Two Boys in a Balcony

We gather here today to lay to rest the Boondock Saints and cinematic auteur Troy Duffy. Say your piece and get the fuck out.

Good morning, nerds! We're kicking off year 2 with a documentary about a man that could very easily have been either one of the boys had their fathers dropped them off the balcony as a baby. Overnight documents the rise and rise and rise of one Mr Troy Duffy, acclaimed director of the Boondock Saints, a movie we just adore. What are your thoughts on Keanu Reeves? What are your thoughts on Ethan Hawke? Kenneth Branagh? You better get your house in order cause Troy Duffy knows exactly how he feels. Overnight stars Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Billy Zane, Vincent D'nofrio, Jerry O'Connell, Matthew Modine, and hope.

Happy anniversary probably maybe? We did it. The Balcony has been open for a year and we're celebrating by watching a movie that Sean calls "reprehensible." It's the Boondock Saints! If it's your favorite movie, don't tell us! We risked imploding the world and put the very fabric of existence into risk by putting the Boondock Saints up on the Boondock Saints scale. Does it pass muster? Who knows? But get comfy with the Boondockers because next week, audible, we're watching Overnight, the 2003 documentary about the rise and fall of Boondocks director, Troy Duffy and the week after, we put a bow on this bitch by diving into The Boondock Saints II:All Saints Day. The Boondock Saints stars who gives a shit and co-stars it sucks. 

 

Donate to the massachusetts bail fund. massbailfund.org Black Lives Matter. We love you. Wash your hands. Stay safe.

Hey folks. It's a real weird week to try and be silly but we're so close to our one year anniversary that we decided to stay course and watch a movie called Free Fire that honestly we didn't like. Does the spoiler alert go before or after? Who knows? We were in weird moods when we recorded it but I think we were able to keep it funny enough. Hopefully it gives you a couple chuckles along for when you're taking a break from the endless shit fire. 

Also it is a weird time and we're not any kind of political podcast or think that we stand as some sort of authoritative or guiding voice but if you've got a couple extra bucks, there's a lot of organizations right now that could use whatever you can spare. The Boys have been chucking some cash toward the Massachusetts Bail Fund (https://www.massbailfund.org/)

Be safe. Wash your hands.

Next stop... FUNderland! That's right! We're moving the balcony to FUNderland because we watched Next Stop Wonderland and then set up microphones to complain about it for over an hour! What's more fun than that? Don't answer that unless you want to step into the FUNderdome with the Balcony Boys. Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you crossed paths with your soul mate 56 time over the course of 90 minutes only to finally meet them at minute 93 when the movie ends? No? What happened to your imagination? Next Stop Wonderland stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and others.

Gather up your elder signs and pray for a swift death cause the Balcony Boys are back to their witchy roots and we're paying homage to the Elder God Cthulhu and YogSobbaDoo with 2019's Nicolas Cage mindwrap Color Out of Space. Richard Stanley is back, baby! It's almost like he never left! At the very least, one of the balcony boys knew who he was. This is a weird ass movie and it was a weird ass record as Bill McMorrow succumbed to cosmic space madness on more than one occasion and somehow drops the Facetime call a minimum of 17 times and EACH EVERY ONE WAS LEFT IN CAUSE SEAN IS BUSY BEING AN ADULT! It's Two Boys in a grove, conducting blood rituals to the Ancient Ones! Color Out of Space stars NICHOLAS FUCKING CAGE HALF WAY THROUGH HE STARTS TALKING LIKE DONALD TRUMP AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO WATCH IT???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

bip bap you jazz cats... we're going back to the swinging 60s for a sleek, slick, mod New England HEIST film! Who would have thought a movie in New England would be about bank robbers? It's the original Thomas Crown Affair and it's seeeeeeexxxxxxxyyyyyyy. We need some wholesome recommendations coming up because the boys are getting randy (Do I make you horny baby - Austin Powers). This thing has all your New England favorite traditions: lobster bakes, downtown Boston, horse polo. It's a very fun episode and you don't even have to break into our hearts to get it. What? The Thomas Crown Affair stars the Pierce Brosnan of his day, Steve McQueen and the Rene Russo of her day, Faye Dunaway, and the Dennis Leary of his day, a third guy that plays a cop! Balcony!

Good morrow to you and thine and thus begins another most stimulating dissection and dissertation of the more intellectually prosperous corners of the cinematic arts as Mssrs William Barholomew McMorrow and Sean Esquire Sullivan present thoughts both enlightened and inspiring on the Master, a film from the year of our Lord Jesus Christ Two Thousand and Twelve. It's a high-minded discourse and also very smart and full of mirth. The Master stars the Joker, the other guy from Twister, and movie Susan Lucchi.

Hey there, baseball fans! This week in the Balcony we're taking a look at one of the great American baseball films, the underrated 2019 Doctor Sleep, directed by Mike Flanagan, based on the baseball book, Doctor Sleep written by baseball connoisseur Stephen King! It's Field of Dreams for the corona-age! It's also the sequel to the Shining. BUT AMERICA'S PASTIME! Pitchers and catchers report! Open it back up! Doctor Sleep stars Roger Clemens, Mike Scioscia, Don Mattingly, Steve Sax, Ozzie Smith, Wade Boggs, Darryl "Daaaaaaaaaaaryl" Strawberry, Ken Griffey Jr, and No Way Jose Canseco

Hide your children, hide your wives... the Balcony Boys are on a monkey hunt. Recorded live from two separate balconies via a series of social distant cans and strings, we're back with our first true quarantine episode. Are there glitches and botches a plenty? You bet your nuts but that doesn't matter because we're talking about the 1995 Wolfgan Petersen infectious disease romcom Outbreak! Why? Because we didn't think the first episode recorded remotely would be awkward enough, why not throw in the quaint tale of an epidemic that's totally isolated and controllable! Fun! Outbreak stars Tootsie, Rene Russo, my crush on Rene Russo, and the monkey from Friends.