The Omniplex

Hello and welcome to The Film Room! This week we have Austin's own sister on to talk about one of her favorite films, the quintessential 1995 smash hit Clueless! We talk everything from the film's total influence in 90's culture, to its Jane Austin roots, to how Paul Rudd never seems to age. Come join us as we celebrate this modern retelling of a classic!   We're on the radio! Listen to new episod...

Hello and welcome back! To make room for new and fresh episodes, we are clearing out our recording backlog with a slight Blast From the Past. The Marvel past of a year ago! A much more innocent time, the time before Thanos and his infamous finger snap. So let's go back a year and celebrate the wonder that is Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2! We also talk Logan and the films that would be coming out b...

Join Austin, Al, returning guest Zephyr, his boy Nathan, and newcomer Sebastian for the first Infinity Summit! We gathered at Austin's place in Little Rock for one purpose: to discuss Avengers: Infinity War! WARNING: FULL SPOILERS ARE ON!!! Sebastian Twitter: @sjwjamesbond Zephyr Twitter: @filmspectrum Be sure to check out our sister show The Ship Has Sailed! Live every Sunday night at 9pm Central...

Welcome! This week's episode is a sequel to our Fandom Menace cast, expanding and updating our thoughts on the state of fandom, this time specifically focusing on this past Oscar season. Joining us for this expansion is Ms. Samantha Walker, film critic! We talk everything from Get Out to Three Billboards to Shape of Water to Ready Player One to taking on the most controversial movie of last year,...

Hello! After a lengthy hiatus, The Film Room Podcast is back and here to stay! This time we talk about a rarity: a film we're divided on! Al must defend one of his favorite movies, and Austin must state his case against it. Either direction, we do what we do best: pick it apart and see what makes it tick! Please enjoy our return! We're on the radio! Listen to new episodes before they hit the feed...

Hey Bronies and Pegasisters! In honor of the theatrical My Little Pony movie that came out earlier this month, we're having returning guest Zephyr on to Brony it up with Al and Austin! This week, we discuss the first two Equestria Girls films, the human-occupied offshoot of the Friendship is Magic juggernaut. What do we think? Get the opinions of a certified Bronie, Pegasister, and a non-Brony wit...

Hello and welcome to a very special edition of The Film Room! This week we talk to the makers of the independent film Prodigy! We have filmmakers Alex Haughey and Brian Vidal, as well as lead actors Richard Neil and Savannah Liles! Straight from their success out of the Kansas City Filmfest, the cast and crew of this wonderful film talk inspirations as well as what went into making it. Keep on the...

Hello, everyone! Here's a semi-brief on where the movie theater experience is at present, and where we think it's going. Enjoy!

I am one with the Force, the Force is with me, I am one with the Force, the Force is with me... Welcome, Star Wars fans! We said we weren't going to do a full episode on Rogue One, but well... we lied! Actually, this one is a much welcome Patreon request from Paul Adolina, who is also our guest! So here we talk what makes Rogue One so special, namely that it's a Star Wars movie with all the war mo...

Who remembers when they made movies from cartoons? Well, I mean they still do, but with the actual resources from the cartoon? We do! In that spirit, it's about time we did couple! This week we talk The Jetsons Movie and Ducktales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp! Both with original casts (with one GLARING exception), both lead by show creators, but only one theatrical, and it's not the preferred one. W...

Hello, all! Say, it's been a while since we've done a director retrospective, hasn't it? It's a big job, so we brought in mega Soderbergh fan Shaun Higgins to help us! (..okay, he suggested it and we agreed we were sorely lacking on Soderbergh coverage.) Join us as we talk every experiment Soderbergh has done from The Girlfriend Experience to the Oceans films to The Informant! to Traffic to etc, e...

Welcome! This week we decided to follow up on Al's article on how to deal with problematic art with a full-on episode. It's a big topic and we absolutely can't cover everything, but we can certainly take a bite out of the issue. Feel free to chime in with your thoughts via Twitter or Facebook. Now please enjoy this completely unrelated picture of Woody Allen at the beginning of Annie Hall. We now...

Hello and welcome! This week we're highlighting film that we feel we need to help remove an asterisk on. See, every time a film wins best picture at that year's Oscars carries a stigma because it is then drenched in the popularity contest that is the Academy Awards. Well, every so often, a film ACTUALLY DESERVES it because it is indeed the best film of the year. That's right, we're discussing Moon...

Hello and welcome! This week we pay tribute to our friend, filmmaker Harold Ragsdale, who went out in a literal blaze of glory when his hotel room caught fire on New Year's Eve this last year. He had just that day supervised the final cut of what would turn out to be his final film, the religious ensemble Easter Sunday. Since it is a religious film, we of course brought in Thomas to help us out in...

2008? Me neither. ...at least, that's what we'd be saying if the resulting Cartoon Network animated series didn't, um... get really good. Yes, we're covering the 2008 theatrical Clone Wars movie, aka the Thing That Almost Killed Star Wars As a Viable Franchise. Barring the actual Clone Wars series, we get into the nitty gritty of the era of Star Wars between Episodes III and the Disney takeover wh...

Ahead of the Netflix series, we decided to address Justin Simien's debut film Dear White People. Full disclosure: We are, indeed, two white guys (if you didn't already know), so we can't comment on the film from inside black culture, but we can look at it from the perspective of, well.. white people. (No worries, we love the film, which is why we're giving it the deserved attention). We also expou...

And the Winner is...  Okay, unlike what you probably expected, this is not an Oscar prediction cast, but a long overdue rant exposing the seedy underbelly of what the Oscars really are. We'll most notably pick on the 2015 Oscars because it's the most notable example in recent memory, but we're talking the ceremony in general.  We are, of course, speaking from a standpoint of hey, we've been follow...

Welcome to a deadly serious edition of The Film Room Due to recent events, we have decided to do two things. One is to cover an Iranian film, an area of film we've neglected until now. Not just any Iranian film, but Asghar Farhadi's 2011 masterpiece, A Separation! Two is to donate this month's Patreon funds to the ACLU for their efforts in the event in question (we wouldn't do this unless we absol...

In this week's episode, we give lip service to a great (largely overlooked) Irish animated film, Song of the Sea. As Celtic as they come, this great film by the director of The Secret of Kells tells the story of Saoirse (not at all pronounced how it's spelled) and her brother as they search for a magic coat. As we recount the film, we'll also dive into what exactly happened to 2D theatrical animat...

*cue Star Wars Theme* Welcome! Can you believe it's been 20 years since the Star Wars Special Editions were released? Especially weird considering THAT release was in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the original film's release! No matter your opinions on the special editions (now sadly the only editions), you have to admit, if you were alive at the time, it was exciting. You got to see the...

Austin has said he wasn't going to review The Killing Joke for Comics For Rent, SO we decided to go bigger. The week we're covering two Batman animated movies that were bafflingly released back-to-back, Alan Moore's The Killing Joke, and Return of the Caped Crusaders, the '66 Batman movie (with returning cast). One is bad beyond belief, and one is Return of the Caped Crusaders (yeah, you knew whic...

As you may well know, Time Travel is an easy way to sell a film for us. Not always, but say it involves time travel, and we're all "go onnnn..". WELL strap in because this week have the mother (and father) of all time travel films to talk about, and we have a guest along for the ride! We have columnist AJ Muller with us to talk Predestination! A movie that was seemingly dropped into the filmic lan...

Ho ho ho! Do we have a Christmas present for you! Thanks to our wonderful patrons (you have NO idea how much fun we are having with a website at our disposal, thankyouthankyouthankyou!), we return with the long-promised sequel to God's Not Dead, aptly titled God's Not Dead 2. Though not as.. toxic as the original, this one is its own special kind of bad. This Little-Rock-shot, Melissa-Joan-Hart-st...

Yes, we have two Christmas Specials for you this year! Only one actually having to do with Christmas! At long last we are covering the Christmas classic Love, Actually. Made in 2003 and inspiration to at least half a dozen holiday-themed films that failed to capture lightning in a bottle twice, this film has, over time, become a Christmas staple along with the likes of neo-classics Elf and Jingle...

Welcome to the finale for our series on family films! We end it with what is probably the mother of all family films, the Wachowski's Speed Racer! A flop when it came out (we know by now that hey, that doesn't determine a film's longevity), this film has rightly become somewhat of a cult classic. We explore what makes this sibling-directed visual feast what is sure to be a family staple for years...