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For all things Gen X, check out The Gen X Files! With your hosts, Jim and Adam, The Gen X Files covers a single topic every week that resonates with Generation X. Covering movies, tv, technology, and social issues that resonate with today, it's the most Gen X hour of the week.
The Gen X Files hosts The Gen X Files, a history show with 278 episodes published.
In this episode, we cover perhaps the second greatest Stephen King adaptation, Misery! Adapted by Oscar winner William Goldman, directed by Rob Reiner, and starring James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances St
For our first entry into our Prime King month, we present: The Shining. Yes, we know that King wasn't a fan of the movie (and he's since softened on it), but it's a damn good movie. From Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Ni
Join your ol' Stepdads as we wrap up the Doubledoo-Switcheroo movies from this month, proving that a broken clock is right at least twice a day. We also discuss some new movies, the TV shows we've been binging, and some
To close out our Doubledoo-Switcheroo month, we cover the George Burns vehicle 18 Again!, that barely features George Burns. Also starring Charlie Schlatter, Tony Roberts, Anita Morris, and Red Buttons. Directed by Paul
This week, we have the pleasure of watching a good body-switching movie: Vice Versa, starring Judge Reinhold, Fred Savage, Corrine Bohrer, and Swoosie Kurtz. Written by Dick Clement and Ian Le Fresnais with direction fro
Well, I guess after a good movie, we had to have a bad one. This week we're covering Like Father Like Son, starring Dudley Moore (who really, really tries in this movie), Kirk Cameron, Margaret Colin, Catherine Hicks, an
Frist up in our Doubledoo-Switcheroo month, we're starting with the grandmama of the body switching movies, Freaky Friday. Starring Barbara Harris, Jodie Foster, John Astin, Mark McClure, and Sparky Marcus. It's way more
Join your ol' Stepdads as we discuss awful movies and try to prove that the three movies we watched this month were the worst movies or if there are movies that are worse. Spoiler alert: there isn't. We also discuss Amer
You know, after The Garbage Pail Kids Movie and Mac and Me, we really thought that The Wizard was going to be the best of the month and boy, oh boy, were we wrong. A 90 minute commercial for Nintendo that can't even do t
We didn't think something could be worse than The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, but boy howdy were we wrong. No complaints about the cast; they did what they could with a script (?), lazy direction, and a producer that wanted
Welcome to June Doom V! This June, we're covering some of the worst disasters of the '80s! First up, it's The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, the awful adaptation of a trading card series that not only doesn't make sense, it's
Join your ol' Stepdads as we discuss great sequels, movies, TV shows, and video games. Enjoy this, because next month is going to get weird.
To close out our Not-So-Terrible-2s month, we're covering what could be a perfect sequel: Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Written and Directed by James Cameron, he brings what he learned on Aliens and blew it up, even bigger
Is Aliens the greatest sequel ever made? Is it the greatest action movie ever made? Give a listen to us gab about Aliens and the insane production stories about James Cameron and his British crew. You thought it was just
For our second Not-So-Terrible-2, we have the best turnaround for a sequel that Hollywood has ever seen: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. After the boring failure that was Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Paramount pulled
It's time for another Not-So-Terrible-2s! First up is The Road Warrior, as called in America, but known to everyone else in the world as Mad Max 2. It's a roller coaster thrill ride that proves George Miller to be one of
Join your ol' Stepdads as we discuss how Xtreme we are, the movies we've been watching, the TV shows we recommend, and how awesome some new games are!
For our third entry into our Gen-Xtreme month, we're Gleaming the Cube! Join Christian Slater, Max Perlich, Tony Hawk, and Tommy Guerrero as they tear up Orange County while trying to solve a murder. It's '80s skating at
Our second Gen-Xtreme movie takes us to 1986, where everything was Rad! At least, if you lived in a fictional town in Oregon that's obviously Calgary. And if the town revered BMX racing so much, they expected a student a
Welcome to Gen-Xtreme! First up is BMX Bandits, the Australian movie that gave us Nicole Kidman. Kids just wanna BMX, but thieves have to steal and it's up to our intrepid teen heroes to stop them. Directed by Brian Tren
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