Busy Dads Do Sci-Fi

"Does a spaceship make it sci-fi?"

Come along with us for an episode that was originally recorded in January of 2021, deep in the throes of the pandemic.  So, does this mean The Busy Dads are back?…

Have you ever seen a movie that you're not sure is good or not?  Event after a few weeks, you're still like "was that good or was it just different?"  Enter:  THE JACKET.  Continuing on with our time…

You know how you like a movie and then you dislike it and then you like it again?  No?  Only me?  Ok.

The Busy Dads take a weird transparent worm out the chest to Donnie Darko, the only good movie th…

I can't tell if Brad Pitt is a great actor or a terrible actor.

It doesn't matter, because the Busy Dads are taking a trip from the not so distant future to the not so distant past.  And, once again,…

Oh, so he is like playing Bruce Willis but Bruce Willis ISN'T playing Joseph Gordon Levitt?  Hm.  That hardly seems fair.

In this episode, a continuation of our EPIC time travel suite, the Busy Dads …

When you've got a movie that has been consistently billed as the smartest time travel movie ever made, what else can you do but make fart jokes about it?

The Busy Dads tackle the monster that is PRIM…

What do you get when you cross Robert Patinson, outer space and a baby?  Sounds like a fever nightmare I once had in 2006.

Surprisingly, you get HIGH LIFE, a fantastic piece of meditative science fic…

Come on now!  I'm pretty sure that we've ALL slept with our own mothers at some point.

Well, perhaps not to THAT extent.  However, in this episode Kevin and George take a look at the amazing facts, i…

Remember that movie about the remnants of humanity stuck on a train and they had to constantly move on the train or they'd all freeze to death and Captain America and John Hurt and Ed Harris and Tild…

Wow.  Winter Break seemed extra long this year.

Kevin and George (and Producer Vic) are BACK...from the dead?  Maaaaaaaybe.  More specifically, they are back with the brand of mediocre podcast that o…

"Cockroaches."

--Kevin

In the third installment of our Inhuman Women Suite, Kevin and George take a look at the Jonathan Glazer flick UNDER THE SKIN.  Scarlett Johannsen has come to Earth and she's…

"That's why I had to move out of Highland Park."

--George

Often a monster movie comes with a level of suspension of disbelief.  At times, that level can be asking too much from an audience.  The mo…

"Let's just read the notes!"

--Kevin

IO is a Netflix original movie that we just couldn't.  

We take a “fly on the wall” approach to our listeners.  As such, some of what we discuss falls into the …

"Subby Lawrence."

--Kevin

What is one of the worst things a movie can do?  Is it when it's just bad?  Is it when it's good but could be better?  Perhaps both.  However, as I write this, I find myse…

Every once in a while you come across a movie that was birthed of a fantastic idea.  No one really nurtured it by giving it a huge budget or a ton of publicity, but it didn't really matter.  Perhaps …

"Dondo!"

--G

Spider-Man:  Into The Spider-Verse manages to have something that very few big screen adaptations of the wall-crawler have had:  heart.

I think that this is the only thing that the cross…

"I just don't think about it."

--Theo

CHILDREN OF MEN was a 2006 dystopian science fiction masterpiece that showed up what a slowly decaying world would look 20 years into a global plague in which …

"Fingerling potatoes."

--Kevin

Annihilation is an Alex Garland joint.  We watched the movie.  Some of us even read the book.  Ok, one of us.  It was Kevin.  

Let us know what you think, listening. …

"This could be our raciest episode.  I said raciest."

--Kevin

The Busy Dads take a long, hard look at Boots Riley's SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, which in turn leads to a long, hard look at themselves and the…

"I think the 15 pizzas are here."

--Kevin

John Carpenter's ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK is long considered a classic of 80s Sci-Fi and a gem of the cult movie genre.  Kevin and George take a look at it and a…