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320: Those Terrific Rock Pretty Baby Kids!

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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!
33 minutes | Wednesday, December 2, 2020
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!
40 minutes | Wednesday, November 25, 2020
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!
40 minutes | Wednesday, November 18, 2020
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!
40 minutes | Thursday, November 12, 2020
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!
39 minutes | Thursday, November 5, 2020
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!
54 minutes | Thursday, October 29, 2020
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!
40 minutes | Thursday, October 22, 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!
40 minutes | Thursday, October 15, 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!
37 minutes | Wednesday, October 7, 2020
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!
33 minutes | Thursday, October 1, 2020
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!
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320: Those Terrific Rock Pretty Baby Kids!
Mayfair Theatre Podcast

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