The Cinemania Society Podcast

Verifier Andy presents a profile on the recently-deceased David Lynch, Hollywood's Avatar of Ambiguity, Master of the Mysterious Metaphor, and Señor of Sinister Symbolism.    Farewell David, we hardly knew ye -- which is exactly the way you wanted it. Written & performed by Andy Slack Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio Incidental Music & Sound Effects courtesy of Epidemic Sound Caricat...

For the conclusion of our Season 2 Lens Friend series, Daniel Scribner sits down with Alessa Luz Martinez to discuss  her pick for Season 2, "Total Recall." These were some of the most popular and highly-rated episodes we've done to date, and Alessa explores her use of the framing story of those episodes as a tool to facilitate her public coming out as trans. Daniel also asks Alessa the same quest...

The members of The Cinemania Society step out of character to do a wrap up of Season 2,  where they talk about the how the podcast has evolved over Season 2 (which was released over 2 full years!), how they've evolved & improved, which movies and episodes from the past season were their favorites, and give the listeners a few teasers about Season 3...   Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio I...

This episode compiles all of our episodes comprising Conclave 16, our final Conclave of Season 2, wherein we analyze Lance Mungia's 1998 post-a'rockalypse move "Six String Samurai."   Sound design by Ethan Ireland Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio Incidental music courtesy of Epidemic Sound

Just in time for Christmukkah, we bring you our 2024 Holiday Special! Scrutinizer Zacharia helps us ring in our own pending apocalypse with a Cinemania Field Report on the exceedingly British Christmas / Zombie Apocalpyse mash-up feature from 2017, "Anna and the Apocalypse." And remember! Ask not for whom the Christmas Bell tolls. It tolls for we...   Written by Zacharia Berks and Andy Slack Perfo...

In this episode, the Society wraps up its review of 1998's "Six String Samurai" and has its final showdown with Death Themself (tm). Will the Society survive? More importantly, will our sanity and sense of good taste survive? Find out in this, our Season 2 finale... FEATURING SPECIAL GUEST STAR KEITH LOWELL JENSEN   The Cinemania Society will return later in 2025. We will have a few more miscellan...

Given that two of our recent field reports have remarked upon films from a particular year, Auntie Hope decided to take an extended dive into the year 1979 to present a Cinemania Field Report on what turned out to be a landmark year for CINEMANIA.    This is a work of parody / satire and should not be construed as a statement of fact.   Written by Ethan Ireland, Andy Slack, and Hope Bravo; and per...

Lost within the world's largest smallest model of New York City, the outcasts find themselves on the run from their Final Destination. But not even Death Themself can stop a Conclave once the Clave's gotten Conning! The heretic rogues continue their analysis of Lance Mungia's "Six-String Samurai," a style-over-substance post-a'rockalypse samurai musical from the late '90s, starring Jeffrey Falcon...

Verifier Andy, Master Illuminator, presents a Cinemania Field Report examining Disney's 1979 foray into live-action sci-fi horror, "The Black Hole," and his own experience suffering a case of creeping CINEMANIA from (of all sources) a book about this film.   Written and performed by Andy Slack Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio   LEGAL NOTICE: This is a work of satire / parody and statements m...

The remaining survivors exiled from the Strip Mall of the Damned find themselves in the world's smallest largest model of New York City. The place is in ruins, which leads Scrutinizer Zacharia to take the lead by proposing the latest conclave: Lance Mungia's 1998 film "Six-String Samurai," a rockin' and rollin' post-apocalyptic alternate future where a Buddy Holly lookalike strides across the ruin...

Cinquisitor Ethan submits a field report about the 1979 film Lucio Fulci's "Zombie," a/k/a "Zombi 2," a/k/a "Zombie Flesh Eaters." This knock-off-slash-sort-of-sequel to George A. Romero's 1978 film, "Dawn of the Dead," isn't widely known, yet it's highly influential and features some grave sources of CINEMANIA. Listen at your own risk.   Written and performed by Ethan Ireland Music by Karl Casey...

The Cinemania Society's 16th Conclave begins with a peek into the deliberations of the Cinemania High Council, who call upon the unthinkable to implement the ultimate sanction...

The Cinemania Society's 2024 Halloween Special is a piece of new fiction by frequent contributor and friend of the pod, Patrick Ireland. In this spooky story, a bibliophile finds herself trapped in a bookstore after hours.    Written by Patrick Ireland Performed by Andrea Palladino Editing & sound design by Alessa Luz Martinez   Opening / closing title music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio Tr...

Professor Andrea presents a report from the field about a source of CINEMANIA she recently encountered, Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film "The Birds." Not only can this film cause CINEMANIA in the viewers, but upon viewing, it is obvious the filmmakers themselves suffered its debilitating effects during the course of production.    LEGAL NOTICE: This is a work of satire / parody and should not be const...

As Halloween approaches, The Society re-runs on one of our favorite profiles: one taking a look at the hardest-working automaton in showbiz, Robbie the emmeffin Robot. British Robocop and Kraftwerk's Vacuum Cleaner ain't got nothin on the OG of cinematic androids. Come have a listen.    More original content next week -- and stay tuned for our 2024 Halloween Special on October 30. Episodes of the...

Andy Slack presents an original story of his. Among human relationships, relations with neighbors are often overlooked in favor of closer, more "emotionally important" people in our lives. But sometimes those individuals whom blind chance has deemed that we must live beside can open our minds to all sorts of new and different possibilities...   Written and performed by Andy Slack Music by Karl Cas...

Our own Hope Bravo honors the memory the recently-passed Dame Maggie Smith, a woman who had the rarest of talents, enough that she earned of the "Triple Crown" of acting: a Tony, an Emmy, and an Oscar.   Written by Andy Slack Performed by Hope Bravo Editing & Sound Design by Ethan Ireland Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio Tracks used: "Millennium" and "Monolith." Caricature art by Andy Sl...

Verifier Andy brings us the first in our "In Celebram" series of Profiles in Cinemania, wherein we *urp* celebrate an individual for their contributions, instead of excoriating them for being a cause of CINEMANIA. This episode is about cinematic and television standby, the fan favorite Jeffrey Combs.   DISCLAIMER: This is a work of satire and/or parody, and should not be construed as fact.   Writt...

After ordering numerous failed assassination attempts, the Cinemania High Council holds its penultimate meeting to decide the fates of our protagonists...

The man with the most distinctive voice of the past century, an actor of supreme skill and talent, James Earl Jones, has left us. Vale.   The peerless Andy Slack provides you, the listener, with the man's requiem.   Written and performed by Andy Slack Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio Tracks used: "Dead or Alive" and "Vintage."

Presented here for your listening convenience is all three parts of Conclave No. 15, wherein the society analyzes the 2010 film "Rubber."

Cinquisitor Ethan explores the trope of depicting exploding heads on screen. Where the hell did this come from, anyhow? Why did it become such a thing? Well, listen to find out...   Written and performed by Ethan Ireland and Daniel Scribner Music by Meteor at meteormusic.bandcamp.com Incidental music by Epidemic Sound   Meteor tracks used: "Manhattan 2019," "The Dark Side of the Sun," "The Streets...

In our final episode of this conclave, the Cinemania Society is on the run from a pack of biker assassins, and arrives at a roadhouse to conclude its analysis of Quentin Dupieux's 2010 magical realist / neo-impressionist film about a psychic car tire, "Rubber." Pull up a stool, get a beer in your hand, and listen along...

Professor Andrea takes us on a foray into the cinematic genre of Magical Realism, into which fall films such as Amélie, Like Water for Chocolate, and Pan's Labyrinth. What is "magical realism," anyhow? Well, Andrea tells us...   Written & Performed by Andrea Palladino Mixing, Mastering, and Sound Design by Ethan Ireland Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio Tracks used: "Atlantis" and "Lavend...

Having evaded a group of biker-assassins by slipping into a seedy motel, the gang gets back on the road to continue their analysis of a film from 2010 about a (no, really) psychic killer tire: "Rubber."