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We are your hosts Austin, Albert, and Zephyr and we are here to show you a world of films and film-adjacent topics that interest us, sometimes with guests in the field. Come on in!

The Omniplex Austin Shinn, Albert Wiltfong, and Zephyr Ash

    • TV & Film
    • 3.7 • 6 Ratings

We are your hosts Austin, Albert, and Zephyr and we are here to show you a world of films and film-adjacent topics that interest us, sometimes with guests in the field. Come on in!

    OPX 28: 2023 Pt. III - We're Not Dead! (Covid X)

    OPX 28: 2023 Pt. III - We're Not Dead! (Covid X)

    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 The Little Mermaid, and Austin talks The ERAs Tour (sorry football fans), Evil Dead Rise, and his little bitty babay. 

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    Up next: Video games!

    • 1 hr 3 min
    OPX 27: 2023 Pt. II - Rise of the Machines (Covid IX)

    OPX 27: 2023 Pt. II - Rise of the Machines (Covid IX)

    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 as some hidden jewels! In a couple weeks we'll have a Certified Fresh episode for y'all, so stay tuned!

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    Up next: 2023 Part III!

    • 1 hr 9 min
    OPX 26: Covid VIII - Blast From a Near Past

    OPX 26: Covid VIII - Blast From a Near Past

    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!

     
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    • 1 hr 21 min
    OPX 25: Exploring the Cannon Canon w/Guest Austin Trunick

    OPX 25: Exploring the Cannon Canon w/Guest Austin Trunick

    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 various Cannon filmmakers and stars covering an oral history of this, and I cannot stress this enough, HUMONGUS library of films produced by this studio. Whether you're just now learning about this amazing studio or you're a long time avid fan, this interview will be sure to entertain. Have I sold you yet? Then listen on!
    You can buy both volumes currently out of The Cannon Film Guide here:The Cannon Film Guide Vol. 1: 1980-1984The Cannon Film Guide Vol. 2 1985-1987

    You can find updates on Vol. 3 of  The Cannon Film Guide as well as fun random tidbits on Cannon Films on Austin's Facebook and Twitter:facebook.com/CannonFilmGuideTwitter: @CannonFilmGuide
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    Up next: Covid VII!

    • 49 min
    OPX 24: A Film Left Unspinached (Keep Circulating the Tapes Pt. II)

    OPX 24: A Film Left Unspinached (Keep Circulating the Tapes Pt. II)

    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 hard look at what's there and what might've been if it had gone through final animation, voice, and possible producer notes. So come join us as we pop open this can of spinach!
    While we aren't going to provide a direct link to the film's animatic, if you enter "Genndy Tartakovsky popeye animatic" into a search engine, you'll find it easy.

     


     




     






     






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    And here's a screenshot of the Nintendo Switch Popeye game that has Playstation 2 quality graphics. (It's not much better in motion...)
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    Up next: Covid VII

    • 58 min
    OPX 23: Covid VII - Scorn in America

    OPX 23: Covid VII - Scorn in America

    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 her!
    While you're at it, go check out Cinema From the Spectrum, where Austin is now editor in chief!



     
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    Up next: Gattaca/Idiocracy

    • 1 hr 15 min

Customer Reviews

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6 Ratings

6 Ratings

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Dirk Maggs

Enjoyed the new Dirk Maggs episode! Great hour and half of conversation, and I do love a podcast that lets their guests speak freely with little interruption. You guys did a great job of facilitating that. It was refreshing to hear. Keep up the great work!

Bubbawheat ,

Interesting perspective on films

Austin and Albert bring an interesting perspective on films and share my own love of comic book films. It's also refreshing to hear someone be open about being autistic and how it's often misrepresented in TV and film.

Mr.W.Dubs ,

Narrow minded viewpoints

It is easy to bash a movie, but doing it while being more entertaining than what you are reviewing takes skill, which this podcast fails. You review Zapped Again! as a movie that anyone would take seriously? Also, Key Club, which you ripped on exists, look it up.

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