Coming Of Age Episodes

Aug. 12, 2025

Midweek Mention... Risky Business

This week we’re donning our Ray-Bans, sliding across the living room floor, and revisiting the film that launched Tom Cruise into superstardom — Risky Business (1983) . Equal parts coming-of-age comedy, satire, and cautionary...

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July 28, 2023

Lady Bird & Is It Cake? Too

It seems absurd that a podcast devoted to parents rekindling their love for cinema has taken three hundred and fifty something episodes to get around to discussing the Top 5 Births but here we are. Most of our examples are ei...

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Dec. 22, 2021

Midweek Mention... Stand By Me

I believe that Stand By Me is Stephen King's favourite adaptation of his own writing. High praise indeed, but just what did the Dads think of the supposed "classic".

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