Bad Dads Film Review
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Episodes
610 episodes
Diseases & Song Sung Blue
This week on Bad Dads Film Review, we cover Song Sung Blue — a true-story music biopic about married couple Mike and Claire Sardina, whose Neil Diamond tribute act takes them from local gigs to national attention. What starts as a...
Vigilantes & The Bleeder (Chuck)
This week the Bad Dads take a pounding with The Bleeder (2016), the Liev Schreiber-led biopic of Chuck Wepner — the Bayonne brawler whose improbable 15-round fight with Muhammad Ali inspired Sylvester Stallone to write Rocky. The film charts We...
Midweek Mention... The Untouchables
This week, Bad Dads Film Review takes on The Untouchables with a full spoiler-light breakdown and final verdicts.What We CoveredThe Main Feature: The Untouchables review and reactions.Stan...
Evil & Speak No Evil
This week, the Bad Dads are taking on the "Top 5 Evils" in cinema history before diving into the excruciatingly tense thriller, Speak No Evil (2024).What We CoveredTop 5 Evils: We rank the ultimate cinematic b...
Midweek Mention... See No Evil, Hear No Evil
This week, the Bad Dads rewind to 1989 to review the iconic Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder comedy, See No Evil, Hear No Evil.What We CoveredMustache Watch: Cris debuts a new retro mustache. Is it Ned Flanders? ...
Floods & Flow
This week on Bad Dads Film Review, the dads are covering the "Top 5 Floods" in cinema history before taking a deep dive into the 2025 Oscar-winning Latvian animated film, Flow.What We CoveredTop 5 Floods: The ...
Midweek Mention...Beasts of the Southern Wild
This week, the Bad Dads wade deep into "The Bathtub" to review Benh Zeitlin’s indie darling Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012). Facing off against apocalyptic floods, giant prehistoric boars (Aurochs), and the harsh realities of off-th...
Pockets & Den of Thieves
The Bad Dads (with Dan away for the week) dive into the protein-shake-fueled world of Den of Thieves (2018). It's a battle of the alphas as Gerard Butler's corrupt Sheriff's unit takes on an ex-military crew planning an impossible heis...
Midweek Mention... God's Pocket
The crew kicks off Pocket Week with *God's Pocket* and explores whether the film's rough-edged, hyper-local setting works as character drama or just stays grim for grim's sake.What We Covered- Whether this was truly one of ...
Walkabout
This week, the Dads head into the Australian Outback to review Nicolas Roeg's mesmerizing and dreamlike 1971 survival drama, Walkabout.Dan kicks things off by admitting he completely confused this movie with A Far Off Place<...
Midweek Mention... The Conspiracy
This week, the Dads pull out the red string and the newspaper clippings to review The Conspiracy (2012), a Canadian found-footage indie thriller written and directed by Christopher MacBride.With Pete away skiing (and tracking hi...
Conspiracies & Sovereign
It's conspiracies week at Bad Dads. All four dads — Sidey, Dan, Reegs and Cris — count down the Top Five Conspiracies before getting to Sovereign (2025), a devastating drama about a father and son in the Sovereign Citizen movement that made $63...
Midweek Mention... I Swear
This week Dan and Reegs review I, Swear — the 2025 BAFTA-winning film about John Davidson, the Scotsman with Tourette's syndrome who became an MBE, an advocate, and one of the most compelling biographical subjects in recent cinema.It's j...
Secretaries & Secretary
This week the dads work late for Steven Shainberg's Secretary (2002) — one of the more unusual love stories in American independent cinema, and almost certainly the most interesting thing James Spader has ever worn a tie for.But first: a...
Midweek Mention... Basic Instinct
This week the dads tackle Paul Verhoeven's infamous erotic thriller — the fourth highest-grossing film of 1992 and quite possibly the most rewound VHS tape in rental shop history. Basic Instinct turns 33 this year, and it's still just as wild a...
Ballad of a Small Player & Gardens
This week Sidey, Dan, and Cris fly solo — Simon's been called to Southampton on urgent business (he was spotted in a pub surrounded by tea cups, so make of that what you will). The dads are reviewing Ballad of a Small Player (...
Midweek Mention... Gods and Monsters
This week's Midweek Mention takes us somewhere unexpectedly moving — Bill Condon's Gods and Monsters (1998), a fictionalized account of the final days of James Whale, the British director who gave the world Frankenstein and Bride of Fran...
Corporate & Tech Jargon & Thunderbolts*
This week we go fully corporate: Top 5 Corporate & Tech Jargon — the phrases designed to sound like progress while delivering absolutely nothing. We’re talking circle back, take it offline, pivot, blue-...
Midweek Mention... My Cousin Vinny
Bad Dads Film Review goes full courtroom chaos this week with My Cousin Vinny (1992) — the fish-out-of-water legal comedy where two broke New York kids take a wrong turn into the Deep South… and somehow end up charged with murd...
Matt’s & The Talented Mr Ripley
Bad Dads Film Review heads to the Italian Riviera this week for The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) — a sun-drenched, jazz-soaked psychological thriller where gorgeous people do terrible things, and the worst person in the room still somehow ...
Midweek Mention... Margaret
The premise (simple, but the film isn’t): A privileged but messy NYC teenager, Lisa (Anna Paquin), causes a moment of distraction that leads to a bus hitting and killing a woman (Allison Janney). In the immediate afterm...
Train Dreams
This week’s pick is Train Dreams: a quiet, meditative Netflix drama adapted from Denis Johnson’s novella, following the life of Robert Grainer (Joel Edgerton) — a logger and railroad worker drifting through early 20th-century Amer...
Midweek Mention... Road House
This week we head into full remake territory with Doug Liman’s glossy, bone-crunching update of Road House. Jake Gyllenhaal steps into Patrick Swayze’s boots as Dalton: a drifter, ex–UFC fighter, and walking concussion who takes a job ...
