Gen-X Multiplex

It’s the end of the year, and the Gen-X Multiplex is finally finishing out its 1990 marquee! Join Matt B, Brian P & special guest Jeff M for a Comedy Potluck jammy jam with Kid ‘n Play in House Party, Eric Idle & Robbie Coltrane in Nuns on the Run, and Julia Roberts & Richard … Continue reading Gen-X Multiplex – 12/31/20 – Ep. 24 – 1990 Comedy Potluck / 2020 Year-Ender

On this special X-mas Eve episode, “made” guys Matt B & Brian P get whack-y with four very different 1990 mob hits. Join them as they shoot the sh*t about the inherent rewatchability of Goodfellas, find out what’s under Tom’s hat in Miller’s Crossing, polish the King of New York‘s hip hop gangster flick crown, … Continue reading Gen-X Multiplex – 12/24/20 – Ep. 23 – Mob Hits 1990

On this special post-Thanksgiving episode, Matt & Brian give thanks for the late, great Sir Sean Connery with reviews of his 1990 Cold War thrillers, The Hunt for Red October and The Russia House. Then, they swap Connery films for con-artist flicks to consider the 1990 neo-noir classic The Grifters and the 2020 “oddball swindlers” … Continue reading Gen-X Multiplex – 11/27/20 – Ep. 22 – Cons & Connery

Matt B. & Brian P. return from the podcast grave for an X-tra special 1990 horror-only Halloween episode. Join them as they dig into the classic horror-comedy Tremors, climb the spookily hallucinogenic Jacob’s Ladder, crack the lid on the freak-infested Basket Case 2, and take a haunted house-swapping vacation to Nilbog (it’s Goblin spelled backwards!) … Continue reading Gen-X Multiplex – 10/30/20 – Ep. 21 – Halloween Horrors

This week, in a Gen-X Multiplex first (and possibly last), Matt & Brian set their sights solely on the Year 2020 and risk COVID-19 exposure with a mix of in-theater and at-home reviews of Unhinged, Bill & Ted Face The Music, Tenet, and I’m Thinking of Ending Things. Plus, they reveal the final outcome of … Continue reading Gen-X Multiplex – 9/7/20 – Ep. 20 – The New Abnormal

This week, the long-awaited, uncensored “director’s cut” of Episode 8 finally arrives with an extra 10 minutes of raucous content! Relive Matt & Brian’s spirited June 8th review of Another 48 Hrs in 58 indulgent minutes. Multiplex projection booth mishaps! Two-month-old Tenet movie release news! Who the f#@k is Kehoe, and why must Paramount #ReleaseTheKehoeCut? … Continue reading Gen-X Multiplex – 8/31/20 – Episode 8: Director’s Cut – Another “Another 48 Hrs”

This week, the ‘Plex turns down the lights & cranks up the audio with dual reviews of Sam Raimi’s scarred superhero tale, Darkman, and the Gen-X pirate radio drama, Pump Up The Volume. Plus, Matt & Brian finally pull away the Phantom Editor’s mask & reveal who hacked Episode 8. Don’t miss this highly revealing, … Continue reading Gen-X Multiplex – 8/24/20 – Ep. 19 – “Darkman” & “Pump Up The Volume”

This week, Brian & Matt take a surreal road trip through Podcast Hell with David Lynch’s Wild at Heart and William Peter Blatty’s Exorcist III. Along the way, Brian monkeys around with some unhinged conspiracy theories about last week’s show and desperately attempts to get the elusive Twin Peaks director back on the ‘Plex to … Continue reading Gen-X Multiplex – 8/17/20 – Ep. 18 – “Wild At Heart”

This week, Matt B. and Brian P. are seeing double with the long-in-the-making Chinatown sequel, The Two Jakes. Then they check the pulse of the supernatural med-students-with-a-death-wish thriller, Flatliners. Meanwhile, Brian receives a surprise Skype call from an old Gen-X frenemy, wherein more medical emergencies ensue. Grab your nicotine patch & catch the latest episode … Continue reading Gen-X Multiplex – 8/10/20 – Ep. 17 – “The Two Jakes”

On this week’s episode, Matt B. & Brian P. sample two very different shades of 1990 NYC nightlife with the jazzy Spike Lee joint Mo’ Better Blues & Whit Stillman’s comedy of manners, Metropolitan. Plus, a quick review of Young Guns II spurs the boyz into an intense verbal showdown where the accusations fly like … Continue reading Gen-X Multiplex – 8/3/20 – Ep. 16 – “Mo’ Better Blues” & “Metropolitan”