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Shane and Lucien discuss Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 moody coming-of-age drama starring two bad boy heartthrobs of the era, Matt Dillon and Mickey Rourke.

Lucien and Shane discuss Michael Bay's 2013 body building-themed caper starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson! We debate this movie's compelling pre-Trump Era depiction of Miami white trash, phenomenal Tony Shalhoub and Ed Harris supporting performances and the disappointing arc of Wahlberg's leading man career.

Shane and Lucien discuss some early 90s bad boys: Rob Lowe and James Spader star in Curtis Hanson's erotic thriller Bad Influence. We go in-depth on the careers of these one-time leading men turned network TV mainstays, analyse the rise and fall of the male-oriented erotic thriller and ask 'exactly how bad was the influence?'.

Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron star as a speechwriter and presidential candidate pursuing romance in 2019’s Long Shot.

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• ​Funny People

Lucien kicks off Boy Party's 25 for 25, celebrating the 25 best films of the last 25 years (according to Lucien), with No. 25: Martin Scorsese's 2011 family-friendly celebration of cinema history Hugo starring Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen and Michael Stuhlbarg.

The 25 for 25 continues throughout the summer with episodes dropping intermittently.

Lauren joins Shane and Lucien to discuss 2006's Notes On A Scandal, starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett as English schoolteachers embroiled in a twisted story.

It's your March Madness winner for 2025... Stanley Kubrick's classic erotic drama starring real-life married couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman! Lucien and Shane discuss the film's legacy as Kubrick's swan song, Cruise and Kidman's respective 90s and how this intersects with their doomed marriage, the new Mission: Impossible trailer and this film's journey to winning our March Madness bracket.

Lucien reacts to the brand new Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning trailer!

Lucien and Shane celebrate 1st April by discussing when iconic movie stars Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck co-starred with Oscar winner Brendan Fraser in 2003's Looney Tunes: Back in Action!

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• Adam & Ben episode on Airheads

Theme music contains sample from The Studio Episode 1 (now on Apple TV+)

We'll pod what she's podding. Lucien and Shane discuss 1989's rom-com classic When Harry Met Sally... starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal. We dig into what makes this such a beloved film across the generations, Meg and Billy's highs and lows as movie stars, and the secret to selecting who presents Best Picture at the Oscars every year.

Lucien and Shane tackle Noah Baumbach’s Oscar-winning 2019 divorce masterpiece Marriage Story, starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver.

Links

• Adam & Ben: The Meyerowitz Stories episode
• Adam & Ben: Greenberg episode
• Adam & Ben: While We're Young episode

This week we celebrate the late Gene Hackman, discussing 2003 courtroom garbage Runaway Jury starring Hackman, John Cusack and Dustin Hoffman!

Links

• Hear us discuss The Royal Tenenbaums in April 2022
• Lucien guests on NO ENCORE Podcast
• Vote in our daily March Madness polls

This week, Shane and Lucien discuss mid-2010s old man bachelor party comedy Last Vegas, from the director of the National Treasure movies and starring 5 (five!) Oscar winning actors. We dig into the careers of Michael Douglas and Kevin Kline, and touch upon their co-stars Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Mary Steenburgen.

Listen to Lucien’s appearance on NO ENCORE

We're all out of hotdogs! Shane and Lucien dig into Todd Haynes' 2023 psychological drama May December starring Oscar-winning duo Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore as actress and subject opposite Charles Melton in a breakout role. We discuss Haynes' eclectic filmography, the film's complex depiction of the aftermath of a sexually predatory relationship and the research of an actor, and Portman and Moore's great careers as leading women.

Shane and Lucien celebrate the best films, performances and craft of the past year at the 2nd Annual Golden Boy Awards.

0:00 Introduction

03:58 Best Supporting Actor

10:51 Best Needle Drop

14:24 Best Original Song

16:03 Best Supporting Actress

22:26 Miscellaneous Awards

33:03 Best Scene

39:05 Best Actress

44:33 Best Actor

49:16 Best Director

51:35 Best Picture

Michael McAndrew, host of the Norming podcast, joins the boys to discuss classic David Mamet adaptation, the boy-heavy Glengarry Glen Ross, and its stars Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin and Kevin Spacey.

In Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley were the ultimate political boy party. We're discussing 2016's The Journey, in which legendary character actors Colm Meaney and Timothy Spall star as the Chuckle Brothers of post-Troubles Northern Ireland.

In 2010, Robert Downey Jr and Zach Galifianakis were the most famous men in movies. Todd Phillips put them together in road trip comedy Due Date!

In celebration of the late David Lynch, who died this month, we're discussing one of his finest films: 1990's Wild At Heart, starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern.

Christina returns to the show to discuss Cameron Crowe's 2000 rock n roll coming-of-age classic Almost Famous and its trio of stars: Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.

We're back for a new year of episodes, and kicking off 2025 with lots of coughing and sneezing... it's Contagion! This week, we discuss Steven Soderbergh's all-star pandemic thriller and its leads Jude Law, Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard and Kate Winslet.

As we hit our 1 year anniversary this week, we’re taking a week off and celebrating some of the best moments from the past 12 months. Back next week!

We close out the year with a roundup of some new release Boy Party movies we haven’t discussed in 2024, including The Substance, We Live in Time, A Real Pain, Wicked, His Three Daughters and more!

We've reached our milestone 50th episode and we're celebrating by welcoming back special guest Katie to discuss the origins of diagonal billing, celebrating its own 50th anniversary this month: it's 1974's The Towering Inferno starring Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.

Shane and Lucien read between the lies to discuss Bill Condon's 2019 OAP thriller The Good Liar starring beloved British thespians Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen.

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It’s the Christmas special, and we’re discussing Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn’s 2008 festive rom com Four Christmases!

Don't spill yer beans. Lucien and Shane are joined by first-time guest Luke to discuss Robert Eggers' 2019 surrealist black comedy The Lighthouse starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe (and Sully Seagull!).

A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time podcast. This week, Lucien and Shane are discussing Baz Luhrmann's 2001 maniacal musical Moulin Rouge! starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor.

Lucien's new friend Edward Norton stars opposite Robin Williams in 2002's Danny DeVito-directed black comedy Death To Smoochy.

Michael Caine and Steve Martin star in 1988's con artist comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels! We discuss their respective careers and how low energy this movie is.

After more than 40 episodes we're finally discussing the one and only Tom Cruise, as he stars opposite Jamie Foxx in Michael Mann's beloved 2004 noir thriller Collateral. Is this movie as good as everyone thinks? Is it Cruise's best on-screen look? And is Jamie Foxx actually a good actor?

Lucien and Shane react to the teaser trailer for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.

Brendan Kelly Palenque returns to the show to discuss Pedro Almodovar's first English-language film starring dual Oscar winning actresses, Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore.

Relive your Leaving Cert memories as we discuss Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush in Oscar-winning megahit The King's Speech.

We’re joined from the USA by special guest Hannah to discuss Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite and its Oscar winning trio of leading women: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz.

Shane and Lucien are joined by Luke to discuss Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin in Martin Brest's 80s classic Midnight Run! We celebrate our third De Niro movie with a quiz about his career, discuss Grodin's leading man career and how this film set the template for the modern action comedy.

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All aboard! Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman star in Wes Anderson's 2007 India-set dark comedy The Darjeeling Limited, and we dig into each of their careers as a leading man, including the upcoming Brody renaissance led by his roles in Succession and The Brutalist.

A spoonful of podcast makes the medicine go down! With Joker Month behind us, we're talking about a different breed of messers... (still) living legends Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in 1964's classic Disney musical Mary Poppins! We talk about the incredible Sherman Brothers songs, David Tomlinson's legendary performance as Mr. Banks, the issues with two Poppins adjacent films - Saving Mr. Banks and Mary Poppins Returns - and how Andrews and Van Dyke have never quite recaptured the magic of their best 1960s movie musicals.

The world is a stage, as Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga star in the sequel to 2019's Oscar-winning Twisted interpretation of the Joker character, from director Todd Phillips.

As we eagerly await Joker: Folie À Deux to wrap up Joker Month, it's time for another off-topic AFTERPARTY episode! This week, Shane and Lucien host a special draft of every living Oscar winner for Best Actor based on Star Power. Who are the heavyweights, and who should just retire? From Leonardo DiCaprio and Denzel Washington to recent winners Brendan Fraser and Cillian Murphy, it's a tense match to see who can pick the best team. Head over to our Instagram to vote for the best team.

continuing #JokerMonth, we’re discussing one of the worst major films of the century, David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, and an in-depth chat on its stars Will Smith, Jared Leto and Margot Robbie.

Our Joker Month continues in the lead-up to the release of Joker: Folie A Deux. This week, we're discussing Christopher Nolan's 2008 classic The Dark Knight, where Christian Bale's Batman faces off against Heath Ledger's Joker, with Aaron Eckhart's Harvey Dent caught in the middle.

We kick off Boy Party's JOKER MONTH with Tim Burton's classic 1989 Batman, starring Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton. Is Nicholson the best Joker ever? Did Michael Keaton win the Best Actor Oscar in people's hearts? And has Bruce Wayne ever had less screentime in a Batman movie than he does in this?

Joker Month continues for the next 3 episodes

17 Sept - The Dark Knight

24 Sept - Suicide Squad

1 Oct - Joker: Folie à Deux

This week, Shane and Lucien are celebrating the 30th anniversary of one of the most iconic films of all time, it's Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction! We discuss the movie's four main stars - John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis and Uma Thurman - including what this project meant for their careers, and where they're at now in terms of star power. Is this movie as good as normies say? Is Travolta a good actor? And would Bruce Willis have killed as live-action Homer Simpson?

Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck go on a Roman Holiday, and Katie joins us to discuss this classic William Wyler romance, its iconic pair of stars, the blacklisted of the Oscar winning screenwriting, and whether the city of Rome is “underwhelming”

Are we all Lost Stars, trying to light up the dark? Shane and Lucien discuss as Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley make music together in John Carney's Begin Again, with a cast that also includes Adam Levine, Cee Lo Green, Hailee Steinfeld, Catherine Keener and James Corden.

Shane and Lucien celebrate the huge number of great living Irish screen actors with a special draft episode. We're picking our respective teams of the best Irish actors across 8 categories. Who will get the best crew and be the ultimate victor?

It's another n-n-new release, and unfortunately this one's a streaming movie, as Doug Liman reunites Matt Damon and Casey Affleck for heist caper The Instigators. We discuss this pretty-good movie that nobody seems to be watching, Matt and Casey's respective careers as leading men, and its amazing ensemble cast of Michael Stuhlbarg, Hong Chau, Alfred Molina, Ron Perlman, Paul Walter Hauser and more.

Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch and Robert Duvall star in Sidney Lumet's 1976 masterpiece Network!

It's a buddy boy party, podcast-wise, as we discuss Billy Wilder's beloved, Best Picture winning romantic comedy The Apartment starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine!