We Love Dad Movies

So this is Christmas... We Love Dad Movies signs off 2024 with a BANG... a Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Ewan is joined by the tremendous Preston Mitchell yet again to talk Shane Black's 2005 masterpiece, action movie Xmas discourse in general, and what so many newer holiday films miss about the festive period... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

December is here! While we're not quite yet in the full festive swing of things at We Love Dad Movies, that's just a great excuse to spotlight another Big Coat movie - and one that has a Christmassy setting at that! This week, Ewan is joined by wonderful podcasting extraordinaires Matt Bledsoe and James Coddington to discuss Tony Scott's prophetic 1998 banger Enemy of the State - a film as bristli...

It's been All Quiet on the Western Front here at We Love Dad Movies as we adjust to those dark, stormy nights, but we've managed to sneak in a couple of episodes on a theme we've teased in the past before we step into Christmas - The BIG COAT Movie! Devoted to those cosy nineties offerings where the cast is draped top to bottom in coats that make you go "Oooo, that looks well nice!", we'll be look...

Just when you thought Spooky Season had left the building! Ewan and Zan re-team to bring an end to the Halloween festivities, discussing their time at this year's Halloween All-Nighter at the Tyneside Cinema! Covering Ghostwatch, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Scream 2, and The Exorcist III's Legion Cut, this isn't one you want to miss... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...

Happy Halloween everybody! We're capping off spooky season with a We Love Dad Movies first - a double-bill, starting with a look back at Tobe Hooper's brilliant Steven Spielberg-produced Poltergeist with Carmelita Valdez McKoy! Grab a bowl of your favourite Halloween treats, sit back, and come along as we dive into the ins and outs of Hooper's eighties classic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

The spooky vibes continue at We Love Dad Movies this week, as Ewan is joined by not one guest, but TWO to discuss Stephen Sommers' 2004 horror-action bomb, VAN HELSING. Along for this particular Transylvanian coach ride is fellow WhatCulture colleague, Josh Brown , as well as the Horror Legend that is Ash Millman ! Come along as we explain why this was a film that demanded such a podcasting team-u...

WE'RE BACK. It's been a long time coming folks, but We Love Dad Movies is back in the saddle and ready to come out guns a blazing with a new spooky-themed episode all about Pale Rider! Stalwart guest Dan Grima returns for a lovely catch-up about what he's been up to (including an update on his Westerns journey) and to share his thoughts on this supernatural, slow-burn effort from Clint Eastwood......

I know what you're thinking... Looney Tunes: Back in Action? On We Love Dad Movies?? When it's not even a dad movie??? Well YEAH but also do you not  want to listen to us talk about the Looney Tunes for about 50 minutes? Exactly! Ewan and Zan are back once again to delve into a big Canon Event film from their childhoods, and why it's still baffling that Joe Dante's superior Space Jam follow-u...

It's time... to party all night! We Love Dad Movies is heading back to the California coast this week to soak up the rays, read a few comics, and (maybe) kill a vampire or two with a chat all about Joel Schumacher's seminal blood sucker flick, The Lost Boys! Join Ewan and Zan as they take the beach and bask in those glorious Tim Capello vibes, heed the warnings of the Frog Brothers and discuss wha...

Summer Vibes returns! We Love Dad Movies is back to kick off the summer with the series that celebrates the best of summery dad cinema - whether that be big nineties blockbusters like Men in Black, or films that fit that hot, sunshine feel, like Die Hard with a Vengeance. The first installment of the 2024 edition of this season sees Carmelita Valdez McKoy return to the podcast to discuss Don Siege...

Dudes Rock season concludes! This week, We Love Dad Movies picks up its guns to discuss For a Few Dollars More, the second of Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy and Ewan's personal favourite Western of all time. But he won't be alone! Just as Clint Eastwood's Manco teams up with Lee Van Cleef's Colonel Mortimer, the wonderful Andy Gorham  of the Imperial Scum  podcast joins Ewan to talk all...

After years of waiting, it's finally here! This week's We Love Dad Movies takes the Porkchop Express straight into Ewan's FAVOURITE movie of all time - John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China! Join Ewan and Zan as they discuss what happened at Ewan's B-day shindig (a screening of the film at the Tyneside Cinema organised wonderfully by the latter), including some VERY exciting news; their sha...

"The sun is sinking in the west The cattle go down to the stream The redwing settles in the nest It's time for a cowboy to dream..." We Love Dad Movies returns this week with another installment of Dudes Rock season, with perhaps the dudes rockiest film of all time, Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo! Join Ewan and returning guest Preston Mitchell as they discuss what makes this particular Hawks masterpiece...

Dudes Rock season continues! This week, Ewan is joined by Dom O'Brien  - freelance writer and author of Budget Biomorphs: The Making of The Guyver Films  - to discuss one of the greatest road movies ever made: 1987's Midnight Run, a Martin Brest-directed action-comedy co-led by Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin. Come along as Ewan and Dom discuss the personal significance Midnight Run ha...

Time to bust out the saxophones yet again folks, because We Love Dad Movies is heading back to the Lethal Weapon franchise. In the first episode of our specially dedicated "Dudes Rock" season, host Ewan is once again joined by Dan Grima of the Blind Spots Podcast discuss the majesty that is Lethal Weapon 2 - a sequel that cemented the series' formula of action and humour and expanded the duo of Ri...

We Love Dad Movies is selling its soul this week... for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre! Joining us to discuss this inimitable Golden Age Hollywood classic is Carmelita Valdez McKoy , who yes, is like the coolest person ever. Come along as she and Ewan mine deep into John Huston's peerless Western-noir fusion, discuss why it might be Bogey's best role, and how watching Looney Tunes preps you for...

With a new Ghostbusters movie being unleashed upon the world in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, now seemed like as good a time as any for We Love Dad Movies to get suited and booted, slide down that firepole and cross the streams. It's time we take a look back at the 1984 classic that is the OG Ghostbusters! Following a great chat with Michael Hamflett on Ghostbusters II last year, there was only one...

We Love Dad Movies is bringing the neo-noir vibes HEAVILY this week, as Preston Mitchell joins Ewan to discuss Bill Duke's cult masterpiece, DEEP COVER. Starring Laurence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum, Duke's sleek and stylish 1992 effort grappled fiercely with the War on Drugs, following Fishburne's undercover cop as he delves deeper and deeper into the criminal underworld, and the lines between ju...

We Love Dad Movies returns this week with a beloved nineties staple from the always lovely Ron Howard - BACKDRAFT, picked out by podcasting extraordinaire Jackson Boren, who joins us as a guest for this episode. Come along as Jackson and Ewan discuss the pleasures of a movie stacked with wall-to-wall GUYS (Scott Glenn and J. T. Walsh just two highlights), the genius of Donald Sutherland's "Flammab...

New week, new Dad Movie. We're flashing back not as far as we usually do for this week's episode, as months of Dan Grima "Jack Reacher Is Good" propaganda has finally paid off. Join Ewan and Dan as they discuss the first big adaptation of Lee Child's novels, its unique place as a pre-cursor to the formidable McQuarrie-Cruise partnership on Mission: Impossible, and how it brings some immaculate '70...

Belated Bond episode inbound! After a brief 007 infatuation last year which led to a rewatch of the Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig movies, Ewan teamed up with fellow WhatCulture office super-spy Joe Johnston for a We Love Dad movies episode all about two entries in particular: The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill. Join Ewan and Joe as they discuss what made Dalton's Bond the b...

Aaaaannd we're BACK! After a mad January off, We Love Dad Movies has returned - and boy do we have some corkers in store. To show you that we mean business, our debut ep of 2024 is devoted to one of the greatest movies of all time - Michael Mann's HEAT. Join Ewan and Zan as they discuss the magic of seeing Mann's masterwork on the big screen, how the ending left them in bits, and why the action re...

Merry Christmas from We Love Dad Movies, amigos! We're finally over the COVID-enforced absence now, although it does mean we only managed to get one festive-themed episode out instead of the planned two (sorry Christmas Vacation - I will get to you next year!). Still, we do have a nice Christmas Cracker for you this week, with Dan Grima joining us to talk Jingle All the Way and look back on our ye...

After two weeks of illness, We Love Dad Movies is BACK with another treat of an episode to kick off our December, as Ewan is joined by Lindsay Wilkins of The Schlock and Awe Podcast to discuss Peter Weir's magnificent Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World! Join us as we dive into the sights, sounds and smells of another enduring Weir Dad Movie classic, and the ridiculous weevil that it n...

While your go-to "men on a mission" Western might be John Sturges' The Magnificent Seven, we here at We Love Dad Movies are here to say something that may gum up the works ever so slightly: The Professionals eats The Magnificent Seven for breakfast. Directed by Richard Brooks and featuring a legendary lineup in Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan and Woody Strode, The Professionals is an Oscar...