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April 02 578: We Can't Have Nice Things Anymore.
This week, due to hectic schedules, Eric and Josh resort to a Zoom chat for the first time in ages.
They discuss: birthday festivities, novelizations and comic book adaptations, The Last Ronin, incorrect movie listing websites, The Kissing Booth trilogy, elevator horror movies, forgotten sequels, Walker Texas Ranger, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday April 3 - Thursday April 9: Wuthering Heights, Alpha, Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, The Killer, True Grit, and Lone Wolf McQuade!
34 min
March 26 577: I've Seen Movies.
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Eric's niece Abby, fresh off of a trip to France and Spain!
They discuss subway and elevator dangers, Ready Or Not, The Curse Of The Necklace, Captain America: The First Avenger, our recent Cartoon Party, The California Raisins, Robot Chicken, Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, Disney's Zombies, Nefarious Comics, watching the Oscars in a different time zone, BlackBerry, and more!
They also mention some of the movies screening the week of Friday March 27 - Thursday April 2, 2026: Song Sung Blue, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, To Kill A Mockingbird, Apocalypse Now: Final Cut, and Saturday Night Sinema.
Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, and Alpha are discussed a week early, both will be on the agenda for the week of Friday April 3.
They neglect to mention Hamnet being Held Over for a 5th Week, and the the new anime All You Need Is Kill, which were booked after the recording.
You can always keep up to date with movie bookings and confirmed dates and showtimes at mayfairtheatre.ca
39 min
March 18 576: We Got Ideas, People!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Pi Day, Odd Burger, Friday The 13th YA books, tips, popcorn, Hellraiser comics, retro novelizations, anime, Academy Awards, ABBA, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 20 - Thursday March 26: Sentimental Value, Hamnet, Careful, The Phantom Carriage, Sunday Morning All-You-Can-Eat Cereal Cartoon Party, Marty Supreme, Scarlet, Tender Mercies, and Colors!
37 min
March 12 575: The Devil On The Phone.
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Emily in honour of International Women's Day (or, possibly a coincidence that we recorded with her on that specific day).
They discuss: the extinct Westgate Mall, $2 movie tickets, MotoPhoto, Psycho & Psycho II, the state of comic books, Hoopla, The Three-Body Problem, newspaper movie ads, the Freddy vs Jason vs Ash comic, Catherine O'Hara, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 13 - Thursday March 19: Freddy Vs Jason, THX 1138, Nash The Slash Rises Again!, Sinners, Marty Supereme, Saturday Night Sinema, and the 98th Annual Academy Awards!
They neglect to mention Sirāt, and encore screenings of One Battle After Another, which were booked after the recording.
You can always keep up to date on screenings at mayfairtheatre.ca
38 min
March 05 574: Blast From The Past.
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Ryan from Nefarious Comics to chat about comic store life, and some upcoming store events!
They also discuss: birthday rentals in the cinema, Tank Girl, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, Absolute Batman, variant covers, Magic: The Gathering, Kinks & Coffee, Paper Tiger, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday March 6 - Thursday March 12: All That's Left Of You, Pillion, The Room, Stagecoach, Housewife of the Year, and Thinking Beyond The Market!
They neglect to mention House, and more encore screenings of Hamnet, which got booked after the recording.
You can always check mayfairtheatre.ca for up to the moment movie listings.
43 min
February 26 573: Such A Weird Experiment.
This week, Eric and Josh are joined again by Usman Karimi to discuss his Back Pages radio show, and Reeled In podcast!
(you can find info on Instagram for both, at @backpagescu and @reeledinpodcast)
They also chat about Olympic hockey, baseball movies, Miracle, appointment television, Spider-Noir, Godzilla Minus One, Johnny Mnemonic, The Simpsons, Bob Dylan, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, the four Beatles movies, The Kissing Booth, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 27 - Thursday March 5: Hamnet, Pillion, A Better Tomorrow, Big Trouble In Little China, Saturday Night Sinema, and Space Jam: A New Legacy!
45 min
February 19 572: Question The First.
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Pascale, mainly to unpack the aftermath of the Valentine's Day edition of our annual X-Rated Super Secret Saturday Night Sinema.
They also discuss: Brief Encounter, Casablanca, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, movie walkouts, Euphoria, watching movies on planes, Backbeat, Resevoir Dogs, Gambino, and more!
Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 20 - Thursday February 26: My Father's Shadow, Hamnet, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, City On Fire, A Mighty Wind, and Scum Of The Earth!
39 min
February 11 571: You Have To Kind Of Warn People.
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Saturday Night Sinema co-host Daimion, in honour of the X-Rated Super Secret Valentine's edition of Sinema!
They also discuss: Scarlet Warning 666, G.I. Joe, Them!, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Batman '66, Samurai Cop 2, David Cronenberg, Ratatouille, Tank Girl, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the busy Valentine's week of Friday February 13 - Thursday February 19: The Choral, All That's Left Of You, Jason X, Brief Encounter, Casablanca, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Best In Show, Blades Of The Guardians, and the aforementioned X-Rated Super Secret Saturday Night Sinema!
40 min
February 05 570: It's Amazing But It's Terrible.
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by resident Mayfair poster and Holiday Season card artist, and front door sign painter, Pascale!
She has a pair of events in Ottawa at de Montigny Contemporary Art Gallery, and the Ottawa Design Club!
They discuss: Mayfair Gold Cards, Clairtone, Pogs, Archie Digests, Death Of Superman, TV repair, Phantom Menace action figures, Valentine's Day, talking during trailers, Catherine O'Hara, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday February 6 - Thursday February 12: The Secret Agent, The Choral, The Room, Scarlet Warning 666, Waiting For Guffman, and Tank Girl!
47 min
January 29 569: With All Due Respect.
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Mayfair co-owner and newsletter scribe, Ian!
They get together to gossip about the Oscar nominations, which leads them to also chat about: record levels of cold weather, Delroy Lindo, The Kissing Booth, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, I'm Just Ken, Hamlet, Logan, BlacKkKlansman, Universal Language, Don McKellar, the Safdie brothers, Vampyros Lesbos, Netflix, and more!
They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 30 - Thursday February 5: Sound Of Falling, No Other Choice, Faceless, Misery, Saturday Night Sinema, and Anything That Moves!
48 min

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