The Omniplex

Hello everyone!! If you listened last week, the title won't come as any surprise for you, but if you didn't, we're back from the dead! (Well not because we were dead, more because we were busy living.) Anyways, we decided to warm ourselves up with another short covid watches episode! Al talks Do Not Destroy, Boy and the Heron, and The Orange Years, Zephyr talks Stop Making Sense, The Wiggles, and...

Hey, peeps! Been a minute, huh? We took a break for 2023 due to major life changes, but the roller coaster has finally settled down in the new year to let us bring you fresh(ish) content! This one was recorded in April 2023, but is no less timely as we go through our recommended (and anti-recommended) watch lists! From Doug, to Twin Peaks, to Everything Everywhere All At Once, to The Menu, as well...

The Omniplex is open! We're back from an unintentional hiatus to bring you a Covid cast! We recorded this one 5 months ago, but it's still fresh! We bring you the recommendations and anti-recommendations of North, Werewolf By Night, The Magic Christian, The Owl House, and The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. Which are recs and which are anti-recs? You'll have to listen to find out!   Visit our website at t...

Explosions! Big Action Stars! Big Dance Numbers! Catchy Titles! Ecetera! Do all of these prompts excite you? Then maybe you will be into Cannon Films, THE premiere movie studio of the 80's and early 90's! Not quite, but today at The Omniplex we have special guest Austin Trunick, author of The Cannon Film Guide Vol. 1, 2, and soon to be 3! Austin Trunick has conducted numerous interviews with vario...

The Omniplex is open, and so is this lost film canister full of spinach! While the larger conversation is on lost media (hard looking at you, HBO Max...), today we talk about the unearthed full-length animatic of Genndy Tartakovsky's unmade animated Popeye movie. What would it have been? Why did it get cancelled? We are not here today to answer those very specific questions, but we take a good har...

The Omniplex is open, and well, um... what can we say? All we can do is lift up the art that, be it good or bad, comforts us in hard times. This week we discuss The Bob's Burgers Movie, Marmaduke 2022, Roger Ebert being horny on main, and Zephyr gets Morbed. Go check out The Grey Rooms , a horror fiction podcast for which Zephyr is now a writer for the upcoming seasons 4 & 5! We are very proud of...

Everybody dance, The Omniplex is open!! This week, come with us to 60's Baltimore, as we talk John Waters' 1988 classic Hairspray! We briefly explore the partnership between superstar drag queen Divine and John Waters, and compare the 2007 musical remake, and what makes this a smart classic take on desegregation through the lens of the 80's. For further reading, we recommend watching the I Am Divi...

It's Easter at The Omniplex! And what better way to celebrate than by talking about.. a Christmas movie?? Yup, this year instead of hiding eggs, you will need to hide your nuts, because this week's movie is 2009's Russian-Hungarian production The Nutcracker: The Untold Story (aka The Nutcracker 3D)! From us shaking our heads in disappoint at an otherwise fantastic cast (Nathan Lane, John Turturro....

Meet Clay Walsh. A man with ideas. Ideas about how to have a better dating life through deep deep misogyn- uh, we mean God. And a thousand yard serial killer stare SO hey, The Omniplex is open, and we're here to talk about Old Fashioned, the second Pureflix staple after God's Not Dead (though just as bad). Join us as we learn about dating, love, maybe some Jaysus? All through the lens of a simple...

We can't believe we're doing another one of these either. (Well... actually we can.) It's another Covid cast, Omicron edition. This time our hosts talk Encanto, Don't Look Up, Miracle Workers, Spiderman: No Way Home (don't worry, very minimal spoilers), and much much much more! Remember.. be safe out there. Get vaccinated and boosted, and keep wearing your masks. (Editor's note: This cast was reco...

The Omniplex is open, and so are the gates of HELL! On today's episode we welcome Peter Atkins, screenwriter of Wishmaster, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, and Hellraiser IV: Bloodline, of which he has recently released his original screenplay in paperback. We have a very laid back conversation with Peter about moviegoing, horror influences, love of novelizations, the writ...

The Omniplex is open, but today we'd like to take you to the Hundred Acre Wood, to a little place called Pooh Corner. Since we've recorded this episode, A.A. Milne's Pooh and his corner have gone into the public domain, but we are exploring all the myriad (probably/definitely copyrighted) ways that the original book has been adapted. So come sing the theme song with us! (Which one is up to you!) h...

The Omniplex is open, and today we are paying homage to Todd Haynes' 1995 film Safe. We get a little raw and open in this one as we talk a film that takes place in 1987, yet resonates.. a little too well. So! Let's dive in, shall we? Poster by Nikos Borgris Visit our website at theomniplex.org ! Like our Facebook page Follow us on Twitter Subscribe, rate, and review wherever you get your podcasts!...

The Scaryplex is open! Looking for some terrors to partake of this Halloween? Well, we're here to give you a plethora of things to be frightened about as we present you with a vastly updated Horrorcast from The Film Room's foray into the genre almost 9 years ago. We cover so many recommendations (and a few anti-recommends), we could barely fit it into one episode. Everything from Family Frights to...

Pepperland is open! This episode we turn to a unique animated classic starring (sort of) The Beatles. From the psychedelic style to personal influences to music, to the ill-fated, ill-concieved cancelled 2009 remake, we take a deep dive into the universe of Yellow Submarine! You can find all the leaked test footage of the cancelled 2009 remake here. It's... quite something. Poster by Tom Whalon. C...

Ugghhh... Welcome to the... FIFTH... Covid watch cast, where we spill on what we've watched in the quarantine. In this one, we're a tad more pissed off, but still going and absorbing media to cope. We talk everything from Marvel to Soderbergh to Columbo to Netflix reality dating shows, to The Faculty, it's a WIDE range. So get yourself vaxxed if you haven't (especially now that the Pfeizer vaccine...

The Omniplex is open! We're coming at you with Pride a little late this year, but with the question: why shouldn't it go beyond June? With that in mind this week we talk themes of representation, who gets to play queer characters onscreen, and what is gender anyway? So sit back and enjoy this extension of Pride Month. Opening Monologue by Zephyr. You can read the full transcript with source links...

Turn up that bass, The Omniplex is open! This week we're exploring the extra space in our upgraded format as we talk Concept Albums. When bands feel the need to explore their artistry and creativity, a Concept Album is born! Zephyr, Austin, and Al dig into their playlists as try out some of their favorite bands' more experimental works. Come on the first of many musical journeys with us!   Visit o...

Ready for some semi-recent nostalgia? (We like to think it's semi-recent since the era we're covering is technically in this millennium, but GOD, just humor us..) This week at the Omniplex, we're covering the strange transitional era between 1996 and 2006. We examine the trends as well as the ups and downs of each. So strap in for this wild Disney ride (a few of which were made into movies) throug...

The Omniplex is open and streaming! This week we go in depth service by service on the internet stream-o-sphere, and how it has permanently changed the way we absorb and collect our entertainment. Pros and Cons abound, we give ALL the dirt on all the major services and options if you still favor the physical media. (Image from thestreet.com ) (Bad subtitle implement from HBO Max on XBox) Visit our...

We will be recording new episodes of The Omniplex soon, but in lieu of an episode this week, we would like to present you with the first episode of a new TV binge podcast hosted by Albert, Tab, and their dog Max! Want to hear more? The full podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you download your podcasts! This first meeting of the Order is called into sessio...

There's finally.. FINALLY... a light at the end of the tunnel. The Omniplex is open, welcome to our 4th.. and hopefully final.. Quarantine watch cast. This is a special one, as it denotes the one-year anniversary of when the quarantine (in America, anyways) started. And since the vaccines are rolling out and gaining speed, we finally a year later have some hope for some semblance of normalcy in th...

The Omniplex is open! This week we have a lovely chat with writer J.M. DeMatteis about his take on writing characters, what it takes to write meaningful stories, influences, and his prolific career in comics, television, and movies. We talk Superman, Batman, Deathstroke, Death (the Neil Gaiman version), and Scooby Apocalypse.  If you're interested in cultivating your own writing creations, we urge...

WARNING! FULL SPOILERS for Soul and a hint at a spoiler for WandaVision. The Omniplex is open! This week we have guest Josh Bullock, creator of action comic Monarchs and founder of Boom! Animation. We talk with Josh about Black representation in the media, growing up nerd, Disney/Pixar's Soul, Josh's many wonderful projects, the MCU, Sonic, and much much more! We recommend checking out Josh's comi...

Welcome, friends. The Omniplex is open. We aren't normally this heavy on the political side, but the last four years has been tumultuous. Each piece of media produced, whether directly or indirectly, is a product of its time. Now that the horse has officially left the hospital (thank you John Mulaney, for the brilliant and hilarious extended metaphor), we can begin to look at what impact Trump's p...