Midweek Mention Episodes

This week on Bad Dads Film Review, the dads review Abigail (2024), Radio Silence’s blood-soaked vampire/crime-comedy about a kidnapped ballerina who turns out to be much more than a bargaining chip.The discussion kicks off with the film’s biggest structural problem: the marketing gives away the…

This week on Bad Dads Film Review, the dads saddle up for DC’s supernatural western misfire Jonah Hex (2010) — a film with Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Michael Fassbender, Will Arnett, Michael Shannon, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lance Reddick, somehow compressed into a chaotic 80-minute run…

This week on Bad Dads Film Review, the lads tackle Saipan (2025) — the football drama built around the infamous Roy Keane vs Mick McCarthy bust-up before the 2002 World Cup.After some classic warm-weather and football-season banter, the episode gets into the film’s central conflict: elite stand…

This week the Bad Dads dive into The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (1984) — a Shaw Brothers revenge classic packed with brutal choreography, wild practical stunt work, and pure old-school kung fu energy.

We kick things off with a deep discussion about Cris's newly cultivated mustache (a strong Luigi vibe, according to Dan), before breaking down the chaotic chemistry of a blind man and a deaf man trying to solve a murder. From Kevin Spacey and Joan Severance to hilarious police station escapes invol…

This week, the Bad Dads wade deep into "The Bathtub" to review Benh Zeitlin’s indie darling Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012). Facing off against apocalyptic floods, giant prehistoric boars (Aurochs), and the harsh realities of off-the-grid poverty, six-year-old Hushpuppy carries this movie on her…

God's Pocket (2014)In this Pocket Week episode, the dads dig into *God's Pocket* (2014), one of Philip Seymour Hoffman's final releases. They unpack the film's bleak tone, grimy neighborhood setting, and chaotic chain of events around Leon's death, Mickey's funeral-money horse bet, and the esca…

The Conspiracy (2012)Trust no one. Question everything. And definitely don't answer your phone if it just repeats your own number back to you. This week, the Bad Dads (minus Pete, who is off skiing) review the 2012 found-footage thriller The Conspiracy.Directed by Christopher MacBride, this…

This week the dads tackle Paul Verhoeven's infamous erotic thriller — the fourth highest-grossing film of 1992 and quite possibly the most rewound VHS tape in rental shop history. Basic Instinct turns 33 this year, and it's still just as wild as you remember. In this episode: The legendary interrog…

Bad Dads Film Review goes full courtroom chaos this week with My Cousin Vinny (1992) — the fish-out-of-water legal comedy where two broke New York kids take a wrong turn into the Deep South… and somehow end up charged with mu...

The premise (simple, but the film isn’t): A privileged but messy NYC teenager, Lisa (Anna Paquin) , causes a moment of distraction that leads to a bus hitting and killing a woman (Allison Janney) . In the immediate aftermath ...

This week we head into full remake territory with Doug Liman’s glossy, bone-crunching update of Road House . Jake Gyllenhaal steps into Patrick Swayze’s boots as Dalton: a drifter, ex–UFC fighter, and walking concussion who t...

A gritty, twisty one-night siege thriller that actually looks great (yes, you can see what’s happening). The RIP throws Matt Damon and Ben Affleck into a paranoid, internal-corruption nightmare where everyone feels suspicious...

We went in expecting a messy anthology and came out with a genuinely original love letter to Oakland, 1987 — four stories that start as separate vibes and then click together in the final act like a mixtape that suddenly make...

We start this one the only way we know how: Pete quits his job (casually), we open a bottle of potentially corked wine (possibly poisonous), and then—somehow—end up reviewing Avatar 3 , despite half the room not even watching...

This week’s episode begins in full “Bad Dads” mode: we’re recording with barely any gear in sight, arguing about blinking lights, and realising—mid-flow—that “Island Week” might have scrambled everyone’s brains. But the chaos...

This episode begins the only way we know how: absolute chaos. We veer from wills, tits, and Stranger Things before eventually remembering we’re meant to be talking about a film. If you’re new here, that’s the show. The film i...

Die Hard is the kind of “comfort violence” film that never gets old, and your recap hits basically every reason it works. A few extra bits worth calling out (because they’re the secret sauce): It’s a Christmas film for struct...

Sugar, Cheer, and Corporate Trauma – Elf (2003) This week on Bad Dads Film Review, we crack open a modern Christmas classic and ask the hard questions: how much maple syrup is too much maple syrup, and is Christmas cheer a viable alternative energy source? Our main feature is Elf (dir. Jon Favreau)…

Fairs, Fixed Games, and Failed Backhands – Islands (2024) This week on Bad Dads Film Review, we’re off to the fair and then straight to the Canaries for a slow-burn midlife crisis with added camel corpse. We kick off with our Top 5 Fairs – everything from sinister funfairs and pleasure islands that…

A nameless truck, an everyday salesman, and 90 minutes of pure escalation: this episode is all about Steven Spielberg’s debut feature, Duel (1971). We talk through how a simple setup – Dennis Weaver’s mild-mannered David Mann...

Arnold Schwarzenegger in a yellow jumpsuit, a murderous game show, and more terrible puns than should be legal – this week we’re diving into The Running Man (1987). Set in the far-flung future of… 2017, the film drops Arnie i...

In this episode, we wade into Chinatown — a sun-bleached noir where water is power, everyone’s lying, and the system wins. We talk Jack Nicholson’s bandaged nose, Faye Dunaway’s glass-shard fragility, John Huston’s all-time v...

Chimp genius or 70s hubris in a suede jacket? We dive into James Marsh’s Project Nim —the wild “let’s raise a chimp as a human” saga aimed at dunking on Noam/“Nim” Chomsky and proving apes can master language. What we actuall...