Breaks & No Hard Feelings

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!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, a gym manager in a desert backwater who falls for Jackie (Katy O’Brien), a drifter and aspiring bodybuilder built like a Marvel origin story. Their chemistry is instant, their passion feral — and before long, they’re injecting more than just steroids together. But this love story’s laced with violence, paranoia, and one truly astonishing haircut courtesy of Ed Harris, who turns up as Lou’s gun-running, morally bankrupt father.What starts as a moody lesbian love story morphs into a pulpy, blood-spattered nightmare involving abusive husbands, bent cops, and a ravine full of bodies. By the time the steroids kick in and tempers boil over, the film swerves between Thelma & Louise, The Hulk, and Natural Born Killers — complete with a finale that’s part emotional catharsis, part literal giant woman.We get into: 💉 A24’s obsession with body horror and desire — and why this one might be their sweatiest yet. 🏋️‍♀️ Katy O’Brien’s powerhouse performance — raw, unhinged, and oddly tender. 🩸 That Ed Harris look — half-monk, half-madman, all-time bad haircut. ❤️ The film’s amoral heart — lovers, killers, victims… and no clean heroes. 🎬 The ending — is it metaphor, madness, or just an all-timer in WTF cinema moments?It’s violent, sexy, absurd, and oddly moving — everything you want from an A24 fever dream. The dads argue about symbolism, marvel at Kristen Stewart’s brooding brilliance, and admit they’d probably still watch Love Lies Bleeding 2: The Pumpening.🎧 Listen now for blood, lust, bodybuilding, and the film that turns love into a contact sport.We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at [email protected] or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!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 Ford), it tells the story of Mark “Chopper” Read, Australia’s most notorious criminal, self-mythologising psychopath and folk hero rolled into one.Part prison horror, part dark comedy, Chopper opens with its antihero stabbing a rival inmate 15 times for crossing a line, and somehow only escalates from there. Over 90 intense minutes, we follow his chaotic life of stabbings, betrayals, botched kidnappings and baffling logic — punctuated by moments of grim humour and unexpected lucidity.In this episode we get into: 🔪 Eric Bana’s breakout performance — from TV comic to one of the most menacing, magnetic screen presences of the 2000s. 🏛️ Fact vs. fiction — how the real Chopper blurred truth and myth, and how much of this film you can actually believe. 🩸 Violence as character study — how brutality in Chopper veers between horrifying, absurd, and disturbingly funny. 🧠 The psychology of Mark Read — narcissism, paranoia, and why he thought he was doing the police a favour. 🎤 Post-prison celebrity — the bizarre Australian fascination with Chopper’s later life as a TV guest, writer, and stand-up act.It’s one of those episodes where you find yourself laughing, then immediately questioning why. Chopper is as funny as it is disturbing — and the Bad Dads dig into every contradiction of its violent, charismatic subject.🎧 Listen in for brutal quotes, absurd anecdotes (“look what you made me do”), and why Eric Bana risked his sanity to play a man who once cut off his own ears just to get moved to another prison.We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at [email protected] or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!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, one part social horror, and all parts grim.When the Ain’t Rights take a last-minute gig deep in Oregon’s backwoods, they expect low pay and bad beer — not blood, dogs, machetes and Patrick Stewart as a terrifying skinhead ringleader. What follows is a night of panic, violence and duct-tape surgery, as the band fights to survive against an organised fascist militia who’d rather clean up witnesses than pay for another gig.We dig into:Punk authenticity — the grime, the DIY spirit, and how Saulnier nails the small-venue chaos.Patrick Stewart’s casting — calm, chilling, and galaxies away from Captain Picard.Anton Yelchin’s tragic final performance — and what a loss he was.Violence that hurts — no jump scares, just sudden, stomach-turning realism.The Nazi problem — why these villains feel horrifyingly believable in 2025.The A24 factor — another lean, mean indie proving the studio’s knack for smart brutality.Elsewhere in the episode: ☕ The Top 5 Hot Drinks delivers peppermint tea, Dirty Harry’s coffee, and more filth than a builder’s thermos. 🎸 Reegs spirals into video-game documentaries (Tony Hawk: Pretending I’m a Superman, Speed Runners). 🎤 Dan gets nostalgic about The Last Dance, Sidey recounts a surreal Lady Gaga show, and everyone somehow ends up discussing Tracker bars.It’s one of those episodes where the jokes come thick, the violence is thicker, and nobody leaves unscalded.🎧 Listen now for fascists, feedback, froth and a quiz that can only be described as “Hot Coffee or Tea-bagger?”We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at [email protected] or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!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.In one corner: Billy Mitchell, hot-sauce magnate, self-styled all-American hero, and the reigning Donkey Kong world champion since 1982. In the other: Steve Wiebe, a laid-off family man from Seattle with a garage, a Donkey Kong cabinet, and an obsessive drive to finally be the best in the world at something.What starts as a light-hearted look at competitive gaming quickly spirals into a bizarre battle of pride, politics, and pixels. We dive into: 🎮 The myth and madness of Billy Mitchell — equal parts motivational speaker, Bond villain, and delusional patriot. 🎮 Steve Wiebe’s transformation from anxious everyman to unlikely eSports hero. 🎮 The shady world of “Twin Galaxies,” referees, and rule-bending record-keepers. 🎮 How a man can be publicly humiliated by a videotape of a Donkey Kong run that may or may not be fake. 🎮 Why this documentary still feels weirder and funnier than any scripted comedy.Along the way we meet the devoted disciples, the guitar-strumming referee, the Qbert granny, and the toxic mix of ambition, nostalgia, and social awkwardness that fuels the arcade elite.It’s The Office meets Rocky, with barrels instead of punches. We argue over whether Billy Mitchell is misunderstood or just a world-class arsehole, praise Wiebe’s sheer decency, and agree this is one of the most rewatchable docs ever made.🎧 Tune in for fierce debates, mullet appreciation, and our collective horror at just how seriously grown men take Donkey Kong.We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at [email protected] or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!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 back Watergate until the whole presidency caves in. It’s cigarettes, typewriters, and journalism that actually mattered.What we get intoRedford & Hoffman, peak charisma: why their odd-couple energy (and immaculate 70s fits) makes procedural journalism feel electric.The craft stuff: split-diopter shots, sound design that drowns phone calls in newsroom chaos, and that final typewriter barrage (“Nixon Resigns”) still landing like a gut punch.Truth vs. proof: editors wrestling with “we know it” versus “we can print it,” and why that tension hits even harder now.Deep Throat decoded: “follow the money,” the parking-garage paranoia, and how the film weaponises quiet dread.Top 5 Roberts (no De Niro, no Redford — house rules)We raid film, TV, music and pop culture for the best Bobs/Roberts/Robbies—from Sideshow Bob and Robert Englund to Robert Mitchum, Rob Reiner, Bob Odenkirk, Robert “Bob with bitch tits” Paulson, SpongeBob (Robert) Squarepants, and some gloriously fringe picks (RIP Rob Garrison, Cobra Kai’s OG goon). Expect arguments, deep cuts, and at least one guided detour through Spinal Tap and King Crimson.The chaotic quiz: Redford or Red Ford (…or both)?Sidey springs a quiz where every answer is either Redford (the man) or red Ford (the car on screen). Cue confusion, Christine vs Cars, The Sting, All Is Lost, and a tricksy Winter Soldier “both” that broke brains and buzzers.Content note: swearing, savage tangents, and the occasional anatomical overshare. If you came for “balanced coverage,” you’ve wildly misread the brand.🎧 Listen to the full episode: [Add your link]We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at [email protected] or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!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 an iconic filmography but also Sundance, a festival that gave countless indie movies a life. This week, we pay tribute by reviewing Indecent Proposal (1993).It’s the one where a young, loved-up couple (Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore) are offered a cool million dollars by Redford’s billionaire for one night with the wife. A sleazy premise? Absolutely. But it was a 90s cultural flashpoint that had everyone asking: what would you do?What we coverRedford as a twinkly-eyed predator — suave, charming, but pure sociopath energy.Woody Harrelson’s “character growth” (spoiler: remembering to take his muddy shoes off the table).Demi Moore stuck as the literal bargaining chip between two men.Erotic sax solos, visible erections, and more money-on-the-bed shots than you can shake a hippo at.Why this could’ve been a sharp morality tale, but instead feels like a glossy objectification exercise.The cultural lens shift: what audiences excused in 1993 versus what plays as flat-out toxic today.As always, expect detours into visible erections, Michael Bay’s slow-mo dice shots, hippos at auctions, Oliver Platt being a slimy lawyer, and whether we’d personally take the money (spoiler: the negotiations got weird).“Hard recommend? Hard pass? Or just Woody being… hard?”We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at [email protected] or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!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 any right to be, and yes, we talk about that beach fight.What we dig intoJ-Law in chaos mode: fearless physical comedy, tight timing, and why this role works because it’s her.Awkward vs. raunchy: does the film land its sweet/icky tightrope walk?Age-gap discourse without the sermon: how the script dodges creepiness and pivots to loneliness, class, and late adolescence.Set-pieces that actually bang: the piano “Maneater” scene, the “prom do-over,” the Buick-from-hell, and the naked beach mayhem.Montauk & money: gentrification, property taxes, and the gig-economy grind baked into the jokes.Verdict: better than its schlocky premise suggests — and a reminder Lawrence is funny on purpose.This week’s Top 5: BREAKSWe stretch “breaks” until it snaps:Title breaks: Point Break, obviously.Bone/ballistic breaks: Chan, Cruise, Wick… and the arm-wrestle in The Fly.Wind breaks: Blazing Saddles, Swiss Army Man, Dumb & Dumber (bring your nose pegs).Fourth-wall breaks: Ferris Bueller, Deadpool, Wayne’s World.Breakfasts & breakdowns: from Groundhog Day to Uncle Buck pancakes and the cinematic “dad’s late for work” trope.Breakdancing: Breakin’ and the all-timer subtitle, Electric Boogaloo.Prison breaks: Shawshank, Escape from Alcatraz, The Great Escape.The chaotic quiz (because of course)A rapid-fire “Breakdown” quiz that swerves mid-question — Kurt Russell lore, movies with bridges, snacks on road trips, and one wildly specific license-plate memory test. It almost doesn’t work. That’s the point.Listener shout-outsFeedback on our Top 5 Copies episode (clones, doubles, and Single White Female trauma) plus a few deep-cut recs from the Bad Dads community. We read ’em, we roast ’em, we add ’em.Content note: We swear. A lot. If you’re new here, consider this your friendly heads-up.🎧 Hit play: Honest, unfiltered, pub-chat film talk with actual laughs. If you like smart takes delivered stupidly (and vice versa), you’re our people.We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at [email protected] or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!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 when their Jeep suddenly dies in the middle of nowhere. A friendly trucker (the ever-sinister J.T. Walsh) offers Amy a lift to a nearby diner. She never arrives. What follows is a stripped-down race against time, as Jeff discovers he’s stumbled into a gang’s deadly scheme — and has to transform from nervous everyman to desperate action hero.We get into:Kurt Russell playing against type — less action hero, more anxious office guy (at least until the final reel).JT Walsh’s masterclass in quiet menace.The film’s meat-and-potatoes plotting: no fat, no filler, just pure tension.That massive finale, complete with a dangling truck, a fight to the death, and one of the all-time great overkill moments.Why films like this — simple setup, big stakes, 90 minutes — feel so rare today.It’s part Duel, part The Vanishing, part pure 90s Saturday-night rental. Come for Kurt’s hair, stay for the escalating paranoia and truck-crashing mayhem.🎧 Press play to hear the dads argue whether this is just a solid genre flick… or a strong recommend with extra hair-gel.We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at [email protected] or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!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 game of cat-and-mouse with a serial killer imitating history’s most infamous murderers. Holly Hunter and Dermot Mulroney round out the cast, while Harry Connick Jr. chews the scenery as a crooning creep.In true Bad Dads style, we pull the film apart and ask:Does Copycat earn its place alongside the great psychological thrillers of the era, or is it just derivative drivel?Why are the cops so bad at protecting Weaver’s supposedly “safe” apartment?How many times can a killer break in before you stop suspending disbelief?And was Sigourney right to say this was the performance she was most proud of?Alongside the movie, our Top 5 “copies” takes us everywhere from cloned astronauts and plagiarised authors to forged paintings, photocopied genitals, and questionable cover versions. We even put the lads through a brand-new quiz: Copy or Floppy (hint: it’s exactly as puerile as it sounds).🎧 Expect laughs, rants, and at least one digression into printing presses.We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at [email protected] or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!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, we’d caught bits on Sunday TV over the years, but sitting down start-to-finish was a new experience — and a surprising one. Despite being branded a Clouseau movie, Sellers actually takes a back seat to David Niven’s dashing jewel thief Sir Charles Lytton and Robert Wagner’s playboy nephew George.We dig into:The film’s mix of heist caper and sixties sex comedy — sometimes charming, sometimes painfully long.Sellers’ scene-stealing slapstick: globes, violins, and his endless (and fruitless) attempts to seduce his wife.David Niven’s unlikely role as a 50-something ladies’ man — suave or just icky in hindsight?The technicolour glamour of Cortina ski resorts, high society parties, and that unforgettable animated title sequence.Whether The Pink Panther works better as a star vehicle for Niven/Wagner or as a platform for Sellers’ Clouseau — and why the sequels got the balance right.It’s long, it’s dated, it’s occasionally hilarious — and it launched one of cinema’s most iconic comedy characters.🎧 Listen in as we argue over whether this debut outing is a strong recommend or a charmless misfire, and why sometimes the best thing in a Pink Panther movie is the zebra gag.We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at [email protected] or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads