Multiplex Overthruster
by Javier Grillo-Marxuach |Paul Alvarado-Dykstra | Bradley Dumont
The Last Starfighter - Summer of '84
About this podcast
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.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 54 episodes
- The Last Starfighter - Summer of '84 · 2 h 2 min · Season 3 Episode 11The Last Starfighter is... dead? Alive? Any good as a movie? These are the questions that bedevil Paul, Javi, and the ever gung-ho Producer Brad as they discuss the endearing…
- Gremlins - Summer of '84 · 2 h 31 min · Season 3 Episode 10The cinema of the 1980s brought us many great showdowns: Kirk vs. Khan, Rocky Balboa vs. Clubber Lang, Tom Cody vs. Raven Shattick… and now PAUL VS. JAVI! And what brought these…
- Conan the Destroyer - Summer of '84 · 2 h 37 min · Season 3 Episode 9All too often, nostalgia seduces us into remembering things better than they actually were. But every once in awhile, the opposite occurs, and we get to re-experience something…
- Top Secret! - Summer of '84 · 2 h 0 min · Season 3 Episode 8Between the blockbuster successes of Airplane! and The Naked Gun!, Jim Abrahams and the Zucker Bros. took a more scattershot satirical turn with Top Secret!, which parodies…
- Star Trek III - Summer of '84 · 2 h 32 min · Season 3 Episode 7They say the third time’s the charm, and if you’re Star Trek, the third time is all about the charm. The studio may have cut the budget and schedule to cash in on the success of…
- Ghostbusters: Summer of '84 · 3 h 3 min · Season 3 Episode 6To this day - twenty-two years later - you can still walk into a room anywhere in the civilized world and shout “Who ya gonna call?” and get an emphatic hollaback of…
- Streets of Fire: Summer of '84 · 1 h 53 min · Season 3 Episode 5In this gritty, neon-soaked, leather-wearin’, motor oil-stinkin’, rockabilly-singin’, pole-dancin’, pickaxe-swingin’ installment, Paul, Javi, and the tough-talkin’ Producer Brad…
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Summer of '84 · 2 h 36 min · Season 3 Episode 4It’s Memorial Day weekend and the Multiplex Overthruster crew roars back to the movies for the Summer of ’84 with their old pal Indiana Jones! On his second outing, Indy stares…
- Romancing the Stone: '84 Spring Special #3 · 1 h 56 min · Season 3 Episode 3While “When did Michael Douglas Get So Young” may not have been the sole burning question of our rewatch of Romancing The Stone, it certainly was among the many prompted by Paul…
- Repo Man: '84 Spring Special #2 · 2 h 7 min · Season 3 Episode 2Imagine a dystopian America where authority is malignant, the profit motive rules all, everyone is on the grift, all goods and services have been devalued to the least of their…
- Timerider: '84 Spring Special #1 · 1 h 46 min · Season 3 Episode 1What happens when a hard-ridin’, gravel scratchin’, manly-man motocross champ accidentally finds himself in the middle of a time travel experiment run by a private corporation…
- Never Say Never Again: Summer of '84 Holiday Special · 2 h 45 min · Season 2 Episode 19Every once in a while, a loophole in time, space, and copyright law opens and spits out an object straight out of bizarro world. The summer of ’83 gave us an “official” James…
- The Multi Awards: Summer of '83 · 1 h 23 min · Season 2 Episode 18The envelope, please! That’s right, it’s time, once again for the MULTI AWARDS. Join Paul, Javi, and the august Producer Brad as they render final judgment on the summer of ‘83!…
- Deathstalker: Summer of '83 · 2 h 0 min · Season 2 Episode 17The Summer of ’83 concussively concludes with a gloriously metal swords and sorcery adventure helmed by the 1st AD of The Beastmaster, and penned by the writer of Vampire Hookers…
- Mr. Mom: Summer of '83 · 1 h 29 min · Season 2 Episode 16What 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…
- Strange Brew: Summer of '83 · 1 h 58 min · Season 2 Episode 15Okay 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…
- Yor, The Hunter from the Future: Summer of '83 · 2 h 13 min · Season 2 Episode 14Cavemen. 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…
- Valley Girl: Summer of '83 · 1 h 53 min · Season 2 Episode 13Behold the birth of the cinematic icon that is Nicolas Cage. Bask in the glory of his historic first on-screen freak-out. Witness his wondrous weirdness expertly unleashed by…
- Risky Business: Summer of '83 · 2 h 10 min · Season 2 Episode 12Put on your Ray-Bans, rev up the Porsche, and crank up the Tangerine Dream! It’s time for the movie that made Tom Cruise a star, which somehow Javi and Paul had never seen!…
- Krull: Summer of '83 · 1 h 34 min · Season 2 Episode 11What is Krull? Who is Krull? Where is Krull? Why is Krull? These are all time-honored questions asked by no one - except those of us who have experienced the fantasy sci-fi…







