Holidays Episodes

This week on Bad Dads Film Review, the dads begin with a very on-brand Top 5 Holidays segment — cancelled flights, Malta dread, mogging relatives, childhood package holidays, karaoke trauma, and the usual British-abroad horror — before moving into Charlotte Wells’ devastating debut feature, Aftersun (2022). The main review focuses on Sophie, an adult looking back through camcorder footage of a holiday she took in Turkey with her young father Calum when she was 11. The dads discuss how the film works less as a conventional plot and more as an emotional reconstruction: memories, fragments, gestures, half-understood moments and the adult Sophie trying to understand what her child self could not see. Reegs leads the breakdown of the film’s structure: the camcorder opening, the recurring rave imagery, the cheap holiday resort, the single-bed room, Calum hiding cigarettes and pain, the expensive scuba mask, the rug, the karaoke scene, the beach/sea imagery, Under Pressure, and the fin…

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out! This week, the Dads are stepping into the unpredictable world of Nutcrackers (2024), a heartfelt comedy-drama directed by David Gordon Green, written by Leland Douglas, and starring Ben Stiller in a role that perfectly balances hilarity and humanity. Premiering as the opening film of the 2024 Toronto International Film Fe...

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