18 to Party is an independent coming-of-age film billed as a love letter to Generation X. A 2019 film-festival favorite, it will be released in theaters on November 6. 18 To Party Synopsis It’s 1984 and outside a small-town nightclub, a group of 8th graders gather, grappling with a spate of recent...
An MTV documentary that was a 2019 Tribeca Film Festival favorite, is set to air Tuesday night on A&E. What would Gen-X look like without MTV? My last years at home with my parents were spent stealing every moment of TV time I could get just to see my favorite music videos: Nikita by Elton...
What if Anne Frank had kept a vlog instead of a diary? In search of a new way to reach Generation Z with Anne Frank’s story, the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam developed a 15-episode online video series based on Anne’s letters to Kitty. The imaginative production was released to YouTube ahead...
Stranger Things stars Natalia Dyer, Joe Keery, and Dacre Montgomery review some of the most popular fads from the 80s in the following video. They take a look at Cabbage Patch Kids, Transformers, Walkmen and the Atari 2600 among other things. Are you a fan of Stranger Things? The first season of...
It’s Skip Day! The official, unofficial Gen-X holiday. As we announced last year, June 5, 1985, was the actual day Ferris Bueller took off. So, take the day off, Xers! And if you can’t miss work, by all means, skip the drama everywhere you go!
“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time? That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for...
Consummate Gen-X bad boy Christian Slater will narrate Generation X on National Geographic. Yea! I’ve written about our lost generation of latchkey kids now in midlife for about nine years, so I’m pretty stoked about this news. You may recall that National Geographic did a special on...
Ferris Bueller’s bedroom was recently recreated for the annual Come Up To My Room exhibit at Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel. The artists, Sarah Keenlyside and Joseph Clement, crowdsourced the installation, which featured a variety of retro posters and a 1980s computer with a dark screen and...
A long lost poster will soon appear on Ewbanks Auctions block. The London-based auction house will sell a Back To The Future unused concept one-sheet film poster in February. The vintage poster shows Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) slipping through time — thrown back as he was to his...
I’ve been thinking a lot about Star Wars and Generation X since the release of The Force Awakens. The first Star Wars movie came out in 1977, the year I turned 10. On Saturday, my 10-year-old son went to see the movie with friends. The more things change, the more they stay the same. The...
Tomorrow, October 21, 2015, is the day Marty McFly and Doc of Back To The Future trilogy fame, crashed into the future. Major media outlets are covering the anniversary of sorts and there’s an October 21, 2015 BTTF Facebook page. The BBC published a story today analyzing the movie’s...
If Mirrors Could Speak: Self-Image Film (1976) Educational Film In hopes of keeping kids’ attention, social engineering films would often use supernatural elements to make their points. In this film, we see magic talking mirror that reflects bratty kids as clowns. Most of the misbehaving...
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