Lady Bird & Is It Cake? Too

It seems absurd that a podcast devoted to parents rekindling their love for cinema has taken three hundred and fifty something episodes to get around to discussing the Top 5 Births but here we are. Most of our examples are either comedies or horrors which tells you everything you need to know about our experiences or parenting in general.<br/> <br/>While the rest of the world goes BARBIE crazy, we thought we would take a look back at writer/director Greta Gerwig's solo feature debut LADY BIRD, in which the self-monikered high schooler attempts to navigate the cliques of her senior year at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic High School, whilst dreaming of escape to college in New York, much to the disapproval of her domineering mother (Laurie Metcalf). <br/> <br/>We've seen the coming-of-age story told many times before but mostly from a male perspective and never one with such a rich and painful mother daughter relationship at its core. By equal measure funny, moving, and heart-breaking, with a terrific script full of powerful, real sounding lines and textured, layered characters, LADY BIRD is never better than when Metcalf is on screen as the emotionally abusive Marion who is at the centre of the movie’s thesis on love and attention. Sadly this didn't connect with all of us; if I'd have let them, my co-hosts would have gone on for ages about things they didn't like: Sidey thought it was pretentious though the film wears it's meaning front and centre and there weren't enough lasers or sport-cliches or something for Dan.<br/> <br/>Our final section of the show is dedicated to answering one of life’s ultimate and most profound conundrums: IS IT CAKE?. Based on a brief online fad from a few years back, hosted by a man who doesn't appear to even know the meaning of the word comedy, it's 45 minutes long, the title has a question mark in it: there's a lot to potentially hate in this, and Sidey and Dan do in fact hate it. Not me though, the cakes look and sound amazing, the contestants are interesting and for some inexplicable reason, the light entertainment family element just works. Plus you can stab literally anything now and pretend you were just playing the game.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 baddadsjsy@gmail.com or on our website baddadsfilm.com.<br/> <br/>Until next time, we remain...<br/> <br/>Bad Dads