Mayfair Theatre Podcast
The Mayfair Theatre Podcast is a weekly show that takes you behind the scenes of one of Canada's oldest, and Ottawa's oldest movie theatre - open since 1932!
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Episodes
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528: Lost In The Translation.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Saturday Night Sinema, Safety Last!, A Minecraft Movie, The Worst Person In The World, Parental Consent, The Surfer, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 18 - Thursday March 24: Princess Mononoke, Parthenope, The Friend, Queen Of The Ring, The Room, Flow, and Armand!
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527: It's Gonna Be Quality.
Thursday, April 10, 2025
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: the Toronto Raptors, our Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat Cereal Cartoon Party, scheduling questions, Parental Consent, Taye Diggs, Uwe Boll, Coyote Vs Acme, The Way Of The Gun, Jackass, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 11 - Thursday April 17: The Penguins Lessons, The Brutalist, The Elephant Man, Flow, Seven Veils, Top Secret!, Safety Last!, Saturday Night Sinema, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, and La moitié gauche du frigo!
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526: Vanier Is My Paradise.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Through A Glass Darkly with music by Tall Shadows, E.T. accompanied by the NAC Orchestra, video stores, Carnosaur, American Pie, 47 Meters Down, Captain America: Brave New World, multiplexes, McFarlane Toys, A24, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 4 - Thursday April 10: No Other Land, The Penguin Lessons, Thank You Very Much, Walking Through The Fire, Inland Empire, and Flow!
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525: A Legit Source.
Monday, March 24, 2025
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: the marquee, making popcorn, the kids book Popcorn by Frank Asch, the TVO kids show Cucumber, Carnosaur, Super Bowl ads, Big Shark, Wu-Tang Clan, and more! They also mention the movies screening Friday March 28 - Thursday April 3: I'm Still Here, The Way My Way, Mulholland Drive, Through A Glass Darkly, Unforgiven, Super Secret Saturday Night Sinema, Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai, and Flow!
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524: No Parental Supervision.
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh discuss: parking around the cinema, George Clinton, the marquee, Carnosaur, Roger Corman's Fantastic Four, Captain America (1990), The Substitute franchise, Death Machine, Full Moon Features, Trancers, Retro Puppet Master, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 21 - Thursday March 27: Nickel Boys, No Other Land, Flow, Brazil, The Straight Story, Scarecrow, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
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523: Functional Humans.
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Eric's sister Jen! They chat about: visting Australia, Shane, Dances With Wolves, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Animal Farm, Watership Down, The Witches Of Eastwick, Arachnaphobia, our Cartoon Party, and more! They also mention movies screening the week of Friday March 13 - Thursday March 20: Bonnie And Clyde, The Quick And The Dead, Lost Highway, Flow, and Saturday Night Sinema! They neglect to mention A Complete Unknown, and Universal Language returning for encore weeks. Both were booked after the recording of the podcast. You can always check mayfair...
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522: We Can't Go Outside!
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: The Farmer's Almanac, newspapers, Santa Claus: The Movie, Loose Cannons, Joe Dante, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Norm MacDonald, Odd Burger, The Surfer, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 7 - Thursday March 13: I'm Still Here, A Complete Unknown, The Room, Nosferatu, Wicked, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Flow, and the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!
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521: I'm Pretty Sure They're Gaslighting Me.
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Mayfair internet and phone lines being down, Universal Language, The Keep, The Majestic, Denzel Washington in Gladiator II, CBC Radio, Letterboxd, The Gorge, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 28 - Thursday March 6: Dune, Inglorious Basterds, Flow, Blackenstein, Space Jam, and the 97th Annual Academy Awards Ceremony! They neglect to mention Academy Award nominees Sugarcane, and The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, which got booked after the recording. You can always check mayfairtheatre.ca for listings!
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520: No Pun Intended.
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: a giant snowfall, PWHL, Barbarella, Casablanca, Gordon Lightfoot, ELO, Bob Dylan, Roger Corman's Fantastic Four, Tom Green, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 21 - Thursday February 27: I'm Still Here, Universal Language, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Babygirl, Blue Velvet, Saturday Night Sinema, Flow, and True Romance! Plus, special rental presentations: Green Border, Road Trip & other short films, and The Women's Adventure Film Tour!
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519: I Love Swearing.
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Oyster the Donkey, Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, Old Yeller, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man, Wu-Tang Clan, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, Return To Oz, The Elephant Man, and more! They also mention the moives screening the week of Friday February 14 - Thursday February 20: Nickel Boys, Casablanca, Wild At Heart, Babygirl, The Room, Flow, The Wizard Of Oz, and Reservoir Dogs!
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518: Just All Exposition.
Sunday, February 2, 2025
This week, Eric, Nick, and Josh discuss: cold weather, beer and coffee, Jar Jar, The Simpsons, Roger Rabbit, Wing Commander, The Room Next Door, Twin Peaks, John Wayne, Creation of the Humanoids, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 7 - Thursday February 13: Eraserhead, Flow, Pulp Fiction, Saturday Night Sinema, and Clue! They neglect to make note of Hard Truths, and Sing Sing, which were booked after the podcast recording. You can always check mayfairtheatre.ca for up to the minute showtimes, and Coming Soon movie listings!
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517: You're Doing Your Best.
Monday, January 27, 2025
This week, Eric and Josh dicuss: the Academy Awards nominations, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Gladiator II, Jack Nicholson, The Running Man, Remember Me, The Wolverine, Aardman Animations, Top Gun: Maverick, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 31 - Thursday February 6: The Lodger, Liza, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Last Showgirl, The Substance, and Flow! They neglect to mention The Room Next Door, which was booked after the podcast recording. But, you can always find up to the moment listings at mayfairtheatre.ca!
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516: Burning Bridges.
Sunday, January 19, 2025
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, sneaking in food to the cinema, Fifth Avenue Cinemas, water bottles, Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation dvd, Toolbox Murders, Kraven The Hunter, Madame Web, Jeannot Szwarc, David Lynch, Psycho Pike, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 24 - Thursday January 30: The Substance, The Last Showgirl, Vampyr, Beneath The Valley Of The Ultra-Vixens, Saturday Night Sinema, Flow, Cabaret, and Lifeforce! They neglect to mention The Last Showgirl, which got booked after the recording. You can ...
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515: I'm So Tired.
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: winning sports tickets, broken popcorn machines, Coca Cola, the Los Angeles wildfires, the Rideau Canal, our Vampire Film Festival, Disney's Hercules, encore screenings, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 17 - Thursday January 23: A Real Pain, Anora, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Flow, Supervixens, and Vampyros Lesbos!
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514: Onion Ring Related.
Thursday, January 9, 2025
This week, Eric and Josh are again joined by Emily to discuss: her Aunt Dayle Haddon, Odd Burger, the Academy Awards memorium, projection booth tricks, Minority Report, Nintendo Wii, Suspiria (2018), Home Alone, Midnight Cowboy, Heretic, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 10 - Thursday January 16, 2025: Queer, A Real Pain, The Room, Flow, Vixen!, Rabid, and Saturday Night Sinema!
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513: An Elaborate Trick.
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Emily, they chat about: Emily's Aunt Dayle Haddon (Paperback Hero, North Dallas Forty, Cyborg) passing away, Hanukkah, Funko Pops, Converse, Max Headroom, The Substance, Into The Woods, Eric's Dad, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 3 - Thursday January 9: Memoir Of A Snail, Flow, Maria, Anora, Nosferatu The Vampyre, The War Wagon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Heretic!
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512: Maybe It's A Different Planet.
Saturday, December 21, 2024
An extra special Holiday Season episode this week! For the first half of the show, Eric and Josh are joined by Eric's nieces, return guests Norah and Abbey! They discuss: our latest Cartoon Party, Holiday Season homework, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, The Mask, It's A Wonderful Knife, Awards season, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 27 - Thursday January 2: Memoir Of A Snail, A Real Pain, Maria, Anora, Flow, Dog Day Afternoon, and Saturday Night Sinema! Then, in the second half of the podcast, Josh has a conversation with award winning Flow ...
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511: The More The Better You Are.
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Friday The 13th movies, Saturday Night Sinema, The X-Files, Jason Patric vs Robert Patrick, Holiday break, Thor comics, The Room / Big Shark in Japan, Rob Liefeld, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 20 - Thursday December 26: Conclave, Flow, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, Black Christmas, and It's A Wonderful Life!
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510: Pop Culture Behemoth.
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Os Mutantes, visiting Portland (The Goonies, Cyndi Lauper, the Trail Blazers, Movie Madness, Hollywood Theatre, Sizzle Pie), Skeleton Crew, Power Rangers, our Friday The 13th Fest, K19: The Widowmaker, and more! They also mention the movie screening the week of Friday December 13 - Thursday December 19: All We Imagine As Light, Conclave, Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Gremlins, Saturday Night Sinema, and Santa Claus Conquers The Martians!
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509: I Just Can't.
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Nick to discuss: Cyndi Lauper, the Portland Trail Blazers, Will & Harper, camera drones, Free Solo, The Stand, Civil War, American Graffiti, Batman '89, Paint Your Wagon, The Simpsons, and more! They also chat about some of the movies screening the week of Friday December 6 - Thursday December 12: Porcelain War, Invasion U.S.A., and Mountains On Stage. They neglect to mention three movies: North By Northwest, The Return, and Silent Night, Deadly Night. They recorded this episode a couple of weeks early thanks to Josh being off visiting Portland, Oreg...
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508: High School Politics.
Sunday, November 24, 2024
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: the Christmas Market, Never Look Away, fancy chips, social media, Rocky IV, Trap, Holiday Season limbo, our popcorn machines, renting the cinema, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 29 - Thursday December 5: Blitz, Flow, Sunset Boulevard, The Godfather Coda, and Greg Sestero's visit: The Room, Big Shark, a live script reading of The Room, and a live commentary of The Room! They neglect to mention Saturday Night, which got booked after the recording. You can always find up to the minute listings at mayfairtheatre...
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507: Story Keeps Changin'.
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: the Santa Claus parade, movie sound levels, Interstellar, Starry Eyes, Titane, Made, Barbie, Titanic, The Lego Movie, Kung Fu Panda, Jack, Child's Play (2019), Scream, The Blair Witch Project / Blair Witch, and more! They also discuss the movies screening the week of Friday November 22 - Thursday November 28: Wes Craven's New Nightmare, The Substance, The Godfather Part II, and My Old Ass! They neglect to mention Never Look Away, and Blitz, which got booked after the recording. But, you can always find listings at mayfairtheatre.ca!
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506: Front Page News.
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Sam from The Absent Friends Shadow Cast to discuss another year of surviving Halloween Month screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and his role as our in-house actor for the Megalopolis screenings! They also discuss: Best Buy, Krispy Kreme, popcorn machine repair drama, Welcome To Derry, Freddy Krueger, the Star Wars Holiday Special, Saturday Night, Conclave, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 15 - Thursday November 21: Black Box Diaries, Terrifier 3, The Conversation, Saturday Night Sinema, A Disturba...
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505: Roll Some Dice.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: daylight saving time, the Ottawa Senators, Saturday Night Sinema, Cyndi Lauper, E.L.O., visiting Ireland and Scotland, Netflix, the Brando biopic, Alien: Romulus, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Parasite, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 8 - Thursday November 14: The Outrun, The Piano Lesson, The Substance, The Godfather, and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.!
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504: The Elephant In The Room.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Mad Monster Party, our broken popcorn machine, Hatchet comics, Harry Manfredini, The Hideous Sun Demon, A Different Man, The Apprentice, Netflix movies, our Francis Ford Coppola Film Fest, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, and more! They also discuss the movies screening the week of Friday November 1 - Thursday November 7, 2024: The Outrun, Emilia Pérez, Megalopolis, Saturday Night Sinema, and Doctor Who And The Daleks! They neglect to mention Alien: Romulus, which got booked after the recording. But, listings of the schedule can always be found at mayfairtheat...
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503: Dread Killington
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Trick 'r Treat, making vynil records, The Mutilator, Megaforce, Street Trash, Terrifier 3, Arcadian, Rankin/Bass, Mr. Crocket, Shocker, Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 25 - Thursday October 31: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Mad Monster Party, The Exorcist, The Shining, and A Nightmare On Elm Street! The Apprentice, and Lee returning for a 2nd week are not mentioned, because they were booked after the recording of the show. Listings can always be found at mayfairtheatre.ca!
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502:Through Different Lenses.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: The Fog, The Thing, Saturday Night Sinema, Night Of The Comet, Cyndi Lauper, Fight Club, Pump Up The Volume, E.G. Daily, Kevin Bacon, The American, sad film fests, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 18 - Thursday October 24: Lee, Häxan, Murderess, Behind The Haystacks, Audition, 34 Ways To Die, MaXXXine, and Monster Pool: Chapter 8! They neglect to mention A Different Man, which got booked after the recording. You can always find more info on these and other upcoming movies at mayfairtheatre.ca!
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501: It's So Strange.
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Predator movies, Men In Black movies, Minions, Transformers: One, Joker: Folie à Deux, Robert De Niro, Mayfair weddings, Ghostbusters, Village Of The Damned, The Greatest American Hero, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 11 - Thursday October 17: Girls Will Be Girls, How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, The Room, Saturday & Sunday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, The Thing, Saturday Night Sinema, Carrie, Qalat, and Calm Beneath Castles!
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500: Never Read The Reviews.
Thursday, October 3, 2024
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Sam from The Absent Friends Shadow Cast, for the epic 500th episode! They chat about: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pogs, Dick Tracy trading cards, Six Feet Under, Jurassic Park merch, Ben Cooper costumes, Gremlins, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 4 - Thursday October 10: The Critic, 1995, Frankie Freako, Rosemary's Baby, and Ghostbusters!
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499: Snagglepuss Smoke Field.
Thursday, September 26, 2024
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Nick, and chat about: She-Ra, Scooby-Doo, learning French, big screen Netflix, Deliverance, Snake Eyes, Ghosts of Mars, Sammo Hung, Rumble In The Bronx, and more! They also discuss the movies screening the week of Friday September 27 - Thursday October 3: Will & Harper, The Critic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Body Double, Good One, Night Of The Comet, Saturday Night Sinema, Nina, 500 Days In The Wild, The Great Beauty, and Spirited Away!