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
Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
We next encounter the heretical outcasts calling themselves the Cinemania Society as they return to the Strip Mall of the Damned to find it being redeveloped by the city an inhospitable wasteland. They retreat to a makeshift lair down by the river where they can sip their cocktails in peace and discuss their latest Subject of Scrutiny, Stewart Raffill's Cinemania-inducing schock-tacular rip-off-fest from 1984, Ice Pirates. God only knows what madness our listeners will suffer as the heretics Society encounters arr-you-can-eat "shrimp," sassy waiters, and sinister blue fez-wearing agents of the Central Committee.
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Brother Methuselah's cache of VHS tapes keeps paying off. Here, the Society presetnts a biography on animal handler-turned-schlock film director Stewart Raffill.
Written & Performed by Andy Slack
Mixing, mastering & sound design by Ethan Ireland
Music tracks: "The Shape" and "The Shape Returns," by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio.
Visit our website at http://thecinemaniasociety.podbean.com/ for more Profiles in Cinemania, our conclaves where we scrutinize and judge the weirdest films in cinema history, the incomparable art of Andy Slack, and more!
Legal notice: this is a work of parody.
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
The heretical outcasts calling themselves the Cinemania Society concludes its Conclave on Stewart Raffill's 1984 swashbuckling spectacular Ice Pirates in their makeshift lair in the pirate-themed tiki bar down by the river, arr-you-can-eat "shrimp," sassy waiters, and sinister blue fez-wearing agents of the Central Committe notwithstanding.
Wednesday May 31, 2023
Wednesday May 31, 2023
Despite the Society's having been evicted from the Strip Mall of the Damned, the Important Work TM can continue (albeit in an ad hoc fashion) because as it turns out, Brother Methuselah kept a cache of VHS tapes in his valise. Therefore The Cinemania Society kicks off its second season with a biography on everyone's favorite "that guy" character actor, screen-beast, and OG Hellboy, Ron Perlman.
Written & Performed by Ethan Ireland
Mixing, mastering & sound design by Ethan Ireland
Music track: "Olympic City" by Meteor at meteormusic.com
Visit our website at http://thecinemaniasociety.podbean.com/ for more Profiles in Cinemania, our conclaves where we scrutinize and judge the weirdest films in cinema history, the incomparable art of Andy Slack, and more!
Legal notice: this is a work of parody.
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Wednesday May 24, 2023
We next encounter the heretical outcasts calling themselves the Cinemania Society as they return to the Strip Mall of the Damned to find it being redeveloped by the city an inhospitable wasteland. They retreat to a makeshift lair down by the river where they can sip their cocktails in peace and discuss their latest Subject of Scrutiny, Stewart Raffill's Cinemania-inducing schock-tacular rip-off-fest from 1984, Ice Pirates. God only knows what madness our listeners will encounter...
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
To tide our audience over during our season break, The Cinemania Society presents for your listening pleasure a short story by acclaimed author Patrick Ireland. This story was written in 1987, and appears for the first time anywhere. It is read for you by Society member Ethan Ireland who is, coincidentally, Patrick's son.
Written by Patrick Ireland
Performed, mixed, and mastered by Ethan Ireland.
Graphic Design by Andy Slack
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
The members of The Cinemania Society step out of character to do a wrap up of Season 1, where they talk about the genesis of the podcast, how the group came together, why they picked the movies they picked, the process of producing the show, and give the listeners a taste of what to expect in Season 2...and share some anecdotes along the way.
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Listen (if you dare) to a secret recording made of the clandestine deliberations of the dreaded Cinemania High Council!
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.