2 Dads 1 Movie

Buckle up your life vest and start rowing — this week, the dads brave The River Wild ! We’re diving into the 1994 whitewater thriller that somehow stars both Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon (and yes, Bacon is very much in...

The dads are back — and so is the T-800 — for Terminator 2 , James Cameron’s 1991 sci-fi action landmark that somehow made killer robots emotional and liquid metal cool. Arnold returns with a leather jacket and a new...

For their 50th episode, the dads crack open a 24-pack of nostalgia with Strange Brew (1983), the Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas comedy that somehow became every kid's unofficial guide to Canadian culture. Nic picked this...

This week, the Dads dive into Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Cameron Crowe's undercover-journalism-turned-screenplay debut brought to life by first-time director Amy Heckerling. Both Steve and Nic trace their...

Steve brought a childhood favorite to the table this week, and Nic brought a grudge he didn't know he had. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) is John Hughes's love letter to the perfect skip day — a senior with no car but...

This week the Dads get detention along with The Breakfast Club, and what was supposed to be a conversation about a teen movie turns into something closer to a therapy session for two middle-aged fathers who suddenly...

This week, the Dads continue their 2 Dads 2 Decades march with 1984's Ghostbusters. Steve has seen Ghostbusters well over a hundred times. He watched it on LaserDisc as a four-year-old, weekly through high school and...

This week, the Dads fire up the cutting torch on Thief (1981), Michael Mann's gritty directorial debut that launched a career and divided a podcast booth. Steve came in completely blind, having never even heard of this...

This week, the Dads kick off their new 2 Dads 2 Decades series with 1980's Airplane! , and Steve arrives with the ultimate childhood credential: he first watched this movie at two years old on laserdisc. His parents...

This week, the Dads wrap up JanuArnie with Nic's personal favorite Schwarzenegger film, 1985's Commando , and Steve is seeing it for the very first time. Nic describes it as "black tar Arnie," the most purely...

This week, the Dads take another step through JanuArnie with James Cameron's 1994 spy action-comedy True Lies , and Steve is practically vibrating with joy from minute one. He calls it possibly the most fun he's had...

Steve picked Goodfellas (1990) to kick off the '90s leg of 2 Dads 2 Decades, and the dads immediately acknowledged the absurdity of trying to review a movie that is, by any reasonable measure, perfect. Both discovered...

Nic brought the pleated-linen-pants-and-mullet energy this week with Road House (1989), a movie both dads discovered in their late teens and have been unironically-slash-ironically in love with ever since. Steve first...

This week, the Dads get their asses to Mars with 1990's Total Recall , the second Verhoeven joint on the podcast and a movie that has seared itself into the collective consciousness whether you've seen it or not. Nic's...

Beetlejuice (1988) is one of those movies where everybody thinks they've seen it more times than they actually have, and both dads discovered exactly that when they sat down with Tim Burton's PG-rated fever dream about...