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
576 episodes
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
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
