Sinopsis
The Mayfair Theatre Podcast is a weekly show that takes you behind the scenes of Ottawa's oldest movie theatre(open since 1932!)
Episodios
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570: It's Amazing But It's Terrible.
05/02/2026 Duración: 46minThis 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!
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569: With All Due Respect.
29/01/2026 Duración: 47minThis 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!
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568: Record Scratch, Lights Go Up.
22/01/2026 Duración: 36minThis 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!
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567: I Like That People Are Nice.
14/01/2026 Duración: 41minThis 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!
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566: We're In The Future.
08/01/2026 Duración: 41minThis 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.
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565: I Forgot To Hit Record.
31/12/2025 Duración: 34minThis 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!
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564: Somewhat Festive, But Not In The Way You're Thinking.
24/12/2025 Duración: 38minThis 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!
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563: Rorschach's Moon.
18/12/2025 Duración: 40minThis 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!
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562: We're All Great.
12/12/2025 Duración: 34minThis 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!
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561: Pitchforks And Torches.
04/12/2025 Duración: 46minThis 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.
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560: Technical Difficulties.
27/11/2025 Duración: 38minThis 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!
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559: My Alien Friend.
20/11/2025 Duración: 34minThis week, Eric and Josh discuss: knitting at the Mayfair, Mayfair ghosts, T-800 at the Mayfair, unwanted library donations, Encyclopedias, abandonned VHS movies, the Ben Solo movie, shelved movies, found footage movies, The Long Walk, Mayfair holiday season programming, and more! They also mention movies screening the week of Friday November 21 - Thursday November 27: Jay Kelly, It Was Just An Accident, One Battle After Another, The Room, Cassandra, Shelby Oaks, Pariah Dog, A Dog's Purpose, and Best In Show!
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558: It's All Made Up.
13/11/2025 Duración: 42minThis week, Eric and Josh are joined by Sam from the Mayfair's Absent Friends Shadow Cast, to celebrate surviving another year of Halloween Month Rocky Horror Picture Show screenings! They also discuss: Vincent Price on The Muppet Show and Scooby Doo, people listening to the podcast, people getting caught trying to sneak in beer, trick or treaters, Satanic panic, Crispin Glover, being left handed, the Disney Vault, Freddy Got Fingered, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 14 - Thursday November 20: Left-Handed Girl, No! YOU’RE WRONG. or: Spooky Action at a Distance, It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine., What Is It?, Audiophile, It Was Just An Accident, The Long Walk, and The Nest!
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557: They Can't Hear You, They're Books.
06/11/2025 Duración: 37minThis week, Eric and Josh discuss: daylight saving time, audio books, Them!, The Phantom Menace, the Somerset Theatre, Netflix, Crispin Glover, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday November 7 - Thursday November 13: Train Dreams, One Battle After Another, Lesbian Space Princess, Saturday Night Sinema, The Blue Trail, and The Cruel Sea. They neglect to mention Weapons, which got booked after the podcast recorded. You can always check mayfairtheatre.ca for up to date info on current and coming soon movies!
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556: Everybody's A Winner.
30/10/2025 Duración: 37minThis week, Eric and Josh are joined by Eric's niece Abby for the 2nd week in a row! They discuss: John Carpenter, crashing a private screening, the Blue Jays, Köln 75, Hereditary, Mac Tonight, AI always getting things wrong, Ethan Hawke, John Candy: I Like Me, SCTV, Home Alone, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 31 - Thursday November 6: Blue Moon, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, and Queens Of The Dead!
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555: That's Life Goals Right There.
23/10/2025 Duración: 37minThis week, Eric and Josh are joined by Eric's niece Abby! They discuss: the Mayfair's Welcome To Derry popcorn machine, Scooby Doo, the Blown Away glassblowing show, Fear Street, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Black Phone 2, KPop Demon Hunters, How To Train Your Dragon, Echo, Halloween, Dinosaucers, projector technical difficulties, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 24 - Thursday October 30, 2025: Ballad Of A Small Player, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Köln 75, and The Exorcist!
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554: Don't Shake The Scaffold!
15/10/2025 Duración: 45minThis week, Eric and Josh are joined by Friend-of-Mayfair Pascale Arpin to chat about a documentery crew following her around, her new hand-painted sign work addition to the front doors of our cinema, and the First Ladies of Film Fest postcards that she designed! They also discuss: Gongfu Bao, small business community support, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, big screen Netflix, Guinness World Records, Wikipedia, American Mythology comic books, and more! And, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 17 - Thursday October 23: Eleanor The Great, Ballad Of A Small Player, The Room, Nosferatu, Ju-on: The Grudge, The Return Of The Living Dead, Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, and Monster Pool 9!
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553: Day Drinking & Flipping Cop Cars.
09/10/2025 Duración: 41minThis week, Eric and Josh are joined by Sam from the Mayfair's Absent Friends Shadow Cast! They, of course, talk a lot about The Rocky Horror Picture Show. They also discuss: The Panda Game, the It mini-series, Muppet Treasure Island, Legend, Clue, poster theft, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 10 - Thursday October 16: The Roses, Eleanor The Great, D(e)ad, Begotten, Saturday Night Sinema, Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror, The Fog, and Pressure Drop!
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552: A Pleasant Distraction From Real Life.
02/10/2025 Duración: 34minThis week, to kick off the Spooky Season, Eric and Josh are joined by comic book creator and Friend-of-Mayfair, Tom Fowler! They chat about: dogs, Ottawa sports, Garfield Minus Garfield, newspaper movie ads, Mega Force, Cool World, Rob Liefeld, Treasure of the Four Crowns, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday October 3 - Thursday October 9: Peak Everything, The Roses, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Oval Portrait, Chain Reactions, and the Genre Gems Film Fest! You can check out Tom's art, and keep up to date on what comics he's working on at @tomfowlerart on Instagram, buy stuff at tomfowler.threadless.com, and his latest book -GAMEMASTERS: The Comic Book History of Roleplaying Games- is now available from your favourite local comic book / book store!
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551: It's A Lot To Unpack.
25/09/2025 Duración: 34minThis week, Eric and Josh are joined by Ryan from Nefarious Comics! They accordingly chat about a bunch of comic book movie franchises like: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman, Wolverine, and Superman. Plus, a few non-comic book movies, like Trainspotting, Resevoir Dogs, and Breathless. They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 26 - Thursday October 2: Bau: Artist at War, Splitsville, The Room, The Sting, Saturday Night Sinema, Piranha, Jimmy & Stiggs, and the Nefarious Comics presentation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!