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
597 episodes
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...
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Season 28
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Episode 3
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1:10:49
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...
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Season 23
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Episode 8
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25:37
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 (...
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Season 28
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Episode 2
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53:45
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...
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Season 23
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Episode 7
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22:08
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-...
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Season 28
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Episode 1
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1:07:09
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...
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Season 23
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Episode 6
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27:40
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 ...
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Season 27
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Episode 112
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51:47
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...
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Season 23
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Episode 5
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17:29
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...
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Season 27
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Episode 11
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33:44
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 ...
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Season 23
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Episode 4
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20:36
Roofman
This week Sidey watched Roof Man on a flight—and it turned out to be a surprisingly breezy true-crime oddity: part heist caper, part rom-com, all built around one ridiculous (but real) idea.What it’s aboutChanning Tatum p...
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Season 27
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Episode 10
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19:37
Midweek Mention... The RIP
A gritty, twisty one-night siege thriller that actually looks great (yes, you can see what’s happening). The RIP throws Matt Damon and Ben Affleck into a paranoid, internal-corruption nightmare where everyone feels suspicious an...
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Season 23
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Episode 3
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31:31
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
