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
565 episodes
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
Neighbours & The Ballad of Wallis Island
The Ballad of Wallis IslandThis week, the dads swapped blockbusters for something quieter, sadder, and sneakily hilarious: The Ballad of Wallis Island, the melancholic comedy starring Tim Key, Tom Basden...
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Season 26
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Episode 10
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50:00
Midweek Mention... Neighbours (Again)
Neighbours — Episode 234 (Charlene’s Debut)We dove back into Ramsay Street for a pure hit of Aussie soap nostalgia: Neighbours ep. 234, a.k.a. the first-ever appearance of Charlene (a tiny, feral Kyli...
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Season 22
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Episode 3
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11:32
Alarms & Love Lies Bleeding
The dads return to their spiritual home — the grimy, neon-lit world of A24 — for Love Lies Bleeding, a wild, sweaty, steroid-soaked crime-romance from director Rose Glass (Saint Maud).Kristen Stewart plays Lou
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Season 26
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Episode 9
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46:26
Midweek Mention... Chopper
This week, the dads head down under for Chopper — the semi-biographical crime film that introduced the world to Eric Bana’s raw, terrifying range. Directed by Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Fo...
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Season 22
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Episode 2
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21:45
Hot Drinks & Green Room
This week, the dads head into the mosh pit with Jeremy Saulnier’s brutal, claustrophobic thriller Green Room — where a struggling punk band finds themselves trapped in a neo-Nazi club after witnessing a murder. It’s one part siege movie,...
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Season 26
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Episode 8
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1:06:10
Midweek Mention... King of Kong: A Fistful of Dollars
The dads go full retro this week with The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, the 2007 documentary that turns arcade gaming into blood sport — complete with villains, underdogs, mullets, and enough ego to fill an entire arcade....
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Season 22
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Episode 1
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20:45
Roberts & All The President's Men
This week we celebrate the late, great Robert Redford the Bad Dads way: with a chaotic Top 5 Roberts and a deep dive into All the President’s Men — the newsroom thriller where Redford and Dustin Hoffman painstakingly peel...
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Season 26
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Episode 7
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48:39
Midweek Mention... Indecent Proposal
We don’t usually double up on an actor, but when Robert Redford died at 89, it felt only right to go again. A true Hollywood legend — Butch Cassidy, The Sting, All the President’s Men — Redford left us not just with a...
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Season 21
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Episode 12
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31:44
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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Season 26
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Episode 6
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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
