Season 14

Jan. 24, 2024

Midweek Mention... Robocop

ROBOCOP (1987) was almost certainly one of, if not the first, 18 rated movie I ever saw, an ultraviolent and pulpy satire about consumerism, urban decay, privitisation and the military industrial complex. Cheerfully sardonic ...

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Jan. 17, 2024

Midweek Mention... Enchanted

Welcome back to another magical episode of Bad Dads Film Review! Today, we're diving into the charming, whimsical, and downright delightful world of Enchanted. Enchanted, released in 2007 and directed by Kevin Lima, cleverly ...

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Jan. 10, 2024

Midweek Mention... Still Crazy

Welcome back to another episode of Bad Dads Film Review, where today we're dialling the time machine back to the late '90s for a dose of rock-n-roll nostalgia with Still Crazy. Still Crazy, a 1998 British comedy-drama directe...

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Jan. 3, 2024

Midweek Mention... Heat

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! Today, we're delving into the crime-thriller world with a deep dive into the 1995 classic, Heat. Directed by Michael Mann, Heat is set in the crime-ridden streets of Los Angeles and is kn...

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Dec. 27, 2023

Midweek Mention... Office Christmas Party

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review, where today we're swapping our usual film fare for some holiday hilarity with the raucous comedy, Office Christmas Party. Office Christmas Party, directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck, t...

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Dec. 20, 2023

Midweek Mention... Violent Night

Welcome back to another episode of Bad Dads Film Review! Today, we're donning our Santa hats and diving into the action-packed, darkly comedic world of Violent Night. Violent Night takes the classic holiday movie and flips it...

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Dec. 13, 2023

Midweek Mention... Mixed by Erry

Hey there, Bad Dads! On today's episode of the Bad Dads Film Review, we're stepping into a time machine and cruising through the streets of 1980s Naples with the Italian biographical comedy, "Mixed by Erry" (2023) . Imagine t...

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Dec. 6, 2023

Midweek Mention... Pecker

Today we're taking a trip back to the late '90s to discuss a quirky, offbeat gem: Pecker (1998) . Directed by John Waters, Pecker is a comedy that tells the story of a young amateur photographer in Baltimore, played by …

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Nov. 29, 2023

Midweek Mention... Casino Royale

Today, we're donning our tuxedos and stepping into the high-stakes world of espionage with the 2006 James Bond reboot, Casino Royale. Casino Royale marks a significant shift in the Bond franchise, introducing Daniel Craig as ...

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Nov. 22, 2023

Midweek Mention... Cinderella Man

Today, we're lacing up our gloves and stepping into the ring with a real underdog story, Cinderella Man. Directed by Ron Howard, Cinderella Man takes us back to the Great Depression, where we meet James J. Braddock, a once-pr...

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Nov. 15, 2023

Midweek Mention... The Score

Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, Edward Norton and Angela Bassett teamed up with director Frank Oz for a classic 'One Last Job' type setup in heist movie THE SCORE (2001). Solid if predictable with decent pacing, it's that stel...

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Nov. 8, 2023

Midweek Mention... Unforgiven

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review, where this week we're saddling up and riding into the gritty world of Clint Eastwood's 1992 revisionist Western, Unforgiven. Unforgiven is not your typical Western shoot-'em-up. It's a fi...

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Dec. 23, 2022

Teeth & SpongeBob SquarePants

As we're all no doubt aware by now Peter has had some very real difficulty with his teeth. Two double root canal operations and a hefty bill were at the forefront of our thinking when coming up with ideas for …

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Dec. 16, 2022

Falling for Christmas & Waffle and Mochi's Holiday Feast

Stuff We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film , on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review , on email …

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Dec. 9, 2022

First Reformed & Ask The Storybots

Scorsese collaborator Paul Schrader penned TAXI DRIVER and that is the laziest but inevitabliest comparison for FIRST REFORMED which tells the story of Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke), reverend, tour guide and souvenir shop salesm...

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Dec. 2, 2022

About Time & The Nutty Boy

We're not just killing time this week as we discuss the best murderers in movies, but what exactly does that mean: memorable murderers, murderers who can't remember, most kills, actors who murder a lot? Why yes, all that and ...

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Nov. 25, 2022

Greener Grass & Polly Pocket

We're going full edgelord this week as we discuss the Top 5 Most Controversial movies, from some of the most distressing cinema we've ever seen to the most divisive. Expect buttery sex acts, cannibals, violence, a discussion ...

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Nov. 18, 2022

13 Lives & The Brilliant World of Tom Gates

Srinivasa Ramanujan, the well known Indian mathematician, had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, yet he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fracti...

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Nov. 11, 2022

Lightyear & Steamboat WIllie

Bad Dad Peter has recently spent some time with his children in the USA and having sampled the finest our cousins from the other side of the Atlantic have to offer, he thought he'd recognise the high watermark of American …

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Nov. 4, 2022

RED & Green Eggs and Ham

Do you like fruit? Of course not but we tell our children we do because we want them to believe the ridiculous lie that fruit is real food, and that is what's important. I have an apple pretty much every …

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Oct. 28, 2022

Everything Everywhere All At Once & Star vs The Forces of Evil

The Top 5 Movies Set Over a Single Day or Night sees us chatting about those movies taking place in up to or under 24 hours, or in one case, 25 hours. Watch out time loop movie enthusiasts, damp squib …

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Oct. 21, 2022

Look Both Ways & Oddballs

Things get off to a flying start this week as we discuss the Top 5 Slow Motion moments: mind melting special effects, hilarious comedic scenes, big drama and a load of excellent nominations from our listeners help conclude th...

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Oct. 14, 2022

Get Out & Peep and The Big Wide World

Cinema has had a long relationship with cigarettes, starting in the early 1920's right through to the 50's where your favourite star was almost certainly aggressively hawking their product directly to you in their latest film...

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