GHOST was a smash-hit 1990 supernatural romantic thriller that created an iconic and often parodied pottery scene which holds up surprisingly well. The story sees Patrick Swayze&apos;s Sam Wheat, an investment banker, struggling to articulate his feelings to his very much adored girlfriend artist Molly (Demi Moore). When Sam is murdered in a mugging gone wrong his spirit stays behind to help protect and warn Molly that this act of violence was not as random as it first seems. Bruce Joel Rubin&apos;s excellent screenplay provides the emotional backbone to an entertaining, well told story with a cast of good-looking and talented actors, a classic combination. The special effects remain mostly fairly effective and Vincent Schiavelli almost steals the movie in two scenes as the terrifying ghost of a suicidal subway victim. Not the sandwich shop in case you were wondering. If you thought AIRPLANE! Director Jerry Zucker was the obvious choice to tell the tale you&apos;re a genius because the writer cried when he found out. 

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Midweek Mention... Ghost

I&apos;m sorry to have to disappoint you but the idea that snowflakes are unique is not entirely true, there being eight main types of shapes at the molecular level, with 39 sub-categories which then order themselves via weak hydrogen bonds to each other, resulting in the symmetrical hexagonal shape of the snowflake. At the atomic level they are indistinguishable, being comprised of the same oxygen and hydrogen atoms and in that sense of course we&apos;re all interchangeable and alike but a part of the same: the snow, me, you, the phone you&apos;re listening to this on, because all atoms of any element are identical. Not close or similar, but exactly identical. Is that profound? I don&apos;t know but it&apos;s worth bearing in mind while you listen to me and my snowmies discussing the Top 5 Snow scenes or movies.Dan has been talking about the documentary 14 PEAKS: NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE for a few weeks now and with his visit to Nepal on the horizon we thought we&apos;d take the time to review this celebration of extraordinary and almost unimaginable courage, strength and determination. Nepalese climber Nims Purja and his team scale all 14 mountains above 8,000 metres in 6 months and 6 days, a task for which the superlatives barely do justice. These are truly incredible people, doing incredible things for incredible reasons and there&apos;s some food for thought in Nims&apos; pleas for greater recognition and acknowledgement of his accomplishments in light of the relative glorification of western mountain-climbers, when their achievements are rooted in the hard work of their Sherpa support teams. Unmissable.We unanimously agreed THAT GIRL LAY LAY is the best kids thing we&apos;ve ever reviewed on the pod. The Netflix series sees an A.I. avatar from a personal affirmation app materialise in the real world to help boost the self-esteem of 14 year old Sadie, a sentence I only just about understand and a concept which made me feel so old I soiled myself in solidarity with my geriatric brethren. Helpfully that chimes with the theme of the episode "Boombox Burger Bop" in which Sadie&apos;s parents struggle for relevance when performing their 10 year old burger jingle. At one point Lay Lay says "hashtag don&apos;t sleep on crypto" and I wanted to kill myself. But rapper Lay Lay (real name Alaya High) really does have some flow.That&apos;s all for now simpletons. Try us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

14 Peaks & That Girl Lay Lay

Director Frank Marshall (ARACHNAPHOBIA) brings us the true story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The Fairchild FH-227D was carrying a rugby team and various related friends and family when it crashed into the Andes mountains in October 1972. A compelling true survival story with impressive location photography and awe inspiring scenery, time has been cruel on this as it all too often has the feel of a soap opera despite the decent acting talent involved which includes Ethan Hawke, Josh Hamilton and Illeana Douglas.It&apos;s also comforting to know that despite my fear of plane crashes, being suddenly thrust into a survival situation I&apos;m hopelessly ill-equipped for and the notion of freezing or staving to death, all I&apos;d need to do to survive an air disaster is smoke a lot of cigarettes and eat my friends ass. Sounds good.  

Midweek Mention... Alive

There have been some great movies and scenes set in hotels; I&apos;m thinking of course of the likes of THE SHINING, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, LOST IN TRANSLATION and video after video of heavy-eyed, heroin ingesting porn stars being thundered into next week and uploaded to Pornhub. But what can the dads come up with when they discuss the Top 5 Hotels?I&apos;m upset to have missed this weeks main feature. English Director Ben Wheatley did the incredible KILL LIST back in 2011 which smashed horror and crime thriller together before contributing to the anthology ABC&apos;s OF DEATH (in the segment "U is for Unearthed"). He followed that with A FIELD IN ENGLAND, a psychedelic psychological horror movie set during an unspecified battle in the English Civil War. An intense and often unsettling experience, it will be interesting to hear the Dad&apos;s take on what is an avant-garde horror gem.THE LION GUARD is an animated tv sequel exploring the continuing adventures of characters from THE LION KING, the movie that introduced my eldest child to the concept of death, as so many Disney movies have done for so many children down the years. It follows the journey of Kion, destined for greatness as the Leader of The Pride Lands, but still young enough to be learning the trade alongside a honey badger suffering from food addiction and probably some sort of small farting mammal. It&apos;s the music that makes this though, and that definitely carries on the series strong roots.We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. Try us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

A Field in England & The Lion Guard

1999 saw the release of this absolute gem, starring Richard Farnsworth and directed by David Lynch. The Straight Story is the biographical tale of Alvin Straight and his journey to meet and reconcile with his older brother who lives two states across the USA.The difficulty for Alvin.... he can&apos;t drive and has failing health to contend with. So Alvin undertakes this journey on his trusty lawnmower, setting off on a near 400km journey.This is the first of three DAVID LYNCH movies that we&apos;ll be delving into, so be sure to stay tuned for future episodes!Until then, we remain...BAD DADS

BDFR - Midweek Mention... The Straight Story

"Should men cry?" is a question that literally no one asks anymore because we all know that the correct answer is "of course, as long as it&apos;s done in the right way", that is to say that it&apos;s expressed in a manner which continues to conform to society&apos;s expectations and understanding of masculinity and male vulnerability. Shedding tears from extreme physical pain is permitted as is using it as part of a cheap seduction routine, exactly as Sidey’s friend did during a screening of TITANIC which he still feels so bitter about some 20 years later. But will that movie make it into this week’s Top 5 Crying scenes? I wouldn’t have thought so but let’s see what the Dads offer up.  Howie chose this week’s main feature, John Michael McDonagh&apos;s THE GUARD, a buddy cop crime caper with a strong cast. Brendan Gleeson, probably best known for his work as Victor in THE SMURFS 2 received acclaim for his contribution alongside Don Cheadle (SWORDFISH) and Mark Strong who played Dave Summers in 1998&apos;s THE MAN WITH RAIN IN HIS SHOES. Yes, as you can possibly tell by now I haven&apos;t actually seen this movie or indeed heard of it before today which makes writing this part of the show notes tricky. At the risk of trivializing what may be a great movie I&apos;ve never heard of before and am yet to enjoy, all I really want to know is does Don Cheadle do a silly Irish accent?  I often find myself wondering whether centaurs still exist is another way of saying I&apos;ve literally never had that thought before but there&apos;s no doubt some nutballs out there somewhere who can provide charts and diagrams and theories proving the part human, part horse creatures were in fact real and actually still are. Netflix’s CENTAURWORLD also boasts a list of great and varied performers with the likes of Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit and Arrested Development’s Tony Hale working alongside Jamie Cullum, Wendy Malick and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje in an animated series exploring the strange world inhabited by these truly disgusting and unnatural abominations. We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. Try us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review or on our website baddadsfilm.com.   Until next time, we remain...   Bad Dads

The Guard & Centaurworld

We could do with a laugh, so we raided Howie&apos;s DVD collection and got down with BREWSTER&apos;S MILLIONS. Turns out that this was originally a book, and this is only one adaptation of the text amongst thousands of others. The film&apos;s director, Walter Hill said that the reason he made the movie was "to improve his bank account and success quotient". Nice.

BDFR - Midweek Mention... Brewster's Millions

With Reegs cruelly stuck down and isolating once again, the rest of the loons muddled their way through this weeks (mostly) robotic content.First up we mulled over our favourite movie robots. Without Reegs to enforce the rules we went rogue and included just about kind of sentient machinery we could think of. T-800s, Borg, Star Wars droids, you name it, we talked about em.Our main feature this week was the 2012 indie caper, ROBOT AND FRANK. A comment on the perils of growing old, or a charming buddy movie crime spree comedy drama? We thrash it out and decide, so you don&apos;t have to. Peter had a particular problem with one of the performances in the movie. You should certainly tune in to discover who he&apos;s moaning about this week.Occasionally we throw in another movie just to keep us on our toes. This is one of those weeks. Peter really wishes he&apos;d known that the nomination of DISNEY&apos;S ENCANTO was a movie. He was like a naughty school kid doing his homework in the car on the way to school. Please pay attention in future Pete!We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. Try us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

Robot and Frank & Encanto

Fasten your seatbelts and watch the in flight safety demonstration as we take to the air for mid-90s action dross Executive Decision.We&apos;re mentioned Kurt Russell a few times on recent episodes, so it was jolly decent of Reegs to nominate this "classic" for us this week.Tune in for some fascinating trivia.... and information on where you could have acquired a prop from the movie in 2016. Fingers on the pulse as always!

Midweek Mention... Executive Decision

If there&apos;s one thing Hollywood loves doing it&apos;s killing us all and given the current state of our world I think we should let them. The first disaster movie, 1936&apos;s SAN FRANCISCO, was about the earthquake which ripped that city apart back in 1908 and that sort of interesting trivia is exactly the kind of thing you won&apos;t get any more of as we discuss our Top 5 Disaster movies. What you will get is incredible special effects, Gerard Butler, ham-fisted environmental messages, Roland Emmerich, dubious science, mile high tsunamis repeatedly crashing into the New York skyline and a Michael Bay movie which divides us all. Adam McKay&apos;s movies have a habit of making an impact on us and the recently released DON&apos;T LOOK UP with its five time Oscar winning cast and cinematography by Linus Sandgren (LA LA LAND, NO TIME TO DIE) was one we had to watch. The plot sees mulleted astrophysicist Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) discover a comet on a direct collision course with earth, which is where we live. You and I. Attempting to alert the world to the imminent and very real danger, Dibiasky and her professor, Dr Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) face challenges greater than merely a President reluctant to do anything about the problem before the mid-terms. This one seems to have polarized critics, let&apos;s see what it does to the dads. "What would you do if I sang out of tune?" yes just the opening bars of The Beatle&apos;s classic With A Little Help From My friends as belted out by gravel-throated English rocker Joe Crocker should be enough to conjure up memories of THE WONDER YEARS. We&apos;re talking about the new Disney+ reboot which centres around the Williams family in Alabama in 1968, as we experience pivotal moments in the American black civil rights movement through the eyes of 12 year old Dean (Elisha "EJ" Williams) who fell madly in love with a girl he met on the first day of school and desperately wants to avoid being embarrassed during baseball.  We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. Try us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

Don't Look Up & The Wonder Years

Join us for this weeks Midweek Mention as we follow legendary rock band Spinal Tap, on the cusp of releasing their 15th album in 17 years and about to start their comeback tour. Director Marty DiBergi provides a peak behind the curtain at the real life machinations of one of Englands loudest bands.We also prove it&apos;s hard to find interesting things to say about this fantastic movie other than repeating some of the brilliantly improvised dialogue and explaining the jokes that even those people who haven&apos;t seen the film probably know off by heart: the ill-fated drummers, the tiny Stonehenge model that descends from the rafters, the gentle piano piece named Lick My Love Pump, the guitar amplifier that goes up to 11.Dan picked this one because Peter Andre hadn&apos;t seen it however he&apos;s not here this week, but fear not: Howie joins us and he hadn&apos;t seen it either! A virgin the band would be proud to deflower. 

Midweek Mention...This Is Spinal Tap

After nearly a month in isolation we celebrate Reegs&apos; return to the pod as he remerges looking even more dishevelled than usual, like a sort of haunted, hairy potato. Is it a mere coincidence that his stomach churning appearance coincides with the dads discussing the Top 5 Vomit Scenes in Movies? Probably.   In some people&apos;s eyes watching any Adam Sandler movie constitutes a traumatic experience but then again there&apos;s always somebody who likes him so that&apos;s nice for him isn’t it. For those people who don&apos;t enjoy his standard man-child comedy fare I&apos;d urge them to try UNCUT GEMS on Netflix, The Safdie Brothers dizzying examination of gambling addiction as experienced through the life of Jewish jeweller Howard Ratner. Owing money to his brother-in-law and with a couple of increasingly frustrated and menacing thugs following him closely Howard acquires a large black opal from an Ethiopian mine which he hopes to sell at auction as he seeks the big pay-out that will fix all of his many problems.  Sandler is immense and somehow finds the humanity and empathy in a character who tramples over all his relationships in the pursuit of his obsessions.  PINKY AND THE BRAIN was a mid-90&apos;s Warner Bros cartoon about the ill-fated attempts of two mice to take over the world which experienced a reboot in 2020. Not the world which is yet to reboot as far as I know, the cartoon. We watched Season 1 Episode 16 of the original series to enjoy "The Third Mouse", an homage to the classic 1949 British film noir. Pinky arrives in Vienna in 1946 to search for his friend, The Brain who was apparently killed in a chemical explosion. Mistaken for an international plumbing expert, can Pinky solve the riddle of The Third Mouse in order to be reunited with his erstwhile leader?We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. Try us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

Uncut Gems & Pinky and the Brain

CB4 is a fictional gangster rap group and the subject of this 1993 mocumentary. This movie was uncharted territory for Reegs and Sidey. For Pete this was one of those tricky films. You remember it being brilliant, but you&apos;re unsure whether the movie will stand up to scrutiny all these years down the line. Can the dads come to a unanimous consensus over a film for once? Who knows?!

Midweek Mention... CB4

Ok, I was really hoping that Reegs would have written some notes, but alas that hasn&apos;t happened! We opted for a violent theme for this week&apos;s content. Nothing brings out ones violent tendencies more effectively than a family get together. That theory forms the basis of our Top 5 for this week - family fights.Earlier on this year we reviewed Guy Ritchie&apos;s The Gentlemen. As I recall that movie split opinion down the middle of our dad based panel. We&apos;ve returned to the filmography of Mr Ritchie to see if we can all agree on something for once. That seems unlikely. But, in any case we watched Wrath Of Man and the early signs were promising.Finally for our kids choice, inspired by our kids (and some dads) presents, we watched Lego Ninjago. Surely this will be a hit?!We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. Try us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

Wrath of Man & Lego Ninjago Masters of Spinjitzu

We&apos;re breaking the first two rules of Fight Club this week as we talk about the very thing you&apos;re not supposed to talk about.Fight Club was released in 1999, directed by David Fincher and polarised critics and audiences alike. We&apos;ve revisited it to see how it holds up after all these years.Let us know what you thought of this one. You can reach us on Twitter - @dads_film or our website - baddadsfilm.com  

Midweek Mention... Fight Club

We became dads in 2013. The time available to watch films was restricted. So we've started a podcast to try and dedicate some time each week to catching up on films we've missed. As parents we are also subjected to some shows that our kids enjoy. We watch them too... We're starting out and learning as we go. Let us know if you like what you hear. If you hate it, you can tell us. We won't cry.

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