The Pop Culture Podcast for the Generations

Episode 241: Comfort Movies You’ve heard of comfort food (food that provides a nostalgic or sentimental value to someone). Well, we believe that the same applies to movies! Derek and Chris run down their personal top 5 comfort movies. For the trivia segment of the show, Chris has Derek try and guess the over/under of […]

Episode 240: “Old School” (2003): Movie Review In his ongoing effort to get Chris to watch any movie made after 1989, Derek has Chris watch “Old School” (2003). The guys debate how movie comedies have evolved (and ‘died’, according to Chris) since the raunchy comedies of the 1980’s. They discuss the movie, the box office […]

Episode 239: B-Movies of the 1980’s This week, Chris and Derek are joined by Patrick O’Riley, co-host of “Vintage Video”. The guys run down their personal top 5 favorite B-Movies of the 1980’s together. For the trivia segment of the show, Patrick takes a seat in the Winner’s Circle of the “$100,000 Pyramid” where he […]

Episode 238: “Planes, Trains & Automobiles” (1987): Movie Review After their recent 1987 pop culture fantasy draft, it was over to Derek to choose a movie to review from 1987. Derek decided to go with the John Hughes film, “Planes, Trains & Automobiles”. They discuss the box office, the cast, the director and several memorable […]

Episode 237: “Lethal Weapon” (1987): Movie Review After their recent 1987 pop culture fantasy draft, Chris has Derek go back and watch “Lethal Weapon“, starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover and Gary Busey. They discuss the box office, the cast, the director and several memorable scenes from the film. For the trivia segment of the show, […]

Episode 236: 1987 Pop Culture Fantasy Draft Chris and Derek combine pop culture with fantasy sports. They each draft a ‘team’ of pop culture from the year 1987. Each team must be comprised of the following: 3 movies 3 TV shows 3 songs 1 personal pick All of the picks must have debuted in the […]

Episode 235: “Avatar” (2009): Movie Review This may be hard to believe (or not, actually), but Chris had never seen the highest-grossing film of all time, “Avatar”. Derek has Chris watch the movie and then the guys review the film in detail. They talk about the history of the all-time highest grossing movies, talk about […]

Episode 234: Movie Monsters With Halloween being so close, Chris and Derek decided it would be worthwhile to take a look at movie monsters. The guys each run down their top 5 favorite movie monsters of all-time. For the “Fun With Caveman” segment of the show, Chris has Derek play a game called “Pick the […]