Movie Podcast Episodes

The Bad Dads head underwater for Luc Besson’s The Big Blue, or Le Grand Bleu if you want to sound sophisticated while drowning slowly in late-80s synth. The discussion starts with the film’s scale: 168 minutes in the director’s cut, which immediately becomes one of the main charges against it. Dan chose the film and remembers liking it years ago, but even he admits this is a very long movie — the sort of film you watch over several evenings because holding your breath for the full running time would be medically inadvisable. The dads work through the black-and-white childhood opening in Greece, where young Jacques Mayol and Enzo Molinari are established as boys shaped by the sea in very different ways. Enzo is cocky, competitive and already built around status; Jacques is quieter, gentler and more emotionally fused with the water. Jacques’ father dies in a diving accident, an early trauma that seems to bind Jacques to the ocean rather than drive him away from it. As adults, t…

This midweek Bad Dads Film Review episode begins, naturally, with Reegs’ fresh haircut, the cost of beard sculpting, and a brief detour into barber-chair intimacy before Sidey reveals the week’s selection method: a hectic week, two shorter episodes, no proper theme, and a number-based Amazon Prime roulette that landed the Dads on The Bad Education Movie. Sidey sets the table with a confession: he never watched the BBC Three sitcom, partly because he “genuinely” cannot get on with Jack Whitehall’s posh, fumbling toff persona. Reegs admits, with some shame, to having seen bits of the TV series and the movie before. Cris has only watched the end, and Dan arrives ready to query how this became a feature film in the first place. The film itself is described as a 2015 feature-length send-off for Jack Whitehall’s BBC Three sitcom, following teacher Alfie Wickers and his class on a school trip that veers from Amsterdam chaos to Cornwall, the Eden Project, a kidnapped PTA chaperone, a mi…

This week on Bad Dads Film Review, the dads dive into The Untouchables. In this episode, they break down the film, share what still works, what aged oddly, and where it lands in the all-time ranking chat. Expect classic Bad Dads energy, strong opinions, plenty of banter, and a few unexpected rabbit holes along the way.