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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
Performed by Zacharia Berks
Directed by Daniel Scribner
Mixing and Sound Design by Ethan Ireland
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio - Tracks Used: "Wrath" and "Full Metal Jacket"
Incidental music and sound effects courtesy of Epidemic Sound
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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 miscellaneous episodes to wrap things up before the break, and then the occasional tidbit to tide you over until Season 3. Thanks to everyone for the support and for sharing this with friends. And if you haven't shared with your friends, why the hell haven't you already?! We've got over 100 episodes for them, so tie 'em to a chair* and make 'em listen to all!
Sound design by Ethan Ireland
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Incidental music courtesy of Epidemic Sound
*This is a joke, not incitement, please do not actually tie anyone to a chair. At least not without consent. We're not kink-shaming.
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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 performed by Hope Bravo
Music by Meteor at meteormusic.bandcamp.com
Tracks used: The Spell, Saints and Demons, Thaumogenesis, Suspended in Time, Smoke Trails, Emptiness
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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 (no, really!) and featuring a soundtrack by Russian Rokenrol group The Red Elvises.
WITH SPECIAL GUEST STAR KEITH LOWELL JENSEN
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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 made herein should not be construed as making allegations or statements of fact.
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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 ruins of the Old World seeking to claim the mantle of King.
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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 at White Bat Audio.
Tracks featured: "The Wraith," "Dark Thriller Theme," "Dark Thriller Loop 1," "From the Deep," and "Boarding Nostromo."
Extract from "Zombi 2 Theme" by Fabio Frizzi (appearing between 11m56s and 12m48s of this program) is presented here as non-profit /educational "Fair Use," for purposes of criticism / comment as provided under U.S.C. Section 107.
LEGAL NOTICE: This is a work of satire / parody and any statements should not be construed as statements or allegations of fact.
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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...
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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
Track used: "Black Lotus."
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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 construed as making statements of fact.
Written and performed by Andrea Palladino, with additional material by Andy Slack and Ethan Ireland.
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Tracks used: "Patrol Bot," "Alliance," and "Tyrell Corporation."
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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 Season 2 finale begin in November...
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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 Casey at White Bat Audio
Tracks used: "Black Lotus" and "Prey"
Incidental music courtesy of Epidemic Sound
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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 Slack Comics
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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.
Written and performed by Andy Slack
Caricature art by Andy Slack Comics
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Tracks used: "The Witness" and "Undercover"
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After ordering numerous failed assassination attempts, the Cinemania High Council holds its penultimate meeting to decide the fates of our protagonists...
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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."
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Presented here for your listening convenience is all three parts of Conclave No. 15, wherein the society analyzes the 2010 film "Rubber."
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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 of Hell," and "Unbreakable."
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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...
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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 "Lavender Haze."
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