Midweek Mention Episodes

This week the dads step into glamorous 1960s Europe with Blake Edwards’ The Pink Panther (1963) — the first outing for Peter Sellers’ bumbling Inspector Clouseau. For many of us, this was like watching it for the first time. ...

This week the dads take on Mad to Be Normal (2017), a little-seen British drama starring David Tennant as the controversial Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing. Set in 1960s London, the film follows Laing’s radical experiment at...

How do you film the unfilmable? That’s the challenge at the heart of Michael Winterbottom’s Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story , a delightfully meta take on Laurence Sterne’s famously chaotic 18th-century novel The Life a...

This week we’re donning our Ray-Bans, sliding across the living room floor, and revisiting the film that launched Tom Cruise into superstardom — Risky Business (1983) . Equal parts coming-of-age comedy, satire, and cautionary...

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review ! This week we’re heading back to the early 2000s with Paid in Full (2002) , a gritty street-level crime drama from director Charles Stone III, which dives deep into the Harlem drug scene ...

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week, we saddle up for a gritty supernatural western as we take on Clint Eastwood’s High Plains Drifter — a film that’s equal parts revenge tale, eerie morality play, and genre decon...

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review ! This week we’re trading bullets for custard pies and gangsters for tap-dancing tweens as we revisit Alan Parker’s delightfully eccentric musical comedy Bugsy Malone (1976). It’s a film t...

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week we’re hanging off helicopters, sprinting across rooftops, and disarming nuclear bombs with the pulse-pounding Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) . Strap in as we break down th...

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review ! This week, we’re stepping into the ring with Hands of Stone (2016), the boxing biopic that tells the story of legendary Panamanian fighter Roberto Durán. Directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz,...

Groovy, baby! Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review , where this week we’re throwing on our crushed velvet, dialling up the mojo, and time-traveling back to the swinging '60s with Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1...

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week, we’re descending into the mind-bending, minimalist sci-fi thriller that is Cube (1997). A cult favourite from Canadian director Vincenzo Natali, this low-budget psychological p...

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week, we’re bending time, smashing starships, and looping through one of the most mind-bending episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation : Season 5, Episode 18 – "Cause and Effect" ...

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week, we're jumping into the gritty, morally murky corner of the galaxy far, far away with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), the first of Disney’s standalone Star Wars films and o...

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week, we're diving headfirst into the chaotic, outrageous, and undeniably quotable world of Wedding Crashers (2005), a film that helped define mid-2000s comedy with its mix of raunch...

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review ! This week we’re dusting off our ruffled shirts and setting our time machines to the 1980s as we revisit The Wedding Singer (1998), a rom-com that’s equal parts sweet, silly, and synth-so...

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review , where this week we’re going full rom-com with a film that brings swagger, charm, and a surprisingly heartfelt message to the genre: Hitch (2005). Directed by Andy Tennant and starring Wi...

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review , where this week we tackle one of the more provocative and unexpected Southern dramas of the 2000s: Black Snake Moan . Directed by Craig Brewer (coming off the back of Hustle & Flow ), th...

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out! Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review, where this week we’re dusting off the golf clubs and heading to the green for one of…

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review , where this week we take the red pill and tumble down the rabbit hole into the genre-defining cyberpunk classic that is The Matrix (1999). Prepare for slow-mo shootouts, existential dread...

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review , where this week we lock, stock, and double-tap our way into the gloriously over-the-top world of Hot Fuzz (2007), the second film in Edgar Wright’s beloved Cornetto Trilogy . With an out...

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review , where this week we take a look at the explosive and controversial biopic Machine Gun Preacher (2011), directed by Marc Forster and starring Gerard Butler. It’s the story of one man’s rad...

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review ! This week, we're diving whiskers-first into the utterly bonkers, wildly inventive indie oddity that is Hundreds of Beavers — a film that may be about trapping furry woodland critters but...

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week, we’re paging through the murky corridors of mystery, rare books, and Satanic secrets with Roman Polanski’s atmospheric thriller The Ninth Gate (1999). Adapted from Arturo Pérez...

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This episode, we’re stepping into the eerie and unsettling world of The Mist (2007), a harrowing adaptation of Stephen King’s novella directed by Frank Darabont. Known for adapting King’s...