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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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!

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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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: 1980-1984 The 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/CannonFilmGuide Twitter: @CannonFilmGuide

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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.

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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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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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 Divine documentary, which can be watched for free on the Tubi or Kanopy apps.

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Up next: Covid VI.

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..), and baffling at the unneccesary Nazi imagery, come join us as we take down this bad Christmas classic... for Easter.

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