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479: The Extra Penny.

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34 minutes | Thursday, May 9, 2024
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by a special guest, Eric's dad! They chat about: Buster Keaton, silent films vs talkies, Häxan, 15 cent movie tickets, Westerns, serials, Star Wars, The Wizard Of Oz, Them!, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday May 10 - Thursday May 16: Irena's Vow, Common Ground, Femme, The Room, Sasquatch Sunset, Purple Noon, and Saturday Night Sinema!
35 minutes | Thursday, May 2, 2024
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!
34 minutes | Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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 mayfa...
32 minutes | Wednesday, April 17, 2024
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!
37 minutes | Thursday, April 11, 2024
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!
33 minutes | Thursday, April 4, 2024
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!
35 minutes | Thursday, March 28, 2024
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!
35 minutes | Thursday, March 21, 2024
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!
35 minutes | Thursday, March 14, 2024
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!
34 minutes | Thursday, March 7, 2024
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!
41 minutes | Thursday, February 29, 2024
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 negle...
35 minutes | Thursday, February 22, 2024
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!
33 minutes | Wednesday, February 14, 2024
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.
33 minutes | Thursday, February 8, 2024
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!
40 minutes | Thursday, February 1, 2024
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
32 minutes | Wednesday, January 24, 2024
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!
38 minutes | Wednesday, January 17, 2024
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!
39 minutes | Thursday, January 11, 2024
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 ...
33 minutes | Wednesday, January 3, 2024
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!
33 minutes | Thursday, December 28, 2023
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!
35 minutes | Thursday, December 21, 2023
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!
34 minutes | Wednesday, December 13, 2023
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: office parties, Free Comic Book Day, The Polar Express, private rentals, Lil' Avalanche, real time movies, The Golden Globes, American Genre Film Archive, The Cryptid Factor, social media, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 15 - Thursday December 21: Testament, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Bernadette, Don't Open Till Christmas, Saturday Night Sinema, It's A Wonderful Life, and Relax I'm From The Future!
31 minutes | Wednesday, December 6, 2023
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: The Christmas Martian, getting a 1 star review, Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, people recording the screen, the Palm Dog Award, satanic panic, Die Hard, the Disney Vault, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 8 - Thursday December 14: Fallen Leaves, Killers Of The Flower Moon, The Room, Freaks, The Bishop's Wife, and Satan Wants You!
38 minutes | Wednesday, November 29, 2023
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: buying booze, border crossings, weird swag, Secret Santa, Wu-Tang Clan, Vinegar Syndrome, sleepovers, the Mayfair's 91st birthday, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 1 - Thursday December 7: Priscilla, The Smell Of Money, The Christmas Martian, American Graffiti, Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, Playback, and Mountains On Stage!
37 minutes | Thursday, November 23, 2023
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Sam from the Absent Friends Shadow Cast for a Rocky Horror Picture Show / Halloween aftermath discussion. They also discuss: The Wizard Of Oz, vegan pizza, Elvis Presley, 1970s New York City, Lin-Manuel Miranda, The Hebrew Hammer, and more! And, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 24 - Thursday November 30: May December, Priscilla, Who's Yer Father?, The Warriors, Saturday Night Sinema, and Gun Crazy!
41 minutes | Thursday, November 16, 2023
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: family reunions, Enter The Drag Dragon, Jumbo Video, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Loki, The Killer, It's A Wonderful Life, Stop Making Sense, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 17 - Thursday November 23: Anatomy Of A Fall, May December, Cade: The Tortured Crossing, House Of 1000 Corpses, Gilda, and Lady Snowblood! Plus, Josh chats with actor / producer Carl Welch about the upcoming Mayfair screening of The Locksmiths!
38 minutes | Thursday, November 9, 2023
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Andrew Brannen, co-host of the Pause It For Me podcast, and director of the (coming soon to the Mayfair) movie Coffee To Cocktails! They discuss his adventures in making the movie, and also chat about: Clerks, The Blair Witch Project, movie continuity, Star Trek IV, Back To The Future II, The Disaster Artist, and the Palm Dog Award! They also mention the movies screening from Friday November 10 - Thursday November 16: The Persian Version, Anatomy Of A Fall, The Room, Stop Making Sense, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Messiah Of Evil, Saturday Night S...
33 minutes | Thursday, November 2, 2023
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: working the candy bar, pre-show trailers and ads, Dumb Industries, Friday The 13th Part VI, Greg Sestero, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Giallo movies, backhanded compliments, Noir-vember, Stop Making Sense, Purple Rain, House of 1000 Corpses, leftover pizza, Raymond Scott, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 3 - Thursday November 9: She Came To Me, The Killer, Opera, The Hands Of Orlac with Live Music by VOC Silent Film Harmonic, The Maltese Falcon, and Divinity!
38 minutes | Wednesday, October 25, 2023
This week, Eric and Josh are again joined by Eric's nieces, Abby and Norah! The podcast makes an encore attempt to corner the teen demographic as we discuss: retro Halloween costumes, VCR board games, The Watcher In The Woods, E.T., ParaNorman, big screen Netflix, The Sixth Sense, Fruity Pebbles, The Last Unicorn, Candyman, Barbie, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 27 - Thursday November 2: Nyad, The Killer, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, She Came To Me, The Exorcist, The Shining, and The Shining: Forwards & Backwards!
42 minutes | Friday, October 20, 2023
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Sam from the Mayfair's resident Rocky Horror Picture Show performers, The Absent Friends Shadowcast! They chat about: visiting L.A., Panago Pizza, Thanksgiving, Neil Breen, Mad Magazine, Glen Or Glenda, movie locations travel, colorized movies, Goblin, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 20 - Thursday October 26: The Mission, Nyad, Nosferatu: Silent Film with Live Music by Death Ships, Saturday Night Sinema, Night Of The Living Dead, and Scanners!
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479: The Extra Penny.
Mayfair Theatre Podcast

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