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A podcast about movies that were disenfranchised. From expensive flops to burnout brands, Lucien and a rotation of guests discuss the Hollywood movies - both famous and forgotten - that never achieved the fullest of their franchise potential.
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Welcome to Boy Party, the podcast that tackles cinema's most legendary team-ups, where two massive movie stars share the screen and battle it out for top billing... and the fatter paycheck. Join the creators of Adam & Ben (New & Selected), as we delve into the juicy details of dueling star personas, behind-the-scenes drama, and the quest for cinema…
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Where's The Damn Sequel?! is back, live from COVID lockdown, and ready to discuss the year's most baffling, awful and hopeless franchise starter: Disney's big-budget Irish fairy fantasy Artemis Fowl, directed by Kenneth Branagh and produced by... Robert DeNiro?? We break down the film's incoherent plot, paddywhackery script and the horror show that…
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Would that this podcast were a time podcast! Lucien is joined by longtime podcast collaborator Eoghan Dobey to discuss Andrew NIccol's 2011 sci-fi thriller In Time, featuring time heists, time pirates and time banks. Would In Time make a better TV series? Why was the marketing so vague about the fabulous premise? And can anyone, literally anyone, r…
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Lucien and returning guest Mick Barrett enter the Sanctum Sanctorum for the podcast's first MCU episode! Why is Doctor Strange one of the only Marvel movies Lu cares about? What can we expect from the Multiverse of Madness? Plus discussion of Marvel Studios' entire Phase 4 announcement and the last pre-Trump weekend in the Box Office Game!…
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You're not just wrong, you're stupid. And you're ugly, just like your mum. In a special bumper-sized episode, Lucien is joined by Rob and Brendan to discuss the most unhinged and unique family comedy of the century: Mike Meyers in The Cat in the Hat: a film so twisted it caused Dr Seuss' widow to ban any other live-action adaptations of his work. W…
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Hobbs... AND Shaw? In this economy?? In a special emergency episode (a nice way of saying "sorry for the poor audio"), Lucien is joined by Shane and Gemma for instant reaction to David Leitch's Fast & Furious presents: Hobbs & Shaw. From Dwayne Johnson's Samoan self-mythologising to the film's contradictory gun politics and cameos from some truly i…
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So shiny, so chrome! Lucien is joined by Immortan Joe Moran to talk George Miller's petrol-fuelled dystopian epic Mad Max: Fury Road starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron. Why did Warner Bros fund such an audacious project, and - in lieu of this movie's Best Picture nomination - what future potential does this franchise have? Plus we learn Joe's t…
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If Walter White can own two copies, we definitely deserve a sequel. Cian Hade returns to talk 2007's touching fantasy starring Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman and Jason Bateman. We dig into the bizarre decision to cast Hoffman in an expensive family movie, conceive of a genuinely brilliant sequel premise and play the Box Office Game!…
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This week, Lucien and Shane are discussing the first movie in one of Hollywood's greatest crossover franchises. Yes, it's Universal's monster mash Dark Universe, which began in 2017 with The Mummy starring Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe and... uh... never continued. What great DU movies have we been deprived of? Would we date The Mummy? And why are a…
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Boats N Hoes! Lucien is joined by Brendan Fernando Kelly Palenque to discuss Adam McKay's beloved Will Ferrell/John C. Reilly farce comedy. We analyse the film's unique rewatch appeal, the decade-long rumours of a sequel, McKay's development as a 'serious filmmaker' and remember just what a phenomenal period the Summer of 2008 was for American cine…
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Men, women AND children? In this economy?? Hannah Friedel is back to discuss 2014's internet-panic ensemble drama starring Adam Sandler, Ansel Elgort, Timothée Chalamet and Dean "Sex GIFs" Norris. We cover the various sexual issues explored by the film, the proceeding careers of its young cast, and Hannah turns the tables on Lucien for the Box Offi…
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Sally Dobie joins Lucien to dissect the most recent big-screen Narnia adventure: 2010's scarcely-remembered Voyage of the Dawn Treader. They discuss the Christian overtones of Aslan, a Narnia-themed scandal in Lucien's primary school, casting suggestions for Puddleglum The Marshwiggle and whether Netflix's proposed CS Lewis adaptation will have the…
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Lucien is joined by friend and colleague Sally Dobie to talk 2008's Mark Waters-directed adaptation of The Spiderwick Chronicles, starring Freddie Highmore as twin brothers in a masterful Winklevossian performance. How does the film diverge from the books? Why can't Freddie do an American accent without smiling? Plus discussion of new releases Tolk…
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We've covered many DreamWorks animated classics on the podcast, but never their most iconic brand... this week we're diving into the inferior fourth Shrek movie with returning guest Hannah Friedel. What makes Rumpelstilskin such a compelling antagonist? Can Shrek ever recover from this existential crisis (for the character and franchise? And what a…
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On April Fools Day, Lucien is joined by Cian Hade and James Kavanagh to discuss Robert Rodriguez's classic multi-dimensional kids adventure Sharkboy and Lavagirl: its early starring role for Taylor Lautner, use of 3-D and George Lopez's online dating life. Bring your red and blue glasses, it's gonna be a wild one!…
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What if a baby.... was a boss?! That's the question posed by DreamWorks' 2017 animated masterpiece The Boss Baby, starring Alec Baldwin, a favourite of Lucien's which Rob Cleaver-Redmond returns to help him discuss on this episode. What can we expect from The Boss Baby 2? What's Lucien's take on the Netflix spin-off Back In Business? And is this ba…
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Lucien and guests discuss the Twilight franchise, a pivotal game-changer for teen blockbusters that began in November 2008. How did the Twilight franchise run out of steam, how do the movies hold up a decade on, and is there potential for more film content adapted from Stephenie Meyer's vampire romance novels?…
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Where's the damn sequel to Brad Bird & Damon Lindelof's 2015 mega-budget sci-fi; one of the most fabulous failures in recent Hollywood memory; a film that sees George Clooney in a romantic relationship with a young robot girl and Britt Robertson show the world how wonderful she is, even in the most problematic of films. Lucien is joined by Cian Had…
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