Catholics vs Convicts Classic Saturday Kickoff Special After I watched America’s Team: The Dallas Cowboys on Netflix and loved it, my husband Robert, the unofficial Gen X sports historian, suggested I watch Catholics vs. Convicts. The ESPN 30 for 30 documentary takes...
Flipside: The Documentary"The existential Gen-X movie we didn’t know we wanted." --Jaie Laplante, DOC NYC"The existential Gen-X movie we didn’t know we wanted." --Jaie Laplante, DOC NYC"Flipside is about a record store the way Moby Dick is about a whale." — The Wrap...
Let's watch these half-remembered films in front of the Panasonic. Better yet, let's make it the Zenith.The Forgotten Films of Generation X Let me start with a confession: I probably have no business writing about the forgotten films of Generation X. I saw so few...
SOURCE 2025 Marks the 50th Anniversary of Jaws Can you believe Jaws turns 50 this year? I’ve been blogging here so long—17 years and counting—I actually wrote about the 40th anniversary, too. If you were around in 1975, you remember the Jaws phenomenon: suddenly,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...