Entertainment Episodes

Feb. 22, 2023

Midweek Mention... New Jack City

Pete returns this weeks and brings with him a fresh batch of nominations. First up is the 1991 crack epidemic story NEW JACK CITY. We all seemed to enjoy it, despite it dating pretty badly and featuring some fairly appalling …

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Feb. 17, 2023

Invincible

A slightly shorter Bad Dads this week as we ditch the kids section due to the crushing obligations of real life but we more than make up for it with Sidey and Reegs sharing a little Valentine's Day get together …

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Feb. 15, 2023

Midweek Mention... Castlevania

Award winning comic book writer Warren Ellis brought gothic horror franchise CASTLEVANIA from Japanese video game developers Konami to the streaming service Netflix in 2017 and we sat down to watch the first episode. A story ...

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Feb. 10, 2023

Ex Machina & Project MC²

Dear Bad Dads listeners, We have some exciting news for this week's episode of Bad Dads Film Review. This week's notes were written by none other than the artificial intelligence language model, ChatGPT. That's right, we have...

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Feb. 8, 2023

Midweek Mention... The Terminator

AI week starts with a look back at the 1984 James Cameron classic THE TERMINATOR. Set in a dystopian future where machines have taken over the world, and the remnants of humanity are fighting for their survival, the film foll...

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Feb. 3, 2023

Life Of Pi & Rosie and Jim

Sidey's nautically themed show begins with a look at the Top 5 Boats and there's so many to choose from we don't even mention Terry Nutkins on steroids lookalike Hulk Hogan's 'sub' standard tv show THUNDER IN PARADISE (see wh...

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Feb. 1, 2023

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, or MACTFSOTW, as it prefers to be known, is a swashbuckling adventure on the high seas where the English Navy chase down and capture some Frenchies. A sure fire hit as …

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Jan. 27, 2023

I Used to be Famous & Gudetama

Dan set us up with a kinda music theme this week, with the excellent Good Vibrations for the midweeker and Netflix's I USED TO BE FAMOUS for this week's main event. I Used to be Famous is the story of …

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Jan. 25, 2023

Good Vibrations

Kicking off a bit of a musical theme this week, Dan nominated GOOD VIBRATIONS (2012). The movie is based on the life of Terri Hooley , a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfast 's punk rock scene. The film has …

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Jan. 20, 2023

The Great Wall & Meekah

A real mongrel of a show this week starting out with the third thing you think about whenever the island of Jersey is mentioned after millionaire tax dodgers and Henry Cavill which is of course cows. Let’s hope you know …

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Jan. 18, 2023

Midweek Mention... Avengement

The sixth collaboration between British action film legends Jesse V. Johnson and Scott Adkins sees the actor in unfamiliar territory as antihero Cain Burgess, escaping from H.M.P. Belmarsh after the death of his mother and se...

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Jan. 13, 2023

The Banshees of Inisherin

We'll get back on to our usual programming soon, but for this week we're taking a look at The Banshees of Inisherin. Serendipitous timing as this nabbed some big awards at the Golden Globes this week. I assure you that …

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Jan. 11, 2023

Midweek Mention... In Bruges

In Bruges is a movie I've heard so much about and never had anyone say a bad word in its general direction. And yet despite that that I've still never found the time to see it. This week it's another …

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Jan. 6, 2023

Man of Steel

Man from Jersey plays the Man of Steel! Our fellow islander make it big with his star turn as Superman in Zac Snyder's take on Kal-Els origin story. In no was biased we get wax lyrical about Mr Cavill and …

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Jan. 4, 2023

Midweek Mention... The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Henry Cavill has been in the news a bit recently. First up he gunned The Witcher. Presumably as he was donning the cape again as Superman. Then all of a sudden that wasn't the case. How quickly things change. Anyhow, …

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