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330: The Beauty Of Film.

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36 minutes | Thursday, July 1, 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!
35 minutes | Thursday, June 24, 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!
35 minutes | Thursday, June 17, 2021
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!
36 minutes | Thursday, June 10, 2021
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!
39 minutes | Wednesday, June 2, 2021
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!
37 minutes | Thursday, May 27, 2021
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!
37 minutes | Thursday, May 20, 2021
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!
36 minutes | Thursday, May 13, 2021
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.
37 minutes | Thursday, May 6, 2021
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.
39 minutes | Thursday, April 29, 2021
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!
35 minutes | Thursday, April 22, 2021
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.
37 minutes | Thursday, April 15, 2021
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.
35 minutes | Thursday, April 8, 2021
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.
40 minutes | Thursday, April 1, 2021
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.
35 minutes | Thursday, March 25, 2021
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.
35 minutes | Thursday, March 18, 2021
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.
35 minutes | Thursday, March 11, 2021
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!
35 minutes | Thursday, March 4, 2021
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!
35 minutes | Wednesday, February 24, 2021
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!
35 minutes | Thursday, February 18, 2021
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!
35 minutes | Thursday, February 11, 2021
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!
38 minutes | Thursday, February 4, 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!
45 minutes | Thursday, January 28, 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!
34 minutes | Thursday, January 21, 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!
37 minutes | Thursday, January 14, 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!
33 minutes | Thursday, January 7, 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!
38 minutes | Wednesday, December 30, 2020
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!
35 minutes | Thursday, December 24, 2020
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!
35 minutes | Thursday, December 17, 2020
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!
39 minutes | Wednesday, December 9, 2020
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!
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330: The Beauty Of Film.
Mayfair Theatre Podcast

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