Kids Episodes

April 5, 2024

A Quiet Place & Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow

Welcome back to the Bad Dads Film Review! Today, we're embarking on a journey through some of cinema's most memorable libraries, then delving into the silence-drenched terror of A Quiet Place, before lightening things up with...

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Feb. 3, 2023

Life Of Pi & Rosie and Jim

Sidey's nautically themed show begins with a look at the Top 5 Boats and there's so many to choose from we don't even mention Terry Nutkins on steroids lookalike Hulk Hogan's 'sub' standard tv show THUNDER IN PARADISE (see wh...

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Sept. 23, 2022

Lion & Phineas and Ferb

We start with a complete lack of intro this week but don't worry it won't be too long before we settle into our usual bland patter as we discuss the Top 5 Hitchhikers. Expect a few stories from seasoned traveller Dan, having ...

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Sept. 9, 2022

Train to Busan & Thomas the Tank Engine

Train week starts with a discussion of the Top 5 Dinner scenes because of course and because we've compiled a list of Top 5 Trains already. I can't even be bothered to type the various meal based puns I was going to dish up t...

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July 1, 2022

Logan Lucky & The Creature Cases

Just three Bad Dads this week and since that's three for the price of none, only you can judge whether that represents value for money. With all of us having equine obsessed daughters it seems suprising that it has taken us t...

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June 24, 2022

The History of Future Folk & Captain Pugwash

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 Comp...

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June 3, 2022

The Lighthouse & The Magic Roundabout

This weeks show was masterminded by Bad Dad Sidey who would have pleased the many protective headgear enthusiasts in our audience by nominating the Top 5 Helmets for us to discuss. Will we manage to talk about this subject wi...

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May 13, 2022

Call Me By Your Name & BabyTV

We begin this week’s show with a chat about the Top 5 Pre or Post Kill or Injury one-liners, a topic which baffled poor Dan with its complexity and caused one Bad Dad to lament that an interesting looking topic on paper does ...

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May 11, 2022

Midweek Mention... Flight Of The Navigator

Reegs selected the 1986 Disney sci-fi classic FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR for our viewing entertainment. Joey Cramer stars as David Freeman, a 12-year old boy who falls into a ravine in 1978 rendering himself briefly unconscious ...

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April 29, 2022

Sound of Metal & Regular Show

Sidey is famed for his sartorial elegance so it should come as no surprise that he picked the Top 5 Suits for us to discuss. By the end of this week’s show, you'll know your two-piece from your three-piece, your tuxedo from y...

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April 22, 2022

The King of Staten Island & The Loud House

As impossible as it is to imagine if all you ever do is listen to his razor sharp mental gymnastics and displays of intellectual acuity on the podcast, but Bad Dad Dan can from time to time be forgetful so it wasn't completel...

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April 8, 2022

Boiling Point & Andy and the Band

Before your phone rendered the entire idea of literature redundant as it continues to deepen its inexorable grip on your soul, you may well remember reading something called a book. They aren’t novel to noted bibliophile How...

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April 1, 2022

The Power of the Dog & Bananaman

An egg is of course the fertilized ovum of an animal that grows and develops as an embryo inside some kind of organic vessel. And as delicious as that sounds, they are only to be consumed when they are hot, never cold as ever...

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March 25, 2022

Love & Mercy & Making Fun

Whilst you may have laboured under the misapprehension that the pen was a mere writing implement, in the world of movies it can do so much more. Mainly kill people according to our research. Will we find any benevolent biros ...

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March 18, 2022

Sorry To Bother You & Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum

What makes a great title for a film? Should it encapsulate the essence of the story, tell us something via symbolism about the characters or locations involved, be instantly familiar and memorable or generate intrigue? No, li...

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March 11, 2022

Kaiser! The Greatest Footballer Never To Play Football & Ren and Stim…

"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere." There's more than a grain of truth in what Anakin Skywalker says in one of cinemas most cherished and beloved moments, during the universally a...

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March 4, 2022

Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins & Art Ninja

We were delighted to have the ART NINJA Ricky Martin join us this week to talk about craft storage solutions, the responsibility of being a beloved childhood icon, cardboard horror movies, his experiences with ADHD and much m...

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Feb. 18, 2022

A Ghost Story & Fireman Sam

Since all attempts to capture proof of ghosts on film consist of grainy night-vision footage more like an amateur Pornhub channel than indisputable proof of life after death and your guaranteed never to encounter a ghost in r...

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Jan. 21, 2022

Robot and Frank & Encanto

With Reegs cruelly stuck down and isolating once again, the rest of the loons muddled their way through this weeks (mostly) robotic content. First up we mulled over our favourite movie robots. Without Reegs to enforce the rul...

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Jan. 14, 2022

Don't Look Up & The Wonder Years

If there's one thing Hollywood loves doing it's killing us all and given the current state of our world I think we should let them. The first disaster movie, 1936's SAN FRANCISCO, was about the earthquake which ripped that ci...

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Dec. 24, 2021

The Hudsucker Proxy & Old Jacks Boat

The Dads continue to reel from the loss of Reegs, with this week’s horrible take on STAND BY ME as well as Dan declining to tell his masturbation story being two particularly low points. Will they redeem themselves this week?...

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Dec. 3, 2021

Hustlers & Teletubbies

This week sees us paying homage to the montage and though it's really an editing technique if you want to be pedantic about it which I do, they're a useful tool in the screenwriters arsenal too, perhaps being used to propel t...

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Nov. 19, 2021

The Shape Of Water & The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants

The mirror is one of the truly great cinematic objects. Their use has fascinated viewers and directors alike and their rich metaphorical potential coupled with the innate visual properties they offer allow possibilities for t...

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Nov. 12, 2021

Gone Girl & High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

Watch out diary writers, you're apparently all self-obsessed narcissists with delusions of significance, and for some baffling reason Howie has it in for you this week. The Top 5 movie Brides appears to be what set him off as...

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