Bad Dads Film Review
Several years ago 4 self confessed movie fanatics ruined their favourite pastime by having children. Now we are telling the world about the movies we missed and the frequently awful kids tv we are now subjected to. We like to think we're funny. Come and argue with us on the social medias.
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Episodes
554 episodes
Breaks & No Hard Feelings
Jennifer Lawrence goes full-send comedy in No Hard Feelings, playing Maddie — a broke Montauk local hired by uptight parents to “de-awkward” their 19-year-old son before college. The setup’s spicy, the execution’s funnier than it has a...
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1:03:15
Midweek Mention... Breakdown
The dads are back in the mid-90s sweet spot with Breakdown (1997), a lean, relentless thriller starring Kurt Russell and his glorious Hollywood hair.Jeff (Russell) and his wife Amy (Kathleen Quinlan) are relocating cross-country...
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Season 21
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Episode 11
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30:14
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...
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Season 26
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Episode 5
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59:18
Midweek Mention... The Pink Panther
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. Sure...
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Season 21
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Episode 10
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25:55
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...
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Season 26
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Episode 4
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1:10:41
Midweek Mention... Mad to be Normal
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 Kin...
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Season 21
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Episode 9
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22:33
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 Hu...
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Season 26
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Episode 3
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54:43
Midweek Mention... Four Weddings and a Funeral
This week, the Dads dust off their morning suits and dive into Richard Curtis’ runaway hit Four Weddings and a Funeral. Mike Newell’s rom-com was the film that turned Hugh Grant into floppy-haired royalty, introduced us to Andie MacDow...
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Season 21
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Episode 8
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23:27
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...
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Season 26
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Episode 2
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1:05:36
A Cock and Bull Story
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 and Opin...
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Season 21
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Episode 7
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17:28
The Business
Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week we’re crunching numbers, making shady deals, and talking shop with our Top 5 Businesses in film and TV before heading to the Costa del Crime for our main feature — The Business ...
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Season 26
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Episode 1
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1:08:29
Midweek Mention... Risky Business
Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! 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-...
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Season 21
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Episode 6
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19:14
Godfather's & A Prophet
Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week we’re diving deep into the underworld of cinematic mentorship and criminal patronage with our Top 5 Godfathers (but no, not that Godfather), followed by a look at Jacques ...
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Season 25
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Episode 12
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1:01:54
Midweek Mention... Paid In Full
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 of th...
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Season 21
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Episode 5
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27:04
Birthdays & Happy Gilmore 2
Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week, we’re blowing out the candles and unwrapping a nostalgia-packed episode with our Top 5 Birthdays in Film and TV, followed by a dive into Happy Gilmore 2 — the long-awai...
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Season 25
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Episode 11
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48:28
Midweek Mention... High Plains Drifter
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 deco...
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Season 21
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Episode 4
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29:40
Cris's 40th & Full Metal Jacket
Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week, we’re doing something a little different in honour of Cris’s birthday – and what better way to celebrate than by diving into a handpicked selection of actors whose careers, film...
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Season 25
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Episode 10
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1:08:06
Midweek Mention... Bugsy Malone
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 that pl...
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Season 21
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Episode 3
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21:08
Top 5 Falls & Anatomy of a Fall
Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week we’re taking a tumble — both literally and metaphorically — as we break down our Top 5 Falls in Movies and TV, followed by a closer look at the slow-burning, Palme d'Or-winning court...
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Season 25
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Episode 9
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56:36
Midweek Mention... Mission: Impossible - Fallout
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 the sixt...
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Season 21
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Episode 2
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25:05
Top 5 Junior’s & Warfare
Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review! This week’s episode packs a punch as we dive into Top 5 Juniors in Movies and TV, followed by a deep dive into the intense war thriller Warfare (2025). No kids’ TV show this week — we’r...
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Season 25
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Episode 8
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58:58
Midweek Mention... Hands of Stone
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,...
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Season 21
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Episode 1
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26:13
Nonnas & Bernards Watch
Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review, where this week we're ticking all the right boxes with our Top 5 Watches in film and TV. From time-stopping devices to classic wrist candy, we’re delving into the chronometers that do more tha...
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Season 25
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Episode 7
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1:11:28
Midweek Mention... Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
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 (1997)...
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Season 20
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Episode 12
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22:32
