We Love Dad Movies

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...

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.

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!

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...

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...

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...

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!