All Episodes
Magic at the Movies — 124 episodes
124: No Plan, Just Movies
123: Late Summer: Long Live the Classics
122: An XQ Retrospective
121: The Dog Days of Summer Still Have Bite!
120: The Value of Guest Service
119: Spider-Man Shatters Records!
118: Spider-Man: Brand New Day
117: Disney's Infinity Vision
116: 35mm Film
115: Remakes!
114: A Minions Retrospecitve
113: The Variety Pin: Minions and Monsters
112: Spielbracket - The BEST Spielberg movie ever?!
111: A Critics’ Roundtable
110: Backrooms!
109: Summer Movies 2026
108: My First Star Wars Movie Moment!
107: A Paul Anderson Double Feature
106: Stories From the Booth—36 Years in Film Projection
105: The THX Documentary
104: A Wrap on CinemaCon 2026
103: A Cinemacon Pause...
102: A 90th Anniversary for our Lake Theatre!
101: Mike's Back! Movie Posters!
100: The 100th Episode Celebration
99: Our Director of Operational Excellence!
98: Red Carpet Memoirs
97: GMs: From the Booth to the Box Office
96: Location: Chicago! – The Movies Shot in Our City
95: Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture
94: Be My Galentine
93: Director Sam Raimi
92: Oscar Predicitions
91: 2026 | Movie Anniversaries
90: The Best of 2025
89: Will 2026 Be a $10B Box Office Year?
88: Remembering Rob Reiner
87: A Kubrick Kind of Christmas
86: The Variety Avatar Pin
85: A Holiday Movie Battle Royale
84: Kill Bill: TWBA
83: Thankful for Zootopia 2
82: The Pope Says: Go to the Movies!
81: Christmas at the Tivoli
80: Predator Badlands & the Origin of Monster Movies
79: The Evolution of the Music Biopic
78: The History of Movie Trailers
77: Celebrating Diane Keaton
76: The History of the Jump Scare!
75: 23 Screams Before Halloween
74: The Redford Retrospective
73: Are These TDs or Fumbles?!
72: Fan Mail and Fanboying
71: Top 10 Wedding Movies
70: Jaws is Back!
69: The Reel Educators of Freeport Illinois
68: BRING IT ON... MAGNOLIA!
67: Weapons – The Explosive End to Summer Movies
66: Look Ahead: Avatar, Look Back: Boogie Nights
65: Together and Hard Eight
64: Mike's "Man on the Street" Interviews
63: The 100 Greatest Films of All Time
62: A Dino-Sized Classified Cinema
61: Blade and other Comic Book Movie Nostalgia
60: Materialists & Batman Begins: Bachelorhood in the Big City
59: Dogma at 25: Faith, Fury & Film
58: Mission: Reviewable – Ranking the Impossible
57: As, if...CLUELESS!
56: It Must Be Summer...2025
55: "Buckle up...it's Fight or Flight"
54: The Master of Suspense...in 3D!
53: Revenge of the Sith
52: Seeing the Account 2 with a REAL accountant
51: CinemaCon 2025 Recap
50: A Chosen Superfan & A Special Celebration
49: Warfare, Penguins, and Poisoned Apples
48: Steven Soderbergh
47: Classified Cinema (Part Deux)
46: Classified Cinema
45: The Monkey
44: The Mt. Rushmore of Cinema
43: The Real Top 10: What the Academy Got Wrong!
42: OSCAR PICKS - BEST PICTURE
41: CRITIC'S CLASSICS ERIK CHILDRESS
40: The Brutalist
39: 30th Anniversary of SEVEN
38: Innovation under construction!
37: Popcorn, Reviews and Holiday fun!
36. The Concession Session
35. The Holiday Lineup
34. Glicked and the Star Wars Trilogy
33. Variety Children's Charity & Wicked
32. Holidays at the Tivoli
31. Here and The Tivoli Holiday Lineup
30. Conclave
29. Fight Club / Film Projection
28. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
27. Halloween 2024
25. Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis
24. Transformers ONE & The Substance
24. Early Access Screenings, Book Signings and more...
23. What the *&%$ is XQ?" Part 2
22. The York Theatre turns 100"
21. Comic Book Film Adaptations - Part 3
20. Comic Book Adaptations Part 2
19. Comic Book Film Adaptations - Part 1
18. It Ends With Us
17. Deadpool & Wolverine
16. Critic's Classics 2024 with Erik Childress
15. Fly Me to the Moon / More of Summer 2024
14. MaXXXine and Long Legs
13. A Quiet Place Day One & Horizon: An American Saga
12. The Bikeriders
11. Inside Out 2
10. Bad Boys: Ride or Die
9. What the **** is XQ?!
8. FURIOSA: A Mad Max Saga
7. The Star Trek Genesis Trilogy
6. The Classic Series / Summer 2024
5. The Fall Guy and Star Wars: Phantom Menace
4. Challengers, and a whole LOT more
3. The AfterImage Film Festival
2. In the Land of Saints and Sinners
1. Late Night with the Devil