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Multiplex Overthruster

Multiplex Overthruster

By: Javier Grillo-Marxuach |Paul Alvarado-Dykstra | Bradley Dumont
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Join two-time Emmy Award winner Javier Grillo-Marxuach (writer-producer of Lost, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, The Witcher and creator of The Middleman) and Paul Alvarado-Dykstra (co-founder of Fantastic Fest, the leading genre film festival in the US) as they travel back in time to revisit the summer movies that shaped their generation: movie by movie, weekend by weekend, and year by year. Starting with the legendary summer of 1982, movie experts Javi and Paul - aided and abetted by the long-suffering Producer Brad - take you on an unprecedented audio adventure from Memorial Day through Labor Day weekends, spanning iconic blockbusters and obscure curiosities that some may be surprised to learn even exist. Relive the joy of seeing these amazing movies with your pals on opening night as these longtime friends rewatch their childhood favorites and discuss both what it was like to see them in their teenage years, and how their perceptions have changed over the decades. It's a time machine, it's a nostalgia trip, it's a witty and incisive glance at a world of movies and memory: it's Multiplex Overthruster!


Multiplex Overthruster is produced by Bradley Dumont, who co-created the series with co-hosts Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Paul Alvarado-Dykstra. Logo and artwork is by acclaimed Marvel and DC Comics artist Afua Richardson. Theme music is by Mike McGuill / Pond5. Additional voice work by Russell Bentley The series is available on Apple Podcasts and most other major podcast platforms, as well as multiplexoverthruster.com and @mpotpod on social media.

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Episodes
  • Mr. Mom: Summer of '83

    Mr. Mom: Summer of '83
    Sep 8 2025

    What do you get when you mix the manic comic genius of Michael Keaton, the inimitable dramatic and comedic chops of the great Teri Garr, the legendary deadpan wit of Martin Mull, the wacky unpredictability of Christopher Lloyd, and the ever-reliable smarm of Jeffrey Tambor? Franlky, we wish you got more than Mr. Mom, a movie regarded by many as a modern classic but which left the already very domesticated Paul, Javi, and the always paternal Producer Brad scratching their heads wondering if men in the 80s were simply too brain damaged to drive a grocery store cart. There’s a few bright spots, of course, the not-so-hidden connection to Rocky III, the cute kids, and, of course, woobies. But is it enough? Honestly, we decided to watch this instead of Deathstalker because we thought we owed it to you - our listeners - to get out of the sword and sorcery space and talk about a mainstream movie… and in this episode, you get to hear your three hosts realize the depth of their error with hilarious consequences! CURSE YOU LORD MUNKAR! Yeah, come back next week, we’re watching Deathstalker.


    Show Notes:

    1983 Box Office

    September 2 1983 Weekend Box Office

    July 22, 1983 Weekend Box Office

    Mr. Mom Box Office Results

    Mr. Mom AFI Catalog Entry

    Cole Haddon 2023 interview with producer Lauren Shuler Donner.

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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • Strange Brew: Summer of '83

    Strange Brew: Summer of '83
    Aug 22 2025

    Okay you hosers, so welcome to our podcast. So today we’re gonna chug a couple cold ones, put on our tuques and watch as comedy titans Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas take their beloved characters from television and comedy albums to the big screen in The Adventures of Bob and Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew! While it would have been perfectly acceptable for them to do their small screen schtick on the big screen and call it a movie, this ambitious duo instead decided to cast themselves as Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern in a brewski-themed remake of… Hamlet? Join Paul, Javier, and the ever sober Producer Brad as they brave the dark corridors of the haunted Elsinore Brewery, where the cyber-ghost of a murdered patriarch cries out for justice from a haunted coin-op video game console as the evil Brewmeister Smith - played by Ingmar Bergman regular Max Von Sydow in prosthetic buck teeth - plots to take over the world using mind-control beer and hockey-playing stormtroopers! Can our hapless duo stop this evil plot? All we can say is that any movie that features a climactic duel between Ming The Merciless and Gold Leader from Star Wars is a beauty way to go, eh!


    Show Notes:

    1983 Box Office

    August 26, 1983 Weekend Box Office

    Strange Brew Movie Box Office Results

    Strange Brew AFI Catalog Entry

    Rick Moranis' Second City Bio

    Dave Thomas' Second City Bio

    CBC Oral History of Kids in the Hall's "Headcrusher"

    Globe and Mail "Best Canadian Comedies"


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    1 hr and 58 mins
  • Yor, The Hunter from the Future: Summer of '83

    Yor, The Hunter from the Future: Summer of '83
    Aug 16 2025

    Cavemen. Dinosaurs. Lasers. Robots. A mysterious medallion. A talking box. Choice meats! And oh that theme song. This barely begins to dip into the brain-bending fountain of wonders that is YOR, THE HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE. Javi, Paul and - intrepidly - Producer Brad have ventured to Yor’s World and returned forever changed by this Italian adaptation of an Argentinian graphic novel that was distilled from a four-hour television mini-series, and is criminally unavailable on any streaming service or for digital rental or purchase. But they would not be denied (thank you Internet Archive), even though it required Javi to heed the film’s counsel (“We will need a lot more hemp before we’re through.”), while Paul Plot was sent into a fugue state. Because while we’re all well-versed in spaghetti Westerns, this is a spaghetti fantasy that takes a stunning turn into spaghetti sci-fi, and somehow blurs the lines between bad and great, and stupid and genius — rendering this week’s episode an absolute fever dream. There is simply no way you can prepare yourself… for YOR!!!



    Show Notes:

    Yor, the Hunter from the Future (1983) [Internet Archive]

    Yor's World (Theme Song) on iTunes and Apple Music

    1983 Box Office - The Numbers

    1983 Box Office - Box Office Mojo

    August 19, 1983 Weekend Box Office

    Yor Movie Box Office Results

    NYT/Janet Maslin Yor review

    Archived Antonio Margheriti bio

    Archived interview with Edoardo Margheriti, Antonio's son.

    Fanbasepress article speculating on Antonio Margheriti connection to 2001: A Space Odyssey

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    2 hrs and 13 mins
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