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 fi…

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 record outside in the Jersey heat, chat Lego and TV catch-ups, run a Top 5 Travellers/Gypsies segment, then head into Netflix survival thriller Apex (2026).The review follows Charlize Theron’s lead character through an outback nightmare that starts as…

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 dads dive into SPL: Kill Zone (aka Sha Po Lang), Wilson Yip’s 2005 Hong Kong crime-action bruiser starring Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung and Simon Yam. It starts as a murky cops-vs-triads thriller and gradually mutates into one of the most punishingly physical final acts of 2000s action cine…

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.

This week the Bad Dads take on Song Sung Blue, a true-story music biopic starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as a couple whose Neil Diamond tribute act brings fame, chaos, near-tragedy, and heartbreak.

This week the Bad Dads lace up for The Bleeder (2016), the chaotic true-life story of Chuck Wepner — the New Jersey heavyweight who went 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali, inspired Rocky, and then nearly imploded under fame, booze, coke, and bad choices.

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 rab…

This week on Bad Dads Film Review, we are completely out of our depth ranking the "Top 5 Evils" in cinema, leading into our review of the painfully tense thriller, Speak No Evil.Expect more mustache twirling than a Victorian villain convention. We break down James McAvoy's terrifyingly charisma…

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…

In this episode of Bad Dads Film Review, the crew is completely out of their depth covering the "Top 5 Floods" in cinema history, before diving into the 2025 Latvian animated masterpiece, Flow.After navigating the high waters of cinematic floods (including a nod to the flipped cruise ship of Th…

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…

In this episode of Bad Dads Film Review, the crew (minus Dan) takes on Christian Gudegast's 2018 heist thriller *Den of Thieves*. Reegs and Cris break down the high-testosterone showdown between an elite crew of ex-military bank robbers and a morally bankrupt Sheriff's unit led by a swaggering Gera…

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…

In this episode of Bad Dads Film Review, the hosts venture into the Australian Outback to review the 1971 classic Walkabout. Directed by visionary filmmaker Nicolas Roeg in his solo debut, the film stars Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, and David Gulpilil in a haunting story about two civilized schoolchild…

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…

The Sovereign Citizen movement is a real, growing phenomenon in which adherents believe they are exempt from government authority and can invoke pseudo-legal arguments to avoid any legal obligation. The movement has a documented history of tipping into violence when confronted by law enforcement. T…

In this episode of Bad Dads Film Review, Dan and Reegs review I, Swear (2025), the BAFTA-winning biographical film about John Davidson — a Scottish man whose Tourette's syndrome shaped his entire life, and who went on to become an MBE and a prominent advocate for people living with the condition.…

This week the dads work late for Steven Shainberg's Secretary (2002) — one of the more unusual love stories in American independent cinema, and almost certainly the most interesting thing James Spader has ever worn a tie for. But first: a very thorough Top Five Secretaries list. Dolly Parton, Mad M…

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…

This week Sidey, Dan, and Cris fly solo — Simon's been called to Southampton on urgent business (he was spotted in a pub surrounded by tea cups, so make of that what you will). The dads are reviewing Ballad of a Small Player (2024), the new Netflix film from Edward Berger — the director behind All …

This week's Midweek Mention takes us somewhere unexpectedly moving — Bill Condon's Gods and Monsters (1998), a fictionalized account of the final days of James Whale, the British director who gave the world Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. Sir Ian McKellen is extraordinary as the ageing, ail…

This week the Bad Dads go full corporate: Top 5 Corporate & Tech Jargon — the phrases designed to sound like progress while delivering absolutely nothing. Circle back. Take it offline. Pivot. Blue-sky thinking. Tachyon pulse. If you've ever sat in a meeting thinking "what the actual f does that mea…