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Category Archives: action
Review: Pre Vis Action
As we gradually begin to get excited for The Raid 3, I pick apart Welsh director Gareth Evans’ intriguing, Samurai-laden short…
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PerfAction#2: Die Hard (Ode to Hans Gruber)
PerfAction returns with a tribute to the greatest villain of them all…
Die Hard
Dir: John McTiernan
Original Release Date: 15 July 1988
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Review: The Revenant
Iñárritu + Lubezki + DiCaprio + Hardy
Conclusion? Don’t watch it on a laptop.
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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.20 – ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’
The Punch Up is a brand new weekly film & television podcast broadcasting from the laaaazy west coast city of Vancouver, Canada.
Featuring regulars Phill Bartlett, Adam Blair, and yours truly, Nicholas Lay, the chaps and I will be covering regular news, reviews, previews, and retrospect from the world of the reel.
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Ep.20 – ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’
This week on The Punch Up there’s only one topic of conversation, as the chaps get together to review J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens!
With detailed analysis of the technical aspects, the cast and characters, as well as the story and overall writing, we promise the multi-parsac run time is a worthy break down of our long-awaited return to that galaxy far, far away…
*Warning: major spoilers from the start*
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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.14 – ‘Spectre’
The Punch Up is a brand new weekly film & television podcast broadcasting from the laaaazy west coast city of Vancouver, Canada.
Featuring regulars Phill Bartlett, Adam Blair, and yours truly, Nicholas Lay, the chaps and I will be covering regular news, reviews, previews, and retrospect from the world of the reel.
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Ep.14 – ‘Spectre’
This week on The Punch Up, the chaps dedicate a full episode to the life and history of good ol’ James Bond, leading with Sam Mendes’ new flick, Spectre, starring Daniel Craig, Christolph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ralph Fiennes, and Dave Bautista.
*includes a spoilers segment to conclude, pre-empted by our usual spoiler alert!
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Review: Spectre
It seems Mendes and co. were handed a licence to kill the progress made with Skyfall.
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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.12 – ‘Beasts of No Podcast’
The Punch Up is a brand new weekly film & television podcast broadcasting from the laaaazy west coast city of Vancouver, Canada.
Featuring regulars Phill Bartlett, Adam Blair, and yours truly, Nicholas Lay, the chaps and I will be covering regular news, reviews, previews, and retrospect from the world of the reel.
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Ep.12 – ‘Beasts of No Podcast’
This week on The Punch Up, the chaps take a giddy look at the latest trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, before conducting spoiler-free reviews of Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet, Cary Fukunaga’s Netflix colloboration, Beasts of No Nation, starring Idris Elba, and Denis Vileneuve’s mastery of intense-as-fuck misdirection, Sicario, starring Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, and Josh Brolin.
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PerfAction#1: The Rock (1996)
PerfAction is a new series designed solely to gush unashamedly about, you guessed it, perfect goddamn action films.
First up, a flick that should have been the start of something great for Michael Bay, but ended up the tallest peak in a rapidly depressed (but wealthy) career…
The Rock
Dir: Michael Bay
Original Release Date: 7 June 1996
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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.1 – ‘Suicide Pod’
The Punch Up is a brand new weekly film & television podcast broadcasting from the laaaazy west coast city of Vancouver, Canada.
Featuring regulars Phill Bartlett, Adam Blair, and yours truly, Nicholas Lay, the chaps and I will be covering regular news, reviews, previews, and retrospect from the world of the reel.
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Ep.1 – ‘Suicide Pod’
The latest episode of The Punch Up features an unhealthy dose of Comic-Con fallout, discussion on recent releases, including Me, Earl, & the Dying Girl and Minions, and a look back at the Coen bros. classic, Fargo, before the chaps chew over the insane success of Jurassic World and finish, as per usual, with another round of spoiler-filled True Detective chat. Enjoy!
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