Dadcore Cinema Club

Or: "Dirty, Hairy"

Guess who just got back today? Them Dadcore boys that'd been away. Watched a Joe Don Baker film, had much to say. Man, I think that flick is crazy.

Or: "Class Action Law Shoot"

Hosts Charlie and Brandon dive into the works of John Ford with his 1962 classic about The People vs. Ranchers; the law of the land; the story of America, and the myth of the west that built it.

Or: "High and Marlowe"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie dive into the world of detective Philip Marlowe with 1975's Farewell, My Lovely (1975) starring Robert Mitchum.

Or: "3 Non Bonds"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie finally delve into martial arts cinema as they discuss the martial arts-meets blaxploitation-meets Bond flick Enter the Dragon (1973).

Or: "London Has Fallen"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie once again dive into the world of crime, love, and the Irish Republican Army in John Mackenzie's The Long Good Friday. 

Hosts Brandon and Charlie learn a little something about the spirit of Christmas in this very special episode about Richard Donner and Bill Murray's Scrooged (1988).

Or: "Which Way Western Man"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie are joined by their pals Gage (@neatsaux) and Tyler (@film_butt) for a very special cinematic length episode.  

Or: "Hostile Architecture"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie go vigilante mode discussing Death Wish, a film all about the spiritual healing power of extrajudicial murder.

Or: "A Good Time No Badge Required"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie set out in search for gold in John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Will their discussion strike pay dirt or just plain dirt? God I hope it's the former.

Or: "Del the Funky Salesman"

Brandon's never seen it. Charlie has. But this Thanksgiving season they're stuck together as they (re)discover the joys of John Hughes' 1987 classic.

Or: "Criminals in Cars Getting Coffee"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie speed into November with John Frankenheimer's late career car 'em up Ronin. This one's all about the joy of cars, the ronin mindset, and cute little coffee cups.

Or: "We Bought a Pazuzu"

The scare-a-thon continues as Brandon and Charlie discuss William Friedkin's 1973 classic The Exorcist. Is this movie scary? Let me stop you right there: It is and we're not hearing otherwise.

Or: "The Great British Stake Off"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie dip into Hammer Productions with one outta left field: the swashbuckling, vampire hunting classic Captain Kronos. He's kind of like the white Blade?

Or: "Spartan in the Face of God"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie are back for another dose of historically revisionist action to answer important questions like "How does Spartan government work?" and "What's Xerxes' exercise regimen like?"

Or: "The Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Special"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie are joined by special guest Michael Chau (@Srirachachau) to go Mel Mode as we discuss that completely, totally historically accurate jaunt The Patriot. It's the cinema of cannonballs and ponytails, where the revolution is won because a single dad invented lying and guerrilla warfare.

Or: "Drive of Frankenstein"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie burn rubber through the sleaziest movie to hit the Dadcore Canon yet: Death Race 2000. It's a real true Corman Classic, with all the low budget thrills you expect like gory deaths and... Looney Tunes gags?

Or: "Finding Nemo"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie set sail for adventure with Captain Nemo and the gang. On this trip we'll learn about exotic seafood, naval warfare, and... how to craft a guitar from spare tortoise parts?

Or: "Parker Mindset" 

Hosts Brandon and Charlie are joined by their pal @PunishedLobster as they dive into the PARKER MINDSET with Point Blank, a stylish yet lean and mean crime/revenge picture. 

Or: "Rambo: First Blood Part 1"

We're back with another classic, that testament to Stallone's dramatic chops and raw action man screen presence, First Blood. It's rare that a movie can pull off an explosive action climax without undercutting its dramatic bonafides, but First Blood is just such a movie.

Or: "Uncut James"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie pay tribute to the great James Caan by revisiting the The Gambler, that 1974 classic about gambling, addiction, and cool cool Caan fits.

Or: "Marksploitation"

The Dadcore Cinema Club welcomes its first ever dads as Brandon and Charlie are joined by their good friends Brett "BrettThousand" Thousand (@brettthousand) and Galactic Zack (@ZackHeTweets) to discuss John Singleton's 2005 classic Four Brothers. It's a little bit blaxploitation, a little bit western, and all brothers. 

Or: "Bungo-Pete; or, The Warship"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie set sail, or whatever subs do, for a look at that classic dadcore genre The Submarine Movie. We're talking about Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) a little bit Moby Dick and... well, it's a LOT a bit Moby Dick. Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster butting heads in a macho battle for power, Don Rickles in his big screen debut, some beautiful Robert Wise direction, and intense naval warfare powered by groundbreaking 1958 effects. Come join us as we take down Bungo Pete!

Or: "A What?"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie are joined by our friend Nate @hollowchatter to discuss a July 4th favorite: Jaws. We're talking sharks, sun, local politics, and guys being dudes.

Or: "There's a Dang Yuri in the White House"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie close out Costner Month with the steamy political thriller No Way Out. Part horny, part Pakula-esque paranoia, part insane ending. All Costner.

Or: "Crash Tests (a) Dummy"

It's the middle of baseball season so that means it's time for the podcast's first baseball episode. Hosts Brandon and Charlie check out Bull Durham (1988), that classic baseball story that's, well, as much about home runs as it is about... home runs.

Or: "Death & Taxes"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie are joined by Seamus and Seán of My Rifle, My Podcast, and Me to discuss Brian De Palma's 1987 gangster classic The Untouchables, a movie that isn't a western but isn't not a western either.

Or: "Un-Unforgiven (Forgiven)" Hosts Brandon and Charlie begin their exploration of Kevin Costner with the free grazing western romance Open Range, a movie about love, romance, and large adult sons. 

Or: "You Can't Say That On Television"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie celebrate Clint Eastwood's birthday with his 2008 exploration of masculinity, race, and one cool car.

Or: "YVAN EHT NIOJ"

This week we're recording with the boys as hosts Brandon and Charlie are joined by the Dadcore Cinema Club's very first guest: CJ Salcedo. CJ joins the club to discuss the clear skies, shirtless guys, rockin tunes, and wartime blues of Top Gun. Man, is propaganda actually good?

Or: "Donut King of the Road"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie talk all about Breakdown, a Kurt Russell thriller that's tidy and taut right up until it isn't. Go into it knowing nothing and then come listen to us talk!

Or: "Momcore Cinema"

Hey, it's the Dadcore Cinema Club Mother's Day Special featuring that certified momcore classic, the 1978 hit teen musical Grease! If this episode were in any better condition, it would fly!

Or: "Magical Reelism"

We hit our first weepy with Tim Burton's Big Fish, a movie about finding the truth and love in your dad's tall tales. Now if you'll excuse me, there's something in my eye...

Or: "The Hemporium"

Brandon and Charlie talk about the anti-John Hughes movie: a high school flick where the stakes are low and everybody's high. It's the episode everyone will be "toking" about!

Or: "Yojimbooze"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie find the Dadcore Cinema Club's first reclamation project in Walter Hill's Last Man Standing. It's a lean and mean neo-noir take on Yojimbo set in prohibition-era Texas where Bruce Willis guns down both the Italian and Irish mobs with dual 1911s. What more could cinema offer?

Or: "Romeward Bound"

Our names are Brandon and Charlie, commanders of the Dadcore Cinema Club. And we will have our podcast, in this life or the next.

Or: "Ape & Dumber"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie explore that most unexpected of hits, the 1978 Clint Eastwood buddy boxing movie co-starring an ape, Every Which Way But Loose. This movie has it all: bare-knuckle boxing, slapstick hijinks, a bumbling biker gang, fishin, a beer-drinkin' ape. All the stuff you'd expect in one of the highest grossing films of 1978.

Or: "The Zaius Showman"

Hosts Brandon and Charlie discover that under-discussed hidden gem Planet of the Apes (1968), a film that has a lot to say about, well, almost every political hot topic in late 60s America. Also the boys accidentally convert to ape religion?

Or: "Toolman on Fire"

Brandon and Charlie get equalized.

Or: "Bullitt Points"

It's episode 1! It almost had to start here with one of the ur-dadcore movies. Listen as Brandon and Charlie (or was that Charlie and Brandon?) discuss San Francisco Police Lieutenant Frank Bullitt, the man with the cool side holster, the cooler car, and one bad lust for revenge. It's about time someone finally said "Bullitt's a good movie"!

Hosts Brandon and Charlie welcome you to the Dadcore Cinema Club and maybe try to figure out what "dadcore" even really means?