Synopsis
The Mayfair Theatre Podcast is a weekly show that takes you behind the scenes of Ottawa's oldest movie theatre(open since 1932!)
Episodes
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295: Happy Halloween, Folks!
29/10/2020 Duration: 53minThis 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!
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294: I Didn't Think This Would Be On The Test
22/10/2020 Duration: 40minThis 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!
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293: A Lovely Echo Chamber
15/10/2020 Duration: 39minThis 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!
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292: My Mind Is Blown
07/10/2020 Duration: 37minThis 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!
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291: A Harbinger Of Things To Come
01/10/2020 Duration: 32minThis 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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290: Insanely Kind Of Horribly Still Relevant
24/09/2020 Duration: 38minThis 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!
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289: Still In The Trenches
17/09/2020 Duration: 36minThis 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!
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288: But, It Is Kind Of Unsettling
10/09/2020 Duration: 41minThis 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!
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287: I Wish I Hadn't Said That
04/09/2020 Duration: 40minThis 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!
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286: Everything's Confusing Now
27/08/2020 Duration: 40minThis 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!
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285: That's All That Needs To Be Said
20/08/2020 Duration: 36minThis 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!
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284: Everything's Always Bad
13/08/2020 Duration: 36minThis 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!
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283: Cinematic Nerd Karma Wheel
06/08/2020 Duration: 32minThis 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!
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282: Living Off The Past Glory
30/07/2020 Duration: 38minThis 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!
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281: Soul Searching and Reflecting
23/07/2020 Duration: 30minThis 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!
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280: It's Gonna' Be A Bumpy Ride!
15/07/2020 Duration: 33minThis 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!
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279: They Called My Mom One Time!
09/07/2020 Duration: 44minThis 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!
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278: Who Knows What The Future Holds
01/07/2020 Duration: 42minThis 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!
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277: Questions That We Don't Have The Answer To
25/06/2020 Duration: 44minThis 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!
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276: Stranger Things Have Happened
17/06/2020 Duration: 42minThis 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!