Sean feels like shit. Here's an oldie:  This week we reach 50 episodes which can only mean one thing: corporate buy-out time! That's right! Two Boys in a Balcony has been officially purchased by Turner Broadcasting Services which means we finally get to talk about the most watched program in the history of TNT... no not Franklin and Basch... no not Rizzoli and Isles.... we're talking about the motherfucking SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION SONS AND DAUGHTERS! It's your dad's favorite prison drama if your dad watched TV on a rainy saturday afternoon when he couldn't mow the lawn. I'm sorry. It turns o ..read more

Here's the god's honest truth straight from the mouth of your boy Seanald Sillyman. When the Boys, Balcony sit down to watch one of these Best Picture winners, we try to go in with as few expectations as possible. We want to give these pictures a fair shake. We're America's Dumbest Film Critics and if we can't  objectively evaluate these Best Picture winners, do we even deserve those titles? So it is with a heavy heart that we announce if while following the simple mathematical concept know to layman as "rounding up" your movie clocks in at FOUR FUCKING HOURS, then you, dear film, have to ..read more

In this Balcony, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards a comedy, we salute and we stan. This is maybe the funniest Best Picture? It's certainly the funniest Best Picture winner of the first 33 Best Picture winners. This week, Billy and Seany borrow the keys to somebody else's balcony and have a little bit of fun with Billy Wilder's comedic masterpiece The Apartment. Holy lordy, insurance salesman are horny! This is a wonderful lil movie and at 2 hours and 4 minutes, it's a motherlovin' breeze! You could almost watch this in one sitting unless you have a baby bladder like ..read more

Ladies and gentlemen, what was the Best Picture winner at the 1956 Academy Awards? Herb Stempel would have you think it's On the Waterfront because he's a fucking idiot and has no sense of cinematic history. The answer of course, is Marty. Lovable, fat, dog-faced Marty. A true dog. One of the doggiest dogs that ever dogged. On top, on bottom, from the front or the back, it's always doggystyle when Marty is involved. It's one of the most prestigious winners of all time, Marty, this week in the Balcony.  ..read more

Loyal listeners, WE. ARE. BACK. FROM. THE. ONE. WEEK. WE. TOOK. OFF. It's 1953's Best Picture winner, From Here to Eternity and spoiler alert, neither of the boys remembered to do say the title of the film in "Near.... far" Grover voice. I just wanted to get it in there. Partial credit is still credit. It's the touching story of a bunch of beach bums who answer the call when they're nation (or what would be their nation in another 15 years) comes under attack. We had fun. We sing some Sinatra. It's good.  ..read more

Ho ho ho! The boys are taking a couple weeks off from their Academy Awards mega-watch but didn't want to leave you standing in the breeze, holding your junk, reflecting on the decline of the American empire. We wouldn't do that to you so we recorded an episode about a classic Hollywood Christmas special long lost to time but found 10 years ago and lovingly restored and dumped onto HBOMax with no fanfare. It's Rod Serling's A Carol for Another Christmas directed by lil Mank(Mank!) and starring the cast of Dr Strangelove. Does it rule? Absolutely. Is it depressing? Absolutely. WIll you be able t ..read more

Light up those baguettes, folks because this week the Balcony is in the City of Lights, France, where they got nude beaches but the girls don't shave their pits. It's An American in Paris directed by Vincente Minelli and starring Gene Kelly and really that's the story here. Holy hell. You seen this guy? Gene Kelly? Fucking incredible. An absolute star. One of the brightest of all time. There's 90 minutes of an adorable movie and then 20 minutes that elevates it to a level of greatness we rarely see. It's An American in Paris and it's a movie and we're a podcast ..read more

Humpty Dumpty sat in the Balcony, eating his curds and wey. Along came some dipshits to discuss all the movies and pushed Humpty Dumpty to his death. That's right, folks. IT WAS MURDER. That dumb egg bitch wouldn't play ball so the Balcony political machine scrambled his ass. Folks, it's Year 22 of our celebration of the Academy Award for Best Picture winning films and boy howdy do we got a dang barn burner for all you hicks in the sticks. It's the 1949 political melodrama All the King's Men and it's gooooooood as heck. Not perfect by any means but light years better than the absolutely attroc ..read more

Welp, this is the week Bill finally broke. Poor guy was cruising right along and I don't know if it's the residual stress of a global pandemic or what but our sweet, sweet boy finally lost his damn mind this week which actually works in your favor cause as we return to our Best Picture Weekly Marathon, this week's Best Picture winner is just kind of... fine? I don't know. It's a very heavy handed film about a very important issue that still plagues us as a society but I'll be honest, I thought for sure this was the week we'd accidentally cross a line and cancel each other but we didn't? Maybe ..read more

Folks, the Balcony is closed for a little bit so enjoy a couple of weeks of goldie oldies and then we'll be back with Gandhi eventually! Gobble, gobble, you flippin Puritans. It's the busiest travel day of the year and the Balcony Boys have got you covered with a turkey that even the most benevolent of US Presidents couldn't pardon. Yes, friends, it's time we travel all the way back to 1952 and take a look at Plymouth Adventure, a film that can only be described as "completely inaccurate" and "very boring." Sexier than the reenactors at Plimoth Plantation but not as sexy as anything that can ..read more