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We Love Dad Movies

Ewan Paterson

81 episodes

5 months ago

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 to truly gritty Westerns, they'll dive deep into all things dad and what makes them tick. We love dad movies!

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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 to truly gritty Westerns, they'll dive deep into all things dad and what makes them tick. We love dad movies!

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Episodes (20/81)

We Love Dad Movies

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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10 months ago

46 minutes 52 seconds

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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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11 months ago

1 hour 5 minutes 16 seconds

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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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11 months ago

1 hour 10 minutes 20 seconds

We Love Dad Movies

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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1 year ago

1 hour 25 minutes 14 seconds

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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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1 year ago

1 hour 1 minute 11 seconds

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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!")

Catch the WhatCulture Gaming podcast here!

...and Ash's further misadventures on Twitch here!

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1 year ago

1 hour 13 minutes 47 seconds

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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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1 year ago

59 minutes 42 seconds

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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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1 year ago

48 minutes 4 seconds

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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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1 year ago

45 minutes 16 seconds

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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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1 year ago

1 hour 10 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 71 - For A Few Dollars More

Dudes Rock season concludes! This week, We Love Dad Movies picks up its guns to discuss For a Few Dollars More, the second of Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy and Ewan's personal favourite Western of all time. But he won't be alone! Just as Clint Eastwood's Manco teams up with Lee Van Cleef's Colonel Mortimer, the wonderful Andy Gorham of the Imperial Scum podcast joins Ewan to talk all about Leone's classic, share in the joys of a heroic Van Cleef, and bask in what could be the greatest duel in the genre's history. When the chimes end, pick up your headphones!

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1 year ago

1 hour 1 minute 17 seconds

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Episode 70 - Big Trouble in Little China

After years of waiting, it's finally here! This week's We Love Dad Movies takes the Porkchop Express straight into Ewan's FAVOURITE movie of all time - John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China! Join Ewan and Zan as they discuss what happened at Ewan's B-day shindig (a screening of the film at the Tyneside Cinema organised wonderfully by the latter), including some VERY exciting news; their shared love for Carpenter; the magic of Al Leong; and how even while beloved by many, Big Trouble still feels underappreciated in Carpenter's filmography. Yes sir, the check is in the mail!

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1 year ago

49 minutes 50 seconds

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Episode 69 - Rio Bravo

"The sun is sinking in the west

The cattle go down to the stream

The redwing settles in the nest

It's time for a cowboy to dream..."

We Love Dad Movies returns this week with another installment of Dudes Rock season, with perhaps the dudes rockiest film of all time, Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo! Join Ewan and returning guest Preston Mitchell as they discuss what makes this particular Hawks masterpiece so euphoric, their own respective relationships with the filmmaker's work, and why Dean Martin gives one of the greatest performances of all time as Dude...

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1 year ago

56 minutes 51 seconds

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Episode 68 - Midnight Run

Dudes Rock season continues! This week, Ewan is joined by Dom O'Brien - freelance writer and author of Budget Biomorphs: The Making of The Guyver Films - to discuss one of the greatest road movies ever made: 1987's Midnight Run, a Martin Brest-directed action-comedy co-led by Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin. Come along as Ewan and Dom discuss the personal significance Midnight Run has to each of them as film fans, why its uplifting powers are almost peerless, and how its Oingo Boingo-infused soundtrack binds it all together in the perfect way.

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1 year ago

59 minutes 49 seconds

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Episode 67 - Lethal Weapon 2

Time to bust out the saxophones yet again folks, because We Love Dad Movies is heading back to the Lethal Weapon franchise. In the first episode of our specially dedicated "Dudes Rock" season, host Ewan is once again joined by Dan Grima of the Blind Spots Podcast discuss the majesty that is Lethal Weapon 2 - a sequel that cemented the series' formula of action and humour and expanded the duo of Riggs and Murtaugh into a titanic trio, with Joe Pesci joining as comic relief Leo Getz. Featuring plenty of great action, a banger George Harrison track and yet even more immaculate buddy cop vibes, Richard Donner's movie has to be one of the greatest sequels ever made. But does it top the first? Ewan and Dan discuss all of that and more, as the pod gears up for what's shaping up to be a busy April...

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1 year ago

57 minutes 32 seconds

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Episode 66 - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

We Love Dad Movies is selling its soul this week... for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre! Joining us to discuss this inimitable Golden Age Hollywood classic is Carmelita Valdez McKoy, who yes, is like the coolest person ever. Come along as she and Ewan mine deep into John Huston's peerless Western-noir fusion, discuss why it might be Bogey's best role, and how watching Looney Tunes preps you for a life of loving classic movies...

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1 year ago

1 hour 11 minutes 11 seconds

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Episode 65 - Ghostbusters

With a new Ghostbusters movie being unleashed upon the world in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, now seemed like as good a time as any for We Love Dad Movies to get suited and booted, slide down that firepole and cross the streams. It's time we take a look back at the 1984 classic that is the OG Ghostbusters! Following a great chat with Michael Hamflett on Ghostbusters II last year, there was only one person that we could have on to discuss the film that started it all - WhatCulture Gaming's Psy White! Join Psy and Ewan as they delve into the origins of their Ghostbusters fandom, what makes the original film so special, and why - actually - it's okay to get emotional about bustin' ghosts.

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1 year ago

1 hour 1 minute 10 seconds

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Episode 64 - Deep Cover

We Love Dad Movies is bringing the neo-noir vibes HEAVILY this week, as Preston Mitchell joins Ewan to discuss Bill Duke's cult masterpiece, DEEP COVER. Starring Laurence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum, Duke's sleek and stylish 1992 effort grappled fiercely with the War on Drugs, following Fishburne's undercover cop as he delves deeper and deeper into the criminal underworld, and the lines between justice become increasingly blurred...

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1 year ago

1 hour 13 minutes 40 seconds

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Episode 63 - Backdraft

We Love Dad Movies returns this week with a beloved nineties staple from the always lovely Ron Howard - BACKDRAFT, picked out by podcasting extraordinaire Jackson Boren, who joins us as a guest for this episode. Come along as Jackson and Ewan discuss the pleasures of a movie stacked with wall-to-wall GUYS (Scott Glenn and J. T. Walsh just two highlights), the genius of Donald Sutherland's "Flammable Lecter", and the simple pleasures of a Bruce Hornsby montage...

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1 year ago

1 hour 17 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 62 - Jack Reacher

New week, new Dad Movie. We're flashing back not as far as we usually do for this week's episode, as months of Dan Grima "Jack Reacher Is Good" propaganda has finally paid off. Join Ewan and Dan as they discuss the first big adaptation of Lee Child's novels, its unique place as a pre-cursor to the formidable McQuarrie-Cruise partnership on Mission: Impossible, and how it brings some immaculate '70s vibes to a modern landscape.

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1 year ago

56 minutes 16 seconds