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We Love Dad Movies returns to the nineties this week with a look back at a late-career Jon Frankenheimer banger, RONIN. A ferociously tense, well-placed thriller from the man who directed The Manchurian Candidate and The Train, Ronin is essential nineties dad cinema, focusing on a group of former Cold Warriors led by Robert De Niro and Jean Reno now forced to operate as mercenaries - modern-day ma...

A special bonus We Love Dad Movies episode this week, as Ewan and Zan discuss the wonderful time they had at the Tyneside Cinema's Halloween All-Nighter! Committing fully to the mystery "Sequels Do It Better" screening starting at 10 PM, we got three brilliant first-time watches in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Psycho II, and A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3: Dream Warriors, plus a fun scree...

We Love Dad Movies welcomes Craig Morris of the DIABOLICAL: Evil Schemes Done Better podcast this week to discuss Michael Mann's sweeping historical drama, The Last of the Mohicans! Join Ewan and Craig as they go into the ins and outs of Mann's 1992 movie, how it fits within his noir-focused filmography, and why despite its critical success it still feels slightly under-appreciated. Hosted on Acas...

1969's Paint Your Wagon has a reputation as being an all-timer of a flop, and has also faced some Simpsons-induced mockery for "being the film where Clint Eastwood sings". However, We Love Dad Movies is here today to say, "Paint Your Wagon is great, actually!" Directed by Joshua Logan and starring Eastwood opposite a peak-of-his-powers Lee Marvin, Paint Your Wagon is a gloriously funny and strange...

How has it taken this long? We Love Dad Movies finally dives into the dark and wonderful world of John Carpenter this week for 1976's Assault on Precinct 13. Join Ewan and Dan as they discuss what makes Carpenter's sophomore effort so excellent, those brilliant Howard Hawks influences, and why Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston and Laurie Zimmer form one of the coolest movie trios of all time. Hosted on...

We Love Dad Movies heard someone was talking smack about our boy Martin Short, so naturally we thought the best way to weigh in would be with a look back at Three Amigos - the 1986 John Landis-directed comedy-Western which starred Short alongside comedy legends Steve Martin and Chevy Chase. Although poorly received at the time of its release, Three Amigos has developed a cult following and is larg...

Woohoo! We made it to 50 episodes, folks! Thank you so much for listening and enjoying our ramblings on We Love Dad Movies. We didn't have anything majorly special planned (Ewan totally didn't clock this was the 50th ep to begin with), HOWEVER - the movie that is the focus of this week's episode couldn't be more fitting to mark that occasion: Brian De Palma's 1987 classic, The Untouchables. A foun...

The Summer Vibes are getting Hot and Humid this week on We Love Dad Movies, as we head deep into the southern swamps for one of the most unlikely but under-appreciated sequels ever, 1998's U.S. MARSHALS! Following on from Andrew Davis' seminal Dadcore Thriller, The Fugitive, Marshals focuses entirely on Tommy Lee Jones' Samuel Gerard and his team as they find themselves hot on the heels of another...

William Friedkin sadly passed away this month. A legendary filmmaker and a favourite of Ewan's, this week's We Love Dad Movies is dedicated to celebrating the Chicago-born director and one of his many masterpieces - 1985's To Live and Die in L.A. A spiritual, fluorescent successor to 1971's The French Connection, To Live and Die in L.A. features sensational performances from Willem Dafoe and Willi...

And we're back! After a brief hiatus for some wedding-related antics, Ewan is joined on the pod for the first time by Matt Bledsoe of the Film Feast podcast to talk about yet another Summer Vibes classic: Michael Bay's The Rock. Join us as we indulge in the goodness of some peak '90s Bruckheimer, and discuss why Sean Connery's pairing with Nicolas Cage is a highlight of Dad Cinema. Hosted on Acast...

Summer Vibes continues! This week on We Love Dad Movies, Ewan and Zan are shaking a tail feather into one of the greatest feel-good comedies of all time - The Blues Brothers! Join them as they discuss the charming enthusiasm of Dan Aykroyd, the ridiculous talent of the late John Belushi, and how this 1980 classic is the ultimate marriage of musical and comedy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

Summer Vibes continues this week with a look back at my favourite Die Hard movie - Die Hard with a Vengeance! 1995 saw John McTiernan return to the series that changed the action genre forever, delivering a tense, action-packed buddy cop flick that divested from the original film's formula. Everyone thinks of Die Hard as a Christmas thing, but Vengeance shows that it also owns the summer. Joining...

Welcome to Summer Vibes! For the next few months, We Love Dad Movies is going full Big Willie Style, taking a look at the movies that epitomise summertime - whether that be the big blockbusters that released in warmer months or those films that ensure the heat is on. Kicking off the season today is our look back at 1997's Men in Black - a true summer banger featuring the king of summertime himself...

Indiana Jones is back on the big screen this week, so now seemed like as good a time as any to dive into the series and why it's so special! Join Ewan and Dan as they rank the original four Indiana Jones movies in preparation for Dial of Destiny, discuss the highs and lows of the series, and why The Last Crusade is one of the greatest dad movies ever. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...

Very cool things occurrin' on We Love Dad Movies in this week's episode! Regular guest Dan Grima took the long journey up to Newcastle to hang out with Ewan and watch one of his favourite ever dad movies on the big screen at the Tyneside Cinema - 1997's Air Force One! Join us as we dive into the great time that is Air Force One, its endearing End of History-ness, and ask why anyone would want to g...

Hearts are on fire on We Love Dad Movies this week, as Ewan and Zan dive into the brilliant excess of possibly the ultimate eighties movie: Rocky IV. This episode sees us dive into the Rocky series' place in the dad movie canon, the highs and lows of Sly's fourth outing as the Italian Stallion, and what makes it such a great time (aka, the "Paulie's Robot" factor). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...

A truly special 30th-anniversary celebration on We Love Dad Movies this week, as Ewan and Dan jump into the cinematic brilliance of Andrew Davis' The Fugitive. One of the greatest films of the nineties and a contender for the Dad Movie Mount Rushmore, The Fugitive features Harrison Ford at his vulnerable post-Indiana Jones best as Dr. Richard Kimble and also has a tour de force performance from To...

Our wee Woo season comes to a close this week with a look back at one of the director's most underrated efforts: WINDTALKERS. Reuniting Woo with Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater, Windtalkers tells the story of the Navajo codetalkers who were instrumental in the US' island hopping campaign against the Japanese during World War 2. Although a critical and box office disappointment, Windtalkers has b...

Woo season continues with the first three-man installment of We Love Dad Movies! Zan and Dan team up to school Ewan on why Face/Off is the bee's knees, discuss the genius of Nicolas Cage, and what makes Woo's third Hollywood outing so iconic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our look into John Woo's Hollywood movies continues this week with Broken Arrow, the Hong Kong director's second American effort and one of his more underrated ones at that. Featuring a John Travolta performance that deserves just as many flowers as his more notorious turn in 1997's Face/Off, an all-timer score from Hans Zimmer, and a Graham Yost script that complemented Woo's intimate depictions...

Ewan turned 27 last week, and to celebrate he invited everyone to a private screening of one of his favourite movies at the Tyneside Cinema - John Woo's 1993 Hollywood debut, Hard Target. A glorious team-up between a peak Jean-Claude Van Damme and one of the greatest action filmmakers of all time, Hard Target is one of the very best films of 1993 and of the action genre more generally, and is near...

"Off the record, on the Q-T, and very hush-hush." It's noir time again on We Love Dad Movies! With Ewan recently finishing the third of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet books, now seemed like as good a time as any to dive into Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland's late nineties masterpiece - the 1997 adaptation of L.A. Confidential. Join Ewan and Zan as they discuss the chemical draw of noir fiction, why...

We're back folks! After a cheeky week off we have returned with a double whammy of an episode, delving into two 2000s action-comedy classics that are near and dear to our hearts: Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights. Join Ewan and Dan as they discuss their own Jackie Chan origin stories, and why his team-ups with Owen Wilson are the highlight of his time in Hollywood. Support the Tyneside Cinema her...

It was going to happen sooner or later - this week's We Love Dad Movies episode sees Ewan and Dan discuss the podcast's first Steven Seagal movie: Hard to Kill! Join them as they dive into the endearingly pathetic appeal of the action genre's most insecure star, the joy of taking someone to the blood bank, and what might just be one of the coldest line reads of the nineties. Superior attitude. Sup...

With John Wick: Chapter 4 once again bringing Keanu Reeves to the big screen, now seemed like as good a time as any to dive into one of our most beloved actors' dad movie classics - Jan De Bont's 1994 action-thriller, Speed. Join Ewan and Zan as they navigate all the twists, turns, and improbable 50-foot jumps of one of Keanu's greatest movies, what makes his performance as Jack Traven so special,...