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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. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thegenxfiles/support
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These four epic comedies range from the most amazing comedy ever made (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World) to a fantastic British historical comedy (Those Fantastic Men in their Flying Machines) to a waste of talent (Scavenger Hunt) to the best modern epic comedy, which is saying a lot, since it came out 43 years ago (The Cannonball Run). We'll also d…
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We close out our epic comedies month with the most successful epic comedy (after the perfection of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, of course): The Cannonball Run. Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Farrah Fawcett, Roger Moore, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr, Adrienne Barbeau, Mel Tillis, Terry Bradshaw, Jack Elam, Jackie Chan, and Jamie Farr having a ton o…
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Today, we cover and overlooked gem that had the best cast of actors, doing their best with a pretty dreadful script. It's Scavenger Hunt, a wannabe It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, from 1979! Starring Richard Benjamin, James Coco, Scatman Crothers, Ruth Gordon, Cloris Leachman, Cleavon Little, Roddy McDowall, Robert Morley, Richard Mulligan, Tony R…
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-or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours and 11 Minutes (for the completists). For our second epic comedy, we have this fantastic period comedy about the early days of men trying to fly. Starring Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley, Gert Frobe, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Irina Demick, Eric Sykes, Terry-Thomas, Red S…
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Join us as we delve into the greatest, most epic comedy of all time: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, from Stanley Kramer, starring dozens of the greatest comedians of all time: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, and Dorothy Provi…
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Pull up a spot on the floor on listen to your old stepdads talk about body horror, the movies and tv shows we've been watching this month, what video games we've been playing, and a special guest (for real this time)! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thegenxfiles/support…
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This isn't your mama's werewolf movie... in fact, it isn't a werewolf movie at all! It's Wolfen, based on the Whitley Streiber novel, directed by Michael Wadleigh, in his only feature film directing foray. Starring Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Edward James Olmos, Gregory Hines, Tom Noonan, and Dick O'Neill. --- Support this podcast: https://podcast…
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Strap yourself in for a trippy mindbender from the one and only intensely insane director, Ken Russell. Featuring psychedelic drugs and sensory deprivation tanks, it's the feature film debut of William Hurt and also stars Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, and Charles Haid. The production was so intense, it might have just killed Paddy Chayefsky. --- Suppor…
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While appearing to be a 'remake' of a beloved 1956 thriller, based on a 1955 novel, but much like the Pod People, there's way more to the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers than what appears on the surface. Starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, and Veronica Cartwright and Directed by Philip Kaufman. It's one of th…
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In this episode, we wrap up Bill Pullman Month by talking to Bill Pullman! But really, we discuss his early movies, how much he means to us, and what movies, TV shows, and video games caught our attention during the month. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thegenxfiles/support…
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For our third Bill Pullman movie, we're covering one of his best performances in one of the weirdest movies we've ever seen: Brain Dead. Also starring Bill Paxton, Bud Cort, Nicholas Pryor, and Patricia Charbonneau. Written by Charles Beaumont 27 years prior and directed by Adam Simon. It's a wild and wacky movie that you have to see to believe. --…
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Today, we celebrate Friday the 13th by exploring our second Bill Pullman film, and his first leading role: The Serpent and the Rainbow, directed by Wes Craven. It's a weird fever dream of drugs and zombies and voodoo and the political turmoil of Haiti in the mid-'80s. It's a hell of a journey. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.co…
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With this episode, we start our most unexpected month, honoring the early movies of one of our favorite actors: Bill Pullman. He's a brilliant comedic talent, and our first Bill Pullman movie proves it. It's Ruthless People, from ZAZ (Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker), the guys who brought you Airplane!, Top Secret!, and The Kentucky Fried Movie. Co-starring…
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Join us as we close out another Dog Days of Summer! We reminisce about Oh! Heavenly Dog, K-9, Turner & Hooch, and Top Dog (which we wish we hadn't watched). We also discuss games, movies, and TV shows we've been watching this past month. It's been a great, hot, month, and it officially ended with a cat randomly showing up on the studio's balcony. -…
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Our last Dog Days of August film is also perhaps the worst film we've ever covered: Top Dog. It was so bad, it killed Chuck Norris's theatrical career. A mish-mash of genres with a tone that jumps around more than a kid in a bouncy castle, it's mostly noted because it came out 9 days after the Oklahoma City bombing... and features a terrorist group…
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Now for perhaps the best dog movie of the month (let's not discuss the ending): Turner & Hooch, starring Tom Hanks, Craig T. Nelson, Reginald VelJohnson, Mare Winningham, and John McIntire. Almost directed by Henry Winkler, but actually directed by Roger Spottiswoode. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thegenxfiles/su…
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Take the younger brother of a famous comedian trying to make his own name and a police dog that doesn't play by the rules, and you get K-9, the 1989 film starring James Belushi and Rando the German Shepherd as Jerry Lee. It's a mystery that James Belushi needs to solve, and only Jerry Lee can help. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spoti…
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What happens when you ask Chevy Chase to make a dog movie? You make him a P.I. and kill him off, only to be reborn as BENJI! It's Oh! Heavenly Dog, the weirdest Benji movie ever made. Starring Chevy Chase, Jane Seymour, Omar Sharif, and Benji! Written and directed by Joe Camp. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thegen…
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Gather round the campfire with your ol' Stepdads, as we discuss the Blockbuster Bombs, Howard the Duck, Hudson Hawk, and Last Action Hero. We also discuss some great movies we've watched, TV shows we're into, and Video Games we just can't put down. Oh, and Jim has a rant about some words that he LOATHES. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters…
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Regarded as one of the biggest bombs of the '90s, we dive into Last Action Hero, Arnie's first real disappointment in Hollywood. (Yes, we know Red Sonya was a flop, but he was a Hollywood baby at that point.) From John McTiernan and Shane Black, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austin O'Brien, Anthony Quinn, Charles Dance, F. Murray Abraham, Tom Noo…
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What happens when an actor gains too much celebrity? You get Hudson Hawk, a Bruce Willis vehicle that had just a little too much Bruce Willis in control. It's a perfect example of how not saying no to someone can make a movie so so so much worse. It's our second Blockbuster Bomb: Hudson Hawk! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com…
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Howard the Duck was a pet project for George Lucas, who, upon realizing that doing a live-action adaptation with a CGI lead wasn't going to work, lost interest and handed it over to Will Huyck and Gloria Katz, who wrote American Graffiti with Lucas. This was just the beginning of a long mess of a production, leading to one of the biggest Blockbuste…
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Grab a stool and sit next to your ol' Stepdads, as we wrap up June Doom III by discussing Independence Day, Mars Attacks, and Armageddon, our '90s apocalypse movies featuring loads of cities being destroyed. We also discuss our movie picks of the month, which TV shows we'd been watching, and the video games we've been playing. The Gen X Files, for …
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It's Armageddon, the popcorniest doom flick ever filmed. Written by 9 different writers, directed by Michael Bay, and starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Owen Wilson, Will Patton, William Fichtner, Michael Clarke Duncan, Steve Buscemi, Keith David, and soo soo many more! Grab that bucket and turn off your brain as we …
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What better way to experience the end of the world than through the eyes of Time Burton? It's Mars Attacks! the sci-fi throwback starring Jack Nicholson, Jim Brown, Danny DeVito, Lukas Haas, Natalie Portman, Annette Bening, Glenn Close, Rod Steiger, Pierce Brosnan, Michael J. Fox, Sarah Jessica Parker and so many more! --- Support this podcast: htt…
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Today is our Independence Day! And it's the start of June Doom III: Revenge of the Doom, where we dive into apocalyptic movies. First order of destruction: alien invasion! From Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Vivica A. Fox, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, Brent Spiner, Adam Baldwin, and ab…
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For our last entry into Classic Connery month, we present The Untouchables, a change in direction for Sean Connery's career. Directed by Brian De Palma, written by David Mamet, and starring Kevin Costner, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Sean Connery, and Robert De Niro. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thegenxfil…
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It's a monastic murder mystery for our third entry into Classic Connery month. This one, too, is a historical drama. A tale that sounds kind of boring on paper but is phenomenal on screen: The Name of the Rose. Starring Sean Connery, Christian Slater, and F. Murray Abraham. Based on the novel from Umberto Eco. Directed Jean-Jacques Annaud. --- Supp…
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First up in our Classic Connery month is a movie that you probably haven't seen in a long time: The Great Train Robbery (aka The First Great Train Robbery in the UK). Written and directed by Michael Crichton, based on his novel, starring Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, and Lesley-Anne Down. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/…
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It's the last entry into our Other Buddies month is an early entry into the '90s: Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, a movie that should've worked better with Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson as the leads, but ultimately falls flat. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thegenxfiles/support…
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One of the last movies released in the '80s, it's the apogee of '80s action movies, and the second installment of our Other Buddies month: Tango & Cash! Starring Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell, with no less than four directors, and a writer that refused to put his name on the movie, it's a feature that shouldn't work, but does... so, so well. …
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First up for our Other Buddies month is the unlikely duo of Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines, playing Chicago cops that want to quit and move to the Florida Keys. Directed by Peter Hyams and written by Gary DeVore, it's good cops who do bad things, sometimes. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thegenxfiles/support…
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We close out our Haterade month with a review of the awful movies we forced ourselves to watch, what movies and TV shows we've been watching, and the video games we've been playing. Let us know what you've been consuming! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thegenxfiles/support…
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More than meets the eye! And the eye suffers from the constant barrage of flashing lights and bad music, as we cover The Transformers: The Movie. It was The Transformers TV show, but on the big screen! It had rock and roll music! The Transformers swore! The Transformers died! It all added up to a lot of boring nonsense. --- Support this podcast: ht…
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There can be only one! Unless it's Highlander, then there's a bunch of movies, TV shows, and animated media, and... they're all terrible. It's the second week of our Haterade month and Adam really, really hates Highlander. Listen to see if he's totally wrong or can sway you away from liking an incredibly stupid movie. --- Support this podcast: http…
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Welcome to Haterade month! First up, a movie that Jim hated in the theater, in 1985, and a movie that Adam learned to hate from watching it for this episode. It's Explorers, showcasing the wasted talents of Joe Dante, River Phoenix, Jason Presson, and Ethan Hawke. Well, Ethan Hawke is perfect for this movie. --- Support this podcast: https://podcas…
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We're at the end of our First Loves month, so join your stepdads as we discuss The Six Million Dollar Man, Quantum Leap (the original series and the newer one), Stephen King, what movies and TV shows you should check out, and fun new video games to play. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thegenxfiles/support…
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In our third installment of First Loves, we're chatting about the writer that made Jim and Adam voracious readers, the master of horror, description, and word count: Stephen King! We cover his books from the '70s and '80s and the many, many adaptations of his work. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thegenxfiles/suppo…
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For our first episode in our First Loves series, we're exploring the first show that made Jim fall in love with TV: The Six Million Dollar Man! Starring Lee Majors, Lindsay Wagner, Richard Anderson, Martin E. Brooks, Darren McGavin, Allen Oppenheimer, and Martin Balsam! Based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin. --- Support this podcast: https://p…
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Franchises are great ways to delve into the universe of a good movie... until the movies start getting BAD. Join us as we discuss the best of the bunch: Alien, First Blood, and The Terminator! Along with what we've been watching and playing and our recommendations for the month. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theg…
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They drew first blood! Despite the ridiculousness that the Rambo franchise became, First Blood is one of the best movies of the '80s and is possibly Sylvester Stallone's finest acting of his career. It's First Blood, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, and Richard Crenna. --- Support this podcast: https://podcaster…
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The Alien franchise has not only produced movies, comics books, books, and video games, it made the alien a cultural icon. Join us as we explore Alien, the one that started it all, from the brilliant mind of Ridley Scott and the birth of a new hero: Sigourney Weaver. Just remember: in space no one can hear you scream. --- Support this podcast: http…
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