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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434: Wrong Thoughts And Half Truths.
28/06/2023 Duration: 42minThis week, Eric and Josh discuss: Escapade, aspect ratios, inappropriate complaints, extinct movie theatres, The Starling Girl, Odd Burger, Michael Caine, Treat Williams, Big Shark, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the Week of Friday June 30 - Thursday June 6: Bones Of Crows, You Hurt My Feelings, La Haine, and The Passenger!
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433: Really Bad Parenting.
21/06/2023 Duration: 37minThis week, Eric and Josh discuss: Visiting L.A., Kevin Smith, Stephen King landmarks, Beetlejuice, Neil Breen, Drive-Ins, the need for conflict in movies, Virginie Efira, The Mist, Twin Peaks, My Magic Dog, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday June 23 - Thursday June 29: Polarized, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Other People's Children, Mad Max: Fury Road - Black And Chrome Edition, Saturday Night Sinema, What's Love Got To Do With It?, Lynch/Oz, and Being BeBe!
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432: Weirder And More Confusing.
14/06/2023 Duration: 37minThis week, Eric and Josh discuss: birthdays and weddings, predicting slow or busy nights, commercials, Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, Tubi, branding and selling out, studios owning cinemas, Amalgam Comics, Chevalier, Norman Lear, the Orleans Comic Book and Novelty Show, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday June 16 - Thursday June 22: Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, The Starling Girl, The Room, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Soldier In The Barn, and Deep Red!
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431: We Owned a Haunted Furby.
07/06/2023 Duration: 42minThis week, Eric and Josh are joined by Eric's nieces, Abby and Norah! The podcast finally corners the teen demographic and discuss: high school musicals, selling your writing, finding weird stuff, Archie Comics, University film class, Giallo movies, virtual cinema, Bill & Ted, Train To Busan, Ready Player One, Space Jam: A New Legacy, The Breakfast Club, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday June 9 - Thursday June 15: Showing Up, L’immensità, The Cat O' Nine Tails, The Road Warrior, Supernova, and Saturday Night Sinema!
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430: We Love Money.
01/06/2023 Duration: 41minThis week, Lee, Eric, and Josh discuss: Lassie, 40 Pounds Of Trouble, Enter The Drag Dragon, The House At The Edge Of The Park, Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie, Neil Breen, George Miller, Damage, Giallo movies, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the Week of Friday June 2 - Thursday June 8: When You Finish Saving The World, Chevalier, The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, Mad Max, and the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!
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429: It Writes Itself!
24/05/2023 Duration: 35minThis week, Eric and Josh discuss: Shudder, Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, Disneyland, sports movies, Ryan Reynolds / Ottawa Senators, movie trailers, Brokeback Mountain, Crash, post apocalyptic cinema class, advance tickets, Beau Is Afraid, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 26 - Thursday June 1: The Worst Ones, The Eight Mountains, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Sisu, Saturday Night Sinema, and Brother!
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428: Out On A Plateau.
18/05/2023 Duration: 41minThis week, Eric and Josh are joined by Tom Fowler, and they discuss: bring your dog to the cinema events, Home Alone, first Mayfair movies, small town cinemas, drive-ins, Star Wars, tribute screenings, The Tomorrow War, The Flop House, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 19 - Thursday May 25: Plan 75, Beau Is Afraid, The Room, Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind, Renfield, and The Canvasser!
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427: Did You Hear That Kaiju?
11/05/2023 Duration: 35minThis week, Eric and Josh discuss: new neighbours, community support, multiplex new release exclusivity, Mandy, Rifftrax, Friday The 13th, Twilight, limited edition DVD's, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 12 - Thursday May 18: Mafia Mamma, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Cocaine Bear, The Evil Dead, Saturday Night Sinema, and Dosed: The Trip Of A Lifetime.
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426: On VHS, The Way God Intended.
04/05/2023 Duration: 34minThis week, Eric and Josh are joined by Scott Blurton to chat about his upcoming film The Canvasser, which screens at the Mayfair on Wednesday May 24! They also discuss: the lowering cost of indie filmmaking, 1990s communication classes, the importance of film sound, Free Solo, Renny Harlin, Nicolas Cage, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 5 - Thursday May 11: River, Sick Of Myself, Full Metal Jacket, Mountain, The Quiet Girl, and Gamera with live music from VOC Silent Film Harmonic!
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425: Fix It In Post.
27/04/2023 Duration: 36minThis week, Eric, Nick, and Josh discuss: Big Shark, The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra, Them!, Batman 66, private screenings, Twitter, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Charlie XCX, gatekeepers, Gamera, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 28 - Thursday May 4: A Man Called Otto, The Quiet Girl, Enys Men, The Tank, The Room, and Saturday Night Sinema!
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424: Instantly In Madness.
20/04/2023 Duration: 33minThis week, Eric and Josh discuss: Earth Day, the ice storm power outage, Saturday Night Sinema, Uber, Renfield, Dune vs Dune, Mamma Mia!, The Final Girls Support Group, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 21 - Thursday April 27: Women Talking, Showing Up, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Mad God, Bystanders, Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood And Honey, Sing-Along-A-Sound Of Music, and Dosed: The Trip Of A Lifetime!
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423: To Bring It Back To Me.
12/04/2023 Duration: 34minThis week, Eric and Josh discuss: big screen video games, indie screenwriting, Torment, Samuel L. Jackson, The Black Cauldron, Gold Key Comics, the Lord Of The Rings movies, The Mole People, The Beatles, Malcolm McDowell, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday April 14 - Thursday April 20: Women Talking, Emily, Sakra, A Clockwork Orange, Saturday Night Sinema, Breaking Boundaries, and Animation Show N Tell Ottawa!
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422: Watching Movies. Learning Kung Fu.
06/04/2023 Duration: 38minThis week, Eric, Sam, and Josh discuss: ice storms, marquees, Enter The Drag Dragon, West Coast Video, Damned Cursed Children, Steve Coogan, Guy Ritchie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Forrest Gump, Star Wars Celebration, and John Waters! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 7 - Thursday April 13: The Lost King, Emily, Ride On, and Pulp Fiction!
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421: High Quality Toons.
29/03/2023 Duration: 36minThis week, Eric and Josh discuss: rationing data, 2D animated movies, why remakes happen, Dragon's Lair, Reign Of Fire, forgotten movies, Saturday Night Sinema, vintage sci-fi movies, Quantumania, movie lengths, The Last Starfighter, top loading VCR's, Steel, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 31 - Thursday April 6: Living, Aftersun, The Lost King, The Big Lebowski, and Smoking Causes Coughing!
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420: Kaiju Adjacent.
23/03/2023 Duration: 36minThis week Eric and Josh discuss: 420, the Oscars, Saturday Morning Cartoons, public service announcements, advance tickets, Toronto, Fantasia Film Fest, Ultraman, John Wayne, 9pm vs Midnight Movies, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 24 - Thursday March 30: Living, Women Talking, The Thing, The Quiet Man, Dreams On Fire, and Saturday Night Sinema!
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419: That Could Be Wolf.
16/03/2023 Duration: 37minThis week Eric and Josh discuss: piano tuning, the Oscars aftermath, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends, The Last Picture Show, the remake of The Room, William Shatner, horror franchise villains, Nicolas Cage, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 17 - Thursday March 23: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Women Talking, The Room, M3GAN, Impulse, and the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party! Plus, the Independent Film Festival of Ottawa presents: Phi 1.618, Cinema's First Nasty Women, and Tales From The Gimli Hospital!
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418: I Use Big Words.
08/03/2023 Duration: 34minThis week Eric and and Josh discuss: bus adventures, forgetting info while podcasting, Creed III, multiplexes, Star Trek, Quentin Tarantino, the Oscars, The Price Is Right, Nicolas Cage, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 10 - Thursday March 16: Living, Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Passion Of Joan Of Arc, Mamma Mia, Unwanted, and the Academy Awards Pre-Show and Ceremony!
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417: Shrug. I Don't Know.
01/03/2023 Duration: 34minThis week, Eric and Josh discuss: leap years, Infinity Pool, Mia Goth, Fear Street, people requesting their favourite movies, Free Comic Book Day, novelizations, old fashioned comic cons, Batman 66, The Blair Witch Project, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 3 - Thursday March 9: Living, To Leslie, The Fabelmans, The Outwaters, and Frankenhooker!
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416: No One Ever Quits.
23/02/2023 Duration: 36minThis week, Eric and Josh discuss: Hereditary, Kids Vs Aliens, Nope, James Cameron, Movie Pass, a cool laundromat, indie video stores, last minute programming, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 24 - Thursday March 2: The Fabelmans, Infinity Pool, Taxi Driver, and Saturday Night Sinema! Alas, the 3rd week of Living became unavailable after recording, so that was mistakenly talked about instead of the 3rd week of The Whale.
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415: Fascinatingly Weird.
16/02/2023 Duration: 36minThis week, Eric and Josh discuss: Valentine's Day, Joe Dante, Space Jam's, Rock N Roll High School, Neil Breen, Coming Soon questions, Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey, The People's Joker, Grindhouse, V/H/S, movie running times, Windtalkers, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 17 - Thursday February 23: Living, The Whale, Kids Vs Aliens, Mean Streets, and The Room!