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
585 episodes
Freaky Tales
We went in expecting a messy anthology and came out with a genuinely original love letter to Oakland, 1987 — four stories that start as separate vibes and then click together in the final act like a mixtape that suddenly makes sen...
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Season 27
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Episode 9
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27:05
Midweek Mention... Tron Ares
This one starts the way all great cinema analysis starts: Dan’s birthday sandwich (father-in-law today, Dan tomorrow, Mrs the day after), a bit of life admin, and then straight into neon sci-fi with Tron: Ares.If your Tron knowled...
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Season 23
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Episode 2
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27:21
Avatar: Fire and Ash
We start this one the only way we know how: Pete quits his job (casually), we open a bottle of potentially corked wine (possibly poisonous), and then—somehow—end up reviewing Avatar 3, despite half the room not even watching Avatar 2<...
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Season 27
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Episode 8
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20:22
Midweek Mention... The Island of Dr Moreau
This week’s episode begins in full “Bad Dads” mode: we’re recording with barely any gear in sight, arguing about blinking lights, and realising—mid-flow—that “Island Week” might have scrambled everyone’s brains. But the chaos is fitting, becaus...
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Season 23
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Episode 1
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19:39
The Night Manager
This episode begins, as ever, in total disarray: missed jokes, football updates, wine anxiety, and the creeping realisation that the best material always happens before the mic is on. Then Dan drops a bombshell: The Night Manager is so...
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Season 27
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Episode 7
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15:02
Midweek Mention... The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
This episode begins the only way we know how: absolute chaos. We veer from wills, tits, and Stranger Things before eventually remembering we’re meant to be talking about a film. If you’re new here, that’s the show.The film in question is...
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Season 23
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Episode 1
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21:34
Wake Up Dead Man
Benoit Blanc is back — but not in the way you might expect.In this episode, we dig into Wake Up Dead Man, the third entry in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out series, and quickly realise this isn’t just another playful, sun-drenc...
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Season 27
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Episode 6
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20:41
Midweek Mention... Die Hard
Die Hard is the kind of “comfort violence” film that never gets old!It’s a Christmas film for structural reasons, not vibes. Christmas isn’t just background dressing. The party only happens because it’s Christmas, the building...
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Season 22
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Episode 12
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26:44
Midweek Mention... Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence
Homoeroticism, honour codes, and the least festive “Merry Christmas” ever recorded.This week’s pick looks like a seasonal warm hug by title alone, but it’s actually a POW-camp psychodrama where Christmas is basically just <...
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Season 22
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Episode 11
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28:37
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Horns, Hostages, and Human Trafficking Santa – Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)This week on Bad Dads Film Review, we go full Finland and unwrap a Christmas movie that answers the question nobody asked: what if Santa ...
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Season 27
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Episode 5
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22:39
Midweek Mention... Elf
Sugar, Cheer, and Corporate Trauma – Elf (2003)This week on Bad Dads Film Review, we crack open a modern Christmas classic and ask the hard questions: how much maple syrup is too much maple syrup, and is Christmas cheer a...
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Season 22
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Episode 10
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14:58
Fairs & Islands
Fairs, Fixed Games, and Failed Backhands – Islands (2024)This week on Bad Dads Film Review, we’re off to the fair and then straight to the Canaries for a slow-burn midlife crisis with added camel corpse.We kick off...
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Season 27
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Episode 4
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42:29
Midweek Mention... Isle of Dogs
Isle of Dogs (2018) – Trash Island, pandemics, and very good boysIn this episode of Bad Dads Film Review, we head to Wes Anderson’s stop-motion Japan for Isle of Dogs, a film where man’s best friend is dumped on a toxic was...
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Season 22
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Episode 9
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26:52
Jewels and The Duallists
The Duellists (1977) & Top 5 Jewels – honour, obsession, and very stupid men with swordsIn this episode of Bad Dads Film Review, we kick things off with our Top 5 Jewels – a glittering mix of cursed stones, crime magnets and w...
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Season 27
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Episode 3
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36:47
Midweek Mention... Duel
A nameless truck, an everyday salesman, and 90 minutes of pure escalation: this episode is all about Steven Spielberg’s debut feature, Duel (1971).We talk through how a simple setup – Dennis Weaver’s mild-mannered David Mann drivi...
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Season 22
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Episode 8
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21:00
Frankenstein (2025)
Frankenstein (2025) – Tech bros, trauma, and a super-horny monster movie on NetflixMary Shelley by way of Guillermo del Toro feels almost too perfect, and Frankenstein (2025) absolutely leans into that match-up: lush Gothic sets, ...
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Season 27
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Episode 2
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31:12
Midweek Mention... The Running Man (1987)
Arnold Schwarzenegger in a yellow jumpsuit, a murderous game show, and more terrible puns than should be legal – this week we’re diving into The Running Man (1987).Set in the far-flung future of… 2017, the film drops Arnie into a ...
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Season 22
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Episode 7
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24:02
The King of New York
Christopher Walken, Larry Fishburne, and Abel Ferrara’s moral abyss of a movie. This week, the dads descend into King of New York, the neon-slick crime drama that turns Manhattan into a fever dream of violence, power, and warped justice....
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Season 27
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Episode 1
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20:30
Midweek Mention... Badlands
Terrence Malick’s debut gets the Bad Dads treatment. We dive into the cool, clinical menace of Martin Sheen’s James-Dean-by-way-of-the-Midwest and Sissy Spacek’s fairytale-flat voiceover that makes murder sound like homework.What the epi...
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Season 22
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Episode 6
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21:29
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 citizenship.” We...
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Season 26
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Episode 12
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18:29
Midweek Mention... Chinatown
In this episode, we wade into Chinatown — a sun-bleached noir where water is power, everyone’s lying, and the system wins. We talk Jack Nicholson’s bandaged nose, Faye Dunaway’s glass-shard fragility, John Huston’s all-time villainy, and...
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Season 22
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Episode 5
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29:30
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 with unexp...
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Season 26
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Episode 11
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50:33
Midweek Mention... Project Nim
Chimp genius or 70s hubris in a suede jacket? We dive into James Marsh’s Project Nim—the wild “let’s raise a chimp as a human” saga aimed at dunking on Noam/“Nim” Chomsky and proving apes can master language. What we actually get: sex-co...
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Season 22
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Episode 4
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22:26
