Boy Party

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?

So you're telling me... there's a chance? It's Dumb & Dumber week on the show, as we discuss Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels' comedy breakout in the Farrelly Brothers' 1994 slapstick sensation. We discuss Carrey's record-breaking 90s run, Daniels' short-lived movie star career and subsequent The Newsroom comeback, Peter Farrelly's pivot to Oscar-winning dramas with Green Book, and this film's disappointing 2014 sequel.

Lucien and Shane discuss Frank Darabont’s beloved Stephen King adaptation starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.

Shane and Lucien review the long-awaited sequel to 2006's The Devil Wears Prada, starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci.

Brendan returns to the show to discuss David Cronenberg's 2022 sci-fi Crimes of the Future and its stars Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart. We chat about Cronenberg's return to body horror, this film's low-budget futuristic aesthetic, Viggo Mortensen's support for Sinn Féin, Kristen Stewart's pivot from Twilight lead to indie icon, and much more.

The fifth episode of City Sicjos has arrived and it's a Cate Blanchett spectacular, as we discuss her 2003 Dublin crime biopic Veronica Guerin and Oscar-winning role in Woody Allen's San Francisco-set Blue Jasmine.

No Encore host and cultural journalist Dave Hanratty returns to the show to discuss David Fincher's 2011 adaptation of Men Who Hate Women - also known as The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and the careers of its stars Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara.

The screen rivalry so dramatic it spawned a whole miniseries... it's Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, this year's Boy Party March Madness bracket champion! We discuss Robert Aldrich's camp classic, the Hagsploitation subgenre it spawned, the on and off screen feuding of its two stars and Ryan Murphy's 2017 Feud: Bette & Joan, which captured the making of the film with two stellar performances by Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange.

Easter has just wrapped up, so we’re heading to the Vatican for Carol Reed’s Michelangelo/Pope Julius two-handed The Agony & The Ecstasy starring screen icons Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison!

This week we're discussing Gus Van Sant's 1991 gay classic My Own Private Idaho starring Keanu Reeves and the late River Phoenix as two young hustlers in a film loosely based on William Shakespeare's Henry IV.

We touch upon the ups and downs of Gus Van Sant's career, River Phoenix's tragically short-lived reign as a Hollywood leading man, and the varying faces of Keanu Reeves as romantic lead, action hero and respected theatre actor over the decades.