You will hear a shrill shrieking sound... as we discuss Sidney Lumet's nuclear masterpiece Fail Safe starring Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau!

En garde! Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are back on screens in Netflix's The Rip this week (reviewed briefly on this episode) but we're looking back at a better collaboration between the two Boston boys: Ridley Scott's 2021 historical drama The Last Duel starring Damon and Affleck alongside Adam Driver and Jodie Comer. Plus: as Damon joins our elite Three-Timers Club, Lucien quizzes Shane on his career.

We're Girl Crazy this month, as we discuss 2015's San Francisco-set coming-of-age drama Diary of a Teenage Girl starring Bel Powley and Alexanderd Skarsgard, and 1964's Dublin-set Edna O'Brien adaptation Girl with Green Eyes starring Rita Tushingham and Peter Finch.

We're kicking off the new year with what is technically our first ever horror movie... it's Robert Zemeckis' 2000 ghost story What Lies Beneath starring Michelle Pfeiffer and - finally being discussed for the first time on the show - Harrison Ford.

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:

• ​Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
• ​Back in Action
• ​Together
• ​You’re Cordially Invited
• ​The Gorge
• ​In the Lost Lands
• ​Long Day’s Journey into Night
• ​Another Simple Favor
• ​Hallow Road
• ​Black Bag
• ​Snow White
• ​Hurry Up Tomorrow
• ​Die My Love
• ​Friendship
• ​Pillion
• ​Fountain of Youth
• ​Sentimental Value
• ​The History of Sound
• ​Echo Valley
• ​Deep Cover
• ​Heads of State
• ​The Fantastic 4: First Steps
• ​The Pickup
• ​Freakier Friday
• ​The Roses
• ​The Thursday Murder Club
• ​Bugonia
• ​Hamnet
• ​Frankenstein
• ​Saipan
• ​Good Fortune
• ​Eternity
• ​Is This Thing On?
• ​Regretting You
• ​Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
• ​Wicked: For Good

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.