The GenX Show

Jeff is back with another Ray Bradbury special. This time it's a Jonathan Pryce, Jason Robards and Pam Grier led movie about a father trying to be a good dad despite feeling old ... oh and an evil, borderline satanic carnival that is coming to town to make you a part of their exhibit. No big deal. Dark Disney at is purest and most meddling. Something Wicked this Way Comes is a great story with great acting that was sorta undermined by Disney's lack of confidence.

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1982's The Electric Grandmother, based on a teleplay/Twilight Zone episode/Short Story from Ray Bradbury, is a curiosity from the golden era of childrens movies/enternatinment in the early 80's. A long-forgotten TV project that gave Jeff distinct memories unlike any other. Strange how an otherwise throw away TV movie can stay with you. The early 80s were quite a different time. Jeff talks about Bradbury, the themes of the story, and more in the latest GenX Show!

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MTV News folded shop a few weeks ago. This was to the surprise of many of us who thought that it hadn't existed for years. On today's GenX Show, Jeff talks about the cultural zeitgeist that MTV News Held in the early to mid 1990's and how they were just plain cool and were very good at telling us what was cool. Kurt Loder forever!

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It's been over 25 years since the concept of "selling out" permeated culture and society in general. On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about the context of "selling out" withing Gen Xers and how holding your peers accountable made our music better. At least, that's what we would like to think.

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Something Wicked this way Comes?

On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about Disney's so-called "dark"era. A time when the studio through it's Buena Vista distributor released the darkest kid films it ever released. From The Black Hole to The Black Cauldron Disney took risks that it never did before or since. Jeff looks back on this weird era of Disney that hasn't been repeated since and probably never will.

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On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about the 1981 movie Dragonslayer. An amazing achievment in practical effects and "go motion" technology which was pioneered by stop motion wizard Phil Tippett. A movie that flopped upon release but is now considered a classic. Also Peter MacNicol before he got manipulated by Vigo the Carpathian.

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Krull was a movie that was gorgeous. Set design, score, cinematogrophy, lighting and ambition to spare. Unfortunately it was let down by clunky and insipid dialoge, and excruciating pacing. This movie SHOULD have been better than it was but ... just wasn't. On the latest GenX Show Deep Dive, Jeff talks about this Peter Yates movies and wonders if this movie deserves re-appraisal or if it was too big for it's decidedly thin script.

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Returning guest Joe Lipsett co-host of The Horror Queers joins Jeff to talk about Stranger Things season 4 episode 8 ... "The Van Scene" in particular. Does this depiction count as representation? Does the performance by Noah Schnapp heighten the scene. Jeff and Joe go through the scene, give thoughts on their own experiences growing up in the 1980's and if this rings true. Additionally does this performance fit into the Young Adult media cannon and what to look forward to next season.

You can find Joe on twitter here @bstolemyremote You can also find Joe's Horror Queers podcasts wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow the Horror Queers twitter account here @horrorqueers

Hello everyone. This week is the final instalment of "Kids Movies that Scared Us" series. Everyone has seemed to enjoy this trip down memory lane. This week is a re-post from my other podcast (CSG Podcast) from 3 years ago when I was experimenting with movie podcast amongst the other things I did. The audio isn't perfect so I did what I could to improve it. The Neverending Story ranks among Wolfgang Peterson's most distinctive movies. It also features a horse dying in the first 20 minutes. Knights getting lazered by nipple protruding sphinxes and tons of despair. Welcome to a great kids movie!

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In 1979 Walter Murch was talking to some executives at Disney about making what amounted to a Wizard of Oz "sequel" but more in keeping with the spirit of L. Frank Baum the author of the book series. What came about was the darkest American fairy tale in keeping with the spirit of the author but failed at the box office in a big way. This week on the latest episode of Kids Movies that Scared Us month Jeff tackles the infamous Disney production; Return to Oz.

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