MFPblog – the Mildly Frumpy Protagonist

If you’re a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a magic bean buyer, or just hate doing dishes and taking the garbage out, you’ll surely find something to love in our episode on celebrated author, illustrator, poet, and Renaissance Man Shel Silverstein.

In When We Were Young's Manic My Girl Monday episode, we reflect on how we spent summers as kids before launching into our discussion of MY GIRL, the Anna Chlumsky and Macaulay Culkin movie that made children (and adults) everywhere break down in tears.

In Part Two of our When We Were Young Early Late Mid-to-Late 90s Summer Alien Invasion Spectacular, here come the MEN IN BLACK (clap clap) and the metaphysical and emotional drama CONTACT. Fly with us through a wormhole back to 1997's UFO mania!

In Part One of our Mid-90s Alien Invasion Blockbuster Extravaganza, we celebrate the 4th of July looking up in awe at Roland Emmerich’s record-smashing INDEPENDENCE DAY and attempt to shield ourselves from Tim Burton’s sci-fi send-up MARS ATTACKS!

In Part 2 of our Baz Luhrmann Spectacular Spectacular, we revisit the scintillating (and over-stimulating) 2001 musical that saw Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor belting out pop music’s greatest love songs - MOULIN ROUGE!

We travel back to the mid-90s and then even further back to the 16th century to rewatch Baz Luhrmann's frenetic modern-day adaptation of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO + JULIET (1996), in Part I of our Spectacular Spectacular review.

We follow last episode’s discussion of the Best Actress nominees of 1991 with a look at the night’s big winner, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. Get a nice bottle of Chianti ready, because this podcast is going all the way to the FBI. Bon appétit!

"You Watch Your Mouth, Buddy" - Thelma & Louise

The Billboard charts of the 90s watched America go through a diverse range of musical moods, from mourning the death of British royals to celebrating barely-contained boners on the dancefloor - plus more Costner than a decade could hold.

Put on your best aerobics attire and join us as we whisper carelessly about the #1 Pop Singles of the 1980s - the ones we still have plenty of “Faith” in, those we’re desperate to “Look Away” from, and everything in between.

You’ve got podcast! In our latest episode, we’re flashing back to the bygone days of floppy disks, away messages, and actually disconnecting from the world wide web sometimes. It’s a two-part When We Were Young Net-rospective as we reminisce on all things internet, including the cyber-conspiracy thrillers that were Hollywood’s first attempt at cashing in on the dot-com boom of the 90s. In Part 1,...

In the second part of our X-Files discussion, we revisit impactful and fan-favorite episodes from the show, and the X-Files Movie: Fight The Future - and we discuss the cultural impact of The X-Files and its online fan community. Part 2/2