Boy Party

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...

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...

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...

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 Tr...

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.

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 Ha...

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!

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman finally reteam as Deadpool and Wolverine in the most annoying movie of the summer! Which we... didn't hate as much as we expected? Hear our FIRST REACTION following the premiere of Marvel's only 2024 theatrical release.

This week, Lucien and Shane discuss Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston in Mick Jackson's 1992 megahit musical-thriller-romance The Bodyguard. We talk Costner and Whitney's careers and her tragic death, the cancelled release of Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 2 , what this movie gets wrong about planning a televised awards show, whether there are real world counterparts to Rachel Marron's level of...

"The power you have to resist my magics" Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey face off in 2017's ill-fated Stephen King adaptation The Dark Tower. Find out our thoughts on Elba's career as TV star vs movie star, McConaughey's disappointing post-Oscar run, how this film quietly arrived in the middle of a Stephen King boom, and why we're excited to talk about magic portals in...

"Your son disfigured our son!"It's the 25th episode of Boy Party and we're talking CARNAGE!Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz star in Roman Polanski's 2011 adaptation of the hit play about two sets of squabbling parents in a Brooklyn apartment. Find out how a playground fight erupts into a domestic battle of wits, how you vomit when you eat bad cobbler, and why the movi...

Welcome to the pod! Bayhem really hit its stride in 1996 with action spectacle The Rock, starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage as an unlikely counterterrorism team launching a siege on Alcatraz. Find out how Connery behaved during production, how this cemented Cage's action man era, which A-list filmmakers did rewrites on the script, and how it... might... have contributed to the start of the Ira...

Returning guest Brendan joins Lucien for a lengthy rundown of every MCU, Sony and Fox Marvel movie ranked from worst to best. Apologies for audio issues, you can blame Riverside virtual recording studio. Films discussed: The Amazing Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Ant Man and the Wasp, Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Ant-Man, Avengers Age of Ultron, Avengers Endgame, Avengers Infinity War...

"I can't take my EYYYESSSS off of YOUUUUU." Okay, go off Damien Rice. We're taking it back to the year 2004 this week. Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen star in Mike Nichols' four-hander romantic drama Closer. It's very much an adaptation of a stage play, so we discuss the four actors' criss-cross dynamics, the Jude Law fever that hit American in...

This week we're talking Robert Redford and Jane Fonda's first on-screen coupling, the delightful Neil Simon adaptation Barefoot in the Park!

Dust off your Northern Ireland history books for Martin Campbell's 2017 thriller The Foreigner, starring Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan as a fictitious Irish republican leader who definitely bears no resemblance to Gerry Adams. We compare Chan and Brosnan's careers as major action stars, discuss how this movie is secretly pretty great, and try to answer the question "which of these guys even is th...

Only their mother can tell them apart! Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito played mismatched siblings in 1988's hit comedy Twin! Lucien and Shane discuss the two stars, the enormous mediocrity of Ivan Reitman's films, and whether DeVito is really a movie star at all. Follow @boypartypod on Instagram and Twitter and visit boypartypod.com to check out all episodes.

Do you have it in you to make it epic? Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth star in George Miller's long-awaited prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road. Lucien and Shane provide instant reactions to the movie, dissect how it balances its two stars, and analyse the box office success to date of Taylor-Joy and Hemsworth. Follow @boypartypod on Instagram and Twitter and visit boypartypod.com to check out a...

Titanic in space? Or a different kind of disaster? Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt shared the screen in 2016's big-budget sci-fi Passengers, and Lucien and Shane are here to dissect what went wrong. Follow @boypartypod on Instagram and Twitter and visit boypartypod.com to check out all episodes.

New York, New York, it's a wonderful town! Lucien and Shane discuss 1949's classic movie musical On The Town starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as Navymen on a 24 hour Big Apple bender. Follow @boypartypod on Instagram and Twitter and visit boypartypod.com to check out all episodes.