We Love Dad Movies

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!

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!

"The sun is sinking in the westThe cattle go down to the streamThe redwing settles in the nestIt'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...

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.

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...

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...