Moody Movie Club

Welcome to Bad Vater Rad Vater, where Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watch each week while searching for better cinematic dads. In this week of beautiful bookends, they get back on their magical realism, slice-of-life bullshit, complete the trials of love, and pick a bone with Twilight fans. In Monica , they find one of their new favourite films and strongly encourage folks to seek i...

Welcome to Bad Dad Rad Dad, where Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watch each week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they discuss how to wrap a horror movie in sunflowers, juicy aliens, and the emotional heft of landscape. Despite their ongoing sadness and frustration with the potential end of movie theatre etiquette, they lower their middle fingers and raise th...

Welcome to Bad Dad Rad Dad, where Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watch each week while searching for better cinematic dads. In this week of complicated personal loss, they discuss the importance of queer stories, the potential for Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott to kiss in the movies, how title translations can lose meaningful nuance, and the unparalleled influence of an unlikely film o...

Welcome to Bad Dad Rad Dad, where Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watch each week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they discuss the horror in not knowing, tender portrayals of girlhood, and what makes a movie cheesy potatoes. Elliott declares his all-time favourite superhero after they see possibly the greatest superhero movie of all time. This week’s movies a...

Welcome to Bad Dad Rad Dad, where Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watch each week while searching for better cinematic dads. In this week of a lot of CanCon, they reflect on melancholy, confront their climate grief, see their own geography on film. and watch a mid movie to support a boyfriend. Questions asked along the way include: what nine-year old is a Blues Brothers stan? This wee...

Welcome to Bad Dad Rad Dad, where Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watch each week while searching for better cinematic dads. In this week of banger endings, they watch their first Kiarostami, discuss why both gender and marriage are prisons, and watch a favourite classic horror film in the theatre. This week’s movies are: Where is the Friend's House (1987), Mustang (2015), The Texas C...

Welcome back to Daddy Deep Dive: a spoiler-filled unpacking of the most special films. This time, Kylie and Elliott are joined by their long-time friend–the very cool, very smart, very thoughtful–Devin Smith to dive into Jonathan Demme's 1991 The Silence of the Lambs . In this conversation, they explore the complexity of media that contains violence against women and harmful depictions of queer an...

Welcome to Bad Dad Rad Dad, where Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watch each week (for the girls and the gays). Along the way, they find some smaht romahnce, revel in the ick, insist that you can't make gay straight, and decide that they aren't done with multiverse movies. This week’s movies are: Chungking Express (1994), Lux Æterna (2019), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), Th...

Welcome to Bad Oiler Rad Oiler, where Kylie and Elliott try to watch movies in between playoff games. Along the way, they get the absolute piss scared out of them, consider their tolerance for Icky Flickies™, and wonder aloud about cognitive dissonance while crying a whole bunch at the new Guardians movie. This week’s movies are: Lake Mungo (2008), The Green Knight (2021), Sick of Myself (2022), G...

Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over the past week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they reflect on middle-of-the-road horror, question if they have become desensitized, and acknowledge how scary it is to revisit movies you loved as a teenager (especially when they are White Boy™ ones). This week’s movies are: Evil Dead Rise (2023), Kill Bill Vol....

Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over the past week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they reflect on how film can capture the different volumes of life, question if Beau Is Afraid should be your first Ari Aster movie, and wonder if intermissions should come back to cinemas. Also, coming soon: Our Two-Man Saw stageplay. This week’s movies are: Certain Wo...

Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over the past week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they argue that Chris Pratt is the opposite of Pedro Pascal, grab some low-hanging fruit, and struggle with CGI. And, on 4/20, they decide that–for them– Dazed and Confused is just alright, alright, alright. This week’s movies are: Finding Nemo (2003), The Super Mario B...

Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over the past week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they go full John Wick (in more ways than one), buy an extremely large bag of popcorn for a bit, and relive a childhood classic through their niece. This week’s movies are: Rye Lane (2023), The Quiet Girl (2022), John Wick (Chapters 1-4) (2014-2023), Smoking Causes Coug...

Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over the past week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they lament when great movies have small releases, admire great performances of sociopathic women, dip their toes into their first Altman, and walk out of a movie for the first time in years. This week’s movies are: Riceboy Sleeps (2022), The Love Witch (2016), Inside (...

Kylie and Elliott are joined by their good friend–prolific reader, self-professed number one fan of the show, and all-around fantastic human being–Cassandra Hamilton-Brown to talk about the movies they watched over the past week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they reflect on how to engage with media worked on by people who have caused harm, connect over differing levels...

Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over the past week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they recount the first time they each watched Carrie , confront the Bedknobs and Broomsticks propaganda machine, and simultaneously cringe and feel nostalgia for having been cocky teenagers growing up the Canadian suburbs while liking movies. Questions asked along the w...

It's the one year anniversary of Bad Dad Rad Dad , the week after the Oscars, and the end of The Last of Us season 1. There is a lot to discuss and a lot to celebrate. In episode schfifty-five , Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over the past week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they see a mystery movie at their favourite cinema, welcome more messy and...

Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over the past week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they think about masculinity through slow cinema, encounter the brilliance of Spike Lee, delve deeper into Cronenberg, and take their niece to her first-ever movie theatre. This week’s movies are: Beau Travail (1999), Do The Right Thing (1989), Videodrome (1983), The Fa...

Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over the past week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they discuss how everybody's horny for Anthony Perkins; the fortune of having local cinema curation and good audience members; and how sometimes it's important to delay the house lights. This week’s movies are: The Trial (1962), Bound (1996), La La Land (2016), Welcome...

Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over Valentine's Day week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they discuss balancing queer joy with the reality of trauma, the problem of punch-down comedy, and the importance of a film's final scene. Also, more holiday slashers, please! And stop saying "meat and potatoes," Elliott! This week’s movies are: Rafiki (2018), To...

Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over the past week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they discuss being open to letting art open up to you, the complicated nature of "truth" in non-fiction films, and why they love M. Night Shyamalan (and aren't sorry about it). This week’s movies are: Mirror (1975), Fruitvale Station (2013), Dirty Dancing (1987), Knock...

Welcome back to Daddy Deep Dive: a spoiler-filled unpacking of the most special films. This time, Kylie and Elliott are joined by their new friend–Juno-nominated musician, movie lover, and fellow member of the dead dad club–Rich Aucoin to dive into Mike Mills' 2010 film Beginners . In this conversation, they explore the things, both big and little, we pass down to the people we love; the struggle...

Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over the past week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they discuss how Michelle Yeoh coulda shoulda been the lead in Sunshine (and should be the lead in everything), confront the inherent misogyny directed at women filmmakers, put their brains in a brain blender, and marvel at Mia Goth. ))< >(( This week’s movies are...

Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over the past week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they discuss seeing films a second time when you're more ready for them, the beautiful bittersweet comedy of Taika Waititi, and appreciating a film that hides behind nothing. Also introducing: Kylie's Crush Count! Watch Taika Waititi's Oscar speech . This week’s movies...

Kylie and Elliott talk about the movies they watched over the past week while searching for better cinematic dads. Along the way, they discuss how powerful it is to spend time with children (and then give them back to their guardians), the intrigue of molasses cinema, Kylie's crush on Wayne Campbell (schwing!), and the importantly difficult work of learning (and unlearning). Also, Kylie mystery pi...