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The Big Picture · Discussion · Roundtable · Interview
The Dad Movie Hall of Fame. Plus: the Kickass Action of ‘The Old Guard’
July 10, 2020/ 98 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins · Kevin Clark
Sean and Amanda run through the week's new streaming arrivals, then bring on The Ringer's Kevin Clark to build a Dad Movie Hall of Fame. Sean also talks to Gina Prince-Bythewood about turning from intimate dramas to hardcore action with 'The Old Guard.'
28 films across 3 segments.
AI-generated This episode was transcribed and analyzed with AI models. The matches aren't perfect — expect the occasional misheard title or a link to the wrong film.
This Week's New Releasesa full slate hits streaming
The Old Guard 2020
Gina Prince-Bythewood's turn to hardcore action, with Charlize Theron leading; Sean compares it to Extraction, minus the black box where characters should be.
First Cow 2020
Kelly Reichardt's film reaches VOD after a one-week theatrical run cut short by the pandemic.
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets 2020
Bill and Turner Ross's staged documentary, set on the last night of a Las Vegas dive bar.
Greyhound 2020
Tom Hanks's WWII naval drama moves to Apple TV+ after Sony sold off its theatrical release; the segue into the dad-movie conversation.
The Dad Movie Hall of Fame three picks apiece from Sean, Amanda, and Kevin, plus a unanimous 10th
Picked by Kevin Clark
The Great Escape 1963
Steve McQueen did his own motorcycle jumps out of spite; Richard Attenborough gets in for the Attenborough Extended Universe.
Picked by Kevin Clark
Bridge of Spies 2015
Cold War diplomacy, Spielberg, Hanks, and Mark Rylance hiding a message in a coin. "Maximum Dad."
Picked by Kevin Clark
Remember the Titans 2000
Denzel and football; along with Gladiator, one of the only two movies every NFL locker room has seen.
Picked by Amanda Dobbins
Apollo 13 1995
Ron Howard and Tom Hanks; Amanda made her mother tour Cape Canaveral as a kid because of this movie.
Picked by Amanda Dobbins
Catch Me If You Can 2002
DiCaprio's con man, Hanks's FBI agent, and Christopher Walken as the actual dad.
Picked by Amanda Dobbins
Sully 2016
Clint Eastwood, Hanks, a tight runtime, and the line "Can we get serious now?"
Picked by Sean Fennessey
The Right Stuff 1983
Adapted from Tom Wolfe; elite as a book and as a movie, unlike most nonfiction adaptations.
Picked by Sean Fennessey
The Untouchables 1987
Brian De Palma, a David Mamet script, an Ennio Morricone score, and Sean Connery's pure-dad cop.
Picked by Sean Fennessey
Lincoln 2012
Spielberg, Daniel Day-Lewis, Tony Kushner's script, adapted from Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals."
Picked by unanimous
Saving Private Ryan 1998
Left off last year's Hanks Hall of Fame, to the audience's fury; voted in here as the WWII dad movie's summation.
In conversation
Gina Prince-Bythewood on
The Old Guard 2020
She pitched Skydance with a custom hip-hop/old-world-instrument demo track built the night before the meeting.
Gina Prince-Bythewood on
Black Panther 2018
Cited alongside Logan as proof the genre could move past one-upping stunt sequences.
Gina Prince-Bythewood on
Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
Says only "I loved Mad Max"; resolved to Fury Road since that's Theron's sole entry in the franchise.
Gina Prince-Bythewood on
If Beale Street Could Talk 2018
Where she first saw Kiki Layne and, by her own admission, wrongly assumed Layne was "too soft" to play a soldier.
Gina Prince-Bythewood on
Love & Basketball 2000
Her debut; Skydance sent her the Old Guard script partly because of the character work in it.
Gina Prince-Bythewood on
Beyond the Lights 2014
Cited alongside Love & Basketball as evidence she writes believable characters.
Gina Prince-Bythewood on
The Secret Life of Bees 2008
Sean brings up Roger Ebert's review of it, the line about "feeling superior to your emotions."
Gina Prince-Bythewood on
Bend It Like Beckham 2002
One of the few sports movies she can name with women at the center.
Gina Prince-Bythewood on
King Richard 2021
The then-unreleased Serena Williams-adjacent biopic; she notes it's named for the father, not Serena.
Also mentioned raised along the way
In passing Once Upon a Time in HollywoodAd AstraDunkirkAmadeusRushDadsFrost/NixonIn the Heart of the SeaHillbilly ElegyCinderella ManA Beautiful MindThe GodfatherThe Godfather Part II1917JFKNo Country for Old MenFord v FerrariThe StingInside Llewyn DavisWalk the LineA Beautiful Day in the NeighborhoodMaster and Commander: The Far Side of the WorldExtractionMidway
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