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This week on Bad Dads Film Review, Wolf Week continues as Sidey, Dan and new dad Jamie sink their teeth into Martin Scorsese’s riotous financial crime epic The Wolf of Wall Street, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Bernthal, Jon Favreau and Joanna Lumley. With Reegs absent and therefore no proper intro to keep things vaguely…
This week on Bad Dads Film Review , it is Wolf Week , which means we are heading to the moors, the Tube, the London Zoo wolf enclosure and one of cinema’s all-time great transformation scenes for An American Werewolf in London . Sidey and Dan are joined by guest dad Jamie for John Landis’s 1981 horror-comedy about two American backpackers, one very unwelcoming pub, and the worst possible way to…
This week on Bad Dads Film Review , we review True History of the Kelly Gang , Justin Kurzel’s bleak, stylish and aggressively unromantic version of the Ned Kelly myth, starring George MacKay , Essie Davis , Nicholas Hoult , Charlie Hunnam and Russell Crowe . Before we get to Australian outlaw trauma, we discuss the important stuff: Dan’s adult-nappy experiment, whether “pound a piss” is a viable…
This week on Bad Dads Film Review , we review Marty Supreme , Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein’s A24 sports-hustle drama starring Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser, a table-tennis prodigy with Olympic-level confidence and almost no visible concern for anyone else. Only Dan and Chris have done the homework this week, leaving Sidey and Reegs to interrogate them on the plot, the tone, the ping-pong,…
This week on Bad Dads Film Review, it is prison week — although with Riggs and Chris missing, Sidey and Dan are doing hard time as a two-man crew. Before the main feature, we look at memorable prisons and prison stories from film, TV and music. That means everything from miscarriage-of-justice anger to escape-movie comfort food, brutal borstal drama, wizard prisons, sitcom prisons and, naturally,…
This week on Bad Dads Film Review, we head back to 1938 for Angels with Dirty Faces , Michael Curtiz’s classic gangster drama starring James Cagney , Pat O’Brien , Humphrey Bogart and Ann Sheridan . It is very much an old-school Hollywood crime picture — street kids, reform school, crooked lawyers, corrupt city rackets, priests, gangsters, ledgers, shootouts and plenty of “what do you say, what do…
This week on Bad Dads Film Review, we complete our accidental trilogy of “third things.” After covering Close Encounters of the Third Kind on the midweek show, we turn to Army of Darkness , Sam Raimi’s third Evil Dead film, and use that as an excuse to dig into the noble, messy and often suspicious art of the threequel. There is no formal intro this week — time has apparently been attacked by…
This week on Bad Dads Film Review, the dads look to the skies for Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind , a film packed with UFO classifications, mysterious lights, mashed potato mountains, musical alien communication and one of cinema’s more questionable parenting decisions. Sidey begins by digging into what a “close encounter of the third kind” actually means, using J. Allen…
This week the Bad Dads go big. Very big. City-smashing, helicopter-swatting, nuclear-lizard big. Sidey has been watching the modern Warner Bros / Legendary MonsterVerse with his daughter, and the results are a full kaiju download covering Godzilla, Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Godzilla vs. Kong, and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. What We Cover Sidey’s family MonsterVerse…
This week on Bad Dads Film Review, the dads head into deep space for Project Hail Mary — a Ryan Gosling-led Andy Weir adaptation about astrophage, reluctant heroism, alien engineering, musical communication and the most loveable rock-spider in modern sci-fi. What we covered The return to Podcast Mountain after a week off, with Sidey explaining why recent recording plans went slightly sideways.…
This week on Bad Dads Film Review, the dads dive into Luc Besson’s cult aquatic epic The Big Blue — a nearly three-hour blend of freediving rivalry, French mysticism, Jean Reno charisma, dolphin longing and some deeply questionable romantic choices. What we covered Le Grand Bleu: the original title, the French phenomenon, and whether saying it properly makes the film any shorter. The director’s…
This week on Bad Dads Film Review, regular programming is temporarily suspended because the World Cup has taken over. No movie this time — instead, Sidey, Dan, Cris and Reegs look ahead to England v Argentina on Wednesday 15 July 2026 , and ask the most important question in football: is it actually coming home? What we covered #ICH: the birth of “It’s Coming Home” energy and why this World Cup…
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, chosen family, and a young boy called Momo who is running out of safe places until he collides with an elderly woman who understands pain better than most. What we covered…
