Meet The Fellowship of the Lens'd Palm
A list of the members of our Conclave.
The Cinemania Society Podcast
Herein are chronicled the judgements of this not-so-secret society as its members scrutinize, criticize, analyze, brutalize, and otherwise vamp on the weirdest films in cinema history.
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Episodes
7 days ago
7 days ago
Verifier Andy presents a memorial profile in Cinemania on one of Canada's greatest comediennes (and suspected distant relative of Cinquisitor Ethan): Catherine O'Hara, of "SCTV" and "Beetlejuice" fame.
Rest in power, Catherine. We hardly knew ye.
Written and performed by Andy Slack
Caricature art by Andy Slack Comics
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Tracks used: "Last Night" and "Kowloon City."
LEGAL NOTICE: This is a work of parody and/or satire, and should not be construed as making statements or allegations of actual fact.
Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
We bring back "Cheapskate," written by Patrick Ireland and performed by Daniel Scribner. This story originally appeared in the October, 1988 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and appears here with permission from the author.
Music used under license from APM
Sound effects courtesy of Epidemic Sound
Wednesday Jan 28, 2026
Wednesday Jan 28, 2026
We bring back "Window Shopper," written by Patrick Ireland and performed by Andy Slack. This story was originally published in the October, 1993 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and appears here with permission of the author.
Music and sound effects courtesy of Epidemic Sound
Wednesday Jan 21, 2026
Wednesday Jan 21, 2026
Presented here for your listening convenience is the entirety of Conclave 20, wherein the Cinemania Society analyzes Richard Linklater's 2006 adaptation of the 1977 Philip K. Dick novel, "A Scanner Darkly."
Written, produced, and performed by:
Andrea Palladino
Ethan Ireland
Daniel Scribner
Andy Slack
Zacharia Berks
and Hope Bravo
Sound design & editing by Ethan Ireland
Caricature art by Andy Slack Comics
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Incidental music and sound effects courtesy of Epidemic Sound
This is a work of fiction. Any persons, places, brands, or other identities appearing in this audioplay, living, dead, or otherwise, are either a product of the authors' (wild) imaginations or are used in a fictitious manner, or both. This is also a work of parody and/or satire and should not be construed as making statements or allegations of actual fact.
Wednesday Jan 14, 2026
Wednesday Jan 14, 2026
Professor Andrea presents a Profile on the original manic pixie dream girl, Winona Ryder -- whose own life has been almost as weird as the circumstances she often plays.
Written & Performed by Andrea Palladino and Ethan Ireland
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Tracks used: "She Needs You," "Diva," "Looking Back," and "White Lotus."
Caricature Art by Andy Slack Comics
LEGAL NOTICE: This is a work of satire and/or parody, and as such should not be construed as making statements or allegations of actual fact.
Wednesday Jan 07, 2026
Wednesday Jan 07, 2026
Cinquisitor Ethan presents a memorial piece about one of Generation X's most beloved directors, who met his tragic and shocking demise in December of 2025. Rest well, Rob Reiner. You did better than most.
Episode written by Ethan Ireland and Andy Slack
Performed by Ethan Ireland
Caricature art by Andy Slack Comics
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Tracks used: "VHS Vision" and "Jupiter,"
and Meteor at meteor music.bandcamp.com
Track used: "Glassworld."
LEGAL NOTICE: This is a work of parody and/or satire, and should not be construed as making statements or allegations of actual fact.
Wednesday Dec 24, 2025
Wednesday Dec 24, 2025
In this episode, the gang tries to do too many things at once (as usual): shoplift food from the boutique grocery store where they've been holed up, exfiltrate said grocery store without detection (despite Scrutinizer Zac having already alerted mall security), avoid their doppelgangers, *and* conclude their conclave examining Richard Linklater's 2006 feature adapting Philip K. Dick's 1977 novel "A Scanner Darkly." Sounds like a lot for one episode, and it kind of is... But we're certain you folks will love this one because the post-summary analysis is absolutely dynamite this episode. As usual, Cinquisitor Ethan has too much to say -- especially about Dick.
Merry Freakin' Christmas, ya filthy animals.
Written, produced, and performed by:
Andrea Palladino
Ethan Ireland
Daniel Scribner
Andy Slack
Zacharia Berks
and Hope Bravo
Sound design & editing by Ethan Ireland
Caricature art by Andy Slack Comics
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Incidental music and sound effects courtesy of Epidemic Sound
This is a work of fiction. Any persons, places, brands, or other identities appearing in this audioplay, living, dead, or otherwise, are either a product of the authors' (wild) imaginations or are used in a fictitious manner, or both. This is also a work of parody and/or satire and should not be construed as making statements or allegations of actual fact.
Wednesday Dec 17, 2025
Wednesday Dec 17, 2025
Cinquisitor Ethan presents a Field Report examining the 1936 film "REEFER MADNESS," which despite its kitsch nature and obvious fakery is still a dread source of CINEMANIA, as it initiated a very real moral panic that has reverberated to the present day.
Written by Ethan Ireland and Andy Slack
Performed by Ethan Ireland
Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound
LEGAL NOTICE: This is a work of parody and/or satire, and should not be construed as making actual statements or allegations of fact.
Cinquisitor Ethan,
Keeper of the Lenses
Brother Ethan is an award-winning filmmaker who has more than 20 years professional work in film & television production. He has worked on more than a dozen feature films, and has directed & produced several of his own projects: documentary features and short films. He is best recognized for the work he did on four seasons on the hit YouTube comedy series Smosh.
A self-styled intellectual, Cinquisitor Ethan has put many thousands of hours studying cinema apocrypha for interesting tidbits, and combing through the history for cinema for sources of CINEMANIA in order to study the devastating effects of this condition.
CINEMANIA Manifestations: The disorder in Cinquisitor Ethan can be fairly easy to observe. Although he is purportedly a native of California, when CINEMANIA begins to take hold in Cinquisitor Ethan, his accent becomes increasingly elaborate. He will shift into a Midatlantic accent, and even into an RP accent depending on the severity of the episode he is suffering. This can happen multiple times in a given conclave.
Verifier Andy,
Master Illuminator
Perhaps our most mysterious member, Brother Andy lurks somewhere in darkest Albion, magically honing his skills in comedy and illustration to a razor's edge.
Brother Andy's internet comics, including The Wisdom of Leto II and its sequel, FremCops, have achieved notoriety from their appearances in various Facebook shitposting groups such as Dune Sietchposting, Star Trek Shitposting, and others. He has these and numerous other self-published sci-fi & fantasy comics available on at andyslackcomics.com, and for sale on Ko-Fi.
In case you're wondering, no, he is not really Jack Black, so don't ask.
Scrutinizer Zacharia,
Guardian of the Door
A veteran of theater production, Brother Zacharia graduated from film school at California State University, Monterey Bay along with Brother Ethan, who has been his decades-long accomplice in the commission of cinematic crimes.
Brother Zacharia is a third-generation artist, descended from a line of visual artists, and has put much study into the causes and effects of CINEMANIA.
Profligator Daniel,
Possessor of the Word
Hailing from New Jersey, Brother Daniel writes for theater, literature, and cinema esoterica. He is somewhat of an expert on Troma Films, and was trained in writing short fiction by Harlon Ellison.
Profligator Daniel is the primary caregiver of Brother Clark-Nova, who is an unholy amalgamation of equal parts cockroach, manual typewriter, and portions of human anatomy best left unseen.
Arbiter Alessa,
Voice from the Outer World
Our youngest member, Arbiter Alessa attended film school in Los Angeles after producing a feature film of her own while still in high school. She has experience working professionally on features and shorts, and is a working voice actor for several notable anime series including Genshin Impact and Onyx Equinox.
Arbiter Alessa recently went on an extended vacation to Altair IV, where she encountered an atomic super-robot similar to (and more importantly, legally distinct from) Robby the Robot. After taking her new plastic pal on an interstellar pub-crawl, she returned to the Strip Mall of the Damned with the machine in tow, where she has since conducted several experiments on it (including the downloading of the entire internet into the robot's databanks).
Professor Andrea,
Scholar of San Francisco
Professor Andrea holds multiple degrees in film, Spanish, and music; and has taught all three. She has a deep knowledge of film history, and a history of work in film production, including on films with Cinquisitor Ethan.
Auntie Hope,
Keeper of the Books
Hope is a relative newcomer to the Society, and to the field of CINEMANIA as a whole. She granted herself membership status and a title after the Society were responsible for unleashing a horde of cannibalistic humanoid underground mutant people (C.H.U.M.P.s) that destroyed her family-friendly occult bookstore, The Laughing Tome. She intends to be as underfoot as possible until her store is repaired.