First-time guest Katherine joins us to discuss 2018 drug addiction melodrama Beautiful Boy starring this year's presumptive Best Actor winner, Timothée Chalamet, opposite Steve Carell.

Irish filmmaker Barra Convery joins us for a Galway classic, John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard starring Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle!

Film critic Alistair Ryder returns to the show, to chat about 2002 family comedy Big Fat Liar and its trio of stars: Frankie Muniz, Amanda Bynes and Paul Giamatti!

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.