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By Shane Kelly and Lucien Waugh-DalyTV & Film Film History

Boy Party episodes

July 15, 2024 The Bodyguard 🎤
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 success, the wonderful Ralph Waite and Richard Schiff, and much more!

50 min
July 08, 2024 The Dark Tower
"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 the middle of New York right now.
47 min
July 01, 2024 Carnage 🍰
"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 movie had to be shot in France because its director is a horrific criminal.
51 min
June 24, 2024 The Rock 💥
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 Iraq war.
55 min
June 22, 2024 The Marvel Ranking (with Brendan!)
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, Black Panther, Black Panther Wakanda Forever, Black Widow, Captain America Civil War, Capt America The Winter Soldier, Captain America The FIrst Avenger, Captain Marvel, Dark Phoenix, Deadpool, Deadpool 2, Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Eternals, F4 Rise of the silver, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Fantastic Four 2005, Fantastic Four 2015, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, GOTG Vol 3, Guardians of the Galaxy, Hawkeye, Hulk, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Logan, Loki, Madame Web, Moon Knight, Ms Marvel, Shang Chi, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, Spider-man across the spiderverse, Spider-Man Far from Home, Spider-Man Homecoming, Spider-man Into the spider-verse, Spider-Man No Way Home, The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk, The Marvels, The Wolverine, Thor, Thor Love and thunder, Thor Ragnarok, Thor The Dark World, Venom, Venom let there be carnage, Wandavision, X-Men, X-Men Days of Future Past, X-Men First Class, X-Men Origins Wolverine X2, X-men Apocalypse, X-Men The Last Stand
1 hr 28 min
June 17, 2024 Closer
"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 Autumn 2004, and how Julia Roberts was such a massive star even a dull chamber drama like this could make $116m with her face on the poster.
47 min
June 10, 2024 Barefoot in the Park 👣
This week we're talking Robert Redford and Jane Fonda's first on-screen coupling, the delightful Neil Simon adaptation Barefoot in the Park!
49 min
June 04, 2024 The Foreigner 💣
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 the titular Foreigner?"Follow @boypartypod on Instagram and Twitter and visit boypartypod.com to check out all episodes.
52 min
May 27, 2024 Twins
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.

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51 min
May 21, 2024 Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
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.

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41 min