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This week on Bad Dads Film Review, Sidey, Dan, Reegs and Cris take on Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic , the Oscar-winning 2000 ensemble drama about the war on drugs, starring Michael Douglas, Benicio del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Don Cheadle, Luis Guzmán, Erika Christensen, Dennis Quaid and several thousand other people you recognise from better-lit rooms. The episode begins with Reegs back from France, a heroic return to walking football, a 6–2 win, snacks from Grand Marché, Rioja on the table and the usual sense that the podcast might be more structured if anyone genuinely wanted that. Recent viewing includes Dan on Early Man , Ted Lasso and Grown Ups , Reegs going deep into Reacher , Cris bringing a bit of cartel-adjacent homework energy, and Sidey watching Barry plus Netflix serial-killer thriller The Whisper Man , a film he enjoys until the last-minute ghost business turns up and starts knocking over the furniture. Before the main film, the dads count down Steven Soderbergh and Soderbergh-adjacent favourites. Cris explains how Benicio del Toro led him towards Traffic and Che , while the conversation takes in the myth and reality of Che Guevara, Soderbergh’s habit of editing and shooting under pseudonyms, and the frankly annoying fact that he appears to have made several films since this paragraph began. The list includes Solaris , Contagion , Syriana , Logan Lucky , Erin Brockovich , Magic Mike , Ocean’s Eleven , Ocean’s Thirteen , Haywire , Her , Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Sidey’s beloved Out of Sight , which he still considers a 10-out-of-10 film thanks to Clooney, J-Lo, Luis Guzmán, Catherine Keener, David Holmes and the sort of charm that should probably be illegal. Then it is time for Traffic , a film the dads remember as serious, long, colour-coded and very much trying to win awards, which, to be fair, it did. The review follows the film’s interlocking stories: Javier Rodriguez trying to do good police work in Mexico while the system around him is
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