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 it out where they can.

This week’s movies are: A Woman Under The Influence (1974), Monica (2022), Hot Fuzz (2007), Fresh Kill (1994), Run Lola Run (1998), and The Florida Project (2017).

Watch Yellowcard's Run Lola Run-inspired music video for "Ocean Avenue."

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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 their devil horns by the end of the week.

This week’s movies are: Le Bonheur (1965), E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Antiporno (2016), Ste. Anne (2022), The Favourite (2018), and Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989).

Watch Taskmaster UK on Youtube!

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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 on contemporary auteurs.

This week’s movies are: Autumn Sonata (1978), Insidious (2010), Catherine Called Birdy (2022), The Matrix (1999), Weekend At Bernie's (1989), and Happy Together (1997).

Read Eliza Ruiz's article on trans readings of The Matrix.

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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 are: The Vanishing (1988), Now and Then (1995), True Romance (1993), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), Volcano (1997).

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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 week’s movies are: Brother (2022), How To Blow Up A Pipeline (2022), The Maiden (2022), American Psycho (2000), The Blues Brothers (1980), Carmen (2022).

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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 Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Panic Room (2002), Lady Bird (2017).

Read Sylvia Douglas's blog on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Watch Jury Duty on Amazon Prime (it's sadly been taken off of Youtube)

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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 and trans folks, nipple jumpscares, and how everything comes back to Dad.

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And see Harvey Keitel in Tommy Wiseau cosplay.

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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), The Slumber Party Massacre (1982).

Our rad rec of the week is Vox's How A24 Took Over Hollywood

Also, check out Everything Great About Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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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), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), Shirkers (2018).

Our rad rec of the week is The Hives' music video for "Bogus Operandi."

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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. 1 & 2 (2003/2004), Showing Up (2022), Donnie Darko (2001), Joyland (2022).

Our rad rec of the week is Kevin Smith's "Trauma Is Trauma". Content warning for discussions of sexual abuse and body-shaming.

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