Indie Episodes

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week we’re heading west—way west—with a striking little indie feature that punches well above its weight: Missouri Breaks: The Ballad of Missouri Bill. Directed by Jarrod Christman and Weston Grillo, this 2024 low-budget Western was filmed entirely in the Idaho wilderness and tells a stripped-back, gritty story of one man’s battle with his past and the unforgiving land around him. Set in the Idaho Territory in 1880, we follow the quiet, haunted figur...

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week, we're diving whiskers-first into the utterly bonkers, wildly inventive indie oddity that is Hundreds of Beavers — a film that may be about trapping furry woodland critters but ends up capturing something much rarer: pure, anarchic cinematic joy. Directed by Mike Cheslik and starring frequent collaborator Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Hundreds of Beavers is a near-silent, black-and-white slapstick adventure set in a surreal 19th-century frontier. I...

It's never easy writing the show notes when you weren't present for the podcast itself and consequently don't have the overall tone of the discussion to guide you. For instance, the guys talked about the Top 5 Hacking or Computers Scenes, but was any of it interesting? Almost certainly not. And what will special guest Rupert have to say about it all? And who is Rupert anyway? THE HISTORY OF FUTURE FOLK (2012) has sat unwatched in my Netflix queue since I first joined the service, so I was delig...