Mayfair Theatre

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The Mayfair Theatre Podcast is a weekly show that takes you behind the scenes of Ottawa's oldest movie theatre(open since 1932!)

Episodes

  • 478: Vigilante Justice.

    02/05/2024 Duration: 34min

    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!

  • 477: They Swung For The Fences.

    24/04/2024 Duration: 33min

    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!

  • 476: Pirates And Explosions.

    17/04/2024 Duration: 31min

    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!

  • 475: Apropos Of Nothing.

    11/04/2024 Duration: 37min

    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!

  • 474: Random Side Note.

    04/04/2024 Duration: 33min

    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!

  • 473: Everyone Loves Dogs.

    28/03/2024 Duration: 35min

    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!

  • 472: Do We Get Cake Now?

    22/03/2024 Duration: 34min

    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!

  • 471: Some Kind Of A Joke.

    15/03/2024 Duration: 34min

    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!

  • 470: Constant Bear Attacks.

    07/03/2024 Duration: 33min

    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!

  • 469: Don't Do This, Tony!

    01/03/2024 Duration: 40min

    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)

  • 468: Movies Are Movies.

    22/02/2024 Duration: 33min

    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!

  • 467: It's The Ghosts.

    14/02/2024 Duration: 33min

    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.

  • 466: I'm Almost Classic Now.

    08/02/2024 Duration: 32min

    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!

  • 465: I've Never Fought A Godzilla.

    01/02/2024 Duration: 39min

    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

  • 464: You're The Mr. Godzilla.

    24/01/2024 Duration: 31min

    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!

  • 463: Cookies For Breakfast.

    17/01/2024 Duration: 37min

    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!

  • 462: Shark Adjacent.

    11/01/2024 Duration: 39min

    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!

  • 461: Game The System.

    03/01/2024 Duration: 32min

    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!

  • 460: Everything Is Good.

    29/12/2023 Duration: 32min

    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!

  • 459: Dinosaurs Are A Little Better Than Turtles.

    21/12/2023 Duration: 34min

    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!

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