Lucien and Shane begin 2026 and conclude our 25 for '25 countdown by awarding the best films and performances of 2000-2025.
As 2025 draws to a close, we're looking back at some of our best moments and best guests of the year in Boy Party. Happy New Year and we'll see you all in 2026!
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00:35 - The Devil Wears Prada with Katie Brady
03:39 - Heat with Kevin McGahern
09:39 - Golden Boy Awards 2025
12:06 - The Morning Show with Fionnuala Jones
15:27 - The Roaring Twenties with Peter McGann
20:07 - Triple Frontier with Dave Hanratty
23:08 - No Country for Old Men with Ray Tintori and Jordan Fish
26:50 - Some Like It Hot with Niamh Mary Martin
29:27 - Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever with Alistair Ryder
32:33 - Mikey and Nicky with Luke Shanahan
35:56 - All The President's Men with Michael McAndrew
37:40 - The Quiet Man
40:00 - The Nice Guys with Eoghan D
43:00 - Notes on Scandal with Lauren C
45:35 - Funny Face with Christina A
47:00 - Burlesque with Brendan F
49:00 - Titanic - 100th Episode, Live from the Dot Theatre
To wrap up the year, Lucien and Shane discuss all the eligible 'Boy Party' new releases we didn't get around to discussing in 2025!
Films discussed on this episode:
We've come to the end of Lucien's countdown of the 25 best films of the 21st century so far. Number 1 is The Coen Brothers' 2009 A Serious Man starring Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed and Aaron Wolff.
It's the Christmas episode! This year we're discussing Richard Curtis's deeply evil 2003 all-star romantic comedy Love Actually, and focusing on the careers of three of its leads: Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson and Liam Neeson.
Lucien discusses the second greatest film of the 21st century: David Lynch's 2001 surrealist masterpiece Mulholland Dr. starring Naomi Watts and Justin Theroux.
Here, far, wherever you are... it's Boy Party's milestone 100th Episode, recorded live in front of an audience at The Dot Theatre, Dublin on 22nd November. We're discussing the most successful Boy Party movie ever: James Cameron's epic Titanic starring Oscar winners Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
Plus: playing the Letterboxd Top 4 Game and the Box Office Game (All Time Edition) with our studio audience, and we count down our Top 10 Boys and Top 10 Girls from the list of stars we've discussed in our first century of podcasts.
Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss are two of Hollywood's biggest grumps, so imagine the fun when they shared the screen in Frank Oz's 90s psychiatry comedy What About Bob?
Note: this episode was recorded in March 2025
Lucien discusses the No. 3 best film of the 21st Century: Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love starring Adam Sandler, Emily Watson and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Lucien and Shane discuss Terence Malick's 1973 classic Badlands and its legendary stars Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.
Lucien discusses the fourth best film of the century: Greta Gerwig's perfect coming-of-age movie Lady Bird starring Saoirse Ronan, Beanie Feldstein, Laurie Metcalfe, Tracy Letts and Timothee Chalamet.
This week Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Benicio Del Toro star in Alejandro González Iñárritu's 2003 misery-fest 21 Grams.
Lucien discusses the No. 5 best film of the 20th century: Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
With the great Peter Sellers’ 100th birthday this year, we discuss when he and Peter O’Toole co-starred in 1965 raunchy comedy “What’s New Pussycat?”
For the first time, we're discussing a TV boy party, digging into Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon's pricey Apple series The Morning Show with TV/radio presenter and Flop Culture host Fionnuala Jones!
Lucien discusses No. 6 on the 25 for '25 list of the century's best films: Richard Linklater's epic coming-of-age drama Boyhood.
Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum teamed up for 2011’s action comedy megahit 21 Jump Street, but does this teen-oriented comedy hold up in 2025?
Lucien discusses the seventh best film of the century: Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise's action spectacular Mission: Impossible - Fallout.
Shane and Lucien pay tribute to Diane Keaton with a discussion of Woody Allen's Oscar-winning classic Annie Hall.
Lucien discusses the 8th best film of the century so far: Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom.