Movies with My Dad

Episode 62: After the Hunt

On this week’s car ride home we go back to college and try to figure out if we like anyone involved in After the Hunt, a Yale University-inspired drama about student-professor power dynamics. Stratis comes out hot and says he’s befuddled by the entire film, while Tina proceeds to ...

Episode 61: Tron: Ares

Get ready for some ’80s-inspired artificial intelligence trying to take over our car ride home as we jump on a lightcycle and talk about Tron: Ares. This one is right up Stratis’ alley and he couldn’t get enough of the stunning visuals and music. Tina was less impressed, but she was a...

Episode 60: Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

This week Tina and Stratis pick up a hitchhiker, Regina (aka Mom), on our overseas trip to Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. This is a rare occasion for Regina as it’s her first film outing of 2025! Stratis is proud that he came up with a pull quote for this instal...

Episode 59 - The Long Walk

Stephen King joins us on this week's drive home, and somehow we aren't overcome by demons, buckets of blood, or even killer cars. The Long Walk is a different kind of horror film, one that even Stratis can enjoy. Tina gives us some serious insights and thoughts about the horror ge...

Episode 58 - Nobody 2

On this week’s drive home we delve into the violent alternate life of Bob Odenkirk’s character in Nobody 2. Tina should have been primed to like this movie because one of her pet peeves is that movies need shorter runtimes. This one was only 1h and 29m. Stratis had done his homework an...

Episode 57 - The Fantastic Four: First Steps

We’re back in the superhero universe, and we try hard to find something we enjoyed in The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Stratis starts off with “it’s hard to make a good movie,” while Tina returns to her anti-superhero-movie happy place. We both agree tha...

Episode 56 - Freakier Friday

This time we travel back to the world of parent-child brain swapping in the long overdue sequel, Freakier Friday. Tina was really looking forward to seeing this film to relive her youth of way too many hours watching Disney movies.  She even coined a new term, nostalgia bai...

Episode 55 - Weapons

Tina takes Stratis to a horror film yet again, hoping Weapons will change his mind about the genre. We both love the first third of the movie because there’s just enough weird, confusing stuff happening to draw us into this child-disappearing mystery. Somehow Tina manages to fi...

Episode 54 - The Naked Gun

This week it’s a throwback to the ’80s as we hitch a ride with the remake of the screwball classic The Naked Gun. Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson did their best to bring the funny to this revamped franchise, so much so that Tina was surprised by how much she was laughing. Stratis ...

Episode 53 - Superman

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, wait, is it really Superman? We can’t figure out what this reboot is trying to be. Is it a comic book movie or a deep-thinking drama? Tina wants to know why Superman was missing from so much of the movie, while Stratis can’t believe they killed a guy with a b...

Episode 52 - Oh, Hi!

On this week's car ride home Stratis gets a graduate course on dating in the 2020s as we review Oh, Hi! Tina goes on about her love of Molly Gordon, while Stratis can’t get over what the youth think is a good way to work on their relationships - it includes getting tied to a bed for day...

Episode 51 - M3GAN 2.0

Somehow our ride home has detoured back into the AI world of our favorite artificially intelligent cyber doll, M3GAN. Stratis starts off with his enthusiastic hot take on this sequel, while Tina seems to be fixated on the movie's length (hint, it’s too long). She even finds a way to b...

Episode 50 - Jurassic World Rebirth

On this week’s car ride home we go 200 million years out of our way to visit Jurassic World Rebirth, the seventh installment in the Jurassic franchise. Tina leads us off by revealing something deep and terrible, while Stratis just wants to talk about how this should have ...

Episode 49 - 28 Years Later

First it was 28 days, then 28 weeks, and now Danny Boyle is back with 28 Years Later, the latest installment of his zombie franchise. Stratis finds himself in this new cinematic world for the first time and has some definite thoughts. Tina isn’t new to this series and sums it all...

Episode 48 - Life of Chuck

What happens when Stephen King, the master of horror, writes a deeply meaningful story that’s  not scary? You get The Life of Chuck, an engaging and novel look into the frailty of life. And amazingly, Tina and Stratis are in complete agreement about how much they love this mo...

Episode 46 - Bring Her Back

How many times can Tina take Stratis to another horror movie? This week it’s Bring Her Back, and all the trauma just wouldn’t let Stratis take a nap and skip this film entirely. Tina delivers a senior thesis on the different types of violence in film and why they’re needed. Strat...

Episode 46 - Ballerina

We arrived late to the World of John Wick - aka Ballerina, and that’s when the confusion starts. Stratis just doesn’t think this is really a John Wick film, while Tina is more interested in how Ana de Armas, the ballerina, manages to kill so many people with her hair always in her eye...

Episode 45 - Final Destination Bloodlines

Oh my! We are in a race with death on this week's car ride home as we try to avoid Final Destination Bloodlines. Even before the movie started, Tina tried to talk Stratis out of coming along. Death does take a run at Stratis, but he manages to survive. We both agree...

Episode 43 - Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

We become honorary members of Tom Cruise’s Impossible Mission Force on this week’s car ride home. This is the eighth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise, and Stratis spent the week watching the first seven movies but still manages to bring ...