Season 3

June 23, 2021

Midweek Mention... Human Traffic

Justin Kerrigan's HUMAN TRAFFIC is an exploration of a particular late 90's youth culture: the living for the weekend chemical generation whose hedonism was centred around drug taking and pounding basslines in the super clubs...

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June 16, 2021

Midweek Mention... Dead Man's Shoes

Peter Andre has never seen Shane Meadows genre-smashing 2004 thriller DEAD MAN's SHOES so we sat down this week to watch it. Paddy Considine plays Richard, a former paratrooper returning to the provincial English town where h...

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June 9, 2021

Midweek Mention... Strictly Ballroom

A prolonged vicious online bullying campaign has led us to this point. We we encouraged to watch Strictly Ballroom, Baz Luhrmann's 1992 dance based comedy romance debut. These are our findings....

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June 2, 2021

Midweek Mention... The Slammin' Salmon

A few of the Dads found something to like in this listener nominated movie. Sidey on the other hand.... Well he wasn't a fan. Not by a long shot! We watched The Slammin' Salmon, and you probably shouldn't!

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May 26, 2021

Midweek Mention... Legends of the Fall

A favourite of Dan's and an absolute epic.... we watched Legends of the Fall. Some stuff happens and it's all very dramatic. The main take away from this movie is that Brad Pitt looks absolutely incredible. He really does. I …

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May 19, 2021

Midweek Mention... UHF

When I was in my early teenage years I really liked the 'Weird Al' Yankovic album "Even Worse". It probably wasn't that great in hindsight, but the teenage me loved it. Then I discovered that Mr Yankovic had made a …

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May 12, 2021

Midweek Mention... Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas

FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS sees Terry Gilliam bringing Hunter S. Thompson's Rolling-Stone magazine article-turned book covering the Mint 400 motorcycle race to life. 2 hours of drugs and debauchery, but what about the fil...

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May 5, 2021

Midweek Mention... Only Fools and Horses

Peter Andre felt like choosing something a little different for our first entry in our Best Of British week. It's still a feature length creations, it is in fact the Only Fools and Horses December 1985 Christmas Special - To...

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April 28, 2021

Midweek Mention... Airplane!

After a few hectic and just outright stressful weeks, the Dads thought a good comedy movie would be a good pick-me-up. We made our way to the Man Cave to watch Airplane! Sadly on our arrival at the venue it …

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April 21, 2021

Midweek Mention... Cloud Atlas

Tom Twyker and the Wachowskis serve up what is surely one of the most ambitious films ever made with 2012's Cloud Atlas. Adapted from David Mitchell's supposedly unfilmable novel, Cloud Atlas follows characters inspired acros...

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April 14, 2021

Midweek Mention... They Live

Well bugger me it's episode 100! We asked you dear listener to tell us what to review. After a long, tense and probably fraudulent twitter vote, They Live emerged triumphantly as our winning movie. So we discussed at length t...

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April 7, 2021

Midweek Mention... Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Two Harry Potter movie fans sit down to discuss the third instalment in the franchise with a self-confessed Potter hater and someone who didn’t even bother to watch the film. J.K. Rowling's fantasy novel series for younger re...

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May 29, 2020

The Intouchables & Fraggle Rock

Join us for the conclusion of the Action Movie Star Elimination Battle Royale Fight to the Death, or AMSEBRFTTD! Only 8 battle hardened warriors remain, only one can survive, who will emerge victorious? Following on from that...

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May 21, 2020

Hunt for the Wilderpeople & Dino Dana

We hope you are all well and enjoying the glorious weather. Perfect for heading out for a stroll and listening to a podcast.... The surviving movie stars returned for Action Movie Star Elimination Battle Royale Fight to the D...

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May 15, 2020

Dora the Explorer & Dora and the Lost City of Gold

Double Dora fun and frolics! The week we went all in on Dora related televisual entertainment. Before all that though, we kicked off our Action Movie Star Elimination Battle Royale Fight to the Death First Round, or AMSEBRFTT...

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May 7, 2020

Brighton Rock & Round the Twist

You can guarantee things are going to be weird when Howie gets to nominate. This week was no exception. The topic of conversation for the Top 5 this week was films that are embarrassing to watch with your parents. There …

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April 30, 2020

All Is Lost & Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Let's call this Robert Redford week. First up we had a chat out the main man's best movies. The obvious take away from that being that we haven't seen nearly as many of his films as we thought. However, we …

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April 24, 2020

I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore & Octonauts

As lock-down fever catches up with us, we once again had a virtual meetup to discuss all things movies and kids TV. Top 5 topic of discussion this week was worst movie children. This one certainly had Dan stumped! The …

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April 17, 2020

Coherence & PJ Masks

Wow! What a week this was for the Bad Dads. With Dan reeling from a lack of Easter chocolate, we managed to get in a solid amount of tv viewing. Inspired by this week's main feature, we made a list …

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April 10, 2020

Blinded By The Light & Ponysitters Club

We're starting off this episode with some musical discussion. This weeks we select our favourite music videos. The musical theme continues as we discuss the Bruce Springsteen themed Blinded by the Light. The soundtrack is gre...

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April 3, 2020

Defiance & The Secret Life of Pets 2

Although the wretched virus continues to trap us all at home, we've been able to continue chatting via the wonders of technology. So this week we had a digital gathering to discuss the merits of Defiance. It's safe the say …

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March 27, 2020

Withnail and I & Total Drama Island

It seems people are desperate for our new episode now that we're all stuck in isolation. Fortunately we have been able to record whilst in our isolation chambers and we're releasing the episode as early as we can. So here …

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March 20, 2020

Midsommar & My Little Pony

With all the miserable news coverage we have decided to lighten things up a bit. We compile our list of the most memorable movie deaths. There were some difficult choices to make there! The it's off to rural Sweden for …

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March 13, 2020

Frank & Horrible Histories

Another week, another indie film to delight us. This time it's a Film 4 picture about a musician with a paper mache head. Nominated because one of the Dads shares the same surname as the film's main protagonist. A good …

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