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For all things Gen X, check out The Gen X Files! With your hosts, Jim and Adam, The Gen X Files covers a single topic every week that resonates with Generation X. Covering movies, tv, technology, and social issues that resonate with today, it's the most Gen X hour of the week.
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The Gen X Files 292 - Wanted Dead or Alive (opens the original)
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To end our Gene Simmons, Greatest Villain of the '80s? month, we swing that pendulum so far back from the brilliance that was Never Too Young to Die, that we land firmly in the camp of Gene Simmons is a terrible actor. It's sad, after the brilliance that was Velvet Von Ragnar. Wanted Dead or Alive is based on a TV show from the late '50s, starring Steve McQueen. Along with Gene Simmons, the movie stars Rutger Hauer, Robert Guillame, Mel Harris, and William Russ.
The Gen X Files 291 - Never Too Young to Die (opens the original)
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We can't believe we're saying this, but this movie may be the best move of our Gene Simmons: Ultimate '80s Villain? month. The brainchild of Steven Paul, the movie stars John Stamos, Vanity, Peter Kwong, George Lazenby, Robert Englund, and the most insane and possibly best performance from Gene Simmons, as the intersex Velvet Von Ragnar. It's a movie that you have to see to believe.
The Gen X Files 290 - Runaway (opens the original)
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Is Gene Simmons the greatest '80s villain? We try to find out with Gene's first movie, Runaway, a film set in the 'future' where domestic robots can be easily manipulated by nefarious people. Written and directed by Michael Crichton, starring Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes, Stan Shaw, and Kirstie Alley.
The Gen X Files 289 - For the Stepdads: Prime King (opens the original)
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Join your ol' Stepdads as we discuss how incredible the King adaptations are, the movies and TV we've been watching, and whether or not Rockstar screwed the ol' pooch with how they've been handling GTA IV.
The Gen X Files 288 - The Shawshank Redemption (opens the original)
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To close out our Prime King month, we're covering the number 1 movie on IMDB: The Shawshank Redemption. A labor of love from Frank Darabont, who put his budding career on the line to get the movie made, the movie features Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, and James Whitmore. It's not just good, the movie is perfect.
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