Mid-Credit Scene Podcast

Like so many FOX shows in the 90's, we premiere our 4th season deep into October, with a holiday themed episode. Returning guest Anna Beard is here to define what a "spoopy" movie is. Entry point to scarier faire, or warm comfort as the weather turns chilly. We talk about gentle favourites, and why these sorts of films don't seem to get made anymore, or do they..? Halloween is...

Mikes Pereira and Clark sit down with local communicator and avid movie-not-watcher Charlotte Prong and see if she is able to guess what a movie is about from the title alone. This episode we discuss Rian Johnson's sci-fi time travel thriller (and Bruce Willis' last good film?) Looper. Newsletter:  https://midcreditscene.substack.com/ . Email:  midcreditscenepod@gmail.com Show theme: The...

The Mike's finish off their season with an episode remembering the recently departed actor and Canadian icon Donald Sutherland. We discuss the roles that defined him as an actor, the roles he defined, and when in a career does the gravitas kick in? Newsletter:  https://midcreditscene.substack.com/ . Email:  midcreditscenepod@gmail.com Show theme: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Logo desi...

As you might have guess from this past month of episodes, our conversation with Michael Davison was really far wandering, but we bring you one last episode, back on topic, with a combo episode in which we discuss Michael's double feature, and what movies he feels he inherited, and will pass on to his young sons. Michael Davison's Instagram Watch Code 8: Part 1 Watch Code 8: Part 2 Newsle...

When we say that getting three Mikes on mic leads to a lot of chat, believe us. We continue our conversation with Michael Davison as we discuss the career of Terry Gilliam, how maybe things should be left in the past, and is Adam Driver the dead-project messiah? Michael Davison's Instagram Watch Code 8: Part 1 Watch Code 8: Part 2 Newsletter:  https://midcreditscene.substack.com/ . Email:  mi...

The three Mikes discuss the importance of filmmakers making shorts, shooting commercials, and making music videos to experiment and get comfortable behind the camera. We also talk about who Beyoncé and Traylor Swift, and not just for SEO purposes. Michael Davison's Instagram Watch Code 8: Part 1 Watch Code 8: Part 2 Newsletter:  https://midcreditscene.substack.com/ . Email:  midcreditscenepod...

The Mikes continue our chat with Michael Davison, this time on the current state of the film industry, both in general and specifically the Canadian industry. We recorded this back in the winter and so much has even changed since then, but what we're talking about still holds true. Get ready for some inside baseball! Michael Davison's Instagram Watch Code 8: Part 1 Watch Code 8: Part 2 N...

The Mikes become a trio this episode as we talk to Michael Davison, a filmmaker living in Cambridge, and Programming Director for the Grand River Film Festival. He continues our streak of having actual filmmakers on the show, this time with experience in production - specifically financing and post-production. We talk about the visibility and invisibility of VFX special effects in movies and how m...

Director Matt Finlin muses on what films he feels he inherited from the past, and what he'd want to send onward into the Future. As a bonus, find out what film we might have inadvertently cursed future generations with!  Newsletter:  https://midcreditscene.substack.com/ . Email:  midcreditscenepod@gmail.com Show theme: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Logo design: Jon Johnson

The Movie Man Director Matt Finlin talks not one, but two, spectacular double features. Plus, we talk about Guillermo del Toro and all our favourite stuff that gets filmed in Southern Ontario. Newsletter:  https://midcreditscene.substack.com/ . Email:  midcreditscenepod@gmail.com Show theme: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Logo design: Jon Johnson

The Mikes sit down with Director Matt Finlin to talk about his feature documentary The Movie Man , in which, "amid a global pandemic, an entrepreneur looks back on his life's work owning and operating an idiosyncratic cinema in the forest of northern Ontario." Newsletter:  https://midcreditscene.substack.com/ . Email:  midcreditscenepod@gmail.com Show theme: The Show Must Be Go by K...

Mikes Pereira and Clark sit down with local communicator and avid movie-not-watcher Charlotte Prong and see if she is able to guess what a movie is about from the title alone. In this episode, Charlotte guesses Thunderpants. Newsletter:  https://midcreditscene.substack.com/ . Email:  midcreditscenepod@gmail.com Show theme: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Logo design: Jon Johnson

The Mikes sit down for casual chat between themselves and the fern in the corner. We start off reminiscing about childhood favourites, which leads to cartoons of the 80s, which leads to Clark's fourth favourite topic of conversation, physical media and why it's important to own stuff you love. Newsletter:  https://midcreditscene.substack.com/ . Email:  midcreditscenepod@gmail.com Show th...

The Mikes sit down for a loose chat between themselves, which mostly focuses on the cinematic dominance of the cast of SCTV in the 80s, why 4th films always seem to go bad, and that Clark has no idea where Bermuda is.   Newsletter:  https://midcreditscene.substack.com/ . Email:  midcreditscenepod@gmail.com Show theme: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Logo design: Jon Johnson

This episode we are joined by our most number of guests ever, returning Gen X-er Alex Kinsella and new friends Gen Z-bie Jensen Fraser and Millennial Kayleigh Platz. In this very special Oscars episode, we are drafting the winners of the 90s Academy Awards. It's like fantasy football, but with actors, directors, and writers. We draft, we chat about the winners, the films of the 90s, and wheth...

Mike Murray and Angel Hammoud fill us in on the films they have received, and the films they are passing along. The Devil's Cut on Soundcloud Newsletter:  https://midcreditscene.substack.com/ . Email:  midcreditscenepod@gmail.com Show theme: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Logo design: Jon Johnson

Mike Murray and Angel Hammoud give us their double features. Between the record and release, The Dog That Stopped The War has been taken off YouTube, meaning you won't be able to relive your childhood trauma all over again so conveniently.   The Devil's Cut on Soundcloud Newsletter:  https://midcreditscene.substack.com/ . Email:  midcreditscenepod@gmail.com Show theme: The Show Must Be G...

Mike Murray and Angel Hammoud discuss one of the most movies ever made, Santa Claus vs The Devil, a Mexican film from the 50s that is even more unhinged than it already sounds. Santa Claus vs The Devil on Youtube The Devil's Cut on Soundcloud Newsletter:  https://midcreditscene.substack.com/ . Email:  midcreditscenepod@gmail.com Show theme: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Logo design: Jo...

The Mikes are joined by a third Mike, and an Angel - Mike Murray and Angel Hammoud of The Devil's Cut podcast and fellow Midtown Radio show. And we're talking Ol' Scratch, the Devil on film. It certain seems like there are some movies that were only made because someone sold their soul, but we're interested in what makes a devil The Devil? And who could have played him in the 9...

People don't like David Zaslav and it isn't hard to understand why. The guy deep sixed  Batgirl and Scoob! Holiday Haunt , pulled a ton of amazing animated stuff from streaming, and tried to shelve the fully completed, highly anticipated Coyote vs. Acme for tax reasons.  The Mikes jump off from that nightmare into what's changing in movies and how might we get back to good stuff see...

John Donohue from the Institute for Quantum Computing tackles some of our toughest questions in this Mid-Credit Minute: What's a movie you feel like you inherited from the past generation, and what's a film you'd want to pass down to the next generation? It's tough but John doesn't disappoint! Newsletter:  https://midcreditscene.substack.com/ . Email:  midcreditscenepod@gm...

Our latest guest John Donohue from the Institute for Quantum Computing, goes deep on mad science in this Mid-Credit Minute. John talks about his perfect double feature and it's pretty awesome! Dive in and get weird! Newsletter:  https://midcreditscene.substack.com/ . Email:  midcreditscenepod@gmail.com Show theme: The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod Logo design: Jon Johnson

Here we are inside an atom. Here's one little chair for one of you, and a bigger chair for two more to curl up in. Now, look up, wa-a-a-a-a-ay up to the non-quantum realm, and we'll call John. This week, we get sub-atomic with John Donohue, Senior Manager of Scientific Outreach at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing. We talk about the science of the movies,...

Katie Parkes is the first guest to answer Season Three's new bonus question - and it's a tough one! We ask what's a movie she feels she inherited from a previous generation, and what's a film she would like to pass down to the next generation.  The Mikes have abandoned social media, and we highly recommend that you do as well. To fill that void, the show now has a monthly newsl...

In this deep dive, extended Mid-Credit Minute, Clark sans Pereira sits in a closet with his wife Anna Beard and talks all things Hayao Miyazaki, director of Studio Ghibli, and his newest film The Boy and the Heron . Our history with Ghibli films, what films you should start with if, like Clark, you are a newb, and our thoughts on Miyazaki's latest (last?) film. Newsletter:  https://midcredits...