Hell or High Water & Trap Door

Stop the press! Who is Peter André? Well, you're about to find out as this week’s show is brought to you from the mind of the fanatical turophile himself. The second Indochina war waged from 1955 to 1975 with U.S. Marines landing on beaches near Da Nang, South Vietnam for the first time in March 1965. The war was politically and ideologically divisive on home soil in Washington and utterly devastating for the troops on the ground as they were largely outmanoeuvred, both sides sustaining terrible losses. In later years American filmmakers would attempt to make sense of the senseless and brutal conflict by exploring the horrors of the war on the silver screen, so much so that 'Vietnam War Movie' became essentially a genre in its own right. We talk about them in this week’s Top 5 and you can probably take a fair guess at what might be on the list although with any luck there's a surprise or two in there. HELL OR HIGH WATER is a 2016 movie starring the impossibly good looking Chris Pine and the impossibly overacting Ben Foster as Toby and Tanner Howard, brothers who carry out a series of small town bank robberies in order to avoid foreclosure on their now deceased mother's ranch. Writer Taylor Sheridan had a recurring role in SONS OF ANARCHY and wrote the screenplay for SICARIO, so expectations were high for a film that, surprisingly, none of us had heard of. Jeff Bridges co-stars as a racist Texas Ranger approaching retirement who tasks himself with solving the case as his long-suffering partner Alberto (Gil Birmingham) looks on exasperatedly. THE TRAPDOOR was an early 80's British animation that I could have sworn was just called Trapdoor right up until the moment I typed it for this sentence. An obvious parody of the Hammer Horror genre, the plot revolves around the unseen "The Thing Upstairs" and his near constant demand for food which almost always ends up with our hero Berk, an oviform blue plasticine blob, unleashing some grotesque mockery of reality beyond human comprehension from the title-istic basement-based entry hatchway. A searing satire of the relationship between the English working and upper classes or a prescient look at the vital role the service economy would start to have as we all became unseen beasts trapped in our homes, well only you can judge. And being as we don't discuss any of that on the show, you'd better judge it now. We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. Try us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review or on our website baddadsfilm.com.Until next time, we remain...Bad DadsYou can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at [email protected] or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads