Mayfair Theatre

This week, Eric and Josh dicsuss: discount easter chocolate, puppy Big Barda's return to the podcast, post-winter marquee, Ottawa Comics & Arts Festival, Ottawa Charge, Disney's Zombies live concert, The Penguin Lessons, Hudson Hawk, The Warriors, air conditioning in cinemas, free Twin Peaks blu-rays, and more! Plus, they mention the movies the week of Friday April 10 - Thursday April 16: Miroirs No. 3, H Is For Hawk, Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, Taxi Driver, Saturday Night Sinema, and Tiger On The Beat!

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!

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 mayfairth

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!

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

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.

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Space Jam, Teen Titans Go!, Loonatics Unleashed, Aztec Batman, The Day The Earth Blew Up, end credits, John Woo, Marty Supreme, Scarlet Warning 666, and more! They also discuss the movies screening the week of Friday January 23 - Thursday January 29: The Princess Bride, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, No Other Choice, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hard Boiled, and Sinfonía Erótica!

This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Saturday Night Sinema co-host Daimion! They discuss: The Omen, audio commentaries, The Rock, Indy the Dog's acting award win, Stranger Things, no film ratings in Ontario, The Librarians, Aliens, Freddy vs Jason vs Ash comic, our new Saturday Night Sinema poster, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday January 16: Nuremberg, Father Mother Sister Brother, Vampyros Lesbos, When Harry Met Sally, Saturday Night Sinema, Goon, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, and The Running Man!

This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Eric's official Mayfair nieces, Abby and Norah! They discuss the overwhelming cinematic experience, and emotional breakdown, of watching the Stranger Things finale on our screen. Plus, they chat about: Holiday Season limbo, The Jonas Brothers, the Britney Spears memoir, Zootopia 2, movie montages, The Talisman, Uncanny X-Men 134, The Running Man, Bob's Burgers, and more! They also mention some of the movies screening the week of Friday January 9 - Thursday January 15: The Secret Agent, La Grazia, and Oldboy. And, neglect to mention The Room, and She Killed In Ecstasy, which were booked after the recording of the episode. You can always check mayfairtheatre.ca for up to the moment listings of current and coming soon movies.

This week, Eric and Josh discuss: re-recording this episode, projector technical difficulties, Pan's Labyrinth, Titanic, Flow, David Lynch, Alien 3 / Alien: Resurrection, No One Will Save You, library books, Barbarella, Scrooged, Stranger Things, and more! They also mention the screenings (and a live event) for the week of Friday January 2 - Thursday January 8, 2026: The Librarians, The Secret Agent, Frankenstein, Stars Of Magic!, Aliens, Logan's Run, and the short films Breaking the Line / House Rules / Operation Ex!

This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Nick for the first time since he joined the ranks of parenthood! They discuss: babies at movies, Little Golden Books, Elvira, Holiday Season work parties, Die Hard, The Last Action Heroes, Lauryn Hill, gift cards, Rob Reiner, Virtuosity, Megalopolis, and more! They also mention the movies (and an epic tv series finale) screening the week of Friday December 24 - Thursday January 1: Roofman, Nuremberg, Alien, Nouvelle Vague, After The Thin Man, Stranger Things 5: The Finale, and Saturday Night Sinema!

This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Pascale, to hype the new Mayfair themed It's A Wonderful Life holiday cards that she designed! They also chat about: visiting New York City, home ownership, TrueAnon, silent films with live bands, swapping out our projector, Stranger Things, CHUO, the Disney Vault, Canuxploitation, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening from Friday December 19 - Thursday December 25: The Tale Of Silyan, Die Hard, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Sense And Sensibility, It's A Wonderful Life, Ghostkeeper, and Sentimental Value!

This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Saturday Night Sinema co-host Daimion! They discuss: The Revue Cinema, physical media, cult genre movie restorations, Ghost Keeper, Ewoks movies, West Coast Video, The Worst Person In The World, the Disney Vault, our Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 12 - Thursday December 18: Sentimental Value, The Librarians, Eyes Wide Shut, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Safe, Clairtone, Comedy & Christmas Chaos, The Room, Saturday Night Sinema, and Mountains On Stage: Winter Edition!

This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Mayfair co-owner Ian Driscoll! They discuss: The Ottawan Best of Ottawa award win for the cinema and silver medal for the podcast, Margaret Atwood, Santa visiting the cinema, horrible AI slop, Jurassic Park, The Scorpion King, The Last Showgirl, our big screen DVD holiday fireplace, The Running Man, The Cultural Gutter book (which features writing from Ian), and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday December 5 - Thursday December 11: The Baltimorons, Tangerine, The Thin Man, Bugonia, Seven Minutes In The Closet (a short from the Mayfair's own Tatum Thompson, screening before Tangerine on December 5), The Polar Express, and the Sunday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party! They neglect to mention The Mastermind returning for an encore week, that last minute booking happened after the recording. You can always check mayfairtheatre.ca for up to date showtimes and Coming Soon listings.

This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Usman from the Reeled In podcast! They discuss: Camp Rock, Toy Story, radio vs podcasts, Bruce Campbell, Clerks, Tangerine, Touch Of Evil, Disney's Zombies franchise, Anatomy Of A Fall, Marty Supreme, Free Solo, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 28 - Thursday December 4: Meadowlarks, The Mastermind, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Good Boy, Saturday Night Sinema, The Smashing Machine, and Mountains On Stage: Winter On Stage 2025!