Episodes
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, an...
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 mi...
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!