Mayfair Theatre

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...

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 Burger...

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 Age...

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...

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 - Th...

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 - Thursda...

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),...

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...

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 Ac...

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,...

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,...

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 Rock...

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 Fr...

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 Record...

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)a...

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...

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...

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 Beetlejui...

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 booke...

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 B...

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 th...

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, an...

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 Horr...

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...

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...