We Love Dad Movies

By Ewan Paterson

All about the movies our dads loved! Westerns. Action movies. Anything with 90s Harrison Ford. The good stuff. Join Ewan and friends as they explore the very best of Dad Cinema! From 80s action cheese... more

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December 24, 2024 Episode 81 - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
So this is Christmas...

We Love Dad Movies signs off 2024 with a BANG... a Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Ewan is joined by the tremendous Preston Mitchell yet again to talk Shane Black's 2005 masterpiece, action movie Xmas discourse in general, and what so many newer holiday films miss about the festive period...
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47min
December 01, 2024 Episode 80 - Enemy of the State
December is here! While we're not quite yet in the full festive swing of things at We Love Dad Movies, that's just a great excuse to spotlight another Big Coat movie - and one that has a Christmassy setting at that! This week, Ewan is joined by wonderful podcasting extraordinaires Matt Bledsoe and James Coddington to discuss Tony Scott's prophetic 1998 banger Enemy of the State - a film as bristling with Big Coats and cold weather as it is with surveillance anxieties and millennium dread. Where does it sit within Scott's filmography, and in the canon of Will Smith's nineties peak? For answers to those questions and more, come along and spend a cosy hour with the WLDM podcast!
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1h 6min
November 28, 2024 Episode 79 - The Firm
It's been All Quiet on the Western Front here at We Love Dad Movies as we adjust to those dark, stormy nights, but we've managed to sneak in a couple of episodes on a theme we've teased in the past before we step into Christmas - The BIG COAT Movie!

Devoted to those cosy nineties offerings where the cast is draped top to bottom in coats that make you go "Oooo, that looks well nice!", we'll be looking at legal thrillers, espionage thrillers, and... well it's just two films, but they're great I promise!

First up: Ewan and Dan cover a gem of a film we wanted to discuss for its 30th anniversary last year but didn't get the chance to - Sydney Pollack's stylish and suspenseful adaptation of John Grisham's novel, The Firm. Starring Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman, Pollack pulls all of those paranoid seventies-era impulses together for a gripping post-mortem on the excess and greed of the Reagan years. Cruise and Hackman are also joined by Ed Harris, Wilford Brimley, Holly Hunter, Gary Busey, Tobin Bell AND David Straithairn, and yes, that does mean it has the best cast ever.

Full spoilers ahead for this one folks, so if you haven't seen The Firm yet, PLEASE DO. It's our platonic ideal of a nineties thriller, and a highlight from Cruise's filmography that doesn't get spoken about nearly as much as it should.
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1h 11min
November 02, 2024 Episode 78 - Tyneside Cinema Halloween All-Nighter 2024 Special
Just when you thought Spooky Season had left the building! Ewan and Zan re-team to bring an end to the Halloween festivities, discussing their time at this year's Halloween All-Nighter at the Tyneside Cinema! Covering Ghostwatch, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Scream 2, and The Exorcist III's Legion Cut, this isn't one you want to miss...
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1h 26min
October 31, 2024 Episode 77 - Poltergeist
Happy Halloween everybody! We're capping off spooky season with a We Love Dad Movies first - a double-bill, starting with a look back at Tobe Hooper's brilliant Steven Spielberg-produced Poltergeist with Carmelita Valdez McKoy! Grab a bowl of your favourite Halloween treats, sit back, and come along as we dive into the ins and outs of Hooper's eighties classic.
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1h 2min
October 20, 2024 Episode 76 - Van Helsing
The spooky vibes continue at We Love Dad Movies this week, as Ewan is joined by not one guest, but TWO to discuss Stephen Sommers' 2004 horror-action bomb, VAN HELSING. Along for this particular Transylvanian coach ride is fellow WhatCulture colleague, Josh Brown, as well as the Horror Legend that is Ash Millman! Come along as we explain why this was a film that demanded such a podcasting team-up, its formative influence in developing our own spooky vibes, and why the Brides of Dracula are totally innocent/the coolest characters of all time. (If you don't, well... "too bad... so sad!")
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1h 14min
October 10, 2024 Episode 75 - Pale Rider
WE'RE BACK.

It's been a long time coming folks, but We Love Dad Movies is back in the saddle and ready to come out guns a blazing with a new spooky-themed episode all about Pale Rider! Stalwart guest Dan Grima returns for a lovely catch-up about what he's been up to (including an update on his Westerns journey) and to share his thoughts on this supernatural, slow-burn effort from Clint Eastwood...
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1h
July 15, 2024 Episode 74 - Looney Tunes: Back In Action
I know what you're thinking... Looney Tunes: Back in Action? On We Love Dad Movies?? When it's not even a dad movie??? Well YEAH but also do you not want to listen to us talk about the Looney Tunes for about 50 minutes? Exactly! Ewan and Zan are back once again to delve into a big Canon Event film from their childhoods, and why it's still baffling that Joe Dante's superior Space Jam follow-up isn't as frequently discussed as it should be...
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49min
July 04, 2024 Episode 73 - The Lost Boys
It's time... to party all night! We Love Dad Movies is heading back to the California coast this week to soak up the rays, read a few comics, and (maybe) kill a vampire or two with a chat all about Joel Schumacher's seminal blood sucker flick, The Lost Boys! Join Ewan and Zan as they take the beach and bask in those glorious Tim Capello vibes, heed the warnings of the Frog Brothers and discuss what makes Kiefer Sutherland's Michael an all-timer bad-boy vamp...
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46min
June 10, 2024 Episode 72 - Dirty Harry
Summer Vibes returns! We Love Dad Movies is back to kick off the summer with the series that celebrates the best of summery dad cinema - whether that be big nineties blockbusters like Men in Black, or films that fit that hot, sunshine feel, like Die Hard with a Vengeance. The first installment of the 2024 edition of this season sees Carmelita Valdez McKoy return to the podcast to discuss Don Siegel's iconic Clint Eastwood-led masterpiece, DIRTY HARRY. Join her and Ewan as they delve into the fascinating history of Siegel's picture, the Dirty Harry series more broadly, and why the original may not be as easily definable as consensus would say...
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1h 11min

FAQs about We Love Dad Movies:

How many episodes does We Love Dad Movies have?

The podcast currently has 81 episodes available.