Bad Dads Film Review
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Episodes
626 episodes
The Life Ahead
This week on Bad Dads Film Review, we review The Life Ahead, the 2020 Netflix drama directed by Edoardo Ponti and starring Sophia Loren as Madame Rosa.It is a film about grief, trauma, community, memory, faith, chose...
Midweek Mention... Mean Streets
This week on Bad Dads Film Review, we head into early Scorsese territory with Mean Streets, starring Harvey Keitel as Charlie and Robert De Niro as Johnny Boy.It is New York, 1973: Catholic guilt, bar-room bravado, s...
12 Angry Men
This week on Bad Dads Film Review, we review Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men, the 1957 jury-room classic starring Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb.A young man’s life is on the line. Eleven jurors are ready to convict. One jur...
Midweek Mention... The Bad Education Movie
This week the Bad Dads take a midweek spin of the Amazon Prime roulette wheel and land on The Bad Education Movie, the 2015 big-screen send-off for Jack Whitehall’s BBC Three sitcom. Sidey is not thrilled. Reegs has seen some of it befor...
England & The Brothers Grimsby
On this episode of Bad Dads Film Review, the team reviews The Brothers Grimsby — also released as Grimsby — Louis Leterrier’s 2016 spy-action gross-out comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Mark Strong.In this episod...
Midweek Mention... This Is England
On this episode of Bad Dads Film Review, the team reviews This Is England (2006), Shane Meadows’ raw, semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama starring Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Vicky McClure, Joe Gilgun, Andrew Shim, Rosa...
Motorcycles & The Motorcycle Diaries
This week the Bad Dads ride across South America with The Motorcycle Diaries, Walter Salles’s 2004 drama starring Gael García Bernal as young Ernesto Guevara and Rodrigo de la Serna as Alberto Granado.Before the main feature, the ...
Midweek Mention... Akira
This week the Bad Dads take on Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 anime classic: part cyberpunk biker movie, part psychic apocalypse, part body-horror nightmare, and still one of the most influential animated films ever made.What We Co...
Holidays & Aftersun
On this episode of Bad Dads Film Review, the team reviews Aftersun (2022) — Charlotte Wells’ quietly devastating father-daughter memory piece starring Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio.In this episodeTop 5 Holida...
Midweek Mention... Abigail
On this episode of Bad Dads Film Review, the team reviews Abigail (2024) — a gleefully gory vampire horror-comedy from Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, starring Melissa Barrera, Alisha Weir, Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton, Ke...
Plants & Toscana
On this episode of Bad Dads Film Review, the team reviews Toscana (2022), Netflix’s Danish-Italian comfort drama about a stressed fine-dining chef who inherits his father’s restaurant in Tuscany and slowly rediscovers rustic cooki...
Midweek Mention... Jonah Hex
On this episode of Bad Dads Film Review, the team reviews Jonah Hex (2010) — DC’s supernatural western starring Josh Brolin as the scarred bounty hunter, John Malkovich as revenge-villain Quentin Turnbull, and Megan Fox as Lilah/T...
Gypsies & Apex
On this episode of Bad Dads Film Review, the team reviews Apex (2026) — a stripped-back survival thriller set in the Australian outback starring Charlize Theron, Taron Egerton, and Eric Bana.In this episodeGarden-recording vi...
Midweek Mention... Saipan
On this episode of Bad Dads Film Review, the dads review Saipan (2025), a dramatization of one of the most explosive moments in modern Irish football history.In this episodeWhy this story still matters: Ireland’...
Dons & SPL: Kill Zone
This week the dads tackle Wilson Yip’s SPL: Kill Zone — part crime thriller, part tragedy, part full-contact martial-arts clinic. Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung and Simon Yam carry a film that’s interested in corruption and consequence as much a...
Midweek Mention... The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter
The lads open with the Wu-Tang connection (RZA has this high on his all-time kung fu list), then jump straight into what makes this film such a riot: a betrayed warrior clan, relentless set-piece combat, and some of the most creative pole/staff...
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...
