Welcome to the official website of Armbar Studios! We are Erin & Mandy, a creative duo of panelists, writers, and podcasters. We are focused on providing thought-provoking, varied, and entertaining art through live events, audio, writing, and more!
Latest News
- Updates on Role Credits: New arcs and RSS feed!
- Role Credits announces new arc: Stephen King Adaptations
- Details on Role Credits’ upcoming second arc: Joel Schumacher
- Introducing our newest project – Role Credits!
- The new Armbar Studios homepage is live!
Podcasts
Role Credits
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Bonus: Our Top Movies of 2025
Erin & Mandy discuss their favorite first-time watches of 2025! From auteur directors, pop culture juggernauts, to obscure Japanese films, they break it all down. It was a great year for movies! Here's hoping 2026 is even better. (Due to a change in recording setup there are minor audio issues with this episode that will be corrected next time.)
Convention Panels
In 2018, Armbar Studios made appearances at Matsuricon, presenting three different panels – Jack In! Mega Man Battle Network! Execute!, Everything Explodes!: Intro to Tokusatsu, and our flagship panel, The Matsuricon Nerd SmackDown! The first two were informative media-education-focused panels, with our flagship panel being a pre-recorded-and-edited machinima presentation of a wrestling show created in WWE 2K18, complete with our live commentary. Prizes were raffled off at the end of the show.
In 2019, we were invited back to Matsuricon, where we presented The Matsuricon Nerd SmackDown! 2!, a bigger and better version of our wrestling show. Highlights of it, as well as a full recording of the panel itself, can be viewed below:
Affiliated Projects
Cinema Gratuita
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Created in 2022 and hosted by Lazer, with Erin & Mandy as co-hosts, Cinema Gratuita is a podcast exploring movies that can be found on free streaming services. Together we discuss and rate the movies as well as the experience of using the service itself. Is it worth spending your hard-earned $0 on, as well as your most precious commodity, time? That’s what we’re here to figure out.
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The Ebony Ditch
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From our partners over at Third Tower Productions comes The Ebony Ditch, a podcast dedicated to “low theory”, accessibly discussing and breaking down queer theory and disability theory through the lens of pop culture. Being the opposite of the ivory tower, The Ebony Ditch aims to do away with pompous language and any semblance of professionalism to make academia – and drunken theorizing – fun for all. Erin is editor/producer.
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