Season 26

Nov. 6, 2025

Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers (1997): Would you like to know more? We’re suiting up for Paul Verhoeven’s gloriously un-subtle space satire—where propaganda pops like bubblegum, the bugs aren’t the dumb ones, and “service guarantees citiz...

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Oct. 30, 2025

Screens & Better Man

In this week’s episode we dive into Better Man , Michael Gracey’s glossy Robbie Williams biopic — the one where Robbie is portrayed as a CGI chimp . Yes, really. It’s a bold swing that reframes a familiar music-biopic arc wit...

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Oct. 23, 2025

Neighbours & The Ballad of Wallis Island

This week, the dads swapped blockbusters for something quieter, sadder, and sneakily hilarious: The Ballad of Wallis Island , the melancholic comedy starring Tim Key , Tom Basden , and Carey Mulligan . In a remote Welsh idyll...

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Oct. 16, 2025

Alarms & Love Lies Bleeding

The dads return to their spiritual home — the grimy, neon-lit world of A24 — for Love Lies Bleeding , a wild, sweaty, steroid-soaked crime-romance from director Rose Glass ( Saint Maud ). Kristen Stewart plays Lou , a gym man...

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Oct. 9, 2025

Hot Drinks & Green Room

This week, the dads head into the mosh pit with Jeremy Saulnier’s brutal, claustrophobic thriller Green Room — where a struggling punk band finds themselves trapped in a neo-Nazi club after witnessing a murder. It’s one part ...

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Sept. 25, 2025

Roberts & All The President's Men

This week we celebrate the late, great Robert Redford the Bad Dads way: with a chaotic Top 5 Roberts and a deep dive into All the President’s Men — the newsroom thriller where Redford and Dustin Hoffman painstakingly peel bac...

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Sept. 11, 2025

Copies & Copycat

This week the dads take a look at Copycat (1995), a mid-90s thriller that wants to be Silence of the Lambs but often ends up more made-for-TV movie . Sigourney Weaver stars as an agoraphobic psychologist dragged into a game o...

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Sept. 4, 2025

Cowboys Vs Waiting Rooms & The Man Standing Next

South Korea. 1979. Forty days to an assassination. We dive into Woo Min-ho’s icy political thriller The Man Standing Next — a gripping, true-events drama about KCIA director Kim Gyu-pyeong (played by Squid Game ’s Front Man, ...

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Aug. 28, 2025

Hughs & Heretic

This week’s episode is positively huge (and Hugh-filled). 👼 Heretic We dive into Heretic (2024), the claustrophobic new thriller from A24 in which two young missionaries find themselves trapped in the home of Hugh Grant — who...

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Aug. 21, 2025

Twins & Barbie

This week on Bad Dads Film Review , we double up on trouble (and laughs) with our Top 5 Twins before diving headfirst into Greta Gerwig’s billion-dollar juggernaut Barbie . 👯 Double Vision From Arnold and Danny in Twins to th...

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Aug. 14, 2025

The Business

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