Monolith Episodes

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March 22, 2024

Enys Men & Grange Hill

Listen in this week as we laud our mediocre achievements, and to celebrate them what better way could there possibly be than chatting about the Top 5 Celebrations. It may have taken four hundred episodes to do so but the Dads finally sat down together in the man cave to watch director Mark Jenkin's ENYS MEN (2022). A kind of twisted lovechild of David Attenborough and H.P. Lovecraft, the film is set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast and follows a lone woman, played with hau...
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June 7, 2023

Midweek Mention... 2010: The Year We Made Contact

Tune in as your motley crew of Dads voyage through the vast universe of cinema, sharing their thoughts, theories, and endless dad wisdom. Today, we are setting our sights on the cosmos with the intriguingly futuristic film, "2010: The Year We Made Contact". As the sequel to Stanley Kubrick's pioneering "2001: A Space Odyssey", this 1984 sci-fi thriller directed by Peter Hyams carries the torch forward, exploring humanity's relationship with the unknown. The narrative picks up nine years after t...