Les Barbares, The Phoenician Scheme, Hung Up On A Dream: The Zombies Documentary, Looney Tunes Festival with Popeye bonus cartoons, The Brood, A Woman Is A Woman, and Endless Cookie!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Entertainment Weekly, Tom Cruise, Disney distribution rules, Streets Of Fire, Fargo, House Of TARG, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday June 27 - Thursday July 3: A Nice Indian Boy, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, King Kong, Mighty Joe Young, Saturday Night Sinema, The Encampments, The Ritual, and The Warriors!They neglect to mention The Life Of Chuck, which got booked after the recording. You can always check the up to date schedule, and coming soon movies, at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Father's Day, Odd Burger, Happy Goat, The Empire Strikes Back, The Legend Of The Lone Ranger, Robocop, Police Academy, video stores, Jason Goes To Hell, the Retroist Podcast, Friendship, The Life Of Chuck, and more!They also mention some of the movies screening the week of Friday June 20 - Thursday June 26: Sinners, The Room, and Streets Of Fire!They neglect to mention Jane Austen Wrecked My Life being held over for a 2nd week, and Two Women, which were both booked after the podcast recording. You can always check showtimes and coming soon movie listings at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Eric's niece Abby, in honour of her 16th birthday!They discuss: student films, high school grades, Little Shop Of Horrors, Killer Book Club, Eli, movie trailers, My Bloody Valentine, A Nice Indian Boy, King Kong, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday June 13 - Thursday June 19: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Saturday Night Sinema, and Gazer.They neglect to mention Friendship, which got held over for a 2nd week after we recorded. You can always find movie listings and coming soon info at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Anniversaries, Vegans Who Snack, Flow's record smashing 24 consecutive week run, Mayfair shirts, Christian Bale's historic Terminator Salvation rant, HMV, Rachel Talalay, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday June 6 - Thursday June 12: Friendship, One To One: John & Yoko, American Psycho, Vampire Hunter D, About Maya, and a Mario Kart Tournament presented by A Company Of Fools!
This week Eric and Josh discuss: The Great Glebe Garage Sale, Iron Eagle, Superman III and IV, the giant lemonade stand lemon, the 501st Legion, Youngblood, Psycho Pike, Ready Or Not: Here I Come, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 30 - Thursday June 5: A Nice Indian Boy, Sacramento, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Rules Of Attraction, and Saturday Night Sinema!They neglect to mention Black Bag, which got booked after the recording. You can always check listings and coming soon info at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: not visiting the U.S., technical difficulties, Saturday Night Sinema, the marquee, Guinness World Records, Odd Burger, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 23 - Thursday May 29: That They May Face The Rising Sun, Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between The Lines, The Room, The Big Lebowski, Flow, Party Girl, and Tombs Of The Blind Dead!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Mother's Day, 1980s nightmare fuel kids movies, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Schindler's List, tearjerkers, The Penguin Lessons, throwing out grabage protocol, John Travolta, Neil Breen, David Cronenberg, and more!They also mention the movies screening from Friday May 16 - Thursday May 22: The Ballad Of Wallis Island, Bonjour Tristesse, A Nice Indian Boy, Flow, Saturday Night Sinema, and Phenomena! They neglect to mention Paddington In Peru, and MIckey 17, which were booked after the recording of the podcast. Updated listings are always available at mayfairtheatre.ca
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: May The 4th, Free Comic Book Day, Fan Expo, Tenebrae, movie trailers, Giallo films, And Then There Were None, Spawn, Saturday Night Sinema, Archie going to the Mayfair, Sinners, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 9 - Thursday May 15: Bob Trevino Likes It, The Ballad Of Wallis Island, Kryptic, Flow, and Demons! They neglect to mention The Shrouds, which was booked after the recording. You can always find current listings and coming soon movies at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Spencer from the upcoming Animation Show n Tell event (which good news / bad news, is already sold out!). They discuss the animation industry, independent artistic projects, The Nightmare Before Christmas, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, Across The Spider-Verse, Doctor Who, The Boy And The Heron, Hellboy, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 2 - Thursday May 8: Darkest Miriam, The Spoils, Tenebrae, Flow (in its record smashing 21st consecutive week!), and the aforementioned Animation Show n Tell!They neglect to mention The Ballad Of Wallis Island, which got booked after the podcast recording. You can always check mayfairtheatre.ca for showtimes, and information on upcoming movies.
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: long weekends, Princess Mononoke, 1990s remakes (The Little Rascals, The Beverly Hillbillies, Leave It To Beaver, The Brady Bunch Movie), SNL movies, A Minecraft Movie, Teen Wolf Too, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 25 - May 1: The Penguin Lessons, The Way My Way, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Flow, Naked, The Island Between Tides, Saturday Night Sinema, Mountains On Stage, Trail Running Film Fest, and the University of Ottawa Student Short Film Fest!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Saturday Night Sinema, Safety Last!, A Minecraft Movie, The Worst Person In The World, Parental Consent, The Surfer, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 18 - Thursday March 24: Princess Mononoke, Parthenope, The Friend, Queen Of The Ring, The Room, Flow, and Armand!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: the Toronto Raptors, our Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat Cereal Cartoon Party, scheduling questions, Parental Consent, Taye Diggs, Uwe Boll, Coyote Vs Acme, The Way Of The Gun, Jackass, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 11 - Thursday April 17: The Penguins Lessons, The Brutalist, The Elephant Man, Flow, Seven Veils, Top Secret!, Safety Last!, Saturday Night Sinema, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, and La moitié gauche du frigo!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Through A Glass Darkly with music by Tall Shadows, E.T. accompanied by the NAC Orchestra, video stores, Carnosaur, American Pie, 47 Meters Down, Captain America: Brave New World, multiplexes, McFarlane Toys, A24, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 4 - Thursday April 10: No Other Land, The Penguin Lessons, Thank You Very Much, Walking Through The Fire, Inland Empire, and Flow!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: the marquee, making popcorn, the kids book Popcorn by Frank Asch, the TVO kids show Cucumber, Carnosaur, Super Bowl ads, Big Shark, Wu-Tang Clan, and more!They also mention the movies screening Friday March 28 - Thursday April 3: I'm Still Here, The Way My Way, Mulholland Drive, Through A Glass Darkly, Unforgiven, Super Secret Saturday Night Sinema, Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai, and Flow!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh discuss: parking around the cinema, George Clinton, the marquee, Carnosaur, Roger Corman's Fantastic Four, Captain America (1990), The Substitute franchise, Death Machine, Full Moon Features, Trancers, Retro Puppet Master, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 21 - Thursday March 27: Nickel Boys, No Other Land, Flow, Brazil, The Straight Story, Scarecrow, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Eric's sister Jen! They chat about: visting Australia, Shane, Dances With Wolves, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Animal Farm, Watership Down, The Witches Of Eastwick, Arachnaphobia, our Cartoon Party, and more!They also mention movies screening the week of Friday March 13 - Thursday March 20: Bonnie And Clyde, The Quick And The Dead, Lost Highway, Flow, and Saturday Night Sinema!They neglect to mention A Complete Unknown, and Universal Language returning for encore weeks. Both were booked after the recording of the podcast. You can always check mayfairtheatre.ca for all the current and upcoming movies.
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: The Farmer's Almanac, newspapers, Santa Claus: The Movie, Loose Cannons, Joe Dante, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Norm MacDonald, Odd Burger, The Surfer, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 7 - Thursday March 13: I'm Still Here, A Complete Unknown, The Room, Nosferatu, Wicked, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Flow, and the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Mayfair internet and phone lines being down, Universal Language, The Keep, The Majestic, Denzel Washington in Gladiator II, CBC Radio, Letterboxd, The Gorge, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 28 - Thursday March 6: Dune, Inglorious Basterds, Flow, Blackenstein, Space Jam, and the 97th Annual Academy Awards Ceremony!They neglect to mention Academy Award nominees Sugarcane, and The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, which got booked after the recording.You can always check mayfairtheatre.ca for listings!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: a giant snowfall, PWHL, Barbarella, Casablanca, Gordon Lightfoot, ELO, Bob Dylan, Roger Corman's Fantastic Four, Tom Green, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 21 - Thursday February 27: I'm Still Here, Universal Language, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Babygirl, Blue Velvet, Saturday Night Sinema, Flow, and True Romance!Plus, special rental presentations: Green Border, Road Trip & other short films, and The Women's Adventure Film Tour!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Oyster the Donkey, Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, Old Yeller, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man, Wu-Tang Clan, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, Return To Oz, The Elephant Man, and more!They also mention the moives screening the week of Friday February 14 - Thursday February 20: Nickel Boys, Casablanca, Wild At Heart, Babygirl, The Room, Flow, The Wizard Of Oz, and Reservoir Dogs!
This week, Eric, Nick, and Josh discuss: cold weather, beer and coffee, Jar Jar, The Simpsons, Roger Rabbit, Wing Commander, The Room Next Door, Twin Peaks, John Wayne, Creation of the Humanoids, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 7 - Thursday February 13: Eraserhead, Flow, Pulp Fiction, Saturday Night Sinema, and Clue!They neglect to make note of Hard Truths, and Sing Sing, which were booked after the podcast recording.You can always check mayfairtheatre.ca for up to the minute showtimes, and Coming Soon movie listings!
This week, Eric and Josh dicuss: the Academy Awards nominations, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Gladiator II, Jack Nicholson, The Running Man, Remember Me, The Wolverine, Aardman Animations, Top Gun: Maverick, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 31 - Thursday February 6: The Lodger, Liza, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Last Showgirl, The Substance, and Flow!They neglect to mention The Room Next Door, which was booked after the podcast recording. But, you can always find up to the moment listings at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, sneaking in food to the cinema, Fifth Avenue Cinemas, water bottles, Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation dvd, Toolbox Murders, Kraven The Hunter, Madame Web, Jeannot Szwarc, David Lynch, Psycho Pike, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 24 - Thursday January 30: The Substance, The Last Showgirl, Vampyr, Beneath The Valley Of The Ultra-Vixens, Saturday Night Sinema, Flow, Cabaret, and Lifeforce!They neglect to mention The Last Showgirl, which got booked after the recording. You can always find up to date listings at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: winning sports tickets, broken popcorn machines, Coca Cola, the Los Angeles wildfires, the Rideau Canal, our Vampire Film Festival, Disney's Hercules, encore screenings, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 17 - Thursday January 23: A Real Pain, Anora, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Flow, Supervixens, and Vampyros Lesbos!
This week, Eric and Josh are again joined by Emily to discuss: her Aunt Dayle Haddon, Odd Burger, the Academy Awards memorium, projection booth tricks, Minority Report, Nintendo Wii, Suspiria (2018), Home Alone, Midnight Cowboy, Heretic, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 10 - Thursday January 16, 2025: Queer, A Real Pain, The Room, Flow, Vixen!, Rabid, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Emily, they chat about: Emily's Aunt Dayle Haddon (Paperback Hero, North Dallas Forty, Cyborg) passing away, Hanukkah, Funko Pops, Converse, Max Headroom, The Substance, Into The Woods, Eric's Dad, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 3 - Thursday January 9: Memoir Of A Snail, Flow, Maria, Anora, Nosferatu The Vampyre, The War Wagon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Heretic!
An extra special Holiday Season episode this week!For the first half of the show, Eric and Josh are joined by Eric's nieces, return guests Norah and Abbey!They discuss: our latest Cartoon Party, Holiday Season homework, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, The Mask, It's A Wonderful Knife, Awards season, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 27 - Thursday January 2: Memoir Of A Snail, A Real Pain, Maria, Anora, Flow, Dog Day Afternoon, and Saturday Night Sinema!Then, in the second half of the podcast, Josh has a conversation with award winning Flow director, Gints Zilbalodis!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Friday The 13th movies, Saturday Night Sinema, The X-Files, Jason Patric vs Robert Patrick, Holiday break, Thor comics, The Room / Big Shark in Japan, Rob Liefeld, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 20 - Thursday December 26: Conclave, Flow, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, Black Christmas, and It's A Wonderful Life!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Os Mutantes, visiting Portland (The Goonies, Cyndi Lauper, the Trail Blazers, Movie Madness, Hollywood Theatre, Sizzle Pie), Skeleton Crew, Power Rangers, our Friday The 13th Fest, K19: The Widowmaker, and more!They also mention the movie screening the week of Friday December 13 - Thursday December 19: All We Imagine As Light, Conclave, Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Gremlins, Saturday Night Sinema, and Santa Claus Conquers The Martians!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Nick to discuss: Cyndi Lauper, the Portland Trail Blazers, Will & Harper, camera drones, Free Solo, The Stand, Civil War, American Graffiti, Batman '89, Paint Your Wagon, The Simpsons, and more!They also chat about some of the movies screening the week of Friday December 6 - Thursday December 12: Porcelain War, Invasion U.S.A., and Mountains On Stage.They neglect to mention three movies: North By Northwest, The Return, and Silent Night, Deadly Night. They recorded this episode a couple of weeks early thanks to Josh being off visiting Portland, Oregon, so they didn't have all the booking info.You can always find up to date listings at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: the Christmas Market, Never Look Away, fancy chips, social media, Rocky IV, Trap, Holiday Season limbo, our popcorn machines, renting the cinema, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 29 - Thursday December 5: Blitz, Flow, Sunset Boulevard, The Godfather Coda, and Greg Sestero's visit: The Room, Big Shark, a live script reading of The Room, and a live commentary of The Room!They neglect to mention Saturday Night, which got booked after the recording. You can always find up to the minute listings at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: the Santa Claus parade, movie sound levels, Interstellar, Starry Eyes, Titane, Made, Barbie, Titanic, The Lego Movie, Kung Fu Panda, Jack, Child's Play (2019), Scream, The Blair Witch Project / Blair Witch, and more!They also discuss the movies screening the week of Friday November 22 - Thursday November 28: Wes Craven's New Nightmare, The Substance, The Godfather Part II, and My Old Ass!They neglect to mention Never Look Away, and Blitz, which got booked after the recording. But, you can always find listings at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Sam from The Absent Friends Shadow Cast to discuss another year of surviving Halloween Month screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and his role as our in-house actor for the Megalopolis screenings!They also discuss: Best Buy, Krispy Kreme, popcorn machine repair drama, Welcome To Derry, Freddy Krueger, the Star Wars Holiday Special, Saturday Night, Conclave, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 15 - Thursday November 21: Black Box Diaries, Terrifier 3, The Conversation, Saturday Night Sinema, A Disturbance In The Force, and Forbidden Films At The Mayfair!They neglect to mention encore screenings of Lee, and The Substance, which got booked after the podcat recording. But, you can always find updated listings at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: daylight saving time, the Ottawa Senators, Saturday Night Sinema, Cyndi Lauper, E.L.O., visiting Ireland and Scotland, Netflix, the Brando biopic, Alien: Romulus, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Parasite, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 8 - Thursday November 14: The Outrun, The Piano Lesson, The Substance, The Godfather, and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Mad Monster Party, our broken popcorn machine, Hatchet comics, Harry Manfredini, The Hideous Sun Demon, A Different Man, The Apprentice, Netflix movies, our Francis Ford Coppola Film Fest, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, and more!They also discuss the movies screening the week of Friday November 1 - Thursday November 7, 2024: The Outrun, Emilia Pérez, Megalopolis, Saturday Night Sinema, and Doctor Who And The Daleks!They neglect to mention Alien: Romulus, which got booked after the recording. But, listings of the schedule can always be found at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Trick 'r Treat, making vynil records, The Mutilator, Megaforce, Street Trash, Terrifier 3, Arcadian, Rankin/Bass, Mr. Crocket, Shocker, Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 25 - Thursday October 31: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Mad Monster Party, The Exorcist, The Shining, and A Nightmare On Elm Street! The Apprentice, and Lee returning for a 2nd week are not mentioned, because they were booked after the recording of the show. Listings can always be found at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: The Fog, The Thing, Saturday Night Sinema, Night Of The Comet, Cyndi Lauper, Fight Club, Pump Up The Volume, E.G. Daily, Kevin Bacon, The American, sad film fests, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 18 - Thursday October 24: Lee, Häxan, Murderess, Behind The Haystacks, Audition, 34 Ways To Die, MaXXXine, and Monster Pool: Chapter 8!They neglect to mention A Different Man, which got booked after the recording. You can always find more info on these and other upcoming movies at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Predator movies, Men In Black movies, Minions, Transformers: One, Joker: Folie à Deux, Robert De Niro, Mayfair weddings, Ghostbusters, Village Of The Damned, The Greatest American Hero, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 11 - Thursday October 17: Girls Will Be Girls, How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, The Room, Saturday & Sunday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, The Thing, Saturday Night Sinema, Carrie, Qalat, and Calm Beneath Castles!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Sam from The Absent Friends Shadow Cast, for the epic 500th episode!They chat about: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pogs, Dick Tracy trading cards, Six Feet Under, Jurassic Park merch, Ben Cooper costumes, Gremlins, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 4 - Thursday October 10: The Critic, 1995, Frankie Freako, Rosemary's Baby, and Ghostbusters!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Nick, and chat about: She-Ra, Scooby-Doo, learning French, big screen Netflix, Deliverance, Snake Eyes, Ghosts of Mars, Sammo Hung, Rumble In The Bronx, and more!They also discuss the movies screening the week of Friday September 27 - Thursday October 3: Will & Harper, The Critic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Body Double, Good One, Night Of The Comet, Saturday Night Sinema, Nina, 500 Days In The Wild, The Great Beauty, and Spirited Away!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Friday The 13th, movie ratings, Stephen King, Communion, Visiting Hours, Fangoria, the Comics Code Authority, Fright Night, South Park, The Simpsons, The Fifth Element, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 20 - Thursday September 26: Will & Harper, The Room, Saturday & Sunday Morning All-You-Can-Eat Cereal Cartoon Party, Purple Rain, Whiplash, and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo!Thet neglact to mention Coup!, which got booked after the recording of the episode. But, you can always find up to date listings at mayfairtheatre.ca
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Nick to discuss: Basquiat, Ottawa Comiccon, Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game, Star Wars Force Link 2.0, Pogs, YoYo Ball, Electric Light Orchestra, Xanadu, Jason Schwartzman, Moulin Rouge!, Gene Shalit, Purple Rain, Häxan, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 13 - Thursday September 19: His Three Daughters, Sisi & I, Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood, 1984, Saturday Night Sinema, and Breakin'!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Fred, Josh's friend since Grade 9, and they chat about their high school Mayfair glory days!They also discuss: Prince / Batman, Alvin and the Chipmunks, New Jack City, The Killer, The Punisher starring Dolph Lundgren, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts, Longlegs, Netflix, Men At Work, Hudson Hawk, and more!Plus, some of the movies screening the week of Friday September 6 - Thursday September 12: His Three Daughters, Repo Man, and Big Shark.They neglect to mention Across the River and Into the Trees, and Cuckoo, which got booked after the recording.You can always find updated listings at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: comic cons, Dan Parent / Archie Comics, the Spider-man 1970s tv show, movie serials, Walton Goggins, Happy Days, The Truth About Charlie, Repo Man, Pogs, Borderlands, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 30 - Thursday September 5: Thelma, Longlegs, Charade, O Lucky Man!, Saturday Night Sinema, and The Time Masters!They neglect to mention Firebrand, and Widow Clicquot, which got booked after the recording of this episode. But, you can always check up to the moment listings at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Friend-Of-Mayfair, Tom Fowler! Tom drops by to chat about his new book, Gamemasters: The Comic Book History Of Roleplaying Games!They also chat about: David Lynch, Whiskey Galore, film restorations, Gremlins 2, Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, Die Hard, Cannes Film Fest, Young Justice, Beatie Boys, Tomorrow Never Dies, Jaws IV, Fan Expo, and more!And, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 23 - Thursday August 29: My Penguin Friend, Between The Temples, Fitzcarraldo, Burden Of Dreams, Breakfast At Tiffany's, A Clockwork Orange, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Jaws!You can find out more info about Gamemasters: The Comic Book History Of Roleplaying Games on -Kickstarter: http://kck.st/4fqfnwqBackerkit: https://tinyurl.com/3fccbjn5
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: long weekends, Lake Placid, the American Theatre in Canton, the song Barbara Stanwyck by Curl, Oddity, Bush vs Bush X, IF vs If...., Star Trek: Generations, Rotten Tomatoes, Trailer Park Boys, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 16 - Thursday August 22: Close To You, Caligula: The Ultimate Cut, The Room, Saturday Night Sinema, and Sabrina!They neglect to mention Widow Clicquot returning for a 2nd week, and 40th anniversary screenings of The Terminator (they got booked right after the podcast recorded).But, you can always check up to the minute listings at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric, Josh, and special guest Emily discuss: public speaking, endless podcasts, our Humphrey Bogart statue, bike lock posts, thieves, Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival, Evening Shade, Poor Things, vintage movie posters, The Rocky Horror Show, X / Pearl / MaXXXine, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 9 - Thursday August 15: Mother Couch, Touch, Big Shark, Kinds Of Kindness, Roman Holiday, and If....!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Nick to discuss: morning movies, Oddity, Pizza Party board game, vegan dining, Ghostlight, pigeons, Faerie Tale Theatre, The Long Walk, Christopher Lee, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 2 - Thursday August 8: The Fabulous Four, Widow Clicquot, MaXXXine, and The Shining!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: McDonald's movie promotions, Austin Powers, Henry Winkler, Adam West and Burt Ward, Black Scorpion, Mark Hamill, shared universes, Stephen King, The Three Caballeros, National Treasure, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday July 26 - Thursday August 1: Thelma, Ghostlight, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Desperate Hours, Oddity, Saturday Night Sinema, and Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: TMNT: The Last Ronin, Mario Kart, Furiosa, Men In Black, The Flintstones: Viva Rock Vegas, Shout Factory, Odd Burger, Longlegs, Ocean's 11, Maxxxine, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday July 19 - Thursday July 25: June Zero, Thelma, The Room, I Saw The TV Glow, The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, and The Getaway!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Stop Making Sense, Rock 'N' Roll High School, A Hard Days Night, the Billboard charts, Challengers, Basmati Blues, Odd Burger, The Flintstones, Batman Forever, Turkish movie posters, Licence To Kill, Austin Powers, The Last Movie, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday July 12 - Thursday July 18: Tuesday, L’été dernier, In A Violent Nature, Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia, Saturday Night Sinema, The Big Sleep, and Big Shark!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: camping, horror tv vs horror movies, Jordan Peele, Ultraman, the James Bond multiverse, Odd Burger, Christopher Nolan sound design, Donald Sutherland, Prometheus, Red One, box office conspiracies, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday July 5 - Thursday July 11: Thelma, Tuesday, Stop Making Sense, Furiosa, To Have And Have Not, The Wild Bunch, and Tomorrow Never Dies!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by special guest Nick to discuss: the Star Wars CommTech Reader, Pogs, cereal prizes, Edmonton Oilers, Donald Sutherland, Ramones, Caligula, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday June 28 - Thursday July 4: I Used To Be Funny, Rock N Roll High School, Big Shark, and Saturday Night Sinema.They neglect to mention Thelma, and Challengers, which were booked and held-over after the podcast recorded. But, you can always check listings at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week Eric and Josh discuss: Enter The Drag Dragon, VHS Star Wars, action figures, Lee Majors, Forbidden Planet, Euphoria, Godzilla Minus One, Johnny Mnemonic, Wild Wild West, vintage posters, Night Shift, and more!They also discuss the movies screening the week of Friday June 21 - Thursday June 27: The Great Escaper, Challengers, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Saturday & Sunday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, Mad Max: Fury Road: Black & Chrome, and Boxcar Bertha!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: John Wayne, the Bridges family, Leslie Nielsen, Liam Neeson, box office numbers, Bruce Willis, The Fall Guy, appointment television, Late Night Horror, Monty Python, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday June 14 - Thursday June 20: Evil Does Not Exist, The Great Escaper, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Targets, The Room, Saturday Night Sinema, and The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: wedding anniversaries, pedal pub bikes, the return of the Big Shark standee, what's behind our screen, Mayfair t-shirts, the final days of The Comic Book Shoppe, Furiosa, comic book movie spin-offs, Mike Flanagan's new Exorcist movie, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday June 6 - Thursday June 13: It's Such A Beautiful Day, Dune: Part Two, The Road Warrior, The Big Bird Cage, and Motherload!They neglect to mention Wildcat, and the blu-ray release screening of Enter The Drag Dragon, which got booked after the podcast recording.But, you can always check listings at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: bus schedules, Saturday Night Sinema, Casablanca, The Great Glebe Garage Sale, The Colonial Theatre's Blobfest, The Great Escaper, The Trip, Stop Making Sense, and more!They also mention movies screening the week of Friday May 31 - Thursday June 6: Civil War, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Late Night With The Devil, and Santo Vs. Doctor Death!They neglect to mention Anselm, which got booked after the recording. But, showtimes and upcoming movies can always be checked at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week Eric and Josh discuss: Unfrosted, Madame Web, Poor Things, Dawn Of The Dead: 3D, Friday The 13th Part 3: 3D, Deadpool, the closing of The Comic Book Shoppe, Mayfair T-shirts, Werner Herzog, Siskel & Ebert, Kazam, Houseguest, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 24 - Thursday May 30: Aggro Dr1ft, Big Shark, The Big Lebowski, Saturday Night Sinema, Love Lies Bleeding, and Red Sun.They neglect to mention The Promised Land, and Wicked Little Letters, which got booked and held over after the podcast recording. But, you can always check current movie listings at mayfairtheare.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Eric's dad, Star Wars, Roger Corman, When A Stranger Calls swag, estate sales, our partially missing Big Shark standee, Look Who's Talking, Fallout, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, and more!Plus they mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 17 - Thursday May 23: The Red Circle, The Wizard Of Oz Sing-A-Long, Pulp Fiction, The Liberation Men, and Kim's Video!They neglect to mention Irena's Vow, and Wicked Little Letters, which got booked after the recording. But, both are movies returning for encore weeks, so they were discussed previously!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by a special guest, Eric's dad!They chat about: Buster Keaton, silent films vs talkies, Häxan, 15 cent movie tickets, Westerns, serials, Star Wars, The Wizard Of Oz, Them!, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 10 - Thursday May 16: Irena's Vow, Common Ground, Femme, The Room, Sasquatch Sunset, Purple Noon, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Free Comic Book Day, Big Shark, Escapade Music Fest, theft, Needful Things, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Crazies, Dawn Of The Dead, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 3 - Thursday May 9: Wicked Little Letters, Problemista, Club Zero, Le Samouraï, and Sherlock Jr. and One Week – with Live Music by the VOC Silent Film Harmonic!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: the eclipse, Salem, Blair Witch movies, The Running Man book vs movie, Blumhouse Productions, Fantasy Island, Five Nights At Freddy's, Tommy Wiseau, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 26 - Thursday May 2: Omen, Big Shark, Saturday Night Sinema, Knightriders, UOttawa Cinema Club: Student Short Film Fest, The Liberation Men, and Radioactive: The Women Of Three Mile Island.They neglect to mention Wicked Little Letters, and One Life, which were booked after the podcast was recorded. Listings can always be found at mayfairtheatre.ca!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Beastie Boys, Elf, strange bus passengers, the Monroeville Mall, Cutthroat Island, Batman And Robin, Man Of Steel, Dark Shadows, Earth Day, Rainbow War, and more!They also mention the movies screening from Friday April 19 - Thursday April 25: One Life, Remembering Gene Wilder, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Maniac, Sting, The Condor And The Eagle, and Mountains On Stage!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: April Fool's Day, Friday The 13th: The Series, Freddy's Nightmares, Fright Flicks trading cards, John Constantine, Shadows Of The Empire, variant comic covers, Poor Things, Risky Business, Arcadian, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 12 - Thursday April 18: The Taste Of Things, The Old Oak, Dawn Of The Dead, Enter The Clones Of Bruce, Saturday Night Sinema, Twelve Tales, and Mamma Mia Sing-A-Long!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: April Fool's Day, Montreal food, front row seats, Saturday Night Sinema, Knightriders, Le Samourai, Artic Monkeys, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 5 - Thursday April 11: Poor Things, American Fiction, Carol Doda Topless At The Condor, The Room, The Crazies, The South, and Rocky Road To Berlin!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Eric's brother Richard! They discuss: Calgary cinemas and film fests, digital vs physical media, Waydowntown, scurvy, Cinema's First Nasty Women, movies with live musical accompaniment, neighbourhood video stores, B.A. Johnston, and more!They also mention the movies screening from Friday March 29 - Thursday April 4: American Fiction, Poor Things, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, They Live, Stopmotion, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric, Josh, and (special guest) Brad discuss: HMV, Vertigo Records, LaserDiscs, Attack Of The Clones, Wonder Woman, Hugo, King Kong, Super 8, Saturday Night At The Movies, The Petrified Forest, Super 8, broken laptops, and more!They also mention the movies screening from Friday March 22 - Thursday March 28: They Shot The Piano Player, Cinema's First Nasty Women, Archangel, This Isn't The End, The Taste Of Things, Big Shark, Riddle Of Fire, and Christine!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: daylight saving time, Rogue One, Young Guns, The X-Files, Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner music, Halloween movie novelizations, King Kong and Godzilla, Spider-man, Avatar, the Mothman, Return To Oz, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 15 - Thursday March 21: Spider-man: Across The Spider-verse, Perfect Days, The Taste Of Things, The Thing, the 2024 New York Dog Film Fest, Frogman, and the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: The Fog, Dune Part II, distributor snubs, listening to movie scores, movie trailers, Avatar, and more!Plus they mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 8 - Thursday March 14: 500 Days In The Wild, Perfect Days, The Room, Escape From New York, Saturday Night Sinema, The Boy And The Heron, One From The Heart: Reprise, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, and the 96th Annual Academy Awards!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Mayfair co-owner Ian, to discuss our world premiere screening of the movie that he wrote called The Path Of Totality!They also chat about: social media stress, Frogman, John Carpenter, Anaconda, Rialto Pictures, Canadian content, Moonstruck, The Believers, The Thomas Crown Affair, Baywatch Nights, Kolchak, Solar Babies, Gordon Lightfoot, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 1 - Thursday March 7: The Zone Of Interest, Drugstore June, the 2024 New York Cat Film Fest, The Fog, and The Path Of Totality!(They neglect to mention The Teachers' Lounge, which got booked in the 11th hour, after the podcast recorded. You can find info on all the movies at mayfairtheatre.ca)
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: movie extras, theme songs, St. Elmo's Fire, Disney's Dinosaur, Madame Web, Fantastic Four, silent film / live band, Rock 'n' Roll High School, receiving a Big Shark standee, and more!They also mention the movies screening from Friday February 23 - Thursday February 29: Ru, The Zone Of Interest, The Sweet East, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Super Secret Saturday Night Sinema, and Rollerball!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: poor office lighting, high school friends, Gitanes Burger, ghosts, Fifth Avenue Cinemas, video stores, shoplifting, A Death In The Family, Secret Wars, The Thomas Crown Affair remake, the Oscars, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 16 - Thursday February 22: Ru, How To Have Sex, A Page Of Madness, The Thomas Crown Affair, and Big Shark!Because the recording happened before the schedule was finalized, they neglect to mention that The Boy And The Heron, and The Braid are returning for a few more screenings.
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: leap years, Y2K, Dark Shadows, retro Marvel Star Wars comics, Tubi, The Battered Bastards Of Baseball, Damnation Alley, Sharknado, Godzilla, Ultraman, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 9 - Thursday February 15: Freud's Last Session, The Braid, The Room, Zombie, Moonstruck, Once Within A Time, Casablanca, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Godzilla Minus One, Enter The Drag Dragon, getting recognized by podcast listeners, the Oscar nominations, Nimona, Flamin' Hot, Netflix, and more!They also mention movies screening the week of Friday February 2 - Thursday February 8: The Boy And The Heron, Koyaanisqatsi, and In The Heat Of The Night!They neglected to mention 11th hour bookings of Freud's Last Session, and Mad Dog Morgan, but you can always find updated movie listings at mayfairtheatre.ca
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: getting a new tattoo, staff scheduling chaos, matte paintings, behind the scenes, Lord Of The Rings, Free Solo, Rowdy Roddy Piper, colour to black & white movies, Big Shark, Academy Awards, pizza, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 26 - Thursday February 1: Monster, The Iron Claw, Godzilla Minus One, Enter The Drag Dragon, Love Streams, Cry-Baby, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Saturday Night Sinema!
Thie week, Eric and Josh discuss: winter weather hitting, Weeping Angels, Daleks, Strike Force Five, Pistol Shrimps Radio, paranormal activity, dubbed vs subbed movies, The Cell, Daft Punk, Bill Plympton, Paycheck, the Batman 89 comic, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 19 - Thursday January 25: The Boy And The Heron, The Holdovers, Multiple Maniacs, Silent Night, and Gloria!
This week, Eric, Lee, and Josh are joined by long time Friend-of-Mayfair Greg Sestero!We discuss his directorial debut with Miracle Valley, his involvement in the development of Big Shark, his upcoming movie Forbidden Sky, and The Room. We also chat about Enter The Drag Dragon, Communion, a UFO night tour, Breakdown, It Follows, The Marfa Lights, dub vs subtitles, Ben Quadinaros, and more!Plus, we mention the movies screening from Friday January 12 - Thursday January 18: The Boy And The Heron, The Holdovers, Saltburn, Pink Flamingos, The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh ring in the new year of 2024 and discuss: the future, Jason X, Demolition Man, Blade Runner, ChatGPT, cinema rentals, New Year's Eve, Across The Spider-Verse, The Blair Witch Project, Home Alone, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 5 - Thursday January 11, 2024: Eileen, Dream Scenario, A Haunting In Venice, Opening Night, Miracle Valley, Big Shark, and The Room!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Todd McFarlane toys, shipping nightmares, variant comic book covers, A Company of Fools, Grindhouse, Sick of Myself, The Old Way, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 28 - Thursday January 4: Eileen, Dream Scenario, A Woman Under The Influence, Thanksgiving, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: The Bishop's Wife, a 1945 candy bar staff member, pre-smart phone photography, arriving late to a movie, cinema rentals, favourite movies, Netflix, Christmas Evil, Die Hard, Dick Tracy, Copycat, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 22 - Thursday December 28: Society Of The Snow, Maestro, Female Trouble, and Gremlins!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: office parties, Free Comic Book Day, The Polar Express, private rentals, Lil' Avalanche, real time movies, The Golden Globes, American Genre Film Archive, The Cryptid Factor, social media, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 15 - Thursday December 21: Testament, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Bernadette, Don't Open Till Christmas, Saturday Night Sinema, It's A Wonderful Life, and Relax I'm From The Future!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: The Christmas Martian, getting a 1 star review, Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, people recording the screen, the Palm Dog Award, satanic panic, Die Hard, the Disney Vault, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 8 - Thursday December 14: Fallen Leaves, Killers Of The Flower Moon, The Room, Freaks, The Bishop's Wife, and Satan Wants You!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: buying booze, border crossings, weird swag, Secret Santa, Wu-Tang Clan, Vinegar Syndrome, sleepovers, the Mayfair's 91st birthday, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 1 - Thursday December 7: Priscilla, The Smell Of Money, The Christmas Martian, American Graffiti, Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, Playback, and Mountains On Stage!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Sam from the Absent Friends Shadow Cast for a Rocky Horror Picture Show / Halloween aftermath discussion.They also discuss: The Wizard Of Oz, vegan pizza, Elvis Presley, 1970s New York City, Lin-Manuel Miranda, The Hebrew Hammer, and more!And, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 24 - Thursday November 30: May December, Priscilla, Who's Yer Father?, The Warriors, Saturday Night Sinema, and Gun Crazy!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: family reunions, Enter The Drag Dragon, Jumbo Video, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Loki, The Killer, It's A Wonderful Life, Stop Making Sense, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 17 - Thursday November 23: Anatomy Of A Fall, May December, Cade: The Tortured Crossing, House Of 1000 Corpses, Gilda, and Lady Snowblood!Plus, Josh chats with actor / producer Carl Welch about the upcoming Mayfair screening of The Locksmiths!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Andrew Brannen, co-host of the Pause It For Me podcast, and director of the (coming soon to the Mayfair) movie Coffee To Cocktails!They discuss his adventures in making the movie, and also chat about: Clerks, The Blair Witch Project, movie continuity, Star Trek IV, Back To The Future II, The Disaster Artist, and the Palm Dog Award!They also mention the movies screening from Friday November 10 - Thursday November 16: The Persian Version, Anatomy Of A Fall, The Room, Stop Making Sense, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Messiah Of Evil, Saturday Night Sinema, and Coffee To Cocktails!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: working the candy bar, pre-show trailers and ads, Dumb Industries, Friday The 13th Part VI, Greg Sestero, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Giallo movies, backhanded compliments, Noir-vember, Stop Making Sense, Purple Rain, House of 1000 Corpses, leftover pizza, Raymond Scott, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 3 - Thursday November 9: She Came To Me, The Killer, Opera, The Hands Of Orlac with Live Music by VOC Silent Film Harmonic, The Maltese Falcon, and Divinity!
This week, Eric and Josh are again joined by Eric's nieces, Abby and Norah! The podcast makes an encore attempt to corner the teen demographic as we discuss: retro Halloween costumes, VCR board games, The Watcher In The Woods, E.T., ParaNorman, big screen Netflix, The Sixth Sense, Fruity Pebbles, The Last Unicorn, Candyman, Barbie, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 27 - Thursday November 2: Nyad, The Killer, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, She Came To Me, The Exorcist, The Shining, and The Shining: Forwards & Backwards!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Sam from the Mayfair's resident Rocky Horror Picture Show performers, The Absent Friends Shadowcast!They chat about: visiting L.A., Panago Pizza, Thanksgiving, Neil Breen, Mad Magazine, Glen Or Glenda, movie locations travel, colorized movies, Goblin, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 20 - Thursday October 26: The Mission, Nyad, Nosferatu: Silent Film with Live Music by Death Ships, Saturday Night Sinema, Night Of The Living Dead, and Scanners!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Sam from the Mayfair's resident Rocky Horror Picture Show performers, The Absent Friends Shadowcast! They chat about: The Phantom Of The Opera, Broadway movie adaptations, The Wizard Of Oz, video stores, Roger Corman, Hammer Horror, Sleepy Hollow, Thanksgiving, Sing Street, John Travolta, and more!They also mention the movies screening from Friday October 13 - Thursday October 19: Flora And Son, Barbie, Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, Oppenheimer, Cade: The Tortured Crossing, and Carrie!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by a couple of members of the band Death Ships to discuss their upcoming Silent Film / Live Band presentation of Nosferatu! They also chat about: The Cat And The Canary, Haxan, Beastie Boys, intermissions, lawn darts, Neil Breen, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday October 6 - Thursday October 12: Scrapper, Barbie, The Room, The Thing, Saturday Night Sinema, and The Guardian!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: secret rental screenings, Ottawa International Animation Fest, Masaaki Yuasa, Odd Burger, Robert Downey Jr, Cillian Murphy, The Coral, Academy Awards, John Larroquette, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 29 - Thursday October 5: Scrapper, Oppenheimer, Carlos, Half Hour Of Horror, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Saturday Night Sinema, My Name Is Eftyhia, Searching For Rodakis, Killer Joe, and Suspiria with Live Music by Goblin!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Adam Kirkey to chat about his upcoming event screening here at the Mayfair on September 30, Half Hour Of Horror!They also chat about: Saturday Night Sinema, movie anthologies, The Blair Witch Project, Kevin Smith, Transformers, film fest scams, Holiday Season tv movies, Netflix, Mark Hamill, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday September 22 - Thursday September 28: Love Life, Reptile, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, To Live And Die In L.A., The Seafarers / Fear And Desire, Asteroid City, Blade Runner 2049, and Jango Uncharged!
This week, Eric, Lee, and Josh record a podcast in front of an audience at Ottawa Comiccon!
They discuss Enter The Drag Dragon, Neil Breen, Police Academy, movie distribution availability, Spice World, William Friedkin, Friday the 13th VI novelization, The Empire Strikes Back, Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, the modern multiplex, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 15 - Thursday September 21: Golda, Past Lives, The Monster Squad, Cade: The Tortured Crossing, Cruising, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: back to school, The Goonies, Year One, Spider-man: Across The Spider-verse, VHS treasure, Ottawa Comiccon, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 8 - Thursday September 14: Theater Camp, Golda, Piaffe, The Room, Wages Of Fear, and Sorcerer!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Fan Expo, fire alarms, Squishmallows, Venom: Lethal Protector, facsimile comics, vinegar syndrome, Thunderbean Animation, Neil Breen, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 1 - Thursday September 7: Passages, Asteroid City, Moon Garden, Rio Bravo, and The Goonies!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: ruined pizza plans, what happens when one person shows up to a movie, popcorn machine repair issues, delivery hassles, classic Canadian TV, Soldier, Fan Expo, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening the week of Friday August 25 - Thursday August 31: Le Temps D’un Été (aka: One Summer), Jules, The Return Of The Living Dead, Cade: The Tortured Crossing, Saturday Night Sinema, Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, and The Hard Part Begins!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: weather forecast lies, comic con finds, Pokemon, the Masters Of The Universe movie, scary kids movies, suspension of disbelief, Batman's, Howard The Duck, subjective movie opinions, Parasite, Fatal Instinct, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 18 - Thursday August 24: Past Lives, Shortcomings, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Asteroid City, The Kid Brother, and In From The Side!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh discuss: Sudden Fury, showing up late to a movie, Run Lola Run, Meg 2, movie critics, Funeral Home, Alligator, first time visitors to the cinema, popcorn, blue collar British drama, Danger Bay, the Meatballs franchise, William Friedkin, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 11 - Thursday August 17: North Of Normal, The Miracle Club, Final Cut, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, East End Hustle, Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Eric's birthday, a horror themed café, the new Exorcist, Dune, the Peanuts comic strip legacy, The Berenstain Bears, TVO kids shows, Hilarious House of Frightenstein, Rogue One, Frankenstein's Army, the multiverse, Batman '66, Paul Reubens, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening the week of Friday August 4 - Thursday August 10: Past Lives, Asteroid City, The Room, Sudden Fury, and Chinatown!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Barbenheimer, radio interviews, San Diego Comic-Con, the writers / actors strike, Star Trek, real life vs podcast conversations, the Evil Dead franchise, Joe Dante, Threads, and more!
And, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday July 28 - Thursday August 3: The Lesson, The Miracle Club, Evil Dead Rise, Jaws, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Alpha Flight, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, flopbusters, Army of Darkness, Hollywood accounting, the lost Scooby Doo movie, The Creator, Barbie, Oppenheimer, John Sayles, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday July 21 - Thursday July 27: Past Lives, Asteroid City, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Master Gardener, Alligator, and The Amazing Compulsion!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: New comic book day, Blues Fest, RKSS, Fantasia Film Fest, Fan Expo, Zzzax, Howard The Duck, Alpha Flight, movie continuity, MST3K, Troll 2, The Man With The Iron Fists, Kim Cattrall, advertising at the Mayfair, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday July 14 - Thursday July 20: Past Lives, Blue Jean, Once Upon A Time In Uganda, Piranha, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Canada Day, power outages, Top Gun: Maverick, Twitter, walking out of movies, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, comedic vs dramatic acting, Big Shark, Shock Treatment, Deep Rising, B-movie posters, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the Week of Friday July 7 - Thursday July 13: Persian Lessons, You Hurt My Feelings, The Room, BlackBerry, Mad Heidi, Jurassic Park, and Grizzly!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Escapade, aspect ratios, inappropriate complaints, extinct movie theatres, The Starling Girl, Odd Burger, Michael Caine, Treat Williams, Big Shark, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the Week of Friday June 30 - Thursday June 6: Bones Of Crows, You Hurt My Feelings, La Haine, and The Passenger!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Visiting L.A., Kevin Smith, Stephen King landmarks, Beetlejuice, Neil Breen, Drive-Ins, the need for conflict in movies, Virginie Efira, The Mist, Twin Peaks, My Magic Dog, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday June 23 - Thursday June 29: Polarized, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Other People's Children, Mad Max: Fury Road - Black And Chrome Edition, Saturday Night Sinema, What's Love Got To Do With It?, Lynch/Oz, and Being BeBe!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: birthdays and weddings, predicting slow or busy nights, commercials, Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, Tubi, branding and selling out, studios owning cinemas, Amalgam Comics, Chevalier, Norman Lear, the Orleans Comic Book and Novelty Show, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday June 16 - Thursday June 22: Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, The Starling Girl, The Room, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Soldier In The Barn, and Deep Red!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Eric's nieces, Abby and Norah! The podcast finally corners the teen demographic and discuss: high school musicals, selling your writing, finding weird stuff, Archie Comics, University film class, Giallo movies, virtual cinema, Bill & Ted, Train To Busan, Ready Player One, Space Jam: A New Legacy, The Breakfast Club, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday June 9 - Thursday June 15: Showing Up, L’immensità, The Cat O' Nine Tails, The Road Warrior, Supernova, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Lee, Eric, and Josh discuss: Lassie, 40 Pounds Of Trouble, Enter The Drag Dragon, The House At The Edge Of The Park, Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie, Neil Breen, George Miller, Damage, Giallo movies, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the Week of Friday June 2 - Thursday June 8: When You Finish Saving The World, Chevalier, The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, Mad Max, and the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Shudder, Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, Disneyland, sports movies, Ryan Reynolds / Ottawa Senators, movie trailers, Brokeback Mountain, Crash, post apocalyptic cinema class, advance tickets, Beau Is Afraid, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 26 - Thursday June 1: The Worst Ones, The Eight Mountains, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Sisu, Saturday Night Sinema, and Brother!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Tom Fowler, and they discuss: bring your dog to the cinema events, Home Alone, first Mayfair movies, small town cinemas, drive-ins, Star Wars, tribute screenings, The Tomorrow War, The Flop House, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 19 - Thursday May 25: Plan 75, Beau Is Afraid, The Room, Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind, Renfield, and The Canvasser!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: new neighbours, community support, multiplex new release exclusivity, Mandy, Rifftrax, Friday The 13th, Twilight, limited edition DVD's, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 12 - Thursday May 18: Mafia Mamma, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Cocaine Bear, The Evil Dead, Saturday Night Sinema, and Dosed: The Trip Of A Lifetime.
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Scott Blurton to chat about his upcoming film The Canvasser, which screens at the Mayfair on Wednesday May 24!They also discuss: the lowering cost of indie filmmaking, 1990s communication classes, the importance of film sound, Free Solo, Renny Harlin, Nicolas Cage, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 5 - Thursday May 11: River, Sick Of Myself, Full Metal Jacket, Mountain, The Quiet Girl, and Gamera with live music from VOC Silent Film Harmonic!
This week, Eric, Nick, and Josh discuss: Big Shark, The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra, Them!, Batman 66, private screenings, Twitter, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Charlie XCX, gatekeepers, Gamera, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 28 - Thursday May 4: A Man Called Otto, The Quiet Girl, Enys Men, The Tank, The Room, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Earth Day, the ice storm power outage, Saturday Night Sinema, Uber, Renfield, Dune vs Dune, Mamma Mia!, The Final Girls Support Group, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 21 - Thursday April 27: Women Talking, Showing Up, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Mad God, Bystanders, Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood And Honey, Sing-Along-A-Sound Of Music, and Dosed: The Trip Of A Lifetime!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: big screen video games, indie screenwriting, Torment, Samuel L. Jackson, The Black Cauldron, Gold Key Comics, the Lord Of The Rings movies, The Mole People, The Beatles, Malcolm McDowell, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday April 14 - Thursday April 20: Women Talking, Emily, Sakra, A Clockwork Orange, Saturday Night Sinema, Breaking Boundaries, and Animation Show N Tell Ottawa!
This week, Eric, Sam, and Josh discuss: ice storms, marquees, Enter The Drag Dragon, West Coast Video, Damned Cursed Children, Steve Coogan, Guy Ritchie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Forrest Gump, Star Wars Celebration, and John Waters!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 7 - Thursday April 13: The Lost King, Emily, Ride On, and Pulp Fiction!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: rationing data, 2D animated movies, why remakes happen, Dragon's Lair, Reign Of Fire, forgotten movies, Saturday Night Sinema, vintage sci-fi movies, Quantumania, movie lengths, The Last Starfighter, top loading VCR's, Steel, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 31 - Thursday April 6: Living, Aftersun, The Lost King, The Big Lebowski, and Smoking Causes Coughing!
This week Eric and Josh discuss: 420, the Oscars, Saturday Morning Cartoons, public service announcements, advance tickets, Toronto, Fantasia Film Fest, Ultraman, John Wayne, 9pm vs Midnight Movies, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 24 - Thursday March 30: Living, Women Talking, The Thing, The Quiet Man, Dreams On Fire, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week Eric and Josh discuss: piano tuning, the Oscars aftermath, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends, The Last Picture Show, the remake of The Room, William Shatner, horror franchise villains, Nicolas Cage, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 17 - Thursday March 23: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Women Talking, The Room, M3GAN, Impulse, and the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party! Plus, the Independent Film Festival of Ottawa presents: Phi 1.618, Cinema's First Nasty Women, and Tales From The Gimli Hospital!
This week Eric and and Josh discuss: bus adventures, forgetting info while podcasting, Creed III, multiplexes, Star Trek, Quentin Tarantino, the Oscars, The Price Is Right, Nicolas Cage, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 10 - Thursday March 16: Living, Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Passion Of Joan Of Arc, Mamma Mia, Unwanted, and the Academy Awards Pre-Show and Ceremony!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: leap years, Infinity Pool, Mia Goth, Fear Street, people requesting their favourite movies, Free Comic Book Day, novelizations, old fashioned comic cons, Batman 66, The Blair Witch Project, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 3 - Thursday March 9: Living, To Leslie, The Fabelmans, The Outwaters, and Frankenhooker!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Hereditary, Kids Vs Aliens, Nope, James Cameron, Movie Pass, a cool laundromat, indie video stores, last minute programming, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 24 - Thursday March 2: The Fabelmans, Infinity Pool, Taxi Driver, and Saturday Night Sinema!Alas, the 3rd week of Living became unavailable after recording, so that was mistakenly talked about instead of the 3rd week of The Whale.
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Valentine's Day, Joe Dante, Space Jam's, Rock N Roll High School, Neil Breen, Coming Soon questions, Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey, The People's Joker, Grindhouse, V/H/S, movie running times, Windtalkers, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 17 - Thursday February 23: Living, The Whale, Kids Vs Aliens, Mean Streets, and The Room!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: what makes a movie flop, Rotten Tomatoes, Top Gun: Maverick, Family Day, AMC's ticket pricing controversy, The Lone Ranger, Airheads, Darren Aronofsky, Enter The Drag Dragon, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 10 - Thursday February 16: Living, The Whale, The Civil Dead, Eyes Wide Shut, Casablanca, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by special guest Mark Pollesel, screenwriter of Enter The Drag Dragon!On top of the origins and making of Enter The Drag Dragon, they also chat about: indie film production co-op, sound effects editing, C4 Wrestling, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, the extinction of newspaper boxes, blockbuster lineups, Hugh Jackman, 35mm vs digital screenings, Batman '66, the length of feature length movies, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 3 - Thursday February 9: The Son, Tár, Assault On Precinct 13, Skinamarink, and Mind Leech!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: the 95th Academy Awards nominations, Bruce Willis, Baz Luhrmann, Roger Deakins, The BGF, Bill Murray, Sarah Polley, Netflix/indie cinema symbiosis, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 27 - Thursday February 2: Empire Of Light, Aftersun, Enter The Drag Dragon, the 2022/2023 New York Cat and Dog Film Fests, Saturday Night Sinema, Skinamarink, and Groundhog Day!
This week, Eric, and Josh are joined by Lee, to chat about his new movie - Enter The Drag-Dragon!They also discuss: dog walking, the Norman McLaren short film Neighbours, Cooley High, spotting old movie posters in movies and tv shows, video store movie posters, expensive VHS movies, The Bad News Bears, the lack of city specific film critics, the Get Carter remake, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday January 20 - Thursday January 26: Broker, You People, Bones And All, Get Carter, and The Room!
This week, Eric, and Josh chat about: Barrymoore's Music Hall, Parliament Hill, Dwayne Gretzky, celebrity status, the Rio Theatre, the Revue Cinema, Grand Piano, dangerous stunts, Rian Johnson, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 13 - Thursday January 19: No Bears, Tár, Friday The 13th Part V: A New Beginning, Bullitt, The Menu, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Y2K, physical media, third party movie listings, the Spider-man tv movie, pandemic era filmmaking, not terrible remakes, Anaconda, misremembering seeing movies, Barbarella, and more!They also mention the movies screening the Week of Friday January 6 - Thursday January 12, 2023: The Eternal Daughter, Aftersun, Them!, Holy Spider, and Midnight Cowboy!
This week, Eric, Sam, and Josh discuss: The Phantom Of The Opera, the Home Alone 2 audio book, Kevin Conroy's Batman legacy, Pearl, the Barrymore acting dynasty, the Oscars, Roku, Red Lobster, Denny's, New Year's Eve, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 30, 2022 - Thursday January 5, 2023: Eo, She Said, Armageddon Time, Smile, 3 Godfathers, and UHF!
This week, Eric, Sam, and Josh discuss: making checklists, snow shoveling, pizza delivery robots, White Christmas, Holiday Inn, Twin Peaks and Star Wars comparisons, Moonage Daydream, Purple Rain, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 23 - Thursday December 29: The Banshees Of Inisherin, The Pale Blue Eye, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, The Lemon Drop Kid, and Neil Young: Harvest Time!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: being in Holiday Season limbo, weekly vs monthly programming, The Golden Globes, Rahul Kohli, the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, classic films vs new films, watching horror movies in the afternoon, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 16 - Thursday December 22: Life & Life, The Banshees Of Inisherin, Next Exit, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Black Christmas, It's A Wonderful Life, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: more vandalism at the cinema, the Mayfair's 90th Anniversary, Grand Hotel, Non-Oscar winning movies, cinema rental events, Martin McDonagh, Home Alone, cereal, Trapped In Paradise, and more!They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 9 - Thursday December 15: Stay The Night, The Banshees Of Inisherin, Deadly Games: Dial Code Santa Claus, The Room, Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, The Beyond: The Composer's Cut, and We're No Angels!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: incorrectly stamped membership cards, the quality of old Mayfair podcasts, Kevin Smith, the evolution of recording equipment, high school communications classes, film vs digital photography, how impossible it is to make a movie, the Mayfair's 90th anniversary, The Polar Express, All I Didn't Want For Christmas, and more!Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 2 - Thursday December 8: Rosie, Call Jane, Hunt, Silent Night Deadly Night, and Grand Hotel!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Holiday Season decorations, our marquee, movie showtime sites with incorrect times, Room vs The Room, our neighbourhood chip truck disappearance, The Sound Of Music, The Greatest Show On Earth, novelizations, Tony Gilroy, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 25 - Thurs Dec 1: Lady Chatterley's Lover, Aftersun, Halloween Ends, Barbarian, Casablanca, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: the corner store origin of our candy bar, the projection booth storage bunker, people attempting to give stuff to the Mayfair that we don't have space for, lots of rentals, understudies, Cabinet Of Curiosities, the extinct Ontario Ratings Board, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 18 - Thursday October 24: Triangle Of Sadness, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, Vesper, The Greatest Show On Earth, Drinkwater, and Terrifier 2!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: the Halloween / Christmas transition, the fear of malls, V For Vendetta, the cancelled Goblin concert, horror movie lengths, intermissions, Nic Cage, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 11 - Thursday November 17: The Return Of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile, Don't Worry Darling, Masking Threshold, The Room, Terrifier 2, and Lawrence Of Arabia!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: movie piracy, shelved movies, Tubi, out of place rap theme songs, The Midnight Hour, TV movies vs theatrical movies, The Stepford Wives, Friday The 13th TV series, Halloween night, Pia Zadora, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the Week of Friday November 4 - Thursday November 10: Amsterdam, See How They Run, Moonage Daydream, Voyage Of The Rock Aliens, The Godfather, All Jacked Up And Full Of Worms, The Fall Of The House Of Usher, and Suspiria!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: closet microwaves, silent films / live bands, The Passion Of Joan Of Arc, potential new cinema neighbours, 1980s nostalgia, the Mayfair's 90th anniversary, Terrifier 2, the different Grinch's, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 28 - Thursday November 3: See How They Run, Ténor, Pearl, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: a mysterious found note, the fine line between rom-coms and stalkers, small town cinemas, The Aron Theatre, 111 Places In Ottawa That You Must Not Miss book, Saturday Morning Cartoons, the Stay Alive board game, Fletch, Asylum copycat movies, big budget vs small budget productions, double-bills vs attention spans, giant posters, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 21 - Thursday October 27: Descendant, The Good Nurse, Nosferatu, Confess Fletch, Trick 'R Treat, The Exorcist, and The Shining!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: The Midnight Club, Terrifier 2, Nope, Batgirl, We Need To Talk About Kevin, Gilligan's Island, Adam West, Taylor Swift, Cats, Texas Chainsaw Massacres, Basket Cases, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 14 - Thursday October 20: Rumba Therapy, Where The Crawdads Sing, Dark Glasses, Eternal Spring, The Taxas Chainsaw Massacre, Piggy, Monster Pool 666, and Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!
This week, Eric, Sam, and Josh discuss: giant Halloween decorations, Dahmer movies, true crime vs horror movies, animal safety in movies, Cannibal Holocaust, John Waters, movie franchise ownership, no ratings board in Ontario, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 7 - Thursday October 13: The Silent Twins, God's Creatures, Poltergeist, The Room, and Nope!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: stand-up comedy, Andy Richter, subscription scams, albums vs digital, kids watching their first movie at the Mayfair, marquee typos, those unaware of Rocky Horror, The Disaster Artist, the Paul Thomas Anderson's, Alanis Morissette, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 30 - Thursday October 6: Dear Audrey. Hold Me Tight, Jack-O, F The Devil + F The Devil 2, The Great Dictator, Bodies Bodies Bodies, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Friend-Of-Mayfair Tom Fowler to chat about: Gen X high school, Movies for Mommies, attention spans, the return of University students to the Mayfair, The Room, diverse programming, the lack of photo's pre-cell phones, Elvis movies, George Miller's weird career, and more!
Plus, they plug the new horror comic drawn by Tom from Hill House Comics / DC Comics, Refrigerator Full Of Heads!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 23 - Thursday September 29: Three Thousand Years Of Longing, Elvis, God's Country, Viva Las Vegas, and Modern Times!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: public transpo, comic cons, cosplay, tribute screenings, streaming ratings, horror franchises, Elvis movies, living a double life, Halloween Month, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 16 - Thursday September 22: The Duke, Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, Speak No Evil, City Lights, Jailhouse Rock, The Room, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric, Emily, and Josh discuss: Back to school, film school vs self-taught filmmaking, Sam Raimi, Tom Cruise, school bullying, open mic nights, M. Night Shyamalan, Virginie Efira, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening Friday September 9 - Thursday September 15: Waiting For Bojangles, The Good Boss, Saloum, The Kid, and Goodfellas!
This week, Eric, Josh, and special guest Nick discuss: The Mighty Ducks, Dungeons & Dragons Vs the Department of National Defense, a 1996 Mayfair schedule, the Farrelly Brothers, Police Academy, Key & Peele, Weird Al, Taylor Swift, Summertime, streaming movies Vs blu ray movies, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 2 - Thursday September 8: Where The Crawdads Sing, The Duke, Emily The Criminal, and Alienoid!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: McDonald's birthday parties, slushies, penny candy, Halloween urban legends, satanic panic, people recording movies on their phones, movies about movies, John Travolta comebacks, The Lost Boys comic store, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 26 - Thursday September 1: Summertime, Carmen, Funny Pages, To Catch A Thief, Blow Out, Cat Video Fest 2022, and Saturday Night Sinema.
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: high school summers, A Muppet Family Christmas, Dungeons & Dragons, Twilight, The Big Kahuna, Oscar bait movies, Eric's Christmas movie background actor gig, The Twilight World book by Werner Herzog, Hitchcock's celebrity, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 19 - Thursday August 25: Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, I Love My Dad, Fitzcarraldo, North By Northwest, Dressed To Kill, and Dosed 2!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Sega games, people who are too shy to podcast, cell phones vs payphones, music licencing, pre-1950s lost movies, the Batgirl/Scoob/WB fiasco, classic westerns, single screen programming limitations, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 12 - Thursday August 18: Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris, Basket Case, Obsession, Vertigo, Saturday Night Sinema, and Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song!
This week, Eric, Josh, and Paul (a friend visiting from L.A.!) discuss: a Spielberg sighting, movie truck companies, road rage, View Master, Grauman's Theatre, visiting Seattle, Mamma Mia!, celebrity beer league hockey, sequels that are rewritten into original movies, digital restorations, Weird Al, and more!
Plus they mention the movies the movies screening from Friday August 5 - Thursday August 11: Downton Abbey: A New Era, She-Devils On Wheels, Rear Window, and Sisters!
*There is mention of Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song, which was unfortunately unavailable at the last minute after the podcast recorded. And, no mention of Fire Of Love, which came in as a last minute replacement.
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Canada Day / outdoor fest crowds, loud movies, the Mayfair's X-Rated past, smoking in cinemas, working in video stores, Hitchcock Vs De Palma Fest, false movie watching memories, classic boastful trailers, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday July 29 - Thursday August 4, 2022: Peace By Chocolate, Hallelujah, Resurrection, Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: 1960s sitcoms, international junk food, candy bar vs candy bar, drive-in snacks, Rock 'N' Roll High School, the American Genre Film Archive, Eve Of Destruction, Jeffrey Combs, Tron, James Mangold, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday July 22 - Thursday July 28: Murina, Both Sides Of The Blade, Creepshow, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, and 3:10 To Yuma!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: pizza, potential new neighbours, Disney Infinity, Guns N' Roses, outdoor concerts, High Noon, black and white movies, Rock 'N' Roll High School Forever, James Caan, Alien Nation, Enemy Mine, and more!
They also mention the movie screening the week of Friday July 15 - Thursday July 21: The Phantom Of The Open, Everything Everywhere All At Once, She Will, Shane, Rock 'N' Roll High School, Thief, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: the Montreal Expos, baseball and basketball movies, the two sides of Adam Sandler, shooting city specific movies in the wrong city, 1990s rap theme songs, executive producer Stan Lee, background actor gigs, flops that become classics, Megaforce merch, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday July 8 - Thursday July 14: Slash/Back, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Halloween III: Season Of The Witch, The Forgiven, High Noon, and Downton Abbey: A New Class!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Jaws merch, a beloved Godzilla toy, Clash of the Titans, Battlestar Galactica, John Carpenter's The Thing, Star Wars, the anti Michael Keaton Batman 1989 petition, soundtracks, 1970s indie Canadian genre filmmaking, westerns, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday July 1 - Thursday July 7: The Phantom of the Open, Official Competition, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Rabid, and Red River!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: a small town cinema for sale, video stores, advertising at the Mayfair, neighbourhood construction, bike stands, different movies with the same name, Death Train, Gunmen, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday June 24 - Thursday June 30: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Men, Coda: Life With Music, Elizabeth: A Portrait In Part(s), Bonnie And Clyde, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Saturday The 14th, Star Wars Celebration, a zero person attended movie, the ebbs and flows of programming, World War movies, David Cronenberg, Nightbreed, female action heroes, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening the week of Friday June 17 - Thursday June 23: Benediction, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Mad God, and Crimes Of The Future!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent, Paddington 2, applauding at movies, Cannes Film Fest standing ovations, Beavis and Butthead, getting pressured to watch stuff you don't want to watch, Premium Rush, Robert Eggers, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday June 10 - Thursday June 16: Very Nice Day, Memoria, Neptune Frost, Breakfast At Tiffany's, The Northman, The Righteous, Past Redemption 2, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Disney Land, geek conventions, early Steven Spielberg, early John Carpenter, Elvis Presley, TVO's Saturday Night At The Movies, John Wayne, Idol Of The Crowds, our broken popcorn machine, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday June 3 - Thursday June 9: Madeleine Collins, Happening, Mondocane, and The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Star Wars anniversaries, Ewan McGregor, big screen Netflix, Prey / Predator, TV movies, Tubi, dangerous Ottawa weather and power outages, depressing high school books, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the Week of Friday May 27 - Thursday June 2: The Rose Maker, Petite Maman, Eiffel, Pleasure, Soylent Green, The Batman, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter, adjusted for inflation stats, bad box office, Saturday Night Sinema, 35mm vs digital screenings, Greg Sestero's new movie, Ringo Starr, Dario Argento, Max Brooks, adaptations, Blues Brothers 2000, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 20 - Thursday May 26: The Rose Maker, Petite Maman, Lux Æterna, Free Trip To Egypt, and The Innocents!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Raglan shirts, travelling during COVID times, our broken / new popcorn machines, the supply chain, free pass movies, Battle Royale, Siskel horror movie reviews, Drag Me To Hell, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 13 - Thursday May 19: Operation Mincemeat, Run Woman Run, Vortex, Stanleyville, and Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: May the 4th, gatekeeping, celeb photo ops, Mad Dog Time, Michael Keaton, movie extra gigs, IMDb credits, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 6 - Thursday May 12: Hit The Road, All My Puny Sorrows, Kicking Blood, and Once Upon A Time In China!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh discuss: deliveries, Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Last Jedi, From Dusk Till Dawn, spoiler filled trailers, Kids in the Hall, The Crying Game, Hot Shots, Siskel & Ebert, Weird Al, mix tapes, Land of the Dead, intermissions, and more!
Also, they mention the movies screening the week of April 29 - May 5: Bad Roads, The Sadness, ¡Viva Maestro!, The Godfather: 50th Anniversary, Dual, Belle, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: more covid catching, the Enter The Drag Dragon shoot, getting burned prepping coffee, the Oscar bump, Kenneth Branagh, found footage movies, Mark Rylance, Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy, The Batman, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 22 - Thursday April 28: Death On The Nile, Atlantis, The Outfit, Executioners, and We're All Going To The World's Fair!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Mario Kart, Mr. T, the Olympics, attendance numbers, Nicolas Cage, National Canadian Film Day, Damned Cursed Children, watching movies in high school classes, Studio 666, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday April 15 - Thursday April 21: Cyrano, The Tribe, X, Scarborough, and The Heroic Trio!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: catching Covid, 5 star reviews, thinking camping is illogical, Our Flag Means Death, video store classifications, Roger Corman, and more!
They also mention the movies screening from Friday April 8 - Thursday April 14: Summer Of Soul, The Worst Person In The World, Last Of The Right Whales, The Guide, Red Rocket, Reel Rock 16, and Moving Day!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: working a split shift, Mayfair Oscars aftermath, Aretha Franklin: Amazing Grace, bad Q & A's, elevated horror, Foo Fighters, Spice World, Rock & Roll High School, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 1 - Thursday April 7: Licorice Pizza, Drive My Car, Summer Of Soul, Bloodthirsty, and Studio 666!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: April Fools' Day, scary video store posters, the Slumber Party Massacre franchise, Alf, Shout Factory, the Weird Al biopic, digital theatrical distribution, the Golden Globes, the Oscars, Pig, magic eye pictures, Dig Dug, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening from Friday March 25 - Thursday March 31, 2022: Parallel Mothers, West Side Story, The Tragedy Of Macbeth, Alice, Foxy Brown, Saturday Night Sinema, and the Academy Awards telecast!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: obscure McDonald's mascots, Bryan Cranston, Doctor Who, James Cameron, Christopher Lee, Mark Hamill, Henry Winkler, Child's Play, The Baby-Sitters Club, Paul Thomas Anderson / Paul W.S. Anderson, retro production design, Indecent Proposal, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday March 18 - Thursday March 24, 2022: Writing With Fire, The Worst Person In The World, Licorice Pizza, Drive My Car, Coffy, and Bloody Oranges!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: the Shamrock Shake, McDonald's movie tie-in merch, product placement, cereal toys, Star Wars sheets, buying gifts for a collector, Wilford Brimley, Bruce Willis, the Golden Globes, Paul Thomas Anderson vs Paul W.S. Anderson, Mike Flanagan, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 11 - Thursday March 17: Belfast, The Worst Person In The World, Licorice Pizza, and Airplane!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: 1 star reviews, The Kobayashi Maru, Nightmare Alley, Feud, Ed Wood, Saturday Night Sinema, Licorice Pizza, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening the week of Friday March 4 - Thursday March 10: West Side Story, Belfast, Parallel Mothers, The Automat, Blazing Saddles, What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, The Big Lebowski, and the Shits & Giggles: Comedy Film Fest!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: 11th hour programming, Dune vs Dune, Patrick Stewart, Michael Caine, Back To The Future, pop-culture politics, It: Chapter One vs It: Chapter Two, Kenneth Branagh, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday February 25 - Thursday March 3: Belfast, West Side Story, Nightmare Alley, Dune, Thunderball, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Adam McKay, kids learning filmmaking, TikTok, trailer spoilers, Doctor Strange, Sony Spidey spin-off movies, Vinegar Syndrome, Doctor Who, Family Day, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 18 - Thursday February 24, 2022: Flee, Drive My Car, New York Ninja, Goldfinger, Super Fly, and Back To The Future!
This week, Eric and Josh chat mostly about the Oscar nominations, plus: being on the radio, The French Dispatch, Last Night In Soho, Pig, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, short films, Moonfall, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday February 11th - Thursday February 17th, 2022: House Of Gucci, Dune, From Russia With Love, Shaft, Casablanca, and My Bloody Valentine!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh deal with interruptions from a puppy as they discuss: big screen video games, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, the Arnprior O'Brian Theatre, the vintage Mayfair marquee, The Neon Museum, Benedict Cumberbatch, 1917, Bond movies, The Bronx Warriors, the Elvis tv movie, and more!
They also mention the movies screening from Friday February 4 - Thursday February 10: King Richard, The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain, They Live, Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes, and Dr. No!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: the Mayfair's 90th Anniversary, returning from lockdown, chocolate popcorn, Cinerama, long movies, The Alligator People, Night Of The Demon, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, and more!
They also mention the movies screening during a shortened return from COVID lockdown part 5 week of Monday January 31 - Thursday February 3, 2022: Délicieux, The Novice, Spaceballs, and Deliverance.
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: snowstorms, cleaning your stuff out of your parents house, Single White Female, Pauly Shore, Steven Seagal, Phantom Of The Mall: Eric's Revenge, Adam Sandler, Free Solo, the Safdie Brothers, collecting animation cels, The Young Nurses / Dick Miller, Lady Terminator, Rifftrax, and more!
We are currently in our 5th round of COVID lockdown, with hopes of returning by the end of January, 2022. Stay tuned!
This week Eric and Josh discuss: being a superintendent, Amazon, Dollar Stores, Turkish Star Wars, Escape From Tomorrow, Mayfair movie shoots, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Starsky & Hutch, Dopesick, the Golden Globes, Ridley Scott, the Multiverse, Eternals, Captain Ron, Tiny Tim, and more!
We're in our fifth wave of lockdown in January 2022. Stay tuned for updates on our return.
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: lockdown round 5, Dune, Spider-man: No Way Home, James Bond, New York Ninja, media frustrations, lockdown fundraising, cinema rentals, the Toronto Raptors, Rifftrax, Yellowjackets, The Requin, Don't Look Up, and more!
In January 2022, we are currently in our fifth round of Covid lockdown. Stay tuned for news of our return!
This week, Eric, Emily, and Josh discuss: Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, going to church, terrible box office profits vs excellent social media support, The French Dispatch, Rituals, how time works differently when you're a kid, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Ewoks tv movies, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday December 31 2021 - Thursday January 6 2022: Délicieux, The Novice, Spaceballs, and Deliverance!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: free buses, eye surgery, COVID restrictions, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, 1970s blockbusters, Gilligan's Island, Elves, Planet Of The Apes, Elwy Yost, the supply chain, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday December 24th - Thursday December 30th: The French Dispatch, Julia, and Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent, Spider-man: No Way Home spoilers, frustrations at people complaining that "They don't make movies like that anymore", Blue Is The Warmest Colour, The Holly And The Ivy, getting an Edgar Wright retweet, clapping at the end of movies, special editions vs original editions, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening (and a special live event happening) Friday December 17 - Thursday December 23: Spencer, The French Dispatch, Scrooged, It's A Wonderful Life, The Outsiders: The Complete Novel, and Miracle On Bank Street 4!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: latkes, film shoots in the Mayfair, big screen video games, N64 Goldeneye, the Ghostbusters Switch game, Beginners, Joker, The Lift, Chucky, trilogies, and more!
They also mention the movies screening from Friday December 10th - Thursday December 16th, 2021: C'mon C'mon, Benedetta, Gremlins, and Mulholland Drive!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: rentals, schedules, programming requests, The Family Man, Hanukkah, Castle Grayskull, Marshmallow perfume, Black Friday, Paint Your Wagon, Twilight, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 3rd - Thursday December 9th: Spencer, Last Night In Soho, and Unforgiven!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Lee's film shoot, Disney distribution, renting the cinema, 1930s marquee displays, swag, Dean Stockwell, deep fake technology, Neil Breen, and more!
They also mention the movies screening from Friday November 26th - Thursday December 2nd, 2021: The Rescue, The African Queen, Fright Night, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Polar Express, and Paris, Texas!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: blockbusters, 007, Chloé Zhao, people doing the wrong thing by taking pictures of the movies on screen, bullying, Eighth Grade, John Wayne, digital restorations, Ben Affleck / Matt Damon, Elliott Smith, and more!
They also mention the movies screening from the week of Friday November 19th - Thursday November 25th: The Last Duel, Bruised, The Feast, and High Plains Drifter!
This week, Eric, Sam, and Josh discuss: Broadway, William Castle gimmicks, when movie studios owned cinema chains, Stanley Kubrick, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Wrong Cops, John Wayne vs Clint Eastwood, maple syrup crimes, Hamilton, Cats, and more!
They also mention the movies screening from Friday November 12th - Thursday november 18th, 2021: Luzzu, tick...tick...BOOM!, Don't Say Its Name, and Dirty Harry!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Discount candy, Red Vines vs Twizzlers, the successful Non-Participation Just-Sit-And-Watch Rocky Horror screenings, Trolls, Mayfair job interviews, Greg Sestero, Jeff Nichols, a new puppy, and more!
They also mention the movies screening from Friday November 5th - Thursday November 11th, 2021: The Card Counter, Passing, Harold And Maude, and Play Misty For Me!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: work schedules, bigger crowds attending the cinema, returning to travelling, MST3K, people watching classics for the first time, our candy bar treasures, watching 50 horror movies in October, The Witchboard Trilogy, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening Friday October 29th - Thursday November 4th, 2021: Asia, The Eyes Of Tammy Faye, Poltergeist, 608, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Army Of Darkness big screen glory, non-participation Rocky Horror, Covid regulations, Saturday morning cartoons, the lost art of cereal toys, illogical excuses to torrent movies, movie distribution, when potential franchise starters flop, kids bad taste in movies, Cats, Amazing Grace, the complicated Halloween movie timelines, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday October 22nd - Thursday October 29th: Respect, Maria Chapdelaine, Titane, and The Shining!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: the cinema being at full capacity, conspiracy theories, Thanksgiving, special editions / director's cuts, Moon Trap, promotional standees, Tron, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday October 15th - Thursday October 21st: Hard Luck Love Song, Mass, The Exorcist, and Army Of Darkness!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Richard Donner, Indiana Jones 5, Willard and Ben, bad trailers, Titane, Mike Flannagan, Shakespeare movies, David Lynch, the Evil Dead Trilogy, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 8th - Thursday October 14th: Fever Dream, El Planeta, Eraserhead, and Evil Dead 2!
This week, Eric, Lee, and Josh chat about: covid in fiction, Greg Sestero's new movie, Mel Gibson in Ottawa, James Gunn, Troma, Blazing Saddles, Sarah Silverman, Zola, West Coast Video, Faces Of Death, scary posters in mom & pop video stores, Phantom Menace Pepsi machines, local 13 year old filmmaker Nolan Tucker, and more!
They also mention the movies screening from Friday October 1st - Thursday October 7th, 2021: Falling For Figaro, Flag Day, The Blues Brothers, and The Evil Dead!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Fury Road cars, prop warehouses, movie artifacts, animation cels, expensive comic book art, View Master / Fisher Price toy projectors, read along records, the Evil Dead franchise, and more!
They also mention the movies screening from Friday September 24th - Thursday September 30th: Stillwater, The Truffle Hunters, Dune, Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life, Hail To The Deadites, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: messy patrons, cinema rentals, big screen video games, church in the cinema, vaccine verification, Michael Caine, Suicide Club, Bollywood, Halloween Month programming, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and more!
They also mention the movies screening from Friday September 17th - Thursday September 23rd: Mogul Mowgli, Best Sellers, Prisoners Of The Ghostland, and Monty Python & The Holy Grail!
This week, Eric, Sam, and Josh chat about: film shoot work, The Last Movie, landlord drama, being a funeral director, a rare angry email, patrons cleaning up after themselves, avoiding spoilers, geek convention treasure, Swingers / Sega NHLPA 93, and more!
They also mention the movies screening from Friday September 10th - Thursday September 16th: The Green Knight, Mrs Lowry & Son, Old, And Now For Something Completely Different, and All The Streets Are Silent!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh discuss: Saturday Night Sinema, the Star Wars Holiday Special, John Waters, The Kitchen, movie walk outs, ratings, young horror fans, disturbing 1980s kids movies, Cocaine Wars, Boom Operators, Andy Warhol, reading Stephen King in Jr High, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 3rd - Thursday September 9th, 2021: The Green Knight, Swan Song, The Witches Of The Orient, Drunken Master II, and Carrie!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: cinema rentals, past days of stores being packed with dvd's, Monty Python, movie distribution, M. Night Shyamalan, Nicolas Cage, Parasite, how impossible it is to pick a favourite movie, anthologies, air conditioning, House Of Targ, Nostalgia Warehouse, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 27th - Thursday September 2nd, 2021: I Carry You With Me, The Green Knight, Raging Bull, Creepshow, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Lee and Josh chat about: Lee's latest directorial effort, the UFO documentary mini-series, Toys R Us, The Room, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Troll 2, Sharknado, Tangerine, The Florida Project, Alfred Hitchcock, Once Upon A Time In China, The Littlest Hobo, Malibu High, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 20th - Thursday August 26th: Stray, Dream Horse, Raging Fire, and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: Friday The 13th's, Abbott & Costello, Batman serials, collecting stuff, physical media, video stores, laundromats, Back To The Future Part II and III, Saturday The 14th, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 13th to Thursday August 19th: Nine Days, Curiosa, Roadrunner, For A Few Dollars More, and Friday The 13th Part III!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: Willy's Wonderland, Fast And Furious movies, Black Panther, Out Of Sight, Anaconda, The Stuff, The Lost Boys sequels, Brendan Fraser, Bruce Campbell, The Sparks Brothers, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 6th - Thursday August 12th: Annette, Kaamelott: The First Chapter, A Fistful Of Dollars, and An American Werewolf In London!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: Disneyland, Governor Schwarzenegger, getting your passport stolen, the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood book, fictional movie histories, Masters Of The Universe, Nope, different Hannibal Lecter's, Schindler's List, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday July 30th - Thursday August 5th: The Father, Hope, The Silence Of The Lambs, Crash, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh discuss: Pig, the Oscars, Hollywood Stock Exchange, Phone Booth, Bruce Willis, encouraging patrons to arrive early, discouraging patrons from taking pictures of an on the screen movie, the Three Men And A Baby ghost, and more!
They also mention the movies screening from Friday July 23rd - Thursday July 29th: Gunda, Zola, Minari, and The Shining!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: the return from lockdown, Nicolas Cage, Underwater, why double-bills don't work, Psycho II / III / IV, Mick Garris, John Carpenter, defending remakes, Silence of the Lambs, Ben Burtt, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday July 16th - Thursday July 22nd: Pig, The Specials, Heavy Metal, and Wild At Heart!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: Lift Like A Girl, eye needles, Tom Green, Malibu High, VHS movie giveaway, Bullseye, Tales From The Crypt, the library, The Lost Missile, Uncle Sam, Fear Street 1994, No Sudden Move, Strike Commando, The Leather Boys, and more!
We are in our 4th round of covid lockdown. There is hope that we may now be within the same month that we get back to screening movies again! Nothing official, but we may be back sometime around July 23, 2021!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh discuss: Ottawa hitting Stage 2 of lockdown rules, Tom Green, positive social media interactions, Quentin Tarantino, The Living Dead book, Sidney Lumet, film school vs learning to make movies with friends, Sam Raimi, 8 Million Ways To Die, The New Mutants, Riders Of Justice, the Children Of The Corn franchise, and more!
We are in our 4th round of covid lockdown. The glass half full hope is that we may now be within the same month that we get back to screening movies again! Nothing official, but we may be back sometime around July 23, 2021!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: virtual cinema, Quentin Tarantino, Melvin and Mario Van Peebles, Jaws 4, Spielberg / Netflix, The Green Knight, The Lost Missile, Strange Shadows In An Empty Room, Blake Edwards, Hot Knives, The Space Between, The Woman In The Window, and more!
We're still in our 4th round of covid lockdown. It looks like way may be able to return sometime around July 23rd, 2021. Stay tuned for updates!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: our poster collection, Head Over Heels, romantic comedies, Carnosaur 2, Roger Corman's Fantastic Four, the Vanier Cinema, Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion, Saturday Night Sinema, lost tv shows, The Film Crew, Champagne and Bullets, Field of Dreams, and more!
We're still in our 4th round of covid lockdown. It looks like way may be able to return sometime around July 23rd, 2021. Stay tuned for updates!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: a lack of sports knowledge, Ghostbusters, Indy 5, Evil Dead 5, the Halloween franchise, Tales From The Darkside / Creepshow 3, Amusement Park, Once Upon A Spy, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, Switchblade Sisters, Cube, Spiral, The Wraith, and more!
We're still in our 4th round of covid lockdown. It looks like way may be able to return sometime around July 23rd, 2021. Stay tuned for updates!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Raymond Scott, Mayfair marquee wedding proposals, Mayfair bunker finds, Batman 89, Arnold Schwarzenegger, trading cards, nostalgia, Bad Lieutenant, Resevoir Dogs, Hard Times, Shout Factory TV, MST3K, Dark Shadows, Mutilations, Hard Target, and more!
We're still in our 4th round of covid lockdown. It looks like way may be able to return sometime around the end of July, 2021. Stay tuned for updates!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh discuss: the latest covid lockdown rules, screening a non-participation Rocky Horror Picture Show, the 100th anniversary of the Overlook Hotel Ball, Parasite, Aladdin (2019), The Amusement Park, the horror genre's box office success, Last Night In Soho, hologram trading cards, Saint Jack, Shock Waves, Fire And Ice, and more!
We're still in our 4th round of covid lockdown. It looks like way may be able to return sometime around the end of July, 2021. Stay tuned for updates!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: getting vaccinated, the Saw franchise, the Conjuring franchise, our amazingly supportive patrons, Empire Records, marquee rentals, alphabetizing the 'for sale' posters, The Set Up, Fried Barry, Shaolin Soccer, White Line Fever, Trailers From Hell, and more!
We are still in our 4th round of covid lockdown. Stay tuned for information of our grand return!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: silent films with live music, the Battlestar Galactica movie, Feud, the poor percentage record the movie industy has for making good product, Trog, Robert Aldrich almost directing Alien, The Frisco Kid, alternate career paths for Spielberg and Lucas, Rachel Talalay, film/tv acting, Horror Express, and more!
We're in our 4th round of lockdown still, and will be there until at least early June. Stay tuned for updates and information about our return.
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: two different Bad Batch's, Jim Carrey, A Boy And His Dog, Spongebob, camera drones, our 35mm trailer sale, movie promo swag, potato chips contest scams, bad kids shoplifting, Nomadland, The Terror, Barb And Star Go To Vista Del Mar, Feud, and more!
We're still in the trenches of our 4th round of covid lockdown. Stay tuned for info on our grand return.
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: suburbs vs downtown, power outages, Marvel Unlimited, Batman '89 vhs, The Wizard, online auctions, Batman Forever McDonald's glasses, Royal Wedding, Blind Fury, The Mitchells Vs The Machines, Mortal Kombat, Meg 2, prepping a 35mm trailer sale, and more!
We are still in the trenches of our 4th covid lockdown in Ottawa, stay tuned for updates on our grand return to screening movies again!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: 420 / The Big Lebowski, Half Baked, Dirty Work, projector maintenance, 35mm trailers, Mayfair Virtual Cinema, the Oscars, The Father, Kid 90, Sasquatch, Manos: The Hands Of Fate, Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend, Horror Noire, Mr. Boogedy, Godzilla vs Kong, and more!
We are in our fourth round of covid lockdown at the moment. Stay tuned for info regarding our return, we hope to be back and screening movies soon.
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: Saturday The 14th, Space Jam, Neil Breen, physical media, Malibu High, Steel, Warner Archives, our marquee tiles sale, pizza ATM's, Outbreak, the Mayfair April/May 1993 schedule, Trespass, CB4, The Sea Wolf, Me You Madness, Nomadland, and more!
We are in our fourth round of covid lockdown at the moment. Stay tuned for info regarding our return, we hope to be back and screening movies soon.
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh discuss: Judge Dredd, Once Upon A Time In Venice, Tremors: Shrieker Island, Chadwick Boseman, the Psycho franchise, generation spanning characters, Hannibal, Wolverine, Edward Norton, director switch ups, a 1991 Mayfair schedule, 1990s tech panic movies, and more!
We are in our fourth round of covid lockdown at the moment. Stay tuned for info regarding our return, we hope to be back and screening movies soon.
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: the ongoing lockdown, the new age of movie distribution, Dark Shadows, Psycho Goreman, Turbo Kid, vintage Star Wars toy displays, The Astrologer, missing out on catching movies at the Mayfair regrets, Surfer: Teen Confronts Fear, VCRs, Steel, Ewoks movies, the classification for a short vs a feature film, and more!
We are in our fourth round of covid lockdown at the moment. Stay tuned for info regarding our return, we hope to be back and screening movies soon.
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: being the only business in lockdown surrounded by open businesses, applying to get the Mayfair onto a tv show, William Shatner, John Wayne, Better Call Saul, Treat Williams, Sidney Lumet, Vin Diesel, Face/Off, Rocky movies, alternate universe movie casting, and more!
We are in our fourth round of covid lockdown at the moment. Stay tuned for info regarding our return, we hope to be back and screening movies soon.
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: going back into the Red Zone, construction next door, game show winnings, being interviewed, classic rock, Nic Cage, Smooth Talk, Yaphet Kotto, comic con photo ops, the Oscar nominations, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies that would have been screening Friday March 19th - Thursday March 25th, 2021, if we were not headed into a 4th round of red zone lockdown: Stray, Mrs Lowry & Son, Wild At Heart, and Heavy Metal!
Stay tuned for info regarding our return from lockdown, we hope to be back and screening movies soon.
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: Broadway, the ByTowne Cinema, death icicles, HBO, David Lynch, Videodrome police raids, banned screenings, Not Rated replacing To Be Announced classifications, Jezebel 1979 vs Jezebel 1938, Golden Globes sham, Treat Williams (of course), and more!
They also mention the movies screening from Friday March 12th - Thursday March 18th, 2021: Death Of A Ladies' Man, Night Of The Kings, Videodrome, and Blue Velvet!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: post-covid Hollywood movie releases, Marvel, the Highlander franchise, Thundercats, VHS treasure hunting, Running Time, Time Code, The Rope, director's cuts / weird extended dvd cuts of movies, Avatar, Matthew Modine, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 5th - Thursday March 11th, 2021: Woman Of The Year, Jezebel, My Salinger Year, Eyes Wide Shut, and Army Of Darkness!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: eating cereal on a bus, the Bytowne Cinema, Wonder Woman 1984, Alex Winter, new Nicolas Cage movies, Disney Land, The Running Man, the Muppets, smoking in movies, video on demand, The Host, Fresh, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday February 26th - Thursday March 4th, 2021: Our Friend, Memories Of Murder, Jungle Fever, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Psycho Goreman, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: returning from covid lockdown round 3, Florida snowbirds, The Social Network and JFK falsehoods, celebrating anniversaries ending in zero, offensive moments in Trading Places and Animal House, the great Jamie Lee Curtis, Eric watches Shakedown and another lost Treat Williams movie, and more!
They also mention the movies screening from Friday February 19th - Thursday February 25th (because, the Mayfair is back from lockdown this week!): Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?, Some Kind Of Heaven, The War Of The Worlds, Boogie Nights, and Casablanca!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh discuss: Blackenstein, early Denzel movies, our poster collection, sneaking into R-rated Mayfair movies in high school, Ontario's lack of a rating board, Dune, walking out of movies, Blue Is The Warmest Colour, Risky Business, Shakedown, White Fire, being in the golden age of the restoration of trash treasure cinema, and more!
We're still in the trenches of our third round of COVID-19 related lockdown in Ottawa. Stay tuned for updates, and we will keep our fingers crossed that movies will be back on screen in the cinema soon, in February 2021!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: working 9 to 5, video store life, Aquaman, movie critics, Burt Reynolds, Mark Hamill, Hal Holbrock, watching the work of a veteran actor for the first time, new condo's being built in the neighbourhood, hopes for screening the new Nicolas Cage movie, and more!
We're still in the trenches of our third round of COVID-19 related lockdown in Ottawa. Stay tuned for updates, and we will keep our fingers crossed that movies will be back on screen in the cinema in February 2021!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: The Littlest Hobo, The Beach Combers, Walker Texas Ranger, Lethal Weapon 5, kid actors with three names, weird sequels, Donald Sutherland, Danny DeVito, Deep Rising, Joe Dante, vintage Mayfair schedules, the Psycho franchise, and more!
We're still in the trenches of our third round of COVID-19 related lockdown in Ottawa. Stay tuned for updates, and we will keep our fingers crossed that movies will be back on screen in the cinema in February 2021!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh check in from separate lockdown locations, and chat about: bad movie nights, Wing Commander, The Guyver, straight to vhs movies, Darkman sequels, Dr. Giggles, Ewoks movies, movies we would have screened if lockdown hadn't interfered, Star Trek, The Mandolorian, pre-internet spoilers, vintage Mayfair schedules, and more!
We're still in the trenches of our third round of COVID-19 related lockdown in Ottawa. Stay tuned for updates, and we will keep our fingers crossed that movies will be back on screen in the cinema in February 2021!
This week Eric and Josh check in from separate lockdown locations, and chat about: silver linings, cinema repairs, Friday the 13th Part III plans, Memories of Murder, Sundance Film Fest, virtual cinema, The Beatles, old timey radio shows, hot Dr. Pepper, Robocop 2 trading cards gum, and more!
We've just had our third round of COVID-19 related lockdown extended in Ottawa. Stay tuned for updates, and we will keep our fingers crossed that movies will be back on screen in the cinema in February 2021!
This week, Josh and Lee chat about: lockdown delayed film shoots, Martin Cove, catching up on cinematic classics, The War of the Worlds, Tom Cruise, the evolution of location / backlot / stagecraft film production, Michael Keaton Batman, inviting the mayor and prime minister to visit, and more!
We're still in our third round of COVID-19 related lockdown to ring in the New Year. Stay tuned for updates, and we look forward to hopefully seeing you again in the cinema in January 2021!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: the lack of snow, lockdown acclimation, Paul Verhoeven, Let The Right One In vs Let Me In, the new Black Christmas, underproduced female action figures, Jamie Lee Curtis, new world box office / distribution, cheaper Hollywood movie budgets, and more!
We're in our third round of COVID-19 related lockdown to wrap up 2020. Stay tuned for updates, and we look forward to seeing you again in the cinema in early 2021!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: going into a 3rd lockdown, Christmas Jewish wishes, Christmas morning gifts, learning stuff from comic books, It's A Wonderful Life, Mayfair's tv Christmas movie fame, being a movie extra, and more!
As of December 26th, 2020, we are back into lockdown for an unknown amount of time...hopefully only a couple of weeks! Stay tuned for info on our next schedule, which fingers crossed will be on our screen sometime in January 2021!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh discuss: generous patrons, watching R-rated movies thanks to VHS, Crossroads, West Coast Video, prudish Siskel & Ebert, Excorsist III, colourized movies, other Mayfair's, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday December 18th - Thursday December 24th: Another Round, I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight, Prince Of Darkness, The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water, Gremlins, The Muppet Christmas Carol, and It's A Wonderful Life!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: the Mayfair's 88th birthday, future set movies, Jeopardy, the Bytowne's closure, Warner Bros distribution plans, Steven Soderbergh, Christopher Nolan, Bloodshot's new normal box office success, Ontario's lack of a ratings board, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday December 11th - Thursday December 17th, 2020: Splinters, Tenet, The Warriors, and Die Hard!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: Kevin Smith, Joe Rogan, Netflix symbiosis, Oscars 2021, alternate universe casting, Christopher Nolan sound design, Saturday Morning cartoons inspired by R-rated movies, Archie crossovers, Muppets, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 4th - Thursday December 10th: Mank, Tenet, Robocop, Black Bear, and Crock Of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: snowfall, cinema rentals, video games, digital movie distribution, false claims at visionary status, watching documentaries without knowing actual history, sports movies, Quentin Tarantino books, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday November 27th - Thursday December 3rd: Percy, Ammonite, Zappa, Possessor, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: digital restorations, Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, anthologies, physical media, Bruce Willis, Ron Howard and Bryce Dallas Howard, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday November 20th - Thursday November 26th: Vanguard, The Last Vermeer, Hillbilly Elegy, Psychomagic: A Healing Art, and the Ottawa Adventure Film Fest!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: the Ottawa Adventure Film Fest, Polar Express, a new Frank Zappa doc, Nic Cage, pan and scan, Kim Cattrall, 3D movies, and more!
They also mention the movies screening from Friday November 13th - Thursday November 19th: The Climb, Crecsendo, Friday The 13th Part II, The Holy Mountain, Action USA, and Vanguard!
This week, Eric and Josh finish recording a podcast right before news hit that the cinema can re-open on Saturday November 7th!
Instead of that, they chat about advent calanders, Mall anger, art installations, autographs, limited edition collectibles, Episode One merch, digital content, The Polar Express, Die Hard, and more!
This was the 4th podcast recorded during Lockdown Part 2. We'll be back to a slightly more normal podcast next week!
This week, Eric, Sam, and Josh chat about: War of the Worlds, first childhood horror movies watched, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, corner store video stores, Vincent Price, Ed Wood, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Halloween candy, Josh's new comic book projects (Flip volume 2, and Damned, Cursed Children), and more!
We're in COVID-19 Lockdown 2 Week 3. Stay tuned for updates about our return, hopefully in November 2020!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: American Rickshaw, Janet Jones, thinking all movies are great when you're a kid, the He-Man/She-Ra movie, Tron, Sleepy Hollow, James Wan, Treat Williams, Anaconda, Greg Sestero in The Haunting of Bly Manor, ghosts, our generous patrons, and more!
We're in COVID-19 Lockdown 2 Week 2. Stay tuned for updates about our return, hopefully in November 2020!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: round 2 of covid-19 lockdown, our epic Friday The 13th Fest, journalistic integrity, silver linings, kitties and puppies, chaos theory, Exorcist II, Batman & Robin, Star Trek: Generations, Hellraiser's, and more!
As mentioned, we're back into another round of being on lockdown. Stay tuned for updates on our return!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: I Know What You Need short film indiegogo campaign, covid era weddings, friends in commercials, the Polkaroo's secret identity, midnight movie history, mob distribution of movies, the Monster Mash, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday October 9th - Thursday October 15th, 2020: Saturday Night Sinema, The Artist's Wife, El Topo, A Nightmare On Elm Street, and Nadia, Butterfly!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: impending lock-down possibilities, Rocky Horror, that wearing masks shouldn't be difficult, various Pinocchio movies, elevated horror vs horror vs thriller classifications, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday October 2nd - Thursday October 8th, 2020: The Keeper, The Tobacconist, 8 1/2, and Rosemary's Baby!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: a bunch of movie franchises (Alien, Predator, Terminator, Child's Play), George A. Romero, movie development hell, M. Night Shyamalan, Gone Girl, Jane Fonda, Touched By An Angel, Clark Kent / Superman, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday September 25th - Thursday October 1st: The Personal History Of David Copperfield, Radioactive, They Live, Barbarella: Queen Of The Galaxy, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: retirement parties, more lock-down possibilities, Clue, weekly program fliers, Game Of Death, Empire Records, the future of coin and paper money, Bernard Herrmann, movie budgets, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday September 18th - Thursday September 24th: Come And See, Hope Gap, The Rest Of Us, and Peninsula!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: endless amounts of content to watch, Slaughterhouse-Five, Cruel Jaws, The Asylum movies, Single White Female, bad movie nights, Elizabethtown, Gremlins stickers, Thriller, scary E.T., and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday September 11th - Thursday September 17th: Military Wives, How To Be A Good Wife, Game Of Death, and Bill & Ted Face The Music!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: movie timeline futures, The Running Man, ghost writers, William Shatner, Ben Affleck audio commentaries, Disney live action remakes, Tom Cruise, the sophomore jinx, Dougray Scott Wolverine, Wild Things, knockoff sequels, Pacific Heights, and more!
Plus, they mention the films screening from Friday September 4th - Thursday September 10th, 2020: Dave Not Coming Back, Enter The Dragon, Summerland, and A Clockwork Orange!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: new movies being released post lock-down, All The Money In The World, same plot movies being released at the same time, scary underwater movies, seat-belts, watching VHS movies on a bus trip, being a latch-key kid, Tim Burton, Jeff Speakman, and more!
Plus they mention the movies screening from Friday August 28th - Thursday September 3rd, 2020: The Great Green Wall, The Burnt Orange Heresy, The Way Of The Dragon, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, Saturday Night Sinema, and the stay-at-home Mayfair Virtual Cinema presentation of My Lucky Stars!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: being back from lock-down for a month, Spice Girls, the Raptors, post lock-down film shoots, rescheduled Hollywood releases, Neil Breen, different Kermit the Frog's, Maniac Cop, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday August 21st - Thursday August 27th: The Empire Strikes Back, Fist Of Fury, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Nomad: In The Footsteps Of Bruce Chatwin!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: Halloween, Outbreak, Contagion, business safety measures, The Empire Strikes Back, classic spoilers, Heritage Minutes, the bizarre cinematic legacy of Bruce Lee, knockoff VHS movies, Dawn of the Dead, Quentin Tarantino, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday August 14th - Thursday August 20th: Arab Blues, Brotherhood, Pulp Fiction, and The Big Boss!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: retro vs premiere screenings, John Saxon, cannibal movies, Hollywood's horrible history with animals, White God, Mothra, the Disney Vault, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, advance tickets, and more!
They also mention the movies screening from August 7th - 13th, 2020: Made In Italy, Joan Of Arc, Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla, and The Empire Strikes Back!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: Siskel & Ebert, Guillermo del Toro, Hellboy, movie cars, comic con celebs, Boba Fett, Taika Waititi, Jaws mayors, Godzooky, Muppets, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening the week of Friday July 31st - to Thursday August 6th: Jurassic Park, Docteur?, Seberg, and Destroy All Monsters!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: online dating, zoom interviews, comic book spinner racks, the Mayfair's first week post-lockdown, 1980s movie channels, tv movies, Roger Corman, the Disney Vault opening up, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday July 24th - Thursday July 30th: Abe, First Cow, The Karate Kid, The Thing, Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh get to talk about upcoming movies screening at the Mayfair for the first time in four months!
They also chat about: new safety rules for businesses, going to movies alone, people who are scared of horror movies, Criterion, Fantasia Film Fest, AGFA, Branded In The 80s, and more!
And, they mention the movies screening from Friday July 17th - Thursday July 23rd: The Trip To Greece, Guest Of Honour, Back To The Future, Do The Right Thing, and the original Godzilla!
This week, Eric, Lee, and Josh chat about: the Disney Vault opening, Revenge of the Nerds, mint condition 35mm prints, stunt cars driving off cliffs, odd distributor / movie pairings, video store porn rooms, false Tron 3 news, Turkish Star Wars, John Travolta, Mayfair Virtual Cinema, and more!
This is our 17th podcast from the land of quarantine pandemic lockdown. Stay tuned for information on our return to a wonderful world where we're screening movies!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, new listeners, The Mandela Effect, the multiverse, Star Wars Holiday Special, weird cartoons, filming in the Mayfair, trading cards, and more!
This is our 16th podcast from the land of quarantine pandemic lockdown. Stay tuned for information on our return to a wonderful world where we're screening movies!
This week, Eric, Lee, and Josh chat about: Joel Schumacher, Megan Fox, Stanley Kubrick, Blazing Saddles, Jojo Rabbit, Jerry Lewis, potential post-lockdown screenings, Crash, Empire Strikes Back in the UK, Da 5 Bloods, Orion Pictures, Bill & Ted, smoking in cinemas, Heavy Metal, Mayfair Virtual Cinema: Petey Wheatstraw, and more!
This is our 15th podcast from the land of quarantine pandemic lockdown. Stay tuned for information on our return to a wonderful world where we're screening movies!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: non-Hollywood filmmaking, back-end actor deals, action figures, Ewoks, Robin, The Goonies, the what if of another Jaws movie, Lost in Space, the Oscars, the Team Deakins podcast, Mayfair Virtual Cinema: Petey Wheatstraw, and more!
This is our 14th podcast from the land of quarantine pandemic lockdown. Stay tuned for information on our return to a wonderful world where we're screening movies!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Spike Lee, nerd fundraising, Netflix screenings, The Mystery of Chess Boxing, The Blind Dead series, trailers, the Knights Templar, What We Do In The Shadows, Bill and Ted, and more!
This is our 13th podcast from the land of quarantine pandemic lockdown. Stay tuned for information on our return to a wonderful world where we're screening movies!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Black Lives Matter, learning from a cinema rental mistake, Archie Comics, Boyz N The Hood, stores reopening, Do The Right Thing, based on a true story movie fictions, Wu-Tang Clan, Doug Bradley reading Frankenstein, Mayfair Virtual Cinema selections, and more!
This is our 12th podcast from the land of quarantine pandemic lockdown. Stay tuned for information on our return to a wonderful world where we're screening movies!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Drive-ins, unsanctioned screenings, fun lockdown events, that the first couple months of 2020 were going great, being interviewed during a pandemic, the Wu-Tang Clan, Return of the Jedi's 37th birthday, King Kong Escapes, and more!
They also mention three new titles available via our Stay-at-Home Mayfair Virtual Cinema: The Trip to Greece, Joan of Arc, and Blood Quantum!
This is our 11th podcast from the land of quarantine pandemic lockdown. Stay tuned for information on our return to a wonderful world where we're screening movies!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: post-lockdown work rules speculation, rooftop adventures, Mayfair Virtucal Cinema selections, Val Kilmer regrets, drone filmmaking, Scarfaces, no filmmaker having a perfect record, and more!
This is our 10th podcast from the land of quarantine pandemic lockdown. Stay tuned for information on our return to a wonderful world where we're screening movies!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: two months of lockdown, Friday the 13th years long fest, loving movies vs critiquing movies, The Wizard, Space Jam, Tales From The Darkside, geek run businesses, multiplexes vs Universal, Mayfair Virtual Cinema: The Ghost Of Peter Sellers, Theodore Rex, fake sequels, and more!
This is our 9th podcast from the land of quarantine pandemic lockdown. Stay tuned for information on our return to a wonderful world where we're screening movies!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: May the 4th, social distancing at home events, Mayfair Virtual Cinema offerings: The Booksellers, and This Is Not A Movie, unnecessarily angry people online, The Room consecutive streak halted, Ice Pirates, being a guest speaker, and more!
This is our 8th podcast from the land of quarantine pandemic lockdown. Stay tuned for information on our return to a wonderful world where we're screening movies!
This week, Eric, Emily, and Josh chat about: Vancouver real estate, nepotism, new cats, seat-sale fundraiser success, small business delivery support, post-pandemic programming thoughts, Heaven's Gate, Hellraiser, never reading the comments, Kermit the Frog, and more!
This is our 7th podcast from the land of quarantine pandemic lockdown. Stay tuned for information on our return to a world where we're screening movies!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: The Monkees, The Beach Boys, George Lucas, Jeff Goldblum, shooting with no finished script, that a difficult shoot = a good movie, Steven Spielberg, Bruce Willis and Eddie Murphy albums, the Spider-man musical, the Evil Dead musical, Paper Girls, and more!
This is our 6th podcast from the land of quarantine pandemic lockdown. Stay tuned for information on our return to a world where we're screening movies!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: pandemic talk shows, having a new cat, nice social media, Ewoks TV movies, that it's ok for friends to like different things, old people complaining about new stuff, getting tagged in negative tweets, stay at home geek groups, That Thing You Do, and more!
This is our 5th podcast from the land of quarantine pandemic lockdown. Stay tuned for information on our return to a world where we're screening movies!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: voids, Oscars having to change the rules for 2020, a lack of film fests in 2020, having no sports knowledge, SNL hosts, Space Jam, Brandon Fraser, Kangaro Jack, more Capybara talk, and more!
This is our 4th podcast from the land of pandemic lockdown. Stay tuned for information on our return to a world where we're screening movies!
This week, Eric, Gwen, and Josh discuss: The Wonderful World of Disney, Jon Favreau, MCU canon, that it's impossible to run out of tv to watch, Capybaras, Jack Nicholson, Supernatural, Picard, getting a new kitty cat, and more!
Still no new movies to announce during this pandemic timeframe of March 31st, 2020. Stay tuned!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about the 2nd week of the cinema being on pandemic lockdown, cancelled plans, unnecessary negativity, selling off Mayfair seat immortality, Mayfair celebrity mythology, ageless cartoon characters, and more!
For the 2nd episode in a row, not much in the way of upcoming movie talk...because we aren't sure when we'll be screening movies again!
This week, Eric, Gwen, and Josh discuss: being shut down for a pandemic, post disaster behaviour, cheese, St. Patrick's Day, and more! They also mention some movies like Return of the Jedi, Leprechaun, Soylent Green, Robocop, and Cats!
They do not mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 20th - Thursday March 26th...because the Mayfair is closed (temporarily. We shall return).
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: troublemakers in the cinema, Blu Ray's not hindering movie bookings anymore, the ongoing Parasite marathon, not being big enough for Kevin Smith to visit, sneaking out of work, old trailers not being good, and more!
Plus, they chat about the movies screening from Friday March 13th - Thursday March 19th: Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Little Women, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Weathering with You, The Room, Brotherhood, Jay and SIlent Bob Reboot, and Friday the 13th!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh discuss: Cats, the illogical trait of loving bad movies, shooting movies with unfinished scripts, an alternate universe where Jaws and Star Wars flopped, box office gold depressing movies, Guy Ritchie's resume, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday March 6th - Thursday March 12th, 2020: Parasite, Ordinary Love, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The Lodge, Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band, and The Gentlemen!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: Cats, Westside Story vs Indiana Jones, James Magold's excellent track record, digital de-aging / face replacement, actors who have never been young, recasting legacy characters, sweater fandom, long gaps between original and sequel, and more!
Plus, we mention the movies screening from Friday February 28th - Thursday March 5th: Parasite, Knives Out, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The Jesus Rolls, Dragnet Girl, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: the Coronavirus, visiting L.A., bad flights, Friday the 13th part V, weird trading cards, movie industry tax breaks, The Egyptian Theatre, 20th Century non Fox, midnight movies, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 20th - Thursday February 27th: Parasite, Jojo Rabbit, Richard Jewell, The Big Lebowski, Cats, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: fun socks, casual Friday's, favourite movies, not being very critical, the Oscars aftermath, in memoriam reels, classic rock, and more!
Plus, they discuss the films screening from Friday February 14th - Thursday February 20th: Cry-Baby, Casablanca, Grease, Enter The Fat Dragon, The Room, Les Miserables, Ford V Ferrari, and Parasite!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: pizza, visting L.A., Mann's Chinese Theatre, 12 weeks of Parasite, weekly programming benefits, Nic Cage, a film shoot at the Mayfair, the Oscars, false memories of Grease being a kids movie, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 7th - Thursday February 13th: Parasite, Bombshell, Jojo Rabbit, Come To Daddy, Clemency, and the 92nd Annual Academy Awards!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: Parasite's ongoing run, Valentine's screenings, visiting Seattle, expensive movie tickets, non-nerds enjoying Star Wars, forgotten movie stars, short feature films, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday January 31st - Thursday February 6th: Parasite, Bombshell, Dark Waters, VHYes, and Dosed!
This week, Lee, Andrew, and Josh chat about: MST3K, Disney Vault updates, weird distribution rules, digital restoration treasure, 4DX horrors, Star Wars love, people shamefully using their cel phones / camera at the movies, remakes, Buck Henry, and more!
We weren't able to mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 24th - Thursday January 30th (because we had to record this one early). But, of course, you can always check out showtimes at mayfairtheatre.ca
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Being a workaholic, failed retro screenings, Mayfair rentals, dreams of a Nicolas Cage Fest, single screen scheduling challenges, the sadness of Bruce Willis not giving it his all, and more!
We weren't able to mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 17th - Thursday January 23rd (because we had to record this one early). But, of course, you can always check out showtimes at mayfairtheatre.ca
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: being in futuristic 2020, Cats, Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Die Hard, how difficult it is to make movies, angry Adam Sandler fans, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday January 10th - Thursday January 16th: Parasite, Uncut Gems, La Belle Epoch, Fantastic Fungi, and The Room!
This week, Eric, Christy, and Josh chat about: visiting a multiplex, traditional vs 3D vs 4DX screenings, Muppet Vision 3D, theme park rides, billion dollar box office movies, nerd shirts, childhood celebrity, wishing Shia LeBeouf the best, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday January 3rd - Thursday January 9th, 2020: La Belle Epoque, Parasite, Honey Boy, and Filibus: The Mysterious Air Pirate!
This week, Eric, Anya, and Josh chat about: Film School now vs the 1990s, LaserDisc/Beta/VHS wars, BluRay/HD DVD wars, Shaq movies, Political docs, the Nintendo promotion movie The Wizard, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday December 27th - Thursday January 2nd: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Abominable, Jojo Rabbit, American Dharma, Going Attractions, Ip Man 4: The Finale, Saturday Night Sinema, and Wizard of Oz!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Mayfair spouse Gwen! They chat about: Spidey Christmas songs, Raptors rings, Color Out Of Space, Robert Pattison and Daniel Radcliffe's indie film career choices, Donnie Yen, and the potential end of Rocky Horror and Die Hard screenings!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening from Friday December 20th - Thursday December 26th: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Parasite, Jojo Rabbit, Die Hard, Going Attractions, Ip Man 4, Christmas Vacation, and Rocky Horror!
This week Eric and Josh chat about: cold weather, short film failure, time management, video games, Ben Burtt, kids whose first cinema experience is at the Mayfair, McDonald's brainwashing, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday December 13th - Thursday December 19th: The Good Liar, Parasite, Waves, Atlantics, Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, The Room, and the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh are joined by Mike from Embarrassing Humans, to discuss their upcoming screening of Christmas Vacation!
Plus, they chat about: Facebook pranks, Las Vegas real estate, Christmas movies, weird sequels, Police Academy, John Hughes, big screen Netflix, and more!
And, they mention the movies screning from Friday December 6th - Thursday December 12th, 2019: Marriage Story, Parasite, Doctor Sleep. Gift, Shelf Life: The Story of Lanzi Candy, and Unholy Night!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: Happy Holidays, geographical distribution walls, Canadian content, bad vhs movies, Eric's adventures in playing a cop extra in a movie, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday November 29th - Thursday December 5th: The Irishman, Parasite, The Lighthouse, Shelf Life: The Story of Lanzi Candy, The Polar Express, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Christmas stuff, Thanksgivings, limited editions, offensive Disney classics, fear of The Polar Express, the bizarre plot of The Santa Clause, movie spin-offs from tv series, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday November 22nd - Thursday November 28th: Parasite, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice, Downton Abbey, Friedkin Uncut, Akira, and Rocky Horror!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Batman movies and tv shows, geek culture legacy, avoiding trailers, bad movies that aren't bad, digital restoration, the logic of film production tax breaks, Robert Pattison praise, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening from Friday November 15th - Thursday November 21st: The Lighthouse, Parasite, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice, Blade Runner, and The Room!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Sam from the Absent Friends Shadow Cast. They chat about: surviving another Rocky Horror Halloween season, the Vampyr screening with live music, James Dean's return, Clark Kent disguises, Shirley Temple's wise career move, Wizard of Oz, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday November 8th - Thursday November 14th: Judy, Chained for Life, Pain and Glory, and Hustlers!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: weird Halloween candy, lovely Rocky Horror patrons / angry Rocky Horror patrons, New Year's Eve movies, the Batcopter, embracing Netflix as a distributor, the 1980s PG rating, comic book spinner racks, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday November 1st - Thursday November 7th: The Peanut Butter Falcon, Dolemite Is My Name, Lucy In The Sky, Freaks, Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters, and Vampyr!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Lorenzo and Mike from Embarrassing Humans! They talk a whole lot about Army Of Darkness (due to Embarrassing Humans presenting that screening) and all things Evil Dead, Ash, Sam Raimi related.
They also discuss: sneaking into R rated movies, watching franchise movies out of order, Ernest movies, Commadore 64, the Slaughter House video game, Jake the Snake, Netflix symbiosis, and Raptors rings!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday October 25th - Thursday October 31st: The Peanut Butter Falcon, The King, Before You Know It, First Love, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the aforementioned Army of Darkness!
This week, Andrew and Josh are joined by Sam from the Absent Friends Shadow Cast! Besides for the always important Rocky Horror Picture Show, they also disucss: the vaulted Sound of Music, Pink Flamingos, Deep Throat, The Wizard of Oz, Ed Wood, moral norms, Halloween costumes, Netflix symbiosis, and more!
They also mention the movies screening from Friday October 18th -Thursday October 24th: The Laundromat, The Peanut Butter Falcon, Ask Dr. Ruth, Greener Grass, Up All Night Fest 2, Under Controll, and The Exorcist!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: a false Josh Groban appearance, The Polar Express, people critiquing movies they haven't seen, Scosese's comic book dismissal, Ebert's video games hatred, Transformers, Superman Lives, alternate casting universes, The Last Jedi love, Frankenstein pinball, and more!
Plus they mention a whole bunch of movies screening from Friday October 11th - Thursday October 18th: Lucky Day, Britt-Marie Was Here, Buddy, Mister America, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Zeroville, The Room, Black Christmas, The Curse Of Buckout Road, and the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!
This week, Lee and Josh are joined by a pair of extra special guest - Troma filmmaking mastermind Lloyd Kaufman, and his amazing wife Patty (retired executive director of the New York State Governor's Office for Motion Picture and Television Development)!
They share stories ranging from being ousted from Cannes and Sundance, getting praise from Tilda Swinton, getting advice from Quentin Tarantino, buying turtles for the orignal Rocky, introducing Woody Allen to Terry Jones, thoughts on faking New York movies in Vancouver, the state of indie filmmaking, and more!
Josh does a quick intro before the interview gets underway, to mention the movies screening form Friday October 4th - Thursday October 10th: Aquarela, Menteur, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and Pretenders!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: new equipment, selling out, reddit horrors, offended patrons, Joker movie controversy, Adam Sandler's acting chops, beekeepers, the Avery / Tarantino break-up, Sid Haig, and more!
Plus, they mention the films screening from Friday September 27th - Thursday October 3rd: Honeyland, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, Riot Girls, Return To Nuke Em High: Volume 1, Return To Return To Nke Em High: aka Volume 2, Mama Mia, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric, Anya, and Josh chat about: being left handed, government work, writing references, resumes, indie businesses vs big chains, friends supporting your work, Room vs The Room, The Serpent and the Rainbow, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 20th - Thursday September 26th: Blinded By The Light, Balloon, One Cut Of The Dead, Brittany Runs A Marathon, Desolation Center, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Room!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: poor podcast skills, the fate of Dreamworks, executive producers, MST3K, getting cut out of movies, the Scary Stories books, angry nerds, praising bad movie filmmakers, and more!
Plus, they discuss the films on the schedule from Friday September 13th - Thursday September 19th: Luce, Brittany Runs A Marathon, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, The Tony Alva Story, Surfer: Teen Confronts Fear, The Room, and Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: ghosts, cat alergies, dangerous candy, Fraggle height discrepencies, the horrors of Reddit, media misquotes, 1980s Disney re-releases, dumb Oscar policies, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday September 6th - Thursday September 12th: Yesterday, Where'd You Go Bernadette, After The Wedding, Twin Flower, The Kitchen, Rosemary's Baby, and the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh discuss: long directorial career gaps, the fall of Val Kilmer, screening streaming movies, studios battling over Spider-man, 1980s classics Krull and Dead Heat, contemplate what if Kubrick and Hitchcock lived in a world with social media, Nic Cage (of course), and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday August 30th - Thursday August 5th: Where'd You Go Bernadette, The Kitchen, Yesterday, Tigers Are Not Afraid, Okko's Inn, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: a Super Mario bar, time zone jet lag, MST3K vacations, expensive Canadian cities, scary roller coasters, movie theme park rides, Halloween Month programming, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday August 23rd - Friday August 29th: Marianne & Leonard: Words Of Love, The Farewell, Late Night, The Indian Tomb, Apocalypse Now: Final Cut, The Queen, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
This week, Eric, Melissa, and Josh chat about: the Fantastic Four robot, Cosplay and photo-op's at comiccons, nerds going pro, amateur and professional wrestling, meeting Guillermo Del Toro, digital vs physical media, The Banana Splits, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday August 16th - Thursday August 22nd: Marianne & Leonard: Words Of Love, Vita & Virginia, Maiden, Instant Dreams, Rocketman, The Tiger Of Eschnapur, and The Room!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: after school specials, movies edited for TV, visiting London and cinema geek travels, the dissenting 1% negative critic, Darth Vader's, bad Bond openings, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday August 9th - Thursday August 15th: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, Light Of My Life, The Farewell, Iron Sky: The Coming Race, and The Big Heat!
This week, Eric, Anya, and Josh chat about: mysterious box office tales, catching thieves, unruly drunks, murder podcasts, Mindy Kaling praise, dreams of a Nic Cage Fest, our Mark Hamill appreciation policy, confusing franchise copyright splits, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening from Friday August 2nd - Thursday August 8th: Late Night, Ask Dr. Ruth, The Art of Self-Defense, Tolkien, Ministry of Fear, and Child's Play (2019)!
This week, Eric, Anya, and Josh chat about: the one flaw in Booksmart, improvements in pop culture diversity, classic movie inappropriateness, actors you like making bad choices, Geena Davis in movie jail, being friends of a friend of a Marvel Super Hero, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening from July 26th - August 1st, 2019: Wild Rose, Midsommar, Free Trip To Egypt, Mouthpiece, Suburbia, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric, Anya, Andrew, and Josh chat about: weddings, geek vs nerd classifications, Blu Ray lifespan, Tilda Swinton's family, Eddie Furlong, The Crow sequels, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening from Friday July 19th - Thursday July 25th, 2019: The Tomorrow Man, Booksmart, The Souvenir, Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blanche, Pet Semetary, Under the Silver Lake, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: perogies, cupcake cones, 7-11, flea markets, retro fashion, product placement, fast food movie tie-ins, creepy mannequins, bootleg championship rings, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of July 12th - 18th, 2019: Pavarotti, Photograph, Wild Nights with Emily, Hail Satan?, Real Genius, and The Room!
This week, Eric, Anya, and Josh chat about: Kaiju Juice, Canada Day, field trips, private screenings, movie posters, Harry Potter, our Women Directors Film Fest: Retro 1980s Edition, breakup drama advice, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday July 5th - Thursday July 11th, 2019: Peterloo, The White Crow, Booksmart, The Dead Don't Die, I'll Take Your Dead, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High!
This week, Eric, Anya, and Josh discuss: boyband evolution from The Monkees to NSync, attending David Bowie, and David Byrne concerts, open up the complaints recieved department - including a criticism of too many vampire movies, nostalgically miss toys in cereal boxes, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from June 28th - July 4th, 2019: Booksmart, All Is True, Blu Notes Records: Beyond The Notes, The Dead Don't Die, Saturday Night Sinema, and the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!
This week, Eric, Anya, and Josh chat about: working in the rain, marquee destruction, microfiche, the abandoned Place de Ville Theatre, Danzig's directorial debut, Wizard Magazine, Pattison / Keaton Batmen, eBay treasure, fighting to get crowds for classic movies, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening from Friday June 21st - Thursday June 27th: Book Smart, Red Joan, The Fall of the American Empire, The Bigamist, Nightmare Cinema, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: basketball victory, Devon Sawa on planes, misremembering Affleck movies, too many movies called Shaft, the return of violent action movies, 'Two' titled sequels, Flintstones comics, inappropriate Freddy Krueger moments, slow weeks at the box office, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening June 14th to June 20th, 2019: Halston, Red Joan, Master Z: Ip Man Legacy, The Hitch-Hiker, The Room, and Project Ithaca!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: basketball, petitions, non-millionaire celebrities, terrible cell phone / unruly children etiquette while watching movies, Bringing Out The Dead, bad posters, Macaulay Culkin, a Toxic Avenger remake, Swamp Thing, Babadook pride, and more!
Plus, they mention the films screening from Friday June 7th - Thursday June 13th: Girls of the Sun, The Biggest Little Farm, Changeland, Not Wanted, and Brightburn!
This week, Lee, Andrew, Ian, and Josh are on a panel at Ottawa Comiccon! They chat about Mayfair history, crowdfunding, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, 35mm and Digital presentations, weekly prgramming, the impending Disney / Fox vault, The Room, Rocky Horror, ghosts in the Mayfair, and more!
Plus, Josh checks in to briefly mention the movies screening from May 31st - June 6th, 2019: Diane, The Grizzlies, Amazing Grace, Shadow, and Babylon!
This week, Anya, Eric, and Josh discuss: East Coast beers, Strange Adventures comic book store, Mega City's, donairs and shawarmas, visiting boy / girlfriends parents, basketball playoffs hindering plans, nostalgia for 80s / 90s multiplexes, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday May 24th - Thursday May 30th: Amazing Grace, Sir, Us, Ninja Scroll, Meeting Gorbachev, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Anya, Eric, and Josh chat about: Broken computers, Drag Queens, Clive Barker, John Waters, Chewie's impersonation of Tommy Wiseau, long lost restored movies and music, missing movies due to travel, Comic Book Confidential, The Raptors, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening from Friday May 17th - Thursday May 23rd, 2019: Carmine Street Guitars, High Life, Amazing Grace, [Censored], How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Who Killed Captain Alex?, and Bad Black!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: drag shows, being mistaken for the Bytowne, multiplex woes, Avengers, Ottawa Comiccon, Ang Lee, clone movies, James Cameron, moviemaking deadlines, Big Shark, the George Lucas Family Foundation, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 10th - Thursday May 16th, 2019: Sunset, Stockholm, Edmond, The Juniper Tree, Bed of the Dead, and The Room!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: uniforms, bowling alleys, the evils of storage units, multiplex complaints, Avatar's lack of a pop-culture footprint, poor studio decisions, anthologies, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of May 3rd to 9th, 2019: Hotel Mumbai, Everybody Knows, Rafiki, Her Smell, Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse, Aliens, Beetlejuice, Boyz N The Hood, and the Digi60 Film Fest!
This week, Eric, Andrew, Lee, and Josh chat about: Star Wars Celebration, Chicago, Ahmed Best, bad collectors, Crispin Glover, Carl Weathers, San Diego Comiccon, Lobot, the 1989 Punisher vhs, Wallace Shawn, the logic of filmmakers being put on projects they love, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday April 26th - Thursday May 2nd: Minding the Gap, The Quietude, Far: The Story of a Journey Around the World, Alien, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: dreams of a visit from Ahmed Best, the Nude on the Moon theme song, watching movies with parents, CanCon specifications, multi-Country productions, basketball updates, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 19th - Thursday Arpil 25th: Gloria Bell, Woman at War, Apollo 11, Firecrackers, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Surfer: Teen Confronts Fear, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, The Big Lebowski, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Lorenzo from Embarrassing Humans to discuss their upcoming 'I Can't Believe You Haven't Seen' presentation of Life of Brian! They also chat about British TV, the Cable Guy rough cut, 14A vs 18A vs R, bad people in the movie business, classic Hollywood murder, and more!
Plus, they mention the schedule of Friday April 12th - Thursday April 18th, 2019: Gloria Bell, Woman of the Year, The Beach Bum, Nude on the Moon, Life of Brian, and The Room!
And, an extra special treat, the grand premiere of the Nude on the Moon theme song!
This week, Eric, Anya, and Josh chat about: meeting boyfriends parents, hating April Fool's Day, AGFA's latest lost treasure: Nude on the Moon, Orson Welles, Surfer: Teen Confronts Fear, the uselessness of best of the year lists, surviving the Up All Night VHS Fest, Krull, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from April 5th - 11th, 2019: The Favourite, The Hummingbird Project, The Invisibles, and Never Look Away
This week, we reach back into the recent vaults for an episode where Lee, Eric, and Josh are joined by special guest Greg Sestero, to discuss Best F(r)iends Vol 1 and Vol 2, The Disaster Artist, and The Room! They also chat about visiting movie landmarks, meeting Macaulay Culkin, Christmas movies, Burt Reynolds favourites and missed opportunities, and more!
Josh also gives a brief intro to mention the movies screening the week of March 29th - April 4th, 2019: The Favourite, Green Book, Sink or Swim, Level 16, Greta, and Saturday night Sinema!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: a lack of internet, digital theatrical distribution, video stores, comedians going dramatic, Nic Cage's latest movie, The Postman, and more!
Plus, they chat about the busy week of March 22nd - 28th, 2019: On the Basis of Sex, Green Book, Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse, Triple Threat, Haxan, the Women's Adventure Film Tour, Blood in the Snow Canadian Film Fest, and Up All Night: An Overnight Canadian Film Fest!
This week, Eric, Anya, and Josh are joined by Lorenzo from Embarrassing Humans. They chat about movies defeating trolls, Twilight, multiplex commercials, the looming Disney / Fox vault, Vanilla Ice vs Snow, avoiding message boards, being a kid watching an R rated movie, and more!
They also mention a packed week of screenings for Friday March 15th - Thursday March 21st, 2019: Sink or Swim, They Shall Not Grow Old, The World Before Your Feet, Birds of Passage, Eraserhead, Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2, Rocky Horror, Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, and Embarrassing Humans presents Airplane!
This week, Eric, Anya, and Josh chat about: viral Valentine's, marquee misery, 1930's unsafe architecture, new sound stuff in the cinema, birthday freebies, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from March 8th - 14th, 2019: Cold War, Artic, Lords of Chaos, Climax, Mary Poppins Returns, and Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: a power outage, freezing cold weather, Oscars party aftermath, Greg Sestero's upcoming visit, straight-to-video movies, actors working in tv and film, Spielberg conspiracies, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from March 1st - 7th, 2019: A Star Is Born, Vice, Cold War, Best F(r)iends: Vol 1, Best F(r)iends: Vol 2, The Room, and the live event: An Evening Inside The Room!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: podcast pals, Motion Pictures, Alan Moore, Max Brooks, Stephen King, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening from February 22nd - 28th, 2019: Capernaum, Vice, A Star Is Born, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Party's Just Beginning, Twisted Pair, Saturday Night Sinema, and the 91st Annual Academy Awards!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: snow, listener interaction, movie troupes, unwise studio editing, nostalgia for movie opening logo's, Waterworld, kids desensitized to non-kid movies, Tim Burton, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from February 15th -21st: Stan & Ollie, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Vice, Police Story, Police Story 2, Beetlejuice, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, The Jerk, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh discuss: weird Valentine's, confusing sequels, movie jail, bad decisions from Burt Reynolds, Christopher Lee, studio meddling, anthologies, SNL movies, Shooter McGavin, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from February 8th - 14th, 2019: Border, If Beale Street Could Talk, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Shoplifters, Ghostbox Cowboy, Sense And Sensibility, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and The Room!
This week, Eric, Melissa, and Josh chat about: enjoying diverse genres, The Blair Witch Project, our Oscars party, free food greed, Anthony Daniels, the Up All Night VHS Fest, LaserDisc at the library, whiny Spielberg, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of February 1st - 7th, 2019: Roma, If Beale Street Could Talk, Mary Queen of Scots, The Image Book, Destroyer, and Embrace!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: the subjective nature of the Oscars, the curiosity of people having pride in stealing movies, the flawless resume of Taika Waititi, Valentine's Day screenings, Guardians of the Galaxy pinball, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies on the schedule for the week of January 25th - 31st, 2019: Roma, Mary Queen of Scots, Vox Lux, Twisted Pair, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric, Anya, and Josh chat about: deadly roller-coasters, getting sick, being healthy lazy vs injured athletic, weird weather, inappropriate kids movies, straight to vhs sequels, subtitles vs dubbed vs translation, the ongoing Disney / Fox dealings, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from January 18th - 24th: Widows, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, St. Agatha, Mademoiselle de Joncquieres, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: the Jaws game, Batman cereal, Robocop 2 trading card gum, credit / debit machines, Tom Cruise stunts, Robert Zemeckis animation, The Dark Tower, the Teen Titans Go! novelization, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening the week of January 11th - 17th: Can You Ever Forgive Me?, The Old Man and the Gun, Creed II, Welcome to Marwen, and The Room!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: normal humans, the return of Twisted Pair, inflation, sci-fi set in 2019, the legacies of Batman and Bond, Oscar nomination tricks, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from January 4th - 10th, 2019: Smallfoot, Hotel Transylvania 3, Ben Is Back, Boy Erased, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, and Widows!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: albums, jukeboxes, a Lord / Miller directed Solo, Chicken Run 2, Nic Cage's excellent 2018, Adam West, more Disney Vault / Fox speculation, dream of a good Fantastic Four movie, plus Eric mixes up a bunch of actors, and more!
They also disuss the movies screening from December 28th, 2018 to January 3rd, 2019: Nothing Like A Dame, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Boy Erased, Widows, Lifechanger, Teen Titans Go! To The Movies, Smallfoot, The Sound Of Music, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: the Holidays, Charlie Brown, ticket prices, that classic doesn't mean good, crazy directors, graphic novel vs comic book, the Prime Minister partying nearby, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of December 21st - 27th, 2018: Nothing Like A Dame, The Possession Of Hannah Grace, At Eternity's Gate, Mirai Of The Future, Venom, The Room, and the Saturday Morning All You Can Eat Cartoon Party!
This week, Eric and Josh are both in the cinema working on a day where they weren't supposed to be working, they chat about: popcorn thieves, a candy bar Christmas miracle, the wonder of AGFA, the perplexing liklihood of Fox movies going into the Disney Vault, evil internet geeks, they warn to not travel with wrapped presents, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from December 14th - 20th, 2019: A Private War, The House That Jack Built, At Eternity's Gate, Supergrid, Die Hard, Dial Code Santa Claus, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: the Rocky franchise, the Golden Globes, Mars movies, the adventage of smaller movies being ignored by the studios, thriller vs. horror, confusing sequel titles, AGFA, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of December 7th - 13th: The Wife, The Front Runner, First Man, Halloween (2018), The Dawn Wall, and The Go-Getters!
This week, Eric, Anya, and Josh chat about: Hallmark movies, advent calanders, gumball machine prizes, football season finale happiness, Blue Is The Warmest Colour, successfully fighting Twilight typecasting, vegan junk food, and the festive uncanny valley!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening November 30th - December 6th, 2018: Sharkwater Extinction, Fahrenheit 11/9, Lizzie, Blue My Mind, and The Polar Express!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: lack of daylight hours, visiting New York City, Neil Breen, the L.A. fires, the long lost Romero project, Italian non-sequels, Degrassi, Wes Craven / Shocker, and more!
Plus, (because this one was recorded very ahead of the weekly schedule finalization), they mention only some of the following movies screening from November 23rd - 29th, 2018: Mid 90;s, Hard Eight, Beautiful Boy, Take It Our In Trade, The Great Buster, Steamboat Bill Jr, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: sadly small turn-out's for Canadian films, Cinema Clock lies, that we can't afford to sell tickets for 25 cents, the Kevin Smith event that never was, Neil Breen aftermath, Stan Lee sadness, and the new Shooting Guns album!
And, they mention the movies screening the week of November 16th - 22nd: Free Solo, All About Nina, Bel Canto, Our Hospitality, Suspiria, College, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
Plus, there were numerous technical difficulties, see if you can find the 5 times that the podcast koncked out during the recording!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: mermaids, musicals, Disney, nostalgic commercials, there not enough hours in the day to watch stuff, that big screen horror and comedy is better than home viewing, stressful climbing movies, the terrifying Polar Express, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of November 9th - 15th, 2018: Free Solo, Crazy Rich Asians, Crown And Anchor, The General, Texas Cotton, and Twisted Pair!
This week, Eric, Anya, and Josh chat about: a busy Halloween Month, visiting Philadelphia, MST3K, Raffi, Greg Sestero & Retro Puppet Master, novelizations, Ralph Bakshi's birthday, and dating! Plus, they had to multitask the podcast while a bunch of phone calls were coming in...count the edit points!
And, they mention the movies screening from November 2nd - 8th, 2018: The Wife, The Sisters Brothers, The BIll Murray Stories, Three Ages, and The Room!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: wanting to ask the Disney CEO some questions, the increasingly complicated DC slate of movies, successful and failed shared universes, lazy titles, weird franchise rights issues, Christian Slater relations, and wrapping up Halloween Month!
They also mention the movies screening from Friday October 26th - Thursday November 1st: The Wife, The Sisters Brothers, Colette, The Exorcist, The Shining, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Ghostbusters, and Young Frankenstein!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh are joined by Lorenzo and Mike from the Embarrassing Humans Podcast!
They chat about L.A., The Good Son novelization, Space Jam, Jurassic Park, comedy movie sub-genres, their upcoming presentation of Young Frankenstein, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from October 19th - 25th, 2018: Colette, Anthropocene, White Boy Rick, The Hollow Child, Twisted Pair, and The Room!
This week, Andrew and Josh are joined by Sam and Cassia from the Absent Friends Shadowcast! We discuss they're upcoming marathon run of 7 Halloween Month performances of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, avoiding the Disney Vault, the meaning of blockbuster, Rocky Horror VHS, and they swerve off topic with their worship of John Waters.
They also mention the films screening from October 12th - 18th: The Children Act, 1945, Blackkklansman, Mandy, Knuckleball, Matangi / Maya / M.I.A., and The Big Lebowski!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: last minute box office rushes, director jail, TV edits, Ed Wood's legacy, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening the week of October 5th - 11th, 2018: Mandy, The Children Act, Blackkklansman, 1945, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Mamma Mia, and the Women's Adventure Film Tour!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh discuss: tornados, black-outs, a visit from the co-director of Summer of 84, the glory of Nicolas Cage, sleepwalking performances from Bruce Willis, Christopher Lee golden years, distribution frustrations, and they ponder the curiosity of people bragging about stealing movies via torrents.
Plus, they mention the movies screenings from September 28th - October 4th: The Children Act, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Venus, Saturday Night Sinema, and Mandy!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: watching movies with your parents, feeling bad about ratings keeping kids from seeing movies, eating decades old cereal and gum, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening from September 21st to 27th, 2018: Eighth Grade, The Children Act, Mama Mia! Here We Go Again, Incredibles 2, Summer of 84, The Room, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and Deliverance!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: rental nights, false movie listings, Batman and Superman movies, Oscar award switch-ups, how to pronounce Bill Nighy, Dig Dug high scores, dreams of booking a Nic Cage movie, tease a visit from Greg Sestero, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening from September 14th - 20th, 2018: The Bookshop, Eighth Grade, We The Animals, We're Still Together, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!
This week, Andrew, Eric, Melissa, and Josh chat about: movie marquees, multiplexes, comic cons, the Degrassi legacy, Baywatch Nights, visiting L.A., Kane Hodder, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening from September 7th - 13th, 2018: Le Brio, Eighth Grade, Three Identical Strangers, Sicario: Day Of Soldado, The Bookshop, and The Last Movie!
This week, Eric, Anya, and Josh chat about: the aftermath of the Winona Ryder Fest, ponder on what order to watch Star Wars, go behind the scenes of writing Twitter reviews, the genius of Woody Harrelson, better scriptwriting via life experience, visiting Newfoundland, and the horrors of dating!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening August 31st -September 6th, 2018: Three Identical Strangers, Eighth Grade, Puzzle, Trench 11, and Solo: A Star Wars Story!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: the sad depletion of movie theatres, their first movie going experiences, cereal toys, armchair programming, the Alvin & The Chipmunks franchise, and more!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening the week of August 24th - 30th: Ocean's 8, Cielo, BuyBust, Reality Bites, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: the weird rules of ratings board decisions, how to film a robbery / and then commit an actual crime, the most recent Blair Witch, Topps Comics, recent Mayfair screenings of Hereditary and Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot, and more!
They also discuss the movies screening the week of August 17th - 23rd, 2018: Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Three Identical Strangers, Generation Wealth, King Cohen: The Wild World Of Filmmaker Larry Cohen, and Scotty And The Secret History Of Hollywood!
Plus, the Winona Ryder Film Fest continues with Bram Stoker's Dracula, and our 108th Consecutive Month screening The Room!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: the T2 arcade game, Mortal Kombat, tornado warnings, cinematographer Dean Cundey, Samuel L. Jackson, overly expensive distribution fees, cartoonist John Callahan, the Psycho remake, the Batman movie that almost was, podcast logo's, and more!
They also discuss the movies screening the week of August 10th - 16th, 2018: Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Three Identical Strangers, Leave No Trace, Ocean's Eight, Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot, The Crescent, Edward Scissorhands, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: weddings, Lee's Land of the Dead connection, George Romero / Mr Rogers, Tobe Hooper, young Spielberg, the stressful shoot = good movie theory, the Disney / Fox movie repercussions, Hudson Hawk, family obligations causing missed movie watching, incorrect movie listings, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday August 3rd - Thursday August 9th: Leave No Trace, Won't You Be My Neighbor, Three Identical Strangers, Poor Boy, Fireworks, and Heathers!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: our listeners, people who come into movies late, retro studio logo's, movie shoot locations, Mystery Science Theatre robots, thriller vs horror classifications, and more!
Plus, they chat about the movies screening from Friday July 27th - Thursday August 2nd, 2018: Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Marlina The Murderer In Four Acts, Gauguin: Voyage To Tahiti, Hereditary, Three Identical Strangers, Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: Mr Rogers, double-bills, Generation X, timeless movies, movies that almost were, board game adaptations, basketsball, KISS, Kim Cattrall, Josh pitches his idea for a Magic 8 Ball movie, and more!
Plus, they chat about the movies screening from July 20th - 26th, 2018: Won't You Be My Neighbor?, First Reformed, Ideal Home, Jackie Brown, Detroit Rock City, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: Robocop sequels, the troubles of the DC Cinematic Universe, kid actors growing up, Star Wars jerks, the Look Who's Talking trilogy, Josh confirms that Michael Bay did not ruin his childhood, they reminisce about the very 1st Mayfair Theatre podcast, and more!
Plus, they chat about the films screening the week of July 13th - 19th, 2018: First Reformed, Won't You Be My Neighbor, Hotel Artemis, Pulp Fiction, The Night Eats The World, and Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda!
(They forgot to also mention that it's the 107th Consecutive Month screening The Room!)
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: a busy summer, A Quiet Place being so quiet, single screen scheduling puzzle work, VHS treasure, Bruce Willis working too much, and Nic Cage wishes.
They also chat about the movies screening July 6th - 12th, 2018: Book Club, The Guardians, The Unseen, Peter Rabbit, Superfly, and From Dusk Till Dawn!
Corrections Department: When Josh said that Universal Soldier was supposed to be a Die Hard movie, he meant Under Siege. Blame heatstroke.
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: the storied careers of Jim Belushi and Rob Schneider, that it's ok that Hollywood has never had ideas, movie scores vs retro pop songs, horror turning comedic, fake critics, and the long lost art of trailer voice overs!
Plus, they mention the movies screening June 29th - July 5th: Beast, The Accountant of Auschwitz, Disobedience, American Animals, The Guardians, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: avoiding conversations while not recording a podcast, Van Peebles Solo / Star Wars Solo, movie star career ups and downs, properties being bigger than directors or actors, failure of the auteur theory, director / actor collaborations, and modern horror film sub-genres!
Plus, they chat about the movies screening the week of June 22nd - 28th, 2018: A Quiet Place, Beast, Disobedience, The Accountant of Auschwitz, Casino, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the 16th Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: laugh tracks, spoilers, end credits, MST3K, copycat movies, elder geek icons, and 3D theme park rides!
They also mention the movies screening June 15th - 21st, 2018: On Chesil Beach, Disobedience, Cape Fear, and the Old School 3D 35mm Film Fest: Friday The 13th Part III, Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror, Dynasty, Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin, + Friday / Saturday Night Secret Sinema!
This week, Lee and Josh chat about: Geek bribery for blood donation, swearing in context, modern box office, that Hollywood is making too many movies, piracy, crowdfunding, the Oscars, movies with the same titles, and ponder the Star Wars world post Solo.
Plus, they discuss the movies screening June 8th - 14th, 2018: The Seagull, RGB, Pope Francis: A Man Of His Word, Good Fellas, Black Cop, and The Room!
This week, Eric and Josh wander all over off-topic geek conversation, and chat about: 1980's kids movies, DC / Marvel cinematic differences, Star Trek, Judge Dredd, James Bond, Solo, comic conventions, being impressed by Jason Momoa, and Josh's new comic Zomkeys!
They also mention the movies screening from June 1st - 7th, 2018: The Seagull, Tully, Ready Player One, Taxi Driver, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song!
Josh checks in with a quick mini episode while he's busy on the road, recording from the in-laws house in Halifax, instead of going into the basement to play E.T. on the Atari.
He mentions the movies screening from May 25th - 31st, 2018: The Rider,The Young Karl Marx, Backstabbing for Beginners, Full Metal Jacket, Saturday Night Sinema, Barefoot, Ice Mother, Padman, and Invisible Heart!
We'll be back next week with a regular full length episode
This week, Josh checks in from the floor of the Ottawa Comic Con with an interview with Archie Comics legend Dan Parent! They chat about Archie crossovers with Sharknado and Batman 66, the horrible Archie TV movie, Archie movies that almost were, visiting Riverdale, Josie and the Pussycats, Dan's current Kickstarter endeavour - Die Kitty Die, and his new comic - Betty & Veronica: At The Movies!
Josh also checks in after the interview to mention the movies screening the week of May 18th - 24th, 2018: Final Portrait, Isle of Dogs, The Young Karl Marx, Filmworker, The Shining, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Other Side of the Hero, and the live event - The Amazing Magic Show!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: busy schedules, 35mm collecting, B-movie preservation, Blaxploitation, the horrors of VHS pan & scan, fake sequel rumours, and Star Wars trivia night aftermath!
Plus, they chat about the the movies screening the week of May 11th - 17th, 2018: Indian Horse, Isle of Dogs, Red Sparrow, A Clockwork Orange, It Came From the Desert, The Room, and Labyrinth!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: May the 4th, a defense of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, offensive revenge movies, the 14A rating, the anti-auteur theory, film colourization, and the horrible work ethic and scheduling skills of Stanley Kubrick!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from May 4th - 10th, 2018: Lowlife, You Were Never Really Here, Dr Strangelove, Hochelaga: Land Of Souls, Finding Your Feet, and C'est La Vie!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: babysitting, Ramones, 3D movies, Captain Power, Muppets, Green Hornet, international box office, and movies that you don't want to watch with your parents.
Plus, they discuss the movies screening from April 27th - May 3rd, 2018: Borg Vs McEnroe, The Death of Stalin, The Endless, Hochelaga: Land of Souls, Finding Your Feet, West Side Story, Phoenix Wilder and the Great Elephant Adventure, The Vatican Deception, and Saturday Night Sinema!
Lee and Josh chat about: Stanley Kubrick, mini-festivals, 3D presentations, 70mm lenses, supporting Canadian film, movie posters, and a brief mention of Star Wars.
Plus, they mention the movies on screen from April 20th - 26th, 2018: The Death of Stalin, The Leisure Seeker, The Devil & Father Amorth, The Great Silence, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, + special presentations of The Vatican Deception, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Phoenix Wilder & the Great Elephant Adventure, and Human Flow!
This week Lee, Andrew, and Josh chat about: Lego phones, popcorn machines, screening grown up movies vs genre stuff, last minute programming, 1970's non-Star Wars sci-fi, sub-par multiplexes, Canadian film, and being grumpy old men.
Plus, they mention the movies screening from April 13 - 19, 2018: The Death of Stalin, The Leisure Seeker, Love Cecil, Molly Goes Round, A Swingers Weekend, Grease, Back to the Future, and The Room!
This week Josh is joined by Sam, from the Absent Friends shadowcast! They chat about crazy weather, Spongebob on Broadway, Rocky Horror / Star Wars parallels, mascots, box office history, classics vs cult movies vs mainstream success, and blockbuster copycats!
They also discuss the movies screening from April 6th - 12th, 2018: Madame, Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool, The Insult, Loveless, Best F(r)iends, The Strangers: Prey At Night, Death Wish, and A Fantastic Woman!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: screening all the Oscar nominees, the pleasant surprise of multiplex symbiosis, the failed Dark Universe, the business of sequels, Planet of the Apes, AGFA, Steven Spielberg, and Quentin Tarantino!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from March 30th - April 5th, 2018: The Post, The Insult, Flower, Early Man, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: the Oscars, Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg, nostalgia, multiplex symbiosis, St Patrick's Day survival, and the return of Best F(r)iends!
They also chat about the movies screening the week of March 23rd - 29th, 2018: The Post, A Fantastic Woman, The Party, Thoroughbreds, Annihilation, Rocky Horror, Whiskey Galore!, and the All In The Days Goes To The Movies: A Fontaine Farewell event!
This week, Andrew and Josh are joined by first time podcaster Melissa, and they chat about: digital vs film silver linings, Russ Meyer, movie ratings, homage vs theft, subjectiveness of critics and awards, and Tommy Wiseau!
They also mention the movies screening from March 16th - 22nd, 2018: November, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Shape of Water, I Tonya, Phantom Thread, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, The Room, and the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!
This week, Andrew, Lee, and Josh chat about: the Oscars, Nielsen ratings, multiplex coexistence, Wes Anderson, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Cinemascope, Pan and Scan, novelizations, U.S. vs Canadian ratings, and Luchador masks!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening the week of March 9th - 15th: Paddington 2, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Are We Not Cats, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Darkest Hour, and I Tonya!
This week, Lee and Josh chat about: the post video store world, the Disney vault, the Batman 89 / Star Wars connection, Tommy Wiseau, Multiplex socks, overabundance of franchise movies, avoiding spoilers in reviews, unnecessary trailer anger, and movie dreams!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from March 2nd - 8th: 2018: Like Me, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, The Shape Of Water, plus the Live Telecast of the 90th Annual Academy Awards!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: critics vs fans vs movie-goers vs trolls vs box office, childhoods not ruined, lengthy franchises, the Nicolas Cage legacy, carpenter Harrison Ford, a pair of filmmaking Paul Anderson's, and the evils of figure skating!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening from February 23rd - March 1st: I Tonya, Phantom Thread, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Mom And Dad, and a Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Lee and Josh chat about: a lack of sleep, comics, Star Wars vs Star Trek, high school geeks, video discs, weird movies to watch on planes, 16mm film, Crispin Glover, Clint Eastwood, and Orson Welles!
They also mention the movies screening from February 16th - 22nd, 2018: Darkest Hour, I Tonya, Phantom Thread, The Final Year, Black Hollow Cage, Happy End, Grease, Sound of Music, and Rocky Horror Picture Show!
This week, Josh is joined by Sam and Chris from the Absent Friends shadow cast! They chat about the ongoing Fox / Disney Vaults / Rocky Horror possibilities, other properties that have survived under the Disney banner (Pixar, Marvel, Muppets, Star Wars), monopoly laws, fan films, and Coke conspiracy theories!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of February 9th - 15th, 2018: Lady Bird, Call Me By Your Name, Darkest Hour, The Florida Project, Molly's Game, Permission, Hot Knives, The Room, and Casablanca!
This week, Andrew, Lee, and Josh are joined by return guest Peter Monet. They discuss the recent blockbuster, sold out, world premiere of his film Hot Knives at the Mayfair, and the upcoming encore on February 15th! They also chat about film fests, editing, imdb, how many minutes a feature has to be, and the ongoing strange case of Canadian cities being disguised as the US.
Plus, they mention the movies screening February 2nd - 8th, 2018: Darkest Hour, The Florida Project, Lady Bird, Call Me By Your Name, and The Road Movie!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about Oscar nominations present and past!
Plus, they also mention the movies screening the week of January 26th - February 1st, 2018: Lady Bird, Call Me By Your Name, All The Money In The World, The Disaster Artist, Monolith, Kill Order, Hot Knives, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, Lee and Josh are joined by filmmaker Peter Monet, catch the World Premiere of his new movie Hot Knives at the Mayfair on January 27th! They chat about: filmmaking in Ottawa, festival rejections, elevator pitches, gory fx, grant money, continuity headaches, laptop movie editing, deadlines, the upcoming Oscars, getting to schedule timely movies more quickly, and The Room Lego!
They also mention the movies screening from January 19th - 25th: Lady Bird, The Disaster Artist, Call Me By Your Name, All The Money In The World, The Room, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: cool rentals, tiny credits, the glories of weekly programming, Disaster Artist Oscar dreams, Toronto actually being shot for Toronto, pronouncing Saoirse correctly, pains of podcasting scheduling, Fox / Disney, and the sad demise of the Kids Club.
They also mention the movies screening from January 12th - 18th, 2018: Call Me By Your Name, Dim The Fluorescents, Lady Bird, and The Disaster Artist!
This week, Anya and Josh chat about: film school, video stores, vhs treasure, Justin Timberlake, Generation X and Millenials, 11th hour movie cancellations, Disney / Fox vault possibilities for Rocky Horror and Die Hard, and being in the trenches of modern dating life.
They also mention a bunch of the movies screening between January 5th through 18th, 2018: The Disaster Artist, Call Me by Your Name, Wonder Wheel, Murder on the Orient Express, and Dim the Fluorescents!
This week, Lee and Josh (not so shockingly) talk a whole bunch about the new Star Wars movie - plus, Transformers, The Long Goodbye, diversity in comics, multiplexes skipping on movies to our favour, Disaster Artist beer, and the approaching Oscars and Golden Globes!
They also chat about the movies screening from December 29th 2017 - January 4th 2018: Sound of Music, Nut Job 2, My Little Pony: The Movie, Lady Bird, Murder on the Orient Express, The Disaster Artist, and The Room!
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh discuss: last minute box office rushes, 20th Century Fox / Disney Vault repercussions, backhanded praise for Roger Corman's Fantastic Four, the Star Wars Holiday Special, an anger inducing Disney short, ponder if Richard Linklater is making another secret movie, and wish everyone a Happy Holidays!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from December 29, 2017 to January 4, 2018: Last Flag Flying, Lady Bird, Blade Runner 2049, and The Breadwinner!
This week, Lee and Josh chat about: the repercussions of the Fox / Disney merger for Die Hard, double-bills, crossovers, Twitter, Disaster Artist, Porgs, Ed Wood, Johnny Depp, surviving a roadtrip blizzard, and that Lee might get to go to a bigshot Oscars party!
Plus, they mention the movies screening from December 15th - 21st, 2017: Florida Project, Lady Bird, My Friend Dahmer, Roman J. Israel Esq., Unholy Night, Elf, Die Hard, Rocky Horror, and Saturday Morning Cartoons!
This week Lee and Josh chat about: a weekly schedule vs monthly, the multiplex distribution conundrum, endless Disaster Artist requests, visiting New York and Pittsburgh, Star Wars, Justice League, and that we forgot about the cinema's 85th birthday!
They also discuss the a packed week of movie screenings from December 8th - 14th, 2017: Human Flow, Lady Bird, Loving Vincent, Florida Project, Do Donkey's Act?, Thelma, The Room, Batman Returns, and It's A Wonderful Life!
This week, Lee and Josh are joined by extra special Friend-of-Mayfair guest Greg Sestero!
Greg is in town in celebration of our 99th consecutive month screening The Room, and our sneak preview North American premiere of his new film, Best F(r)iends. We chat about The Disaster Artist book and movie, Greg's insane travel schedule, being an extra in movies like Patch Adams and Gattaca, how Back to the Future II and III influenced his latest work, James Franco winning awards, our delicious popcorn, and other delicacies to eat while visiting Ottawa.
We run out of time, but briefly mention movies screening December 1 - 7, 2017: The Florida Project, Wonderstruck, Faces Places, The Square, Blade of the Immortal, Polar Express, and Last Waltz (forgot to mention that one). And, of course, encore screenings of Best F(r)iends, and The Room 100!
Josh ran off for a visit to New York City, and forgot the notes that he wrote down while editing the podcast! He does remember that he and Ian got together on a Sunday afternoon (November 19, 2017), and recorded a podcast in the office while a birthday party with 50 rampaging children was happening in the cinema. In the glamorous life of movie theatre management, Josh sits down moments after cleaning up after a sick child. And, he does remember that they chatted about scheduling movies, Todd Haynes, Julianne Moore, John Waters, Ed Wood, The Room, cult movies, Justice League (Ian kind of liked it!), and Dead Shack.
This week, Andrew, Lee, and Josh chat about: Star Wars merch, Justice League, cinematic empty coffee cup pet peeves, the embarrassment of riches in upcoming programming, classic movies that we knew the ending of before we saw them, getting into the Guinness Book of Records, Sharknado, kickstarting Neil Breen, and the dream of a Tommy Wiseau directed Dracula.
Plus, we mention the movies screening November 17th - 23rd, 2017: The Florida Project, Victoria & Abdul, 78/52, The Departure, Professor Marston & The Wonder Women, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
This week Josh is joined by Sam, Cassia, and Andrew from the Absent Friends Shadowcast! They discuss surviving another year of Rocky Horror Halloween, thoughts of inviting the Prime Minister and his wife to the show, getting seven standing ovation's, social media upkeep, contemplate a non-participation retro screening, Troll 2, and the legacy of Ed Wood.
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of November 10th - 16th, 2017: Loving Vincent, Infinity Baby, Bad Lucky Goat, Mark Felt, The Devil's Mistress, and The Room month 99!
PS - The faux 1950's bad sci-fi movie that Josh forgot the title of was The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
This week, Lee and Josh are back on home turf, recording in the cinema. They chat about Ottawa's Jar Jar connection, The Room 99 celebrations, Andy Serkis, meeting Riz Ahmed, contemplate the best 21st century movies, dream about all the great stuff we're getting before 2017 ends, ignore a bit of electrician work happening in the background, plus Lee opens an exciting poster tube!
They also mention the movies screening the week of November 3rd - 9th, 2017: Rat Film, Una, Dina, Loving Vincent, and Battle of the Sexes!
This week, Josh is joined by his friends, returning guests Drunky and April! They chat about bad phone etiquette during movie watching, The Room month 99 celebration, attending live podcasts, Q&A protocol, classic films like All The Presidents Men and Twilight, American Crash vs Canadian Crash, and kids trying to sneak into R rated movies.
Plus, they chat about the movies screening October 27th - November 2nd, 2017: Battle of the Sexes, Loving Vincent, Mother!, Victor Crowley, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
Josh is visiting Toronto to go see The Flop House podcast, and check out the Guillermo Del Toro exhibit. So, he does a quick sit down with his old friend, writer, geek, and Mayfair fan, Al Kratina. They chat about growing up around the Mayfair, West Coast Video, Bruce Campbell, Mark Hamill, Michael Biehn, Stephen King, and more.
They also remember to mention the movies screening the week of October 20th - 26th! (A jam packed week that includes Lucky, Tulip Fever, The Room, The Addams Family, The Exorcist, The Shining, Nosferatu, and more!)
*You might hear a few more uhm's and thoughtful pauses this week. Had to edit this one quick, before heading out for Toronto plans :)
This week, Andrew, Lee, and Josh chat about getting stuck in traffic, the evils of Hollywood, the line between TV and movies, The Room / Disaster Artist, Lego, Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Tobe Hooper, Bela Lugosi, the pro's of collaboration, Taika Waititi, collecting props, and the frustrations of people requesting / recommending for us to screen movies that we already have.
Plus, we mention the movies screening the week of October 13th - 19th: Tulip Fever, The Midwife, Lucky, The Limehouse Golem, Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday, and The Monster Squad!
This week, Lee and Josh chat about pirates stealing movies, spin-offs, the duology, anthologies, sacred cows, movies lengths, Oscars, Guillermo Del Toro's stuff, and Monroeville!
Plus, they mention the movies screening October 6th - 12th, 2017: The Midwife, Accidental Anarchist, Dunkirk, Bad Grandmas, Better Watch Out, Suspiria, and Despicable Me 3.
This week, Lee, Ian, and Josh get together to chat about Tinder, Ubereats, possible upcoming guests, kicking people out, the Bradbury Building in L.A., Lego buying adventures, Louis CK at TIFF, the Elgin cinema sign, the Psycho remake, and being in an elevator with Udo Kier.
They also mention the movies screening the week of September 29th - October 5th: The Women's Balcony, Baby Driver, Viceroy's House, The Time Of Their Lives, Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71, and a special 35mm Saturday Night Sinema!
This week, we chat about visiting TIFF, Weezer, Steven Soderbergh, John Cusak, geek cruises, Alamo Drafthouse, The Disaster Artist, Ed Wood, Chucky, and Ninja Turtles!
Plus, we discuss the movies screening September 22nd - 28th, 2017: The Women's Balcony, An Inconvenient Sequel, Viceroy's House, Trophy, It Stains The Sands Red, Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal, The Princess Bride, and The Room!
This week Josh is joined by Sam of the Absent Friends Shadowcast, resident hosts of the Mayfair's presentations of Rocky Horror! They discuss Sam's visit to Fan Expo, and meeting Tim Curry and the cast of Rocky Horror. They also chat about It past and present, the evolution of comic cons and geek culture, Clive Barker, Charles Schulz, Harrison Ford, meeting your hero's, and lost films.
They also mention they films screening from September 15th - 21st, 2017: Lost In Paris, The Villainess, Viceroy's House, Rocky Horror, Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter, and the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!
This week, Lee and Josh complain like old men about people who don't turn off their phones at the cinema, and chat about the upcoming Nosferatu for Halloween Month, Saturday Morning Cartoons, the sad closing of the Oxford in Halifax, Lucasfilm fun at Fan Expo, and the new website!
They also mention the movies screening the week of September 8th - 14th: Lost In Paris, A Bag Of Marbles, Good Time, and the Wild Jumbo - the latest chapter in the amazing Stray Cat Rock saga!
This week we discuss the closing of the Oxford in Halifax, indie stores succeeding vs big box stores, Rocky Horror and The Room, Star Wars toys, awards season, liking short features, the joy of digital restorations, and the horrors of dating.
Plus, we chat about our movies for the week of September 1st - 7th: Detroit, Trip To Spain, The Last Dalai Lama?, Temple, the Animation Show Of Shows, and Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss!
This week, Lee and Josh chat about the end of summer, Lee's return to Pittsburgh to meet Burt Reynolds and visit various George A Romero landmarks, greedy convention attendees, meeting Clive Barker, working at West Coast Video, taking advantage of multiplexes booking so few movies, comic book ads, distribution frustrations, and the passing of Jerry Lewis.
Plus, we discuss the movies screening August 25th - 31st: The Queen Of Spain, The Trip To Spain, Ingrid Goes West, Blood Honey, Babe, Don't Torture A Duckling, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week we chat about visiting Nashville, MST3K, the horrors of dating, Louis CK's secret movie, Steven Soderbergh's business model, and Mario Bava.
Plus, we discuss the movies screening from August 18 - 24, 2017: The Big Sick, The B-Side, Lady Macbeth, Rocky Horror, Brigsby Bear, Blood And Black Lace, and Rocky!
This week, Josh is joined by a pair of special guests, April and Natalie from Rideau Valley Roller Derby! They chat about horrible people using cell phones during movies, giant monsters, Kabuki, LCD Soundsystem, John Woo, nostalgic tv commercials, and a plan to reboot The Flop House podcast as The House Flop.
There wasn't confirmation on the schedule for the week of August 11th yet, but they still discuss upcoming movies Landline, The Room, the Giallo Fest, and the Stray Cat Rock Fest. Plus, this is being posted a few days earlier than normal to remind everyone to catch Hard Boiled on 35mm this week!
Corrections Department - the five Stray Cat Rock movies came between May 1970 and January 1971...a much shorter time frame than thought!
This week we chat about fake camping, jerks who brag about pirating movies, Disaster Artist at TIFF, liking movies to be under 90 minutes, Luc Besson, Ben Wheatley, Laserdiscs & VHS, strangely positive distribution changes thanks to having a multiplex nearby, and we forget the name of the late great Michael Parks.
We also discuss the movies screening the week of August 4th - 10th: Dawson City: Frozen Time, The Big Sick, A Ghost Story, Hard Boiled, The Ghoul, Raw Meat (aka - Death Line), and we neglect to mention the family matinees of Captain Underpants!
Corrections Department - We got her name backwards, it's Rooney Mara, not Mara Rooney
This week we chat about dating and marriage, booking international movies, avoiding trailers, Canada's lenient ratings system, cap guns, AGFA, UberEats, and the proper pronunciation of Bill Nighy's name.
Plus, we discuss the movies screening the week of July 28th - August 3rd: The Beguiled, Certain Women, Beatriz At Dinner, Little Hours, Wolf Warrior 2, Effects, and Saturday Night Sinema!
This week we chat about a pair of late greats, George A. Romero and Martin Landau. That leads us on a conversation through the movies of Wes Craven, Steven Spielberg, John Waters, and the executive producer non-career of Stan Lee. We also discuss bizarre and fake sequels, how actors take more risks and diverse roles now-a-days, and the upcoming Disaster Artist adaptation.
Plus, we mention the giant stack of movies screening from Friday July 21st - Thursday the 27th: The Beguiled, Paris Can Wait, Beatriz At Dinner, The Bad Batch, The Journey, Rocky Horror, Creepshow, Crimes And Misdemeanors, and The Muppet Movie!
Corrections Department - Nicole Kidman IS in Stoker!
Lee and Josh get together to discuss Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, the Monroeville Mall, Muppet movie distribution, B-Movies, picture vs sound, boom shadows, and Nien Nunb!
We also chat about the movies screening from July 14th - 20th: Churchill, Paris Can Wait, Beatriz At Dinner, The Hero, Radio Dreams, and the 95th monthly screening of The Room!
Plus, we speculate on what will happen to The Room phenomenon in the next few months, and we think that we should get invited to the Oscars when Disaster Artist gets nominations!
Andrew, Anya, and Josh somehow manage to double-book a podcast recording at the same time as a fire-alarm inspection at the theatre! They stubbornly soldier on (see if you can spot the alarm avoiding edit points!), and discuss summer movies of their youth, french VHS movies, double bills / triple bills, ringing phones during movies, and UberEats!
Plus, they chat about this week's movies (July 7th - 13th): The Gardener, From The Land Of The Moon, Beatriz At Dinner, All Eyez On Me, Weirdos, and The Zodiac Killer!
It's a packed house, with Andrew, Lee, Ian, Anya, and Josh all getting together to talk about Canadian movies in honour of Canada Day!
On and off topic, they chat about: Adele, He-Man cartoons, Scott Pilgrim, Spaghetti Westerns, Turbo Kid, Twin Peaks, Heavy Metal, Bruce McDonald, and Canadian classics the like of Visiting Hours, Blazing Magnums, The Silent Partner, Porky's, Scanners, The Gate, My Bloody Valentine, and more!
Plus, they mention this weeks movies, screening from Friday June 30th to Thursday July 6th, 2017: The Hero, The Garden, Churchill, The Commune, and It Comes At Night!
Lee and Josh chat about Han Solo-gate, movies being filmed more like tv series, long gaps in franchise sequels, that Japanese and Bollywood actors work really hard, more treasures in digital preservation and distribution, Dave Filoni, and Edgar Wright!
Plus, they discuss the movies screening from June 23rd - 30th: Tanna, My Cousin Rachel, Maudie, The Circle, Stalker, Alien: Covenant, Saturday Night Cinema, and Saturday Morning Cartoons!
Andrew, Lee, and Josh discuss historical zombie landmarks in Pittsburgh, Grauman's Chinese Theatre visits in L.A., the differences between Italian and U.S. film production, the Disney Vault, super fans, meeting Tom Savini, and not wanting to see that long lost Jerry Lewis movie.
They also chat about the movies screening from June 16th - 22nd: The Lovers, City Of Tiny Lights, Bon Cop Bad Cop 2, Solaris, Uncle Buck, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
Plus, what is a Giallo movie anyhow?
Andrew, Anya, and Josh discuss independent movies, trailers ruining movies, the ratings system, modern advertising, bad film professors, kickstarter movies, and kids getting nightmares thanks to movies.
And, they chat about movies screening the week of June 9th - 15th: The Circle, Paula, Alone In Berlin, Awakening The Zodiac, Bugs, and Night Of The Living Dead!
Plus, they conclude that there's always good movies out there, despite what naysayers might think
Josh checks in with a quick mini ep for the week of June 2nd through June 8th. Sorry...life has been extra hectic, and we couldn't get the Mayfair gang together. Promise that we'll be back soon with a real full length ep! Thanks for listening, see you soon at the movies!
In a special Mayfair-on-the-Road edition, Josh has a visit with his East Coast pals Dave and Lauren! They chat about the bizarre phenomenon that is The Room, ponder if anyone out there wants more Avatar's, remember David Lynch weather report's, have fond thoughts about social media interactions, possibly get interrupted by a ghost, and are nostalgic for the 1980's.
We also manage to discuss this week's movies: I Daniel Blake, A Quiet Passion, Shadows Of Paradise, The Teacher, The Lost City Of Z, Jumanji, and Saturday Night Sinema!
Plus, we realize that if we could tell the kid versions of us about the present, we would think we were in Tron or something.
Be sure to check out Dave's podcast - Living Between Wednesday's, and when in Halifax and Dartmouth, visit Dave's employer, the excellent Strange Adventures comic shop's!
Lee and Josh chat about fake reviews, suburban cinema philistines, movies you love that no-one else does, comic con treasure, zombie movie tourist sites, upcoming grindhouse re-issues, and evil Smurf cards!
Plus, we chat about the movies screening the week of May 19th - 25th 2017: the new Smurfs cartoon, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Rocky Horror, and an unprecedented five Ottawa Premiere's - Norman, Vancouver: No Fixed Address, 5-25-77, Buster's Mal Heart, and Alone In Berlin!
Andrew, Lee, Josh, and 1st timer Ian chat about meeting Michael Parks in Austin, meeting Roger Ebert at Cannes, and not meeting a drunk Tom Skerritt, ponder the fate of franchises ranging from Terminator to Godzilla to Independence Day, and contemplate what to do for the 100th screening of The Room.
We also bring up this week's movies: Maudie, Their Finest, The Promise, Get Out, Jackie Boy, Hounds Of Love, and The Room!
Plus, Lee does a pitch perfect impression of Data from The Next Generation.
This week, Andrew, Anya, Lee, and Josh chat about the flood bringing weather that has hit Ottawa, Lego road-trips, the Star Wars / Maudie connection, movie ad's, new wave cinema, Imax lies, Christopher Nolan / James Bond hopes, John Waters graveyard requests, super fans, Zaphod's memories, and Twin Peaks.
We also mention the movies screening this week: Maudie, Their Finest, The Dinner, Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent, and Free Fire!
Plus, we can't stop reminiscing nostalgically / besmirching the legacy of VHS
Andrew, Lee, and Josh chat about Star Wars even more than usual, due to Lee's recent trip to Star Wars Celebration!
Plus, a grab bag of topics ranging from Ottawa's Star Wars connection, why weekly programming is better than monthly, Lee's chats with Stephen McHattie, Jonathan Demme, horror vs thriller, working in video stores, and studio's finding talent from indie films instead of music video's.
They also briefly remember to mention this week's movies: Maudie, A United Kingdom, Kong: Skull Island, and Saturday Night Sinema!
And, a couple of stellar Michael Caine impersonations!
This week, Josh is joined by a pair of Friends-of-Mayfair neighbours, Mark and Kevin from House of Targ! They chat about the secret origins of the greatest pinball / arcade / rock & roll bar in the universe, being Sega kids, CJ Ramone, Dig Dug high scores, and the tradition of horrible video game movies!
Plus, a quick mention of the movies screening the week of April 21st, 2017: The Zookeeper's Wife, Maudie, T2: Trainspotting, Life, Wilson, Rocky Horror, and Bad News Bears!
Andrew and Josh have a G Rated episode because Lee is off in Florida at Star Wars Celebration! We actually don't get too far off track, and chat about the movies screening the week of April 14th: Personal Shopper, The Last Word, All These Sleepless Nights, The Blackcoat's Daughter, The Big Lebowski, The Room, and The Lego Batman Movie!
Plus, we discuss the weird world of comic con's, the success of our first Collective Arts Brewing / Smoque Shack Movie Night, Josh admits he wants to see at least one of the Twilight movies, and some of our favourite filmmaker's get mentioned in the mix (George Romero, Joe Dante, George Miller).
Plus, listen to Josh and Andrew confusingly try to deduce what the hell Snap Chat is!
Andrew, Lee, and Josh chat about the movies screening the week of April 7th, 2017: Kedi, Lego Batman, Land Of Mine, I Am Not Your Negro, The Void, David Lynch: The Art Life, and Eraserhead.
Plus, American presidential politics, Lee hopes to have dinner with Forest Whitaker in Florida, Josh ponders confronting Spielberg about Transformers, Shia LaBeouf has a world record flop, and expensive action figures.
And, why is it that directors don't matter for publicity anymore?
Andrew, Lee , and Josh chat about social media miscommunication, attention spans, texting during a movie dealbreaker, ad campaigns, and ponder why a person would leave a movie before it's over. Also, talk of the movies screening the week of March 31st: La La Land, The Sense Of An Ending, The Lure, and Window Horses. And, upcoming movies: The Void, and David Lynch: The Art Life.
Plus, why are we are we unable to screen a movie that shot in Ottawa?
Andrew, Lee, and Josh talk about fire alarms, free tickets, 35mm vs digital, the legacy of Power Rangers and its connection to a great long lost action film.
We chat about the films screening the week of March 24th: the held over La La Land and Looking For Infinity, Ottawa Premiere of Donald Cried, the kitty cat doc Kedi, John Wick: Chapter 2 (and the origins of its director), Saturday Morning Cartoons, and the greatest Saturday Night Sinema ever.
Plus, Lee ruins our chances of a G rating.
Andrew, Lee, and Josh chat about some of the movies screening the week of March 17th, 2017: Hidden Figures, La La Land, Silence (which leads to Scorsese / Color Of Money worship), and M Night redemption with Split! Not too surprisingly, a whole bunch of Star Wars / Rogue One geek conversation too.
Also, we ponder if anyone out there is a real fan of Avatar, and if there will ever be a new original Hollywood franchise again. Plus, Tommy Wiseau approves of The Disaster Artist bio-pic!
PS - If you miss Saturday Night Sinema on March 25th, you'll regret it for the rest of your life!
Andrew, Lee, and Josh chat about advanced screenings, getting noticed by distributors, our demographics, being an art-house waiting to happen, and why La La Land takes precedence over Star Wars (in our box office, but not in our hearts).
Plus, we mention Hello Destroyer (our Ottawa Premiere this week), the 91st consecutive month screening The Room, Hidden Figures, Moonlight, The Salesman, Sing, and Rogue One!
Andrew, Lee, and Josh chat about Bill Paxton, the Oscars, Star Wars Lego, one of our favourite Michael's (Keaton), and our least favourite Michael (Bay). Plus, mentions of our four movies screening this week: Moonlight, The Salesman, Toni Erdmann, and Paterson.
Andrew, Lee, and Josh get amazingly off-track, confused of the timeline, realize they shouldn't speak to each other except for on the podcast, and barely talk about upcoming movies.
The annual Oscars party, and the Ottawa Premiere's of XX and Dark Night are mentioned. Patterson (a movie which we were to screen this week, that as fate would have it got delayed) side-tracks to illogical harsh feelings towards Adam Driver, Police Academy, VHS, virtual reality, and first movie dates.
Plus, as per tradition, we burn bridges with multiplexes, Vin Diesel, and Zack Snyder!
Josh checks in for a quick mini ep for the schedule of February 17th - 23rd, with a recording delayed due to constant noise of circling snow-plow's. It's a week jam packed with 10 movies (which might be a record): Moonlight, Fences, 20th Century Women, Another Evil, Julieta, Miss Sloane, Moana, Rocky Horror, Last Chance, and E.T.!
We'll be back next week with a full length Oscar themed episode!
This week Josh is joined by Sam and Mark, veterans of the Absent Friends Shadowcast! Hence, we talk a lot about The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
We also chat about movie's screening the week of February 10th - 16th: Oscar nominees Fences, 20th Century Women, and Moonlight, the Ottawa Premiere of They Call Us Monsters, the 90th consecutive month of The Room, and a Kids Club presentation of Race For Your Life Charlie Brown! We've also got a pair of extra special Valentine's Day screenings, Casablanca, and The Love With (another Ottawa Premiere)!
Plus, why have there only been two movies that have become true cult phenomenons in the past 40 years?
Andrew, Lee, and Josh chat about movies screening from February 3rd to 9th, mostly a batch of highly acclaimed hold-over's: Jackie, Neruda (2nd weeks!), Lion (5th week!), Manchester By The Sea (6th week!), and the highly anticipated Ottawa Premiere of Kung-Fu Yoga. Plus, we get distracted with a whole bunch of Jackie Chan worship, admire the work of Chris Miller / Phil Lord, burn Zack Snyder bridges again, and have exciting news about our washrooms.
Lee and Josh multitask a podcast recording while a press screening happens in the theatre, chatting about movies screening from January 27th through February 2nd: Lion (5th week!), Kids Club presents Superman, Saturday Night Sinema, Jackie, and Neruda (a rare cinematic happening of having the Ottawa Premiere of two movies from the same director on the same day!). Plus, a bunch of Superman talk, reminiscing on horrible movie going experiences, and burning bridges with Vin Diesel and Zack Snyder!
Andrew and Josh are joined by special guest Ryan, from The Comic Book ShoppeCast! We chat about movies screening January 20th - 26th: Arrival, Hacksaw Ridge, Lion (3rd week!), Manchester By The Sea (5th week!), Ultraman X / Ultraman Ginga S double bill, and The Room (89th consecutive month!). Plus, we discuss why bad movies make a ton of money, the brother's Affleck, the difficulty of seperating the person from the artist, and more! Don't miss out on our ShoppeCast friends special live 100th episode event - for more info: http://bit.ly/2jzcmR3
Andrew and Josh welcome fellow Mayfair crew member Anya to the podcast for the first time, as they chat about movies screening from January 13th - 19th: Manchester By The Sea, Lion, Krisha, Nocturnal Animals, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Freddy Vs Jason. Plus, we completely forget to mention that it's our 100th episode!
Happy New Year! Andrew and Josh chat about three movies at the Mayfair this week: Manchester By The Sea, Lion, and Railroad Tigers. Plus, they discuss some of their favourite movies of 2016. And, Josh typecasts Chris Pine (who comes up in conversation by being in one of the movies from the Best Of list), because he is too handsome.
Andrew and Josh get together to chat about a bunch of movies that we're screening this week, over the Holiday Season: Moonlight and Manchester By The Sea return for 2nd weeks, family matinees of Storks and Miss Peregrine's Post For Peculiar Children, American Pastoral, Christine (not the John Carpenter one), and the Ottawa Premiere of The Autopsy Of Jane Doe.
Andrew and Josh chat about the last batch of movies before the Christmas Eve / Christmas break: A pair of Golden Globe 2017 nominees with Moonlight, and Manchester By The Sea. Plus we've got Holiday Season matinees of the back by popular demand The Eagle Huntress, the animated adventure The Secret Life Of Pets, and the modern Christmas Classic, Elf!
Andrew and Josh chat about an extra packed schedule this week, for December 16th - 22nd, 2016.
We've got three Ottawa Premieres: Operation Avalanche, The Eyes Of My Mother, and Seed: The Untold Story. Two films are being held over for encore weeks: Rules Don't Apply, and Loving. Plus there's Elle, the 88th consecutive month of The Room, Die Hard, a Kids Club presentation of A Christmas Story, and the 10th Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party! So much to see!
Josh checks in with a quick Mini Ep, to update listeners on what the Mayfair Theatre is screening from December 9th - 15th, plus a trio of special Holiday screenings coming soon!
Andrew and Josh chat about The Carer, plus a trio of Ottawa Premieres: Southside With You, Sky On Fire, and One More Time With Feeling! Plus, we mention a couple of upcoming special screenings for the Holidays: Saturday Morning Cartoons, and a Kids Club presentation of A Christmas Story! In a new concise podcast record of under 24 minutes!
Andrew, Josh, and Lee get together on a horrible winter afternoon to chat about films screening Friday November 25th - Thursday December 1st: The Eagle Huntress, The 9th Life of Louis Drax, Queen of Katwe, Snowden, American Honey, Labyrinth, The Polar Express, and Saturday Night Sinema!
Plus, we mention Thanksgiving, Philip Glass, a Donald Trump rom-com, and a crazy error in a recently released World War II film.
Josh and Andrew chat about movies screening at the Mayfair for the week of November 18th - 24th: The Dressmaker, The People Vs Fritz Bauer, The Eagle Huntress, The Handmaiden, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show! Plus, we somehow manage to wrap up the show in under 25 minutes, a new record!
This week, Sam from the Absent Friends shadow cast joins us to chat about this year's Rocky Horror Halloween screenings.
Plus, Andrew tells us about our Ottawa Premiere of Don't Look Down. We also mention the rare happening of a week with 5 returning films: Gimme Danger, The Dressmaker, Denial, The Violin Teacher, and the 87th consecutive month of The Room!
There are 2 edits in the podcast, thanks to computer error (and because of Josh's cat nudging a cable loose), see if you can notice them!
Josh survived the annual Rocky Horror Picture Show marathon, and delivers a lil' mini episode to chat about this week's films: Little Sister, Gimme Danger, Denial, The Dressmaker, and Finding Dory.
The weekly podcast from the historic Mayfair Theatre in Ottawa, Ontario. This week we chat about Mean Dreams, The Violin Teacher, Denial, Girl Asleep, and our annual Halloween tradition of a bunch of screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show hosted by the Absent Friends shadow cast! Plus, Josh gets scared when he's in the theatre by himself and hears weird noises.
A mini episode for the week of July 15th - 21st, chatting about new movies screening at the Mayfair Theatre
This week, we delve into the history of Ottawa cinemas and how the old experience of coming to a single screen theatre has been lost on the new generation of people used to the multiplex.