Mayfair Theatre

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!

This 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!

This 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!

This 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!

This 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!

This 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!

This 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!

This 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!

This 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!

This 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!

This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Pascale Arpin, to chat about all of the great poster artwork that she has been making for the Mayfair! And, to plug the new poscard set of the posters, that are now available! They also discuss: the Phantom Tits comic, COVID lockdown fundraisers, the Letterform Archive, the Deadly Prey gallery, working with Tim Burton, The Neon Museum Las Vegas, the Beetlejuice cartoon, and more! Plus, they mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 19 - Thursday September 25: Splitsville, Riefenstahl, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, D(e)ad, Wolf Children, Megadoc, Megalopolis, and The Toxic Avenger!

This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Windows 95, James Gunn's Superman, multiplex woes, The Simpsons, Disney movie distribution, The Roses, Song of the South, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 12 - Thursday September 18: The Naked Gun, Naked Ambition, Jaws, Jaws 2, My Neighbor Totoro, and Saturday Night Sinema! They neglect to mention Relay, which was booked after the podcast recorded. You can always check mayfairtheatre.ca for up to date showtimes and coming soon listings!

This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Sam, from the Mayfair's Absent Friends Shadow Cast! They discuss: Archie Comics style antics, a museum calibre geek collection, The 501st Legion, Atari, Fan Expo, the Coen Brothers, One To One: John & Yoko, Megalopolis, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday September 5 - Thursday September 11: Honey Don't!, It's Never Over Jeff Buckley, Ebony & Ivory, Familiar Touch, and Orca! More info on current and coming soon movies can be found at mayfairtheatre.ca!

This week, Eric and Josh discuss: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Monty Python, Night Of The Living Dead, Sneakers, horror vs thriller, Rifftrax, Megadoc, Begotten, and more! They also mention the movies screening from Friday August 29 - Thursday September 4: A Little Prayer, Born Yesterday, Saturday Night Sinema, Oh Hi, and Shin Godzilla! They neglect to mention Superman, and Showgirls, because this episode was recorded extra early, and the full schedule wasn't booked yet. You can always check mayfairtheatre.ca for showtimes!

This week, Eric and Josh discuss: Shook, the Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival, My Little Pony, Archie Comics, Drawing Blood, novelizations, 613flea, Adam Sandler's Netflix career, Saturday Night Sinema, Odd Burger, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 22 - Thursday August 28: Souleymane's Story, There Will Be Blood, The Last Class, Some Like It Hot, Manhunter, and The Room! They neglect to mention F1, which got booked after the podcast recording. You can always check current and coming soon listings at mayfairtheatre.ca!

This week, Eric and Josh discuss: The Minecraft Movie, video game generations, our Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, a local ironman triathlon, The Little Mermaid, a visit from someone whose parents first date was at the Mayfair in the 1940s, Silver Surfer, Mayfair radio ads, and more! They also mention the movies screening Friday August 15 - Thursday August 21: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Saturday Night Sinema, Punch-Drunk Love, Funny Face, and Breathless! They neglect to mention Shook, and the return of My Mother's Wedding for a 2nd week, which were booked after the recording. For up to date listings, and coming soon info, you can always check mayfairtheatre.ca.

This week, Eric and Josh are joined by Ren, who did the animation for the Mayfair coming soon and feature presentation bumpers! They chat about: Animation Show n Tell Ottawa, Leica vs Laika, aspect ratios, movie running times, end credits, DVD extended cuts, The Life Of Chuck, The Naked Gun, The X-Files, American Gigolo, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 8 - Thursday August 14: Sorry Baby, My Mother's Wedding, Thief, Magnolia, The Philadelphia Story, and Eddington!

This week, Eric and Josh discuss: workplace birthdays, The Rise Of Skywalker, gimmick popcorn buckets, Saturday Night Sinema, our repaired marquee, Mayfair t-shirts, Paul W.S. Anderson, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday August 1 - Thursday August 7: Eddington, Sorry Baby, American Gigolo, Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party, It Happened One Night, and Boogie Nights!

This week, Eric and Josh discuss: 613 Flea, swag and promo materials, our marquee, field trips, ladder etiquette, Jaws vs Orca, The Dark Tower, Don Bluth, and more! They also mention the movies screening the week of Friday July 25 - Thursday July 31: Bad Shabbos, The Life Of Chuck, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Crash, Saturday Night Sinema, Pierrot Le Fou, and Felidae! More info on current showtimes and Coming Soon movies can always be found at mayfairtheatre.ca!