Adam and Ben (New and Selected)

Everything comes to life! Lucien and Shane host a TRIPLE edition of the show as we dig into Ben Stiller's hit fantasy comedies, the Night At The Museum trilogy. We jump from 2006 to 2009's Battle Of The Smithsonian to 2014's Secret of the Tomb and chat about the Shawn Levy-directed historical hijinks that captured the world's imagination. Featuring career spotlights on Robin Williams, Mickey Roone...

We've got a new release! Adam Sandler's brand new Netflix basketball drama Hustle dropped last week so we convene to talk sports movies, seeing Sandler in España, Robert Duvall and Ben Foster's fun supporting roles, and the biggest hits at the summer box office.

Lucien and Shane drop into 1994 to discuss Ben Stiller's desperate-to-be-a-cult-classic starring Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke and Stiller himself.

Shane and Lucien double up on Grown Up fun with Adam Sandler and friends' family antics in 2010/2013's Grown Ups and Grown Ups 2. Get chocolate wasted as special guest Christina joins us to offer some perspective on the film's lecherous gaze and relentless bits.

Lucien and Shane discuss the hipster antics of Noah Baumbach's While We're Young, a movie where Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts play documentary filmmakers who don't in any sense resemble Lu's parents. We discuss Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried and Charles Grodin, the LCD Soundsystem soundtrack, Baumbach's injection of autobiography into his films, and the various marriages of Lisa Marie Presley.

Lucien and Shane take their first expedition into Adam Sandler's Netflix output, discussing 2018 wedding comedy The Week Of, co-starring Chris Rock and Steve Buscemi. Is Rachel Dratch the female Sandler? Why does this remind us of Shiva Baby? And is this a good use of Chris Rock's screen persona? Listen to find out!

Artist, raconteur and Wes Anderson aficionado Lauren Conway joins the boys to discuss Ben Stiller's performance and everything else in 2001's The Royal Tenenbaums. We celebrate the Nico and Elliott Smith-filled soundtrack, Alec Baldwin's narration, Gene Hackman's late career run of conspiracy thrillers and the vaginal imagery in Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop marketing.

Lucien and Shane discuss Adam Sandler in 2014's The Cobbler, from Tom McCarthy, the director of Spotlight and Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made. Everyone loves The Cobbler. America has Cobbler fever. Listen to find out why.

Lucien and Shane discuss the first season of Apple TV's Severance, directed by Ben Stiller.

The boys are back to discuss Sandler and Jennifer Aniston's 2011 comedy Just Go With It! Did you know this is based on a Walter Matthau/Ingrid Bergman movie? Where did Brooklyn Decker's career go after this? And does anyone really love Kevin MacDonald's The Eagle?  ukYgkg5MOoCavgTXnsJG

Jonah Hill, Vince Vaughn, Richard Ayoade, Billy Crudup and Cousin Greg (!) co-star with Ben Stiller in 2012's sci-fi comedy The Watch! Shane and Lucien discuss this bizarre, largely-forgotten convergence of clashing comedic energies, director Akiva Shaffer's attempts to make something fun out of a so-so Seth Rogen/Evan Goldberg script, and whether the movie's success was affected by its high profi...

Barrelling into the recording studio like The Lone Rangers with their replica shotgun, Lucien and Shane are back to discuss 1994 radio siege comedy Airheads starring Adam Sandler, Brendan Fraser and Steve Buscemi. How does Sandler make his mark in his first major movie role? Will the generation younger than us ever appreciate how big Brendan Fraser was in the early 2000s? Does Tommy Lee Jones play...

Lucien and Shane go wildly off-topic discussing the absolutely terrible Ben Stiller/Jack Black two-hander "Envy". We propose an idea for our follow-up podcast, dive into Black's extensive film career and try to establish how - amidst an incredible five film run in 2004 - Stiller couldn't make this even a modest hit.

Lucien and Shane discuss Adam Sandler's unfairly maligned 2011 cross-dressing comedy featuring one of Al Pacino's greatest performances. Plus: Ruben Rabasa and Jared from Subway cameos, more Nick Swarsdon hate and the minor difference between Safe House (2012) and Hostages (2005).

Lucien and Shane take their second trip to Ben Stiller's megahit animated franchise, jetting off to undefined "Africa" with the animals of DreamWorks' Madagascar sequel. Why are Alex's parents played by black actors when Ben Stiller is very much white? Will Will. I.Am perform "The Travelling Song" when the boys see him in concert this summer? And what's our ranking of Sacha Baron Cohen performance...

Dipping back into the Sandlerverse this week with 2003's hit Jack Nicholson team-up 'Anger Management', the broadest possible version of Sandler's shtick and the film that inspired a thousand "I Feel Pretty" memes and a god awful Charlie Sheen sitcom that *might* have been a money laundering scheme. Join us to dive into John C Reilly's performance as a buddhist monk, Rudi Giuliani's bizarre cameo...

We return after a short hiatus with another Ben-themed episode, this time joined by special guest Eoghan Dobey to discuss 2011 Eddie Murphy team-up Tower Heist. Is Alan Alda just playing Bernie Madoff? Do we want to squash Matthew Broderick like a bug? Is this one of the best movies about the consequences of the financial crash? And will we ever cover a more evil director than Brett Ratner again?...

Lucien and Shane discuss Adam Sandler's 2009 collaboration with his old roommate, Judd Apatow, the massively underrated Funny People. How does Sandler's sensibility juxtapose with Seth Rogen's? Is George Simmons the closest we'll ever get to Sandler autobiography? How is Eric Bana so insanely good in this movie? All these questions answered, plus a summer '09 box office game, on the latest episode...

We're diving into the world of animated Adam and Ben as we tackle DreamWorks Animation's original hit Madagascar from 2005. Join us as we launch Shane's new theme song composition, reflect on a memorable night in 2008 when this movie was on TV during a thunderstorm, and debate whether Sacha Baron Cohen is allowed to do the King Julien voice. Also... did you know Andy Richter voices Mort? And the o...

Both the most and least political Adam Sandler has ever been, on this episode we discuss his bizarre 2008 comedy that tackles the Middle East with about as much sensitivity as you'd expect. Expect chat of Borat's influence on Sandler, John Turturro's deranged villain role and the iconic box office selection of Summer 2008.

Shane and Lucien are back on the Ben Train to talk about Stiller's 2013 directorial blank check The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a film about daydreaming and life-living or - as Lucien describes it - "Joker for Coldplay fans". We dig into the film's pretentious message, striking imagery and clichéd needle drops and ask "would this film work with Adam Sandler in the lead role?".

Shane and Lucien are back for the second episode of Adam and Ben (New and Selected), discussing Adam Sandler's breakout big-screen hit, Billy Madison, a tale of regressive immaturity, giant penguins and O'Doyle... uh... rules! We discuss the class politics of Billy's family, whether he'd really be better at running the company than Bradley Whitford, and if the movie would work with Ben Stiller in...

We're excited to launch a new podcast about the films of Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler, beginning with Stiller's 2003 dark comedy Duplex co-starring Drew Barrymore and directed by Danny DeVito! Is this a pro or anti landlord movie? Would it work with Sandler in the lead role? And does anybody outside the US know what a 'duplex' is? Find out on our very first episode.  Hosted by Lucien and Shan...

Adam and Ben (New and Selected)