Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman finally reteam as Deadpool and Wolverine in the most annoying movie of the summer! Which we... didn't hate as much as we expected? Hear our FIRST REACTION following the premiere of Marvel's only 2024 theatrical release.

This week, Lucien and Shane discuss Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston in Mick Jackson's 1992 megahit musical-thriller-romance The Bodyguard.

We talk Costner and Whitney's careers and her tragic death, the cancelled release of Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 2, what this movie gets wrong about planning a televised awards show, whether there are real world counterparts to Rachel Marron's level of success, the wonderful Ralph Waite and Richard Schiff, and much more!

"The power you have to resist my magics"

Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey face off in 2017's ill-fated Stephen King adaptation The Dark Tower. Find out our thoughts on Elba's career as TV star vs movie star, McConaughey's disappointing post-Oscar run, how this film quietly arrived in the middle of a Stephen King boom, and why we're excited to talk about magic portals in the middle of New York right now.

Welcome to the pod! Bayhem really hit its stride in 1996 with action spectacle The Rock, starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage as an unlikely counterterrorism team launching a siege on Alcatraz. Find out how Connery behaved during production, how this cemented Cage's action man era, which A-list filmmakers did rewrites on the script, and how it... might... have contributed to the start of the Iraq war.

Returning guest Brendan joins Lucien for a lengthy rundown of every MCU, Sony and Fox Marvel movie ranked from worst to best. Apologies for audio issues, you can blame Riverside virtual recording studio.

Films discussed: The Amazing Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Ant Man and the Wasp, Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Ant-Man, Avengers Age of Ultron, Avengers Endgame, Avengers Infinity War, Black Panther, Black Panther Wakanda Forever, Black Widow, Captain America Civil War, Capt America The Winter Soldier, Captain America The FIrst Avenger, Captain Marvel, Dark Phoenix, Deadpool, Deadpool 2, Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Eternals, F4 Rise of the silver, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Fantastic Four 2005, Fantastic Four 2015, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, GOTG Vol 3, Guardians of the Galaxy, Hawkeye, Hulk, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Logan, Loki, Madame Web, Moon Knight, Ms Marvel, Shang Chi, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, Spider-man across the spiderverse, Spider-Man Far from Home, Spider-Man Homecoming, Spider-man Into the spider-verse, Spider-Man No Way Home, The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk, The Marvels, The Wolverine, Thor, Thor Love and thunder, Thor Ragnarok, Thor The Dark World, Venom, Venom let there be carnage, Wandavision, X-Men, X-Men Days of Future Past, X-Men First Class, X-Men Origins Wolverine X2, X-men Apocalypse, X-Men The Last Stand

"I can't take my EYYYESSSS off of YOUUUUU." Okay, go off Damien Rice.

We're taking it back to the year 2004 this week. Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen star in Mike Nichols' four-hander romantic drama Closer. It's very much an adaptation of a stage play, so we discuss the four actors' criss-cross dynamics, the Jude Law fever that hit American in Autumn 2004, and how Julia Roberts was such a massive star even a dull chamber drama like this could make $116m with her face on the poster.

This week we're talking Robert Redford and Jane Fonda's first on-screen coupling, the delightful Neil Simon adaptation Barefoot in the Park!