The Cinemania Society Podcast

Verifier Andy presents a Cinemania Field Report on "The Strange World of Gurney Slade," one of the weirdest, rule-breaking-est television series to ever emerge from television - in Britain or anywhere else for that matter. Go on. Have a listen.

Written and performed by Andy Slack

Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio

Track used "Awaken"

In the last of our rewinds before our next Conclave, Mark Hoffman and Andy Slack perform "Remedy," a short story by Patrick Ireland.

We present for your listening pleasure SLUGGER, by Patrick Ireland. This is a recording of a 2016 live performance by Cinquisitor Ethan for "NOW HEAR THIS!" at the Gold Lion Arts Center in Sacramento.

Don't worry, new material is coming soon...

This episode is a re-broadcast of Patrick Ireland's first-ever published story, "Discovery," performed by the late Phil Ryder.

This story of high adventure features a sketchy archaeologist in over his head who is faced with the hardest choice of his life.

It was originally published in the October, 1988 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and appears here by permission of the author.

Performed by Phil Ryder

Sound design & editing by Ethan Ireland

Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio

Incidental music and sound by Epidemic Sound

This week we're re-running an original story written sometime in the early 80s by Patrick Ireland. A man has an otherworldly encounter on a spring evening in his back yard. Sometimes suburbia can hold surprises...

This episode is performed by Ethan Ireland

Produced, mixed & mastered by Ethan Ireland

Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound

Cinquisitor Ethan presents a memorial Profile in Cinemania on his personal friend, and one of the greatest Hollywood stuntmen who ever lived, Carl Ciarfalio. 

Written by Ethan Ireland

Performed by Ethan Ireland & Andy Slack

Caricature art by Andy Slack Comics

Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio

Tracks used: "Arcane," "Kiss of Death," "Midnight Paradise"

LEGAL NOTICE: This is a work of parody and/or satire and should not be construed as making statements or allegations of actual fact. All celebrity voices are impersonated unless otherwise stated.

Presented here in one convenient package is the entirety of The Cinemania Society's Conclave 21, wherein they analyze Alex Proyas' 1998 solipsistic sci-fi neo-noir masterpiece, "Dark City."

Written & performed by

Daniel Scribner

Andy Slack

Hope Bravo

Andrea Palladino

Zacharia Berks

Ethan Ireland

Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio

Incidental music and sound effects courtesy of Epidemic Sound

LEGAL NOTICE: The Cinemania Society is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents appearing in this audioplay are either the product of the authors’ imagination or are used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living, dead, or living dead; or actual events is purely coincidental and/or part of a work of parody that should not be construed as making statements or allegations of actual fact. All celebrity voices are impersonated unless otherwise stated.

This week presents a Cinemania Field Report that explores the "spurious reality" film genre that may not have originated in the 1990s, but certainly defined the decade in the way that post-nuclear apocalypse films defined the 1980s. Cinquisitor Ethan explores key films of the era, examines the underlying anxieties that drove this trend, and speculates on why it has largely faded in recent years.

Written by Ethan Ireland and Andy Slack

Performed by Ethan Ireland, Mark Hennessy-Barrett, and Andy Slack

Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio

Tracks used: Atomic Punk, Mass Extinction, Doomsday, Future War, Fermi Paradox

This is a work of parody and/or satire and should not be construed as making statements or allegations of actual fact. All celebrity voices are impersonated unless otherwise stated.

Excerpt from the BBC Radio 4 programme "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams (C) 1978 is used here pursuant to UK "Fair Dealing" law and US "Fair Use" law (17 U.S.C. § 107) in that it is for the purposes of non-commercial research or study, criticism, or review.

The mystery surrounding Scrutinizer Zacharia's lost memories deepens as the gang goes into their individual analyses and judgements over 1998's neo-noir sci-fi thriller "Dark City." Shit gets a little weird, yo.

Written & performed by

Daniel Scribner

Andy Slack

Hope Bravo

Andrea Palladino

Zacharia Berks

Ethan Ireland

Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio

Incidental music and sound effects courtesy of Epidemic Sound

LEGAL NOTICE: The Cinemania Society is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents appearing in this audioplay are either the product of the authors’ imagination or are used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living, dead, or living dead; or actual events is purely coincidental and/or part of a work of parody that should not be construed as making statements or allegations of actual fact. All celebrity voices are impersonated unless otherwise stated.

Auntie Hope presents a profile on Jennifer Connelly, who has been considered one of the most beautiful women in the world for more than four decades, and whom Hope suspects may be an asymptomatic carrier of CINEMANIA.

Written and performed by Hope Bravo

Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio

Tracks used: "Eternal Youth" and "Acacia"

Caricature art by Andy Slack Comics

LEGAL NOTICE: This is a work of parody and/or satire and should not be construed as making statements or allegations of actual fact. All celebrity voices are impersonated unless otherwise stated.