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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234: Apocalypse Now Babies!
29/08/2019 Duration: 33minThis week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh discuss: long directorial career gaps, the fall of Val Kilmer, screening streaming movies, studios battling over Spider-man, 1980s classics Krull and Dead Heat, contemplate what if Kubrick and Hitchcock lived in a world with social media, Nic Cage (of course), and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday August 30th - Thursday August 5th: Where'd You Go Bernadette, The Kitchen, Yesterday, Tigers Are Not Afraid, Okko's Inn, and Saturday Night Sinema!
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233: History's Greatest Monster!
22/08/2019 Duration: 31minThis week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: a Super Mario bar, time zone jet lag, MST3K vacations, expensive Canadian cities, scary roller coasters, movie theme park rides, Halloween Month programming, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday August 23rd - Friday August 29th: Marianne & Leonard: Words Of Love, The Farewell, Late Night, The Indian Tomb, Apocalypse Now: Final Cut, The Queen, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
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232: Well, I'm Stunned!
15/08/2019 Duration: 34minThis week, Eric, Melissa, and Josh chat about: the Fantastic Four robot, Cosplay and photo-op's at comiccons, nerds going pro, amateur and professional wrestling, meeting Guillermo Del Toro, digital vs physical media, The Banana Splits, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday August 16th - Thursday August 22nd: Marianne & Leonard: Words Of Love, Vita & Virginia, Maiden, Instant Dreams, Rocketman, The Tiger Of Eschnapur, and The Room!
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231: Metal Farmer!
07/08/2019 Duration: 32minThis week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: after school specials, movies edited for TV, visiting London and cinema geek travels, the dissenting 1% negative critic, Darth Vader's, bad Bond openings, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday August 9th - Thursday August 15th: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, Light Of My Life, The Farewell, Iron Sky: The Coming Race, and The Big Heat!
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230: Milkshake in the Face!
31/07/2019 Duration: 33minThis week, Eric, Anya, and Josh chat about: mysterious box office tales, catching thieves, unruly drunks, murder podcasts, Mindy Kaling praise, dreams of a Nic Cage Fest, our Mark Hamill appreciation policy, confusing franchise copyright splits, and more! Plus, they discuss the movies screening from Friday August 2nd - Thursday August 8th: Late Night, Ask Dr. Ruth, The Art of Self-Defense, Tolkien, Ministry of Fear, and Child's Play (2019)!
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229: We Like Alligators!
25/07/2019 Duration: 31minThis week, Eric, Anya, and Josh chat about: the one flaw in Booksmart, improvements in pop culture diversity, classic movie inappropriateness, actors you like making bad choices, Geena Davis in movie jail, being friends of a friend of a Marvel Super Hero, and more! Plus, they discuss the movies screening from July 26th - August 1st, 2019: Wild Rose, Midsommar, Free Trip To Egypt, Mouthpiece, Suburbia, and Saturday Night Sinema!
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228: Kids Today!
18/07/2019 Duration: 32minThis week, Eric, Anya, Andrew, and Josh chat about: weddings, geek vs nerd classifications, Blu Ray lifespan, Tilda Swinton's family, Eddie Furlong, The Crow sequels, and more! Plus, they discuss the movies screening from Friday July 19th - Thursday July 25th, 2019: The Tomorrow Man, Booksmart, The Souvenir, Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blanche, Pet Semetary, Under the Silver Lake, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
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227: I Remember Those Things!
11/07/2019 Duration: 31minThis week, Eric and Josh chat about: perogies, cupcake cones, 7-11, flea markets, retro fashion, product placement, fast food movie tie-ins, creepy mannequins, bootleg championship rings, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of July 12th - 18th, 2019: Pavarotti, Photograph, Wild Nights with Emily, Hail Satan?, Real Genius, and The Room!
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226: There's That Dude!
04/07/2019 Duration: 33minThis week, Eric, Anya, and Josh chat about: Kaiju Juice, Canada Day, field trips, private screenings, movie posters, Harry Potter, our Women Directors Film Fest: Retro 1980s Edition, breakup drama advice, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday July 5th - Thursday July 11th, 2019: Peterloo, The White Crow, Booksmart, The Dead Don't Die, I'll Take Your Dead, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High!
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225: Steve Van Helsing
27/06/2019 Duration: 32minThis week, Eric, Anya, and Josh discuss: boyband evolution from The Monkees to NSync, attending David Bowie, and David Byrne concerts, open up the complaints recieved department - including a criticism of too many vampire movies, nostalgically miss toys in cereal boxes, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening from June 28th - July 4th, 2019: Booksmart, All Is True, Blu Notes Records: Beyond The Notes, The Dead Don't Die, Saturday Night Sinema, and the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!
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224: It's Like I'm There!
19/06/2019 Duration: 34minThis week, Eric, Anya, and Josh chat about: working in the rain, marquee destruction, microfiche, the abandoned Place de Ville Theatre, Danzig's directorial debut, Wizard Magazine, Pattison / Keaton Batmen, eBay treasure, fighting to get crowds for classic movies, and more! Plus, they discuss the movies screening from Friday June 21st - Thursday June 27th: Book Smart, Red Joan, The Fall of the American Empire, The Bigamist, Nightmare Cinema, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
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223: Lovable Killing Machines
14/06/2019 Duration: 32minThis week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: basketball victory, Devon Sawa on planes, misremembering Affleck movies, too many movies called Shaft, the return of violent action movies, 'Two' titled sequels, Flintstones comics, inappropriate Freddy Krueger moments, slow weeks at the box office, and more! Plus, they discuss the movies screening June 14th to June 20th, 2019: Halston, Red Joan, Master Z: Ip Man Legacy, The Hitch-Hiker, The Room, and Project Ithaca!
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222: Scary Ghost Sound!
06/06/2019 Duration: 34minThis week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: basketball, petitions, non-millionaire celebrities, terrible cell phone / unruly children etiquette while watching movies, Bringing Out The Dead, bad posters, Macaulay Culkin, a Toxic Avenger remake, Swamp Thing, Babadook pride, and more! Plus, they mention the films screening from Friday June 7th - Thursday June 13th: Girls of the Sun, The Biggest Little Farm, Changeland, Not Wanted, and Brightburn!
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221: We Should Be Richer
29/05/2019 Duration: 39minThis week, Lee, Andrew, Ian, and Josh are on a panel at Ottawa Comiccon! They chat about Mayfair history, crowdfunding, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, 35mm and Digital presentations, weekly prgramming, the impending Disney / Fox vault, The Room, Rocky Horror, ghosts in the Mayfair, and more! Plus, Josh checks in to briefly mention the movies screening from May 31st - June 6th, 2019: Diane, The Grizzlies, Amazing Grace, Shadow, and Babylon!
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220: Still A Terrible Idea!
22/05/2019 Duration: 33minThis week, Anya, Eric, and Josh discuss: East Coast beers, Strange Adventures comic book store, Mega City's, donairs and shawarmas, visiting boy / girlfriends parents, basketball playoffs hindering plans, nostalgia for 80s / 90s multiplexes, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday May 24th - Thursday May 30th: Amazing Grace, Sir, Us, Ninja Scroll, Meeting Gorbachev, and Saturday Night Sinema!
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219: Don't Tell Anybody!
15/05/2019 Duration: 34minThis week, Anya, Eric, and Josh chat about: Broken computers, Drag Queens, Clive Barker, John Waters, Chewie's impersonation of Tommy Wiseau, long lost restored movies and music, missing movies due to travel, Comic Book Confidential, The Raptors, and more! Plus, they discuss the movies screening from Friday May 17th - Thursday May 23rd, 2019: Carmine Street Guitars, High Life, Amazing Grace, [Censored], How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Who Killed Captain Alex?, and Bad Black!
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218: Not Famous Enough
08/05/2019 Duration: 32minThis week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: drag shows, being mistaken for the Bytowne, multiplex woes, Avengers, Ottawa Comiccon, Ang Lee, clone movies, James Cameron, moviemaking deadlines, Big Shark, the George Lucas Family Foundation, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 10th - Thursday May 16th, 2019: Sunset, Stockholm, Edmond, The Juniper Tree, Bed of the Dead, and The Room!
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217: Fighting the Power!
01/05/2019 Duration: 32minThis week, Eric and Josh chat about: uniforms, bowling alleys, the evils of storage units, multiplex complaints, Avatar's lack of a pop-culture footprint, poor studio decisions, anthologies, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of May 3rd to 9th, 2019: Hotel Mumbai, Everybody Knows, Rafiki, Her Smell, Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse, Aliens, Beetlejuice, Boyz N The Hood, and the Digi60 Film Fest!
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216: Are We On The Radio?
25/04/2019 Duration: 35minThis week, Eric, Andrew, Lee, and Josh chat about: Star Wars Celebration, Chicago, Ahmed Best, bad collectors, Crispin Glover, Carl Weathers, San Diego Comiccon, Lobot, the 1989 Punisher vhs, Wallace Shawn, the logic of filmmakers being put on projects they love, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday April 26th - Thursday May 2nd: Minding the Gap, The Quietude, Far: The Story of a Journey Around the World, Alien, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Saturday Night Sinema!
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215: What Have We Done?!
17/04/2019 Duration: 30minThis week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: dreams of a visit from Ahmed Best, the Nude on the Moon theme song, watching movies with parents, CanCon specifications, multi-Country productions, basketball updates, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 19th - Thursday Arpil 25th: Gloria Bell, Woman at War, Apollo 11, Firecrackers, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Surfer: Teen Confronts Fear, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, The Big Lebowski, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!