Mid-Credit Scene Podcast
Discussions with local guests about movies and filmmaking. We’ll talk about local films, theatres, festivals, and the impact of film here in Waterloo Region. We’ll chat with local experts on broader themes like technology, art, and the cultural impact of movies. But mostly we’ll just spend time with great people, talking about something we love.
Episodes
98 episodes since 2021
Mid-Credit Minute - Is Prong Wrong About Looper
Mikes Pereira and Clark sit down with local communicator and avid movie-not-watcher Charlotte Prong and see if she is able to guess what a movie is about from the title alone. This episode we discuss Rian Johnson's sci-fi time travel thriller (...
August 13, 2024
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Season 3
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13:08
Episode 29 - Remembering Donald Sutherland
The Mike's finish off their season with an episode remembering the recently departed actor and Canadian icon Donald Sutherland. We discuss the roles that defined him as an actor, the roles he defined, and when in a career does the gravitas kick...
July 23, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 29
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1:08:42
Mid-Credit Minute - The Double Take AND the Give and Take with Michael Davison
As you might have guess from this past month of episodes, our conversation with Michael Davison was really far wandering, but we bring you one last episode, back on topic, with a combo episode in which we discuss Michael's double feature, and w...
June 11, 2024
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Season 3
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26:48
Mid-Credit Minute - Terry Gilliam with Michael Davison
When we say that getting three Mikes on mic leads to a lot of chat, believe us. We continue our conversation with Michael Davison as we discuss the career of Terry Gilliam, how maybe things should be left in the past, and is Adam Driver the dea...
June 04, 2024
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Season 3
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13:10
Mid-Credit Minute - Shorts, Commercials, and Music Videos with Michael Davison
The three Mikes discuss the importance of filmmakers making shorts, shooting commercials, and making music videos to experiment and get comfortable behind the camera. We also talk about who Beyoncé and Traylor Swift, and not just for SEO purpos...
May 28, 2024
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Season 3
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17:12
Mid-Credit Minute - Current State of the Film Industry with Michael Davison
The Mikes continue our chat with Michael Davison, this time on the current state of the film industry, both in general and specifically the Canadian industry. We recorded this back in the winter and so much has even changed since then, but what...
May 21, 2024
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Season 3
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12:04
Episode 27 - Special Effects with Michael Davison
The Mikes become a trio this episode as we talk to Michael Davison, a filmmaker living in Cambridge, and Programming Director for the Grand River Film Festival. He continues our streak of having actual filmmakers on the show, this time with exp...
May 14, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 27
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54:39
Mid-Credit Minute - The Give and Take with Matt Finlin
Director Matt Finlin muses on what films he feels he inherited from the past, and what he'd want to send onward into the Future. As a bonus, find out what film we might have inadvertently cursed future generations with!
May 07, 2024
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Season 3
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10:01
Mid-Credit Minute - The Double Take with Matt Finlin
The Movie Man Director Matt Finlin talks not one, but two, spectacular double features. Plus, we talk about Guillermo del Toro and all our favourite stuff that gets filmed in Southern Ontario.
April 30, 2024
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Season 3
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10:01
Episode 26 - The Movie Man with Matt Finlin
The Mikes sit down with Director Matt Finlin to talk about his feature documentary The Movie Man, in which, "amid a global pandemic, an entrepreneur looks back on his life's work owning and o...
April 24, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 28
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58:24
Mid-Credit Minute - Is Prong Wrong About Thunderpants
Mikes Pereira and Clark sit down with local communicator and avid movie-not-watcher Charlotte Prong and see if she is able to guess what a movie is about from the title alone. In this episode, Charlotte guesses Thunderpants.
April 23, 2024
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Season 3
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13:08
Mid-Credit Minute - Physical Media
The Mikes sit down for casual chat between themselves and the fern in the corner. We start off reminiscing about childhood favourites, which leads to cartoons of the 80s, which leads to Clark's fourth favourite topic of conversation, physical m...
April 16, 2024
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Season 3
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39:13
Mid-Credit Minute - SCTV and Quadrilogies
The Mikes sit down for a loose chat between themselves, which mostly focuses on the cinematic dominance of the cast of SCTV in the 80s, why 4th films always seem to go bad, and that Clark has no idea where Bermuda is.
April 09, 2024
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Season 3
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45:03
Episode 25 - The 90's Oscar Draft with Alex Kinsella, Jensen Fraser, and Kayleigh Platz
This episode we are joined by our most number of guests ever, returning Gen X-er Alex Kinsella and new friends Gen Z-bie Jensen Fraser and Millennial Kayleigh Platz. In this very special Oscars episode, we are drafting the winners of the 90s Ac...
April 02, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 25
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1:41:00
Mid-Credit Minute - The Give and Take with The Devil's Cut
Mike Murray and Angel Hammoud fill us in on the films they have received, and the films they are passing along.The Devil's Cut on Soundcloud
March 19, 2024
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Season 3
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8:23
Mid-Credit Minute - The Double Take with The Devil's Cut
Mike Murray and Angel Hammoud give us their double features. Between the record and release, The Dog That Stopped The War has been taken off YouTube, meaning you won't be able to relive your childhood trauma all over again so convenient...
March 12, 2024
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Season 3
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5:26
Mid-Credit Minute - Santa Claus vs The Devil
Mike Murray and Angel Hammoud discuss one of the most movies ever made, Santa Claus vs The Devil, a Mexican film from the 50s that is even more unhinged than it already sounds. Santa...
March 05, 2024
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Season 3
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6:46
Episode 24 - The Devil's (Advo) Cut with Mike Murray and Angel Hammoud
The Mikes are joined by a third Mike, and an Angel - Mike Murray and Angel Hammoud of The Devil's Cut podcast and fellow Midtown Radio show. And we're talking Ol' Scratch, the Devil on film. It certain seems like there are some movies that were...
February 28, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 24
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1:12:57
Mid-Credit Minute - The Mikes vs. Zaslav
People don't like David Zaslav and it isn't hard to understand why. The guy deep sixed Batgirl and Scoob! Holiday Haun...
February 13, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 0
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40:05
Mid-Credit Minute - The Give and Take with John Donohue
John Donohue from the Institute for Quantum Computing tackles some of our toughest questions in this Mid-Credit Minute: What's a movie you feel like you inherited from the past generation, and what's a film you'd want to pass down to the next g...
February 06, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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10:00
Mid-Credit Minute - The Double Take with John Donohue
Our latest guest John Donohue from the Institute for Quantum Computing, goes deep on mad science in this Mid-Credit Minute. John talks about his perfect double feature and it's pretty awesome! Dive in and get weird!
January 30, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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5:27
Episode 23 - Going quantum with John Donohue
Here we are inside an atom. Here's one little chair for one of you, and a bigger chair for two more to curl up in. Now, look up, wa-a-a-a-a-ay up to the non-quantum realm, and we'll call John.This week, we get sub-atomic with John Donoh...
January 23, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:00:33
Mid-Credit Minute: Give and Take with Katie Parkes
Katie Parkes is the first guest to answer Season Three's new bonus question - and it's a tough one! We ask what's a movie she feels she inherited from a previous generation, and what's a film she would like to pass down to the next generation.&...
January 16, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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12:27
Mid-Credit Miyazaki Minute with Anna Beard
In this deep dive, extended Mid-Credit Minute, Clark sans Pereira sits in a closet with his wife Anna Beard and talks all things Hayao Miyazaki, director of Studio Ghibli, and his newest film The Boy and the Heron. Our history...
January 09, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 0
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56:10
Mid-Credit Minute - The Double Take with Katie Parkes
Katie Parkes tells is her pick for the perfect double feature. Well, actually four possibly perfect doubles features. Well, actually three double features and a triple feature! You don't want to miss it!The Mikes have abandoned social m...
January 02, 2024
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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10:59