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Mayfair Theatre
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!
Episodes
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309: Video Games, and VHS Movies, and Dungeons & Dragons!
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: working 9 to 5, video store life, Aquaman, movie critics, Burt Reynolds, Mark Hamill, Hal Holbrock, watching the work of a…
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308: Reverse Over Rated
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: The Littlest Hobo, The Beach Combers, Walker Texas Ranger, Lethal Weapon 5, kid actors with three names, weird…
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307: Stranger Things Have Happened
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh check in from separate lockdown locations, and chat about: bad movie nights, Wing Commander, The Guyver, straight to vhs…
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306: These Are Not Good Ideas
This week Eric and Josh check in from separate lockdown locations, and chat about: silver linings, cinema repairs, Friday the 13th Part III plans, Memories of…
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305: We Always Beat The Odds
This week, Josh and Lee chat about: lockdown delayed film shoots, Martin Cove, catching up on cinematic classics, The War of the Worlds, Tom Cruise, the…
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304: I Don't Like Being Mean To Movies
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: the lack of snow, lockdown acclimation, Paul Verhoeven, Let The Right One In vs Let Me In, the new Black Christmas…
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303: We Will Be Back!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: going into a 3rd lockdown, Christmas Jewish wishes, Christmas morning gifts, learning stuff from comic books…
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302: There's Two Swears In It!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh discuss: generous patrons, watching R-rated movies thanks to VHS, Crossroads, West Coast Video, prudish Siskel & Ebert…
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301: To Never Be Announced!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: the Mayfair's 88th birthday, future set movies, Jeopardy, the Bytowne's closure, Warner Bros distribution plans…
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300: What If The Bear Wrote The Screenplay?
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: Kevin Smith, Joe Rogan, Netflix symbiosis, Oscars 2021, alternate universe casting, Christopher Nolan sound…
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299: 'Cause There's Nothing Better To Do
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: snowfall, cinema rentals, video games, digital movie distribution, false claims at visionary status, watching…
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298: I've Never Heard of TV!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: digital restorations, Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, anthologies, physical media, Bruce Willis, Ron Howard and…
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297: The House Of Cage
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: the Ottawa Adventure Film Fest, Polar Express, a new Frank Zappa doc, Nic Cage, pan and scan, Kim Cattrall, 3D…
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296: Off The Record
This week, Eric and Josh finish recording a podcast right before news hit that the cinema can re-open on Saturday November 7th! Instead of that, they chat…
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295: Happy Halloween, Folks!
This week, Eric, Sam, and Josh chat about: War of the Worlds, first childhood horror movies watched, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, corner store video stores…
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294: I Didn't Think This Would Be On The Test
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: American Rickshaw, Janet Jones, thinking all movies are great when you're a kid, the He-Man/She-Ra movie, Tron…
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293: A Lovely Echo Chamber
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: round 2 of covid-19 lockdown, our epic Friday The 13th Fest, journalistic integrity, silver linings, kitties and puppies…
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292: My Mind Is Blown
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: I Know What You Need short film indiegogo campaign, covid era weddings, friends in commercials, the Polkaroo's…
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291: A Harbinger Of Things To Come
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: impending lock-down possibilities, Rocky Horror, that wearing masks shouldn't be difficult, various Pinocchio…
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290: Insanely Kind Of Horribly Still Relevant
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: a bunch of movie franchises (Alien, Predator, Terminator, Child's Play), George A. Romero, movie development…
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289: Still In The Trenches
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: retirement parties, more lock-down possibilities, Clue, weekly program fliers, Game Of Death, Empire Records, the…
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288: But, It Is Kind Of Unsettling
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: endless amounts of content to watch, Slaughterhouse-Five, Cruel Jaws, The Asylum movies, Single White Female, bad…
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287: I Wish I Hadn't Said That
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: movie timeline futures, The Running Man, ghost writers, William Shatner, Ben Affleck audio commentaries, Disney…
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286: Everything's Confusing Now
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: new movies being released post lock-down, All The Money In The World, same plot movies being released at the same…
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285: That's All That Needs To Be Said
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: being back from lock-down for a month, Spice Girls, the Raptors, post lock-down film shoots, rescheduled…
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284: Everything's Always Bad
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: Halloween, Outbreak, Contagion, business safety measures, The Empire Strikes Back, classic spoilers, Heritage…
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283: Cinematic Nerd Karma Wheel
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: retro vs premiere screenings, John Saxon, cannibal movies, Hollywood's horrible history with animals, White God…
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282: Living Off The Past Glory
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: Siskel & Ebert, Guillermo del Toro, Hellboy, movie cars, comic con celebs, Boba Fett, Taika Waititi, Jaws mayors…
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281: Soul Searching and Reflecting
This week, Andrew, Eric, and Josh chat about: online dating, zoom interviews, comic book spinner racks, the Mayfair's first week post-lockdown, 1980s movie…
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280: It's Gonna' Be A Bumpy Ride!
This week, Eric and Josh get to talk about upcoming movies screening at the Mayfair for the first time in four months! They also chat about: new safety rules…
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279: They Called My Mom One Time!
This week, Eric, Lee, and Josh chat about: the Disney Vault opening, Revenge of the Nerds, mint condition 35mm prints, stunt cars driving off cliffs, odd…
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278: Who Knows What The Future Holds
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, new listeners, The Mandela Effect, the multiverse, Star Wars Holiday Special, weird…
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277: Questions That We Don't Have The Answer To
This week, Eric, Lee, and Josh chat about: Joel Schumacher, Megan Fox, Stanley Kubrick, Blazing Saddles, Jojo Rabbit, Jerry Lewis, potential post-lockdown…
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276: Stranger Things Have Happened
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: non-Hollywood filmmaking, back-end actor deals, action figures, Ewoks, Robin, The Goonies, the what if of another Jaws…
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275: Grandmotherly Fear
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Spike Lee, nerd fundraising, Netflix screenings, The Mystery of Chess Boxing, The Blind Dead series, trailers, the Knights…
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274: Try To Be Better
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Black Lives Matter, learning from a cinema rental mistake, Archie Comics, Boyz N The Hood, stores reopening, Do The Right…
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273: And Then Everything Fell Apart
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Drive-ins, unsanctioned screenings, fun lockdown events, that the first couple months of 2020 were going great, being…
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272: The Line of Sanity and Insanity
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: post-lockdown work rules speculation, rooftop adventures, Mayfair Virtucal Cinema selections, Val Kilmer regrets, drone…
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271: A Bigger Scope Of All This Stuff
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: two months of lockdown, Friday the 13th years long fest, loving movies vs critiquing movies, The Wizard, Space Jam, Tales…
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270: Dreams of Normalcy
This week, Eric and Josh discuss: May the 4th, social distancing at home events, Mayfair Virtual Cinema offerings: The Booksellers, and This Is Not A Movie…
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269: Rethinking All Of My Life Decisions
This week, Eric, Emily, and Josh chat about: Vancouver real estate, nepotism, new cats, seat-sale fundraiser success, small business delivery support…
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268: Swinging for the Fences!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: The Monkees, The Beach Boys, George Lucas, Jeff Goldblum, shooting with no finished script, that a difficult shoot = a…
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267: The Math Checks Out!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: pandemic talk shows, having a new cat, nice social media, Ewoks TV movies, that it's ok for friends to like different…
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266: Subtitle: Something Something with Dragons
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: voids, Oscars having to change the rules for 2020, a lack of film fests in 2020, having no sports knowledge, SNL hosts…
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265: Diminishing Levels of Good
This week, Eric, Gwen, and Josh discuss: The Wonderful World of Disney, Jon Favreau, MCU canon, that it's impossible to run out of tv to watch, Capybaras, Jack…
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264: Eating All The Expired Candy!
This week, Eric and Josh chat about the 2nd week of the cinema being on pandemic lockdown, cancelled plans, unnecessary negativity, selling off Mayfair seat…
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263: Science Fiction Disaster Movie
This week, Eric, Gwen, and Josh discuss: being shut down for a pandemic, post disaster behaviour, cheese, St. Patrick's Day, and more! They also mention some…
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262: I Enjoy Cinema!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: troublemakers in the cinema, Blu Ray's not hindering movie bookings anymore, the ongoing Parasite marathon, not…
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261: Curious Like A Cat!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh discuss: Cats, the illogical trait of loving bad movies, shooting movies with unfinished scripts, an alternate universe where…
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260: That One Two Punch!
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: Cats, Westside Story vs Indiana Jones, James Magold's excellent track record, digital de-aging / face…
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259: The Worst of the Series
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: the Coronavirus, visiting L.A., bad flights, Friday the 13th part V, weird trading cards, movie industry tax…
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258: All I Got Is Cool Socks
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: fun socks, casual Friday's, favourite movies, not being very critical, the Oscars aftermath, in memoriam reels…
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257: IOU One Emergency Pizza
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: pizza, visting L.A., Mann's Chinese Theatre, 12 weeks of Parasite, weekly programming benefits, Nic Cage, a film…
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256: Doin' The Lords Work
This week, Eric, Andrew, and Josh chat about: Parasite's ongoing run, Valentine's screenings, visiting Seattle, expensive movie tickets, non-nerds enjoying…
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255: You Gonna' Cut That Part Out?
This week, Lee, Andrew, and Josh chat about: MST3K, Disney Vault updates, weird distribution rules, digital restoration treasure, 4DX horrors, Star Wars love…
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254: A Long Day of Vacationing
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: Being a workaholic, failed retro screenings, Mayfair rentals, dreams of a Nicolas Cage Fest, single screen scheduling…
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253: Not Great Yet Successful
This week, Eric and Josh chat about: being in futuristic 2020, Cats, Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Die Hard, how difficult it is to make movies, angry Adam Sandler…
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252: No Cultural Footprint!
This week, Eric, Christy, and Josh chat about: visiting a multiplex, traditional vs 3D vs 4DX screenings, Muppet Vision 3D, theme park rides, billion dollar…
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251: You've Ruined Boxing Day!
This week, Eric, Anya, and Josh chat about: Film School now vs the 1990s, LaserDisc/Beta/VHS wars, BluRay/HD DVD wars, Shaq movies, Political docs, the…
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250: The Best Christmas Jerks
This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Mayfair spouse Gwen! They chat about: Spidey Christmas songs, Raptors rings, Color Out Of Space, Robert Pattison and…