Have you recently landed from a cross country flight and need to shake off the jet lag? Are you trying to use a touch-screen for the first time? Then this episode of Critic and the Kid is for you, as 9-year-old Aiden and his father Adam answer all the pressing questions from the holiday classic "Die Hard", such as: how many Twinkies is really acceptable to buy at one time? Is a computer monitor really an explosive hazard? Would it really be possible to tape a pistol between your shoulders?

What if the Halloween movies were in the DC Comics and Transformers universe? What’s up with John Carpenter these days? Can Aiden do a Tom Atkins impression? All this and more will be answered in the first ever Halloween episode of Critic and the Kid, brought to you in special “throwback” analog audio (hey, remember the 80s?)

Would it be so bad if Taco Bell was the only restaurant? Would you live in a utopia if it was populated with hippies wearing pajamas? Who wants to learn how to knit? The password is "teddy bear" and the answers to these questions and more are inside the newest episode of The Critic and The Kid as Adam and 9-year-old Aiden tackle Demolition Man!

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Is blond hair in a black and white movie really blond? Is it red? (answer: no) Should you be concerned if all the women in your small village are suddenly pregnant? Should you be concerned with a band of powerful hypno-kids? All these questions and more are answered in the latest episode of The Critic and the Kid, where Adam and 9-year-old Aiden take a look at the classic creepy movie Village of the Damned.

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Why was Winston hired? How much would you pay to trap a ghost? Why is Egon so awkward around women? How many times do we see the librarian ghost attack? (no seriously, we get into it about that last one). Adam and 9-year-old Aiden are back from vacation and finally back with a new episode, going into detail about their epic 70mm viewing of the classic "Ghostbusters" at Cinerama in Seattle.

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What's a man made of bugs really made of -- bugs? Or green slime and bugs? How dangerous is it to touch mercury? Why does Alice Cooper need a unicycle knife? Adam and 9-year-old Aiden tackle all the tough questions about John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, which Aiden admits is the scariest movie he's ever seen, and one of the grossest -- but he still liked it.

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What makes a good New York crime movie? When is Robert Shaw like DB Cooper? Let Aiden explain, actually ... Aiden spends a lot of time on DB Cooper. But we also answer the pertinent Pelham 123 questions such as, would it be scary to be in a train car filled with criminals pointing machine guns at you?

Aiden and Adam answer the important questions about The Matrix, such as: who is Mr. Sticky McGee? Does the Last Airbender make a cameo? What kind of car would Arnold Schwarzenegger play in Cars? What would Aiden do in The Matrix? Remember -- no one can be told what The Matrix is, you have to see it for yourself ... unless you listen to this episode.

Adam and Aiden answer the burning questions about the action classic "Commando", such as ... is John Matrix really like THE Matrix? What would have been a better plan for the bad guys? When is an appropriate age to start teaching your daughter headlocks? Can you really throw a pipe and impale someone? All this and more in the very first episode of The Critic and The Kid!