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 Mar 16, 2022
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
The Cinemania Society plays a dossier on VHS about David Cronenberg, notorious Canadian body-horror director & profound causative agent of CINEMANIA.
***NOTE: THIS IS A WORK OF PARODY.***
Written & Performed by Andy Slack
Mixed & Mastered by Ethan Ireland
Music Track: "The Heist" used courtesy of Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.
Legal notice: This is a work of parody.
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
Wednesday Mar 09, 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 second conclave, the Society’s senses undergo a brutal assault from an incomprehensible Japanese Jet-Punk zombie movie from 2000, Tetsuro Takeuchi’s "Wild Zero."
In this episode:
We do a Rashomon
Recipe for a fatal drinking game
The Ramones vs. Guitar Wolf
The eternal debate: punks vs. posers
Andy Slack drops some sick rhymes
Fucking shit up
Fractional fuckery
Promoting sartorial felonies
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
…and Special Guest & O.G. punk, William McDonough
Trigger warnings include descriptions of graphic violence, violence against women, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, and a total disregard for boundaries.
WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT. STRONG LANGUAGE & ADULT THEMES.
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
The Cinemania Society has unearthed a VHS cassette that contains a dossier on Dr. Peter Frederick Weller, actor, director, professor, and suspected causative agent of CINEMANIA. We play it for our listeners here.
Written, Performed, Mixed & Mastered by Ethan Ireland
Music track: "Feel the Heat," courtesy of Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Legal notice: This is a work of parody.
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Wednesday Mar 02, 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.
This omnibus edition of our inaugural conclave combines all three parts of our inaugural conclave into one easy-to-listen episode wherein the Society takes on one of the most bizarre films of all time: David Cronenberg's "Naked Lunch," the 1991 sort-of adaptation of the William S. Burroughs 1959 novel of the same name.
In this episode:
An '80s action hero turns '90s inaction antihero
Kafka-esque body horror (duh, it's Cronenberg)
Literary pedantry
A truly giant cockroach (seriously, it's huge!)
Puppetry of the Anus
Dr. Chief Brody, Drug Pusher
A William Tell routine gone horribly, yet predictably wrong
Kiki The Wonder Twink & Naked Slimy Greedo
Real-World Mos Eisley
Cybernetic sexual tension
More Puppetry of the Anus
Telepathic confessions of attempted murder
A tragicomic hemorrhoid accident
Typewriter-on-typewriter violence
An MFT (male-female-typewriter) threesome
Fadela the Mighty Lesbian Housekeeper
Incoherent Beat Poetry
Return of Kiki The Wonder Twink & Naked Slimy Greedo
Chugging unspeakable body fluids of typewriters
Still more Puppetry of the Anus
Parrots! Parrots!! Parrots!!!
Man-Eating Elite-Corps Centipedes
A Mugwump "Dairy"
The Cronenbergian Skin Suit Spectacular!
Another William Tell routine gone horribly, yet predictably wrong
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
Trigger warnings include drug use, violence against women, antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia, rape, body horror, cruelty to animals, being set in the 1950s.
WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT. STRONG LANGUAGE & ADULT THEMES.
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
***NEW EPISODES 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 this, the third and final part of the premiere episode, the Society takes on one of the most bizarre films of all time: David Cronenberg's "Naked Lunch," the 1991 sort-of adaptation of the William S. Burroughs 1959 novel of the same name.
This episode features:
Incoherent Beat Poetry
Return of Kiki The Wonder Twink & Naked Slimy Greedo
Chugging unspeakable body fluids of typewriters
Still more Puppetry of the Anus
Parrots! Parrots!! Parrots!!!
Man-Eating Elite-Corps Centipedes
A Mugwump "Dairy"
The Cronenbergian Skin Suit Spectacular!
A William Tell routine gone horribly, yet predictably wrong (REDUX)
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
Trigger warnings include drug use, violence against women, antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia, rape, body horror, set in the 1950s.
WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT. STRONG LANGUAGE & ADULT THEMES.
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
***NEW EPISODES EVERY TWO WEEKS***
The Cinemania Society, a not-so-secret society of movie geeks, convenes to scrutinize, analyze, satirize, brutalize, and otherwise vamp on the weirdest films in cinema.
In this premiere episode, the Society takes on one of the most bizarre films of all time: David Cronenberg's "Naked Lunch," the 1991 sort-of adaptation of the William S. Burroughs 1959 novel of the same name.
This episode features:
Real-World Mos Eisley
Cybernetic sexual tension
More Puppetry of the Anus
Telepathic confessions of attempted murder
A tragicomic hemorrhoid accident
Typewriter-on-typewriter violence
An MFT (male-female-typewriter) threesome
Fadela the Mighty Lesbian Housekeeper
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
Trigger warnings include drug use, violence against women, antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia, rape, body horror, cruelty to animals, being set in the 1950s.
WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT. STRONG LANGUAGE & ADULT THEMES.
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
Wednesday Jan 26, 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 this premiere episode, the Society takes on one of the most bizarre films of all time: David Cronenberg's "Naked Lunch," the 1991 sort-of adaptation of the William S. Burroughs 1959 novel of the same name.
In this episode:
An '80s action hero turns '90s inaction antihero
Kafka-esque body horror (duh, it's Cronenberg)
Literary pedantry
A truly giant cockroach (seriously, it's huge!)
Puppetry of the Anus
Dr. Chief Brody, Drug Pusher
A William Tell routine gone horribly, yet predictably wrong
Kiki The Wonder Twink & Naked Slimy Greedo
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
Trigger warnings include drug use, violence against women, antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia, rape, body horror, cruelty to animals, being set in the 1950s.
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.