Plants Episodes

This week on Bad Dads Film Review, the dads head to Italy — via Denmark — for Netflix’s gentle food-and-feelings romance Toscana (2022), a film about a joyless Michelin-adjacent chef, an inherited Tuscan estate, rustic olive oil, family trauma, and one extremely unfortunate fiancé.Before the film, there is a suitably leafy Top 5 as Dan’s plant theme produces killer tomatoes, Audrey II, Ents, Leon’s beloved houseplant, Martian potatoes, Interstellar corn, Batman’s blue flower, Tomacco, Swamp Thing, Groot, and a suspicious number of plant puns from Reegs. There is also a sombre walking football update after Dan and Sidey’s side suffer playoff-final heartbreak on penalties.The Toscana discussion follows Theo Dahl, a precise Danish fine-dining chef whose father’s death sends him to Tuscany to sell the family restaurant. There he meets Sophia, argues about ice cubes, rediscovers food “by feel”, agrees to cook a wedding to push up the sale price, and inconveniently falls for the bri…

Buckle up as your friendly neighborhood Dad film critics take a dive into one of the most debated films in recent memory – M. Night Shyamalan's 2008 thriller, "The Happening." This oddball environmental horror flick, starring Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel, presents a world where nature seems to be mysteriously and violently turning against humanity. From the eerie opening sequence to the downright bizarre moments that follow, we’ll unpack what makes "The Happening" so polarizing. We'll disse...