We Love Dad Movies

The 1993 festivities continue this week as we dive into Tombstone - one of the greatest Westerns of the nineties and one that retells the story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the legendary Earp Vendetta Rides. There's so much to love about Tombstone as a movie, but it also has an incredibly interesting behind-the-scenes story. Joining me to discuss the film - its highs, its lows, and its t...

Somehow, despite loving Arnie, fantasy, and pulp adventure, I had gone 27 years on this planet without having seen Conan the Barbarian. Thankfully, the nicest man on Action Twitter, Andy Gorham, was kind enough to choose the film to be discussed in the latest episode of We Love Dad Movies! Join us as we dive into the enduring appeal of John Milius' high fantasy epic - including its brutal battle s...

1993 was a banger year for Dad Cinema, and we're kicking off the first of many 30th anniversary retrospectives this year by diving into the ill-fated but ultimately misunderstood Last Action Hero, another directed by action legend John McTiernan starring Arnold Schwarzenegger with script contributions from Shane Black. Zan returns to the pod to discuss their first watch of LAH with me, as we get i...

"Tango and Cash... Cash and Tango..." - yes folks, it's time for us to jump into a true cinematic classic this week. 1989's Tango & Cash saw Sylvester Stallone team up with Kurt Russell in one of the decade's most unusually brilliant buddy cop efforts, with top officers Raymond Tango and Gabriel Cash joining forces to fight Jack Palance's sinister Yves Perret. Mired by a fraught production and...

We're diving into some peak Dad-tier filmmaking in this week's episode! This time, Ewan is joined by comics creator, editor, and journalist Claire Napier to talk all about Patriot Games - Harrison Ford's first venture as Jack Ryan and the first of two Tom Clancy adaptations helmed by Phillip Noyce. Be sure to check out Claire's work on her website , as well as her upcoming comic book, The Magic Ne...

Howdy folks! 2023 is the year WLDM goes hard on Westerns - myself and my dad's favourite genre! WLDM regular Dan Grima is starting off the year with his own Westerns challenge, so I thought it would be fun to dive into that list, what films Dan has watched so far, and what he has to look forward to in a dedicated episode. Join us as we scratch the surface of Leone and Spaghetti Westerns, the genre...

We Love Dad Movies has a very important statement to make this week: Ghostbusters II is good, actually! Joining Ewan to talk about this underrated gem of a sequel in the latest WLDM episode is WhatCulture Wrestling's Michael Hamflett, who came to the realisation last year that Ghostbusters II is actually his favourite movie ever. Join us as we dive into the Ghostbusters' upgraded (and heartbreakin...

We Love Dad Movies is BACK, and we're starting January in the best way. Joining Ewan for our inaugural 2023 episode is Mike Scott of the Action for Everyone podcast, who wanted to chat about one of the best films of 2022 - Michael Bay's Ambulance. Mike's favourite 2022 movie and one of his all-time favourites too, join us as we dive into Bay's place in the Dad Movie genre, and how Ambulance stacks...

We Love Dad Movies closes out Shane Black Season with one of the biggest bangs in action movie history - the perennially under-seen Long Kiss Goodnight. Starring Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson, Long Kiss saw Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger director Renny Harlin team with Black to tell the story of an amnesiac assassin whose accidental reemergence unearths a deadly government conspiracy. Ewan is join...

Part two of our Shane Black season is here! This week we're diving into another Christmas cracker with the original Lethal Weapon - Shane Black's debut script and the greatest buddy cop movie of all time. Packing razor-sharp dialogue and two iconic performances from Gibson and Glover, but also a dark story rooted in the legacies of the Vietnam War, the first Lethal Weapon is distinct from its goof...

Merry Shanemas everyone! For December, We Love Dad Movies is dedicating each episode to the action Christmas GOAT himself, Shane Black. Kicking off the month we have THE LAST BOY SCOUT, a truly tremendous noir action written by Black after LETHAL WEAPON, starring Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans as a has-been private detective with a disaster family life and a football player whose career was destroy...

We're closing out November with a hail of gunsmoke! This week, Ewan is joined by Screen Rant's Christopher Teuton to talk all things True Grit - a favourite across three generations of Patersons, and the film that won John Wayne his sole Academy Award. Chris also discusses the 2010 Coen Bros. remake and the original True Grit novel by Charles Portis, revealing which incarnation of the story he thi...

The year is 1996. Taco Bell has proven victorious in the Franchise Wars, and the last remnants of the 20th century are ad jingles and the (terrific) poster for Lethal Weapon 3. In a sinister utopia that has abandoned the violent ways of the past, a megalomaniac criminal and his valiant cop enemy reignite a destructive rivalry - but all is not as it seems. In this week's episode of We Love Dad Movi...

We all know that Harrison Ford is the Dad Movie King, but do you also know that Witness is probably maybe his best performance ever? In this week's episode, Dan Grima joins Ewan to discuss one of Ford's most acclaimed yet now strangely overlooked efforts, which saw the actor take on the role of a police detective forced to go into hiding in Pennsylvania's Amish community. (It's also one of Ewan's...

Spooky season may be over, but like the best slasher film We Love Dad Movies still has one last surprise scare! In this episode, Ewan is joined by Josh Brown to discuss Martin Scorsese's 1991 remake of Cape Fear, why it's unique in the director's filmography, and how it compares to the 1962 original. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sylvester Stallone's 1986 banger COBRA is an action movie with the heart of a slasher - and it was also one of dad's faves, so it's basically the perfect movie for October. Join Ewan and Dan as they dive into the ludicrously enjoyable paranoia of Sly's Dirty Harry, and why it's a must-watch for action fans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into your favourite podcast... join Ewan and Zan as they discuss the masterpiece that is Jaws, and why it's one of the greatest monster movies of all time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Spooky season is officially here, and what better way to kick off the festivities than with an especially spooky guest? Horror Queen and PlayStation Access host Ash Millman joins the We Love Dad Movies podcast this week to discuss James Cameron's seminal 1986 sci-fi horror classic Aliens, and why Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley is such an enduring icon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has gone down as one of the most infamous comic book adaptations ever. It suffered poor reviews and ended careers. Thing is... it's actually quite good! Join Ewan and Zan for another episode of We Love Dad Movies, as they discuss the highs and lows of Stephen Norrington's ill-fated blockbuster, and why it never really deserved the hate. Hosted on Acast. See ac...

It's late era Clint versus sicko Malkovich in the late Wolfgang Petersen's IN THE LINE OF FIRE. Join Ewan and Dan as they discuss this weirdly neglected '90s thriller which earned John Malkovich an Oscar nom, and why it's top-tier Dad Movie content. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We were lucky enough to get to watch both The Mummy and The Mummy Returns on the big screen last week, so we HAD to do an episode on them. Join Ewan and Zan as they discuss the magic behind Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz's two horror-adventure blockbusters, and why they're so special. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Capping off the Summer of Predator with PREY, Dan Trachtenberg's new entry in the franchise that has recently premiered on Disney+. Join Ewan and Zan as they discuss how it holds up compared to the original Predator and its sequels, and their hopes for the series going forward... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We Love Dad Movies returns this week in the build-up to PREY to talk about one of the great underrated movie sequels: PREDATOR 2. Join Ewan and Dan as they discuss why the OG Predator follow-up is the ideal dad movie, and how it's responsible for turning the Predator from a sci-fi icon into a true franchise behemoth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James Caan sadly passed away the other week, so it only made sense for the next episode of WLDM to focus on one of his films. THIEF is arguably Caan's best performance, which sees him cast in the role of Frank, a master criminal looking to finally retire. Join Ewan and Zan as they dive into Michael Mann's debut picture, and what made Caan such a unique screen presence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

As voted by our Patrons, this week's episode of We Love Dad Movies is all about Steven Spielberg's essential WW2 epic, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. Join Ewan and Zan as they discuss the film's shocking but corrective contributions to the war movie genre, and why it more than deserves its classic status. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.