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 Apr 24, 2024
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Our very first Profile in Cinemania, one on Peter Weller, is presented here for our new listeners.
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Collected all in one place for your listening convenience is the Society's odyssey to a mysterious island and its review & analysis of the 1932 film "Island of Lost Souls."
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
This early '80s crime drama gives the listener some insight into why it's always smart to treat the folks who work in service well, especially if you're up to no good...
Cheapskate is ©1983 by Patrick Ireland. It was originally published in the October, 1988 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and appears here by permission of the author.
Performed by Daniel Scribner and Ethan Ireland
Production, sound design & editing by Ethan Ireland
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
"The Investigator" by Brian Bennett appears under license from APM Music (apmmusic.com)
Sound effects courtesy of Epidemic Sound
Very special thanks to Alexandros Kadadakis and Ziv Lang for making this episode possible.
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Things are getting desperate as the gang finds itself stranded on the beach of a mysterious island, without food, water, or competently-constructed shelter. To take their minds off their rumbling tummies, The Society deliberates over and renders judgement upon the 1932 film, "The Island of Lost Souls."
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
For this week's Profile in Cinemania, Scrutinizer Zacharia plays us a cassette on Hollywood's King of Terror, Bela Lugosi, the man the world knew as "Dracula." Lugosi was a complex and tragic man who fought fascists in Hungary and Weimar Germany; and after achieving fame in America, used his public platform to do some real good in the world while fighting his own private battles. Aside from creating the stereotype of the vampire we all know and love today, he was also responsible for organizing the world's first film actor's union in his native Hungary, and later, helped found the Screen Actors Guild.
Written by Zacharia Berks and Ethan Ireland
Performed by Zacharia Berks
Caricature Art by Andy Slack Comics
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Tracks used: "Cradle of Shadows," "Gothic," "The Disappearance," and "Last Light."
Wednesday Mar 20, 2024
Wednesday Mar 20, 2024
The Cinemania Society continues their conclave of the 1932 sci-fi horror masterpiece "The Island of Lost Souls" while desperately trying to survive being marooned on a mysterious tropical island!
Featuring:
Andrea Palladino
Alessa Luz Martinez
Hope Bravo
Andy Slack
Daniel Scribner
Zacharia Berks
and Ethan Ireland
Production, editing, and sound design by Ethan Ireland
Theme music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Incidental music and sound effects courtesy of Epidemic Sound
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
We present a Profile on one of the greatest perpetrators of CINEMANIA in history, Herbert George Wells. H.G. Wells was an early science-fiction author and futurist, whose influence was so profound that his politically-connected fans ensured he was positioned to be one of the architects of the modern world. Listen in shock and horror as Cinquisitor Ethan tells the tale.
Music by Meteor at meteormusic.bandcamp.com
Tracks: "Ignition," "Indelible Shadow," "Humans vs. Machines: The Beginning of the End," and "Dark Matter."
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Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Loose lips ain't got nothin' on the Cinemania Society: their terrible luck continues as the paddle-steamer they boarded sinks in a storm, leaving them marooned on a mysterious island....but neither rain nor shipwreck nor sandy bottoms can stay these idiots from the swift completion of their appointed judgements. We go full '30s radio theater as Professor Andrea leads our castaway conclave in its analysis of the 1932 sci-fi horror masterpiece "The Island of Lost Souls" (only recently available in its complete and unedited state!)
Featuring:
Andrea Palladino
Alessa Luz Martinez
Hope Bravo
Andy Slack
Daniel Scribner
Zacharia Berks
and Ethan Ireland
Production, editing, and sound design by Ethan Ireland
Theme music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Incidental music and sound effects courtesy of Epidemic Sound
Archival music tracks used under license from APM
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.