As Halloween approaches, The Society re-runs on one of our favorite profiles: one taking a look at the hardest-working automaton in showbiz, Robbie the emmeffin Robot. British Robocop and Kraftwerk's Vacuum Cleaner ain't got nothin on the OG of cinematic androids. Come have a listen. 

More original content next week -- and stay tuned for our 2024 Halloween Special on October 30. Episodes of the Season 2 finale begin in November...

Andy Slack presents an original story of his. Among human relationships, relations with neighbors are often overlooked in favor of closer, more "emotionally important" people in our lives. But sometimes those individuals whom blind chance has deemed that we must live beside can open our minds to all sorts of new and different possibilities...

Written and performed by Andy Slack

Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio

Tracks used: "Black Lotus" and "Prey"

Incidental music courtesy of Epidemic Sound

Our own Hope Bravo honors the memory the recently-passed Dame Maggie Smith, a woman who had the rarest of talents, enough that she earned of the "Triple Crown" of acting: a Tony, an Emmy, and an Oscar.

Written by Andy Slack

Performed by Hope Bravo

Editing & Sound Design by Ethan Ireland

Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio

Tracks used: "Millennium" and "Monolith."

Caricature art by Andy Slack Comics

Verifier Andy brings us the first in our "In Celebram" series of Profiles in Cinemania, wherein we *urp* celebrate an individual for their contributions, instead of excoriating them for being a cause of CINEMANIA. This episode is about cinematic and television standby, the fan favorite Jeffrey Combs.

DISCLAIMER: This is a work of satire and/or parody, and should not be construed as fact.

Written and performed by Andy Slack

Caricature art by Andy Slack Comics

Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio

Tracks used: "The Witness" and "Undercover"

After ordering numerous failed assassination attempts, the Cinemania High Council holds its penultimate meeting to decide the fates of our protagonists...

The man with the most distinctive voice of the past century, an actor of supreme skill and talent, James Earl Jones, has left us. Vale.

The peerless Andy Slack provides you, the listener, with the man's requiem.

Written and performed by Andy Slack

Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio

Tracks used: "Dead or Alive" and "Vintage."

Presented here for your listening convenience is all three parts of Conclave No. 15, wherein the society analyzes the 2010 film "Rubber."

Cinquisitor Ethan explores the trope of depicting exploding heads on screen. Where the hell did this come from, anyhow? Why did it become such a thing? Well, listen to find out...

Written and performed by Ethan Ireland and Daniel Scribner

Music by Meteor at meteormusic.bandcamp.com

Incidental music by Epidemic Sound

Meteor tracks used: "Manhattan 2019," "The Dark Side of the Sun," "The Streets of Hell," and "Unbreakable."

In our final episode of this conclave, the Cinemania Society is on the run from a pack of biker assassins, and arrives at a roadhouse to conclude its analysis of Quentin Dupieux's 2010 magical realist / neo-impressionist film about a psychic car tire, "Rubber." Pull up a stool, get a beer in your hand, and listen along...

Professor Andrea takes us on a foray into the cinematic genre of Magical Realism, into which fall films such as Amélie, Like Water for Chocolate, and Pan's Labyrinth. What is "magical realism," anyhow? Well, Andrea tells us...

Written & Performed by Andrea Palladino

Mixing, Mastering, and Sound Design by Ethan Ireland

Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio

Tracks used: "Atlantis" and "Lavender Haze."