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 Sep 21, 2022
Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
We play a VHS tape for our listeners that covers self-styled mad genius Terry Gilliam, auteur director and simultaneous source & victim of CINEMANIA. Listen at your own risk.
Written, performed, mixed & mastered by Ethan Ireland
Music tracks: "Starlink" and "Astral Projection," courtesy of Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.
Visit our website at http://thecinemaniasociety.podbeancom/ 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.
Check out Karl Casey at Bandcamp: http://karlcasey.bandcamp.com/
Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
**NEW EPISODES DROP EVERY TWO WEEKS***
The Cinemania Society, a not-so-secret society of movie geeks, convenes to scrutinize, criticize, analyze, satirize, brutalize, and otherwise vamp on the weirdest films in cinema.
In the first episode of our sixth conclave, the Society takes a trip through time as they analyze Terry Gilliam’s 1981 films “Time Bandits.”
In this episode:
The Society finds the Restricted Room a shambles.
Zac finds a poster, inspiring Andrea to take up the Gavel
Daniel's inappropriate bedtime reading
Trampling: a recurring theme in Gilliam pictures?
Andre shows up late with a new companion.
Do you want an Ultron? Because that's how you get an Ultron!
Nobody knows what the fuck to call furniture
Zac discovers why the English are enamored of boxes bigger on the inside
How the six Time Bandits are a parody of Monty Python
We mourn Jack Purvis and Graham Chapman
C.H.U.M.P.s attack!
Hackneyed cliches in the Land of the Pyramids...and the Conclave continues!
We learn some stuff about Napoleon and debate French inches vs. English inches
Terry Gilliam's history as a carnie saves him from raging ableism
Cinquisitor Ethan has a Belushi moment
Python-on-Python violence
A terrible Taika Waititi impression
C.H.U.M.P.s attack...AGAIN!
The Conclave takes shelter in a stone hut
FEATURING:
Andrea Palladino, Scholar of San Francisco & veteran film crew member
Ethan Ireland, formerly of Smosh (seasons 2009-2012)
Andre Luc Martinez, of Genshin Impact and Onyx Equinox.
Andy Slack, comic artist / internet comedian of Dune Sietchposting & Star Trek Shitposting
Zacharia Berks, of Dead Tone and Space Pope Egregious 1
Daniel Scribner, author extraordinaire
Trigger warnings include misogyny, abuse of consent, and gaslighting.
WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT. STRONG LANGUAGE & ADULT THEMES.
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
**NEW EPISODES DROP EVERY TWO WEEKS***
The Cinemania Society, a not-so-secret society of movie geeks, convenes to scrutinize, criticize, analyze, satirize, brutalize, and otherwise vamp on the weirdest films in cinema.
In the omnibus edition of our fifth conclave, the Society takes a deep dive into John Carpenter's 1994 tribute to Lovecraftian horror, "In the Mouth of Madness."
In this episode:
A dark, stormy night in which Brother Daniel writes a report
Suspicious agreeableness. Suspicious, I say!
Brother Ethan, best Master Castigator ever!
Brother Zacharia takes care of business
The effects of CINEMANIA on the Conclave are revealed
A charming, seaside insane asylum...wait, haven't we seen this?!
The Antichrist, a very nice man
Brother Zacharia shares too much information
Brother Ethan gets political
Brother Methuselah gets a bath
Replicant ice queens!
Conspiracy mapping!
Comedy clown horns and jive-ass honkeys
Brother Zacharia sings
Discussions of Loompacide
Brother Daniel continues banging the typewriter
Professor Andrea takes the reins
A rather charming slice of small-town America...GONE WRONG
Mansplaining reality
Giant, freaky old churches with onion domes
Brother Zacharia quotes lyrics...again
Markham...inspiration for Arkham?
Brother Daniel ruins Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
Nonsensical art appreciation
A sweaty, pulsating door
A monstrous, conjoined twin that tragically isn't named "Kuato."
A BDSM B&B...with TENTACLES!
Interlewd? More like interobscenity.
Delightfully hellish hand-jobs
Freaky reverse crab-walks
Brother Ethan goes on a rant about "The Exorcist."
Clark-Nova exhorts Brother Daniel to put things in their proper place.
Brother Zacharia takes the wheel
The usual Sunday School kind of thing...of MADNESS
Post-Modernism given the Spaceballs treatment
Don't eat that Pooh! You're eating recursion!
Too many levels deep
VFX and creatures given way too little screen-time
Brother Zacharia sees the future and it glistens damply
A literary debate among movie nerds (really?!)
Brother Andy sums it all up
Brother Ethan thinks too deeply, as usual
A frustrating attempt at meta-horror
Professor Andrea breaks down the badass effects in this film
Seriously, WAY too many levels deep!
Things are not what they seem...we have stories within stories.
Brother Methuselah forgets to lock up, and experiences...consequences.
FEATURING:
Ethan Ireland, formerly of Smosh (seasons 2009-2012)
Andre Luc Martinez, of Genshin Impact and Onyx Equinox.
Andy Slack, comic artist / internet comedian of Dune Sietchposting & Star Trek Shitposting
Zacharia Berks, of Dead Tone and Space Pope Egregious 1
Andrea Palladino, Scholar of San Francisco & veteran film crew member
Trigger warnings include misogyny, abuse of consent, and gaslighting.
WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT. STRONG LANGUAGE & ADULT THEMES.
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
**NEW EPISODES DROP EVERY TWO WEEKS***
The Cinemania Society, a not-so-secret society of movie geeks, convenes to scrutinize, criticize, analyze, satirize, brutalize, and otherwise vamp on the weirdest films in cinema.
In the third and final part of our fifth conclave, the Society takes a deep dive into John Carpenter's 1994 tribute to Lovecraftian horror, "In the Mouth of Madness."
In this episode:
Brother Zacharia takes the wheel
The usual Sunday School kind of thing...of MADNESS
Post-Modernism given the Spaceballs treatment
Don't eat that Pooh! You're eating recursion!
Too many levels deep
VFX and creatures given way too little screen-time
Brother Zacharia sees the future and it glistens damply
A literary debate among movie nerds (really?!)
Brother Andy sums it all up
Brother Ethan thinks too deeply, as usual
A frustrating attempt at meta-horror
Professor Andrea breaks down the badass effects in this film
Seriously, WAY too many levels deep!
Things are not what they seem...we have stories within stories.
Brother Methuselah forgets to lock up, and experiences...consequences.
FEATURING:
Ethan Ireland, formerly of Smosh (seasons 2009-2012)
Andre Luc Martinez, of Genshin Impact and Onyx Equinox.
Andy Slack, comic artist / internet comedian of Dune Sietchposting & Star Trek Shitposting
Zacharia Berks, of Dead Tone and Space Pope Egregious 1
Andrea Palladino, Scholar of San Francisco & veteran film crew member
Trigger warnings include misogyny, abuse of consent, and gaslighting.
WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT. STRONG LANGUAGE & ADULT THEMES.
Wednesday Aug 24, 2022
Wednesday Aug 24, 2022
The Cinemania Society has discovered a cache of VHS cassettes that contain dossiers on individuals suspected of being causative agents of CINEMANIA. We play a tape for our listeners that covers Wilhelm von Homburg, a man who could fight better than he could act, but still somehow inexplicably found himself cast in some of the biggest films and beside some of the biggest stars of the 1990s.
Written and performed by Andy Slack
Mixed & Mastered by Ethan Ireland
Music track: "Redux," courtesy of Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.
Visit our website at http://thecinemaniasociety.podbeancom/ 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!
Check out Karl Casey at Bandcamp: http://karlcasey.bandcamp.com/
Legal notice: this is a work of parody.
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
**NEW EPISODES DROP EVERY TWO WEEKS***
The Cinemania Society, a not-so-secret society of movie geeks, convenes to scrutinize, criticize, analyze, satirize, brutalize, and otherwise vamp on the weirdest films in cinema.
In the second part of our fifth conclave, the Society takes a deep dive into John Carpenter's 1994 tribute to Lovecraftian horror, "In the Mouth of Madness."
In this episode:
Brother Daniel continues banging the typewriter
Professor Andrea takes the reins
A rather charming slice of small-town America...GONE WRONG
Mansplaining reality
Giant, freaky old churches with onion domes
Brother Zacharia quotes lyrics...again
Markham...inspiration for Arkham?
Brother Daniel ruins Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
Nonsensical art appreciation
A sweaty, pulsating door
A monstrous, conjoined twin that tragically isn't named "Kuato."
A BDSM B&B...with TENTACLES!
Interlewd? More like interobscenity.
Delightfully hellish hand-jobs
Freaky reverse crab-walks
Brother Ethan goes on a rant about "The Exorcist."
Clark-Nova exhorts Brother Daniel to put things in their proper place.
FEATURING:
Ethan Ireland, formerly of Smosh (seasons 2009-2012)
Andre Luc Martinez, of Genshin Impact and Onyx Equinox.
Andy Slack, comic artist / internet comedian of Dune Sietchposting & Star Trek Shitposting
Zacharia Berks, of Dead Tone and Space Pope Egregious 1
Andrea Palladino, Scholar of San Francisco & veteran film crew member
Trigger warnings include misogyny, abuse of consent, and gaslighting.
WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT. STRONG LANGUAGE & ADULT THEMES.
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
The Cinemania Society has discovered a cache of VHS cassettes that contain dossiers on individuals suspected of being causative agents of CINEMANIA. We play a tape for our listeners that covers John Carpenter, blue-collar film director, musician, all-around jack-of-all-trades, and confirmed source of CINEMANIA.
Written by Ethan Ireland and performed by Zacharia Berks
Mixed & Mastered by Ethan Ireland
Music tracks: "Scavenger" and "Man-Bat," courtesy of Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.
Visit our website at http://thecinemaniasociety.podbeancom/ 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.
Check out Karl Casey at Bandcamp: http://karlcasey.bandcamp.com/
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
**NEW EPISODES DROP EVERY TWO WEEKS***
The Cinemania Society, a not-so-secret society of movie geeks, convenes to scrutinize, criticize, analyze, satirize, brutalize, and otherwise vamp on the weirdest films in cinema.
In the first part of our fifth conclave, the Society takes a deep dive into John Carpenter's 1994 tribute to Lovecraftian horror, "In the Mouth of Madness."
In this episode:
A dark, stormy night in which Brother Daniel writes a report
Suspicious agreeableness. Suspicious, I say!
Brother Ethan, best Master Castigator ever!
Brother Zacharia takes care of business
The effects of CINEMANIA on the Conclave are revealed
A charming, seaside insane asylum...wait, haven't we seen this?!
The Antichrist, a very nice man
Brother Zacharia shares too much information
Brother Ethan gets political
Brother Methuselah gets a bath
Replicant ice queens!
Conspiracy mapping!
Comedy clown horns and jive-ass honkeys
Brother Zacharia sings
Discussions of Loompacide
FEATURING:
Ethan Ireland, formerly of Smosh (seasons 2009-2012)
Andre Luc Martinez, of Genshin Impact and Onyx Equinox.
Andy Slack, comic artist / internet comedian of Dune Sietchposting & Star Trek Shitposting
Zacharia Berks, of Dead Tone and Space Pope Egregious 1
Andrea Palladino, Scholar of San Francisco & veteran film crew member
Trigger warnings include misogyny, abuse of consent, and gaslighting.
WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT. STRONG LANGUAGE & ADULT THEMES.
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.