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Podcast: The Punch Up, ep.0 – ‘Sucker Punched’

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The Punch Up is a brand new weekly film & television podcast broadc​asting 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 looking to cover regular news, reviews, previews, and retrospect from the world of the reel.

Put ’em up!

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Ep.0 – ‘Sucker Punched’

In The Punch Up’s debut/trial episode, ‘Sucker Punched’, the boys discuss what they’ve watched recently; Nick jumps through a chopper to tackle Terminator Genisys in new segment, ‘Taking One for the Team’; monkeys and messy anime are the order of the day in what’s being labelled as, ‘The Sucker Punch’; and to round the things off for the finale there’s the first of our spoiler filled chats on what’s been happening on True Detective S02, covering the first three episodes so far. Enjoy!

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Review: Terminator Genisys

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James Cameron will be spinning in his Deepsea Challenger. Actually, he’s probably not. $$$.

*spoiler free*

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Guest Podcast Debut With Failed Critics!

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Following my articles on Blackadder, We Are Many, and Kung Fury for the chaps from my homeland at Failed Critics, you can now listen to me chat shit for fifteen minutes in my transatlantic podcast debut!

Owen Hughes hosts as he and I discuss Oscar Swift’s micro budget British indie thriller, Through the Lens, starring Lewis Sanderson.

The FC lads also discuss Minions, Spider-Man, and The Terminator amongst others.

Check it out here!

For a more interactive experience, listen on acast.

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SceneKid#10: Luke Sparks Up

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Further inebriated ILT Star Wars chat, as the most unnecessarily complicated rescue plot ever sparks into life at the long overdue behest of our old chum Mr. Skywalker…

Return of the Jedi
Dir: Richard Marquand
Original Release Date: 25 May 1983

Part Three of a Star Wars SceneKid series special.

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Review: Inside Out

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Pixar’s literal emotional roller coaster shoots us closer to the heady heights of the studio’s former glories than we’ve been in years…

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Review: Jurassic World

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It doesn’t matter what I think, the studio already has your money.
And mine.

*spoiler free (plot)*

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SceneKid#9: “That boy is our last hope…”

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ILT’s inebriated Star Wars special continues with Luke skipping Dagobah Jedi school, despite Yoda and Obi-Wan dropping some fairly heavy truth bombs…

The Empire Strikes Back
Dir: Irvin Kershner
Original Release Date: 21 May 1980

Part Two of a Star Wars SceneKid series special.

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Review: Kung Fury

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Dinosaurs, Nazis, kung-fu, time travel, Thor, 1980s fashion…

That’s right, it’s David Sandberg’s viral short: Kung Fury.

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TurningJapanese#2: Ninja Scroll 獣兵衛忍風帖

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ILT’s TurningJapanese# series returns with its first anime retrospect, a bonafide cult classic of the genre that all but made me lose my shit as a teenage fanboy…

Ninja Scroll
Dir: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Original Release Date: 5 June 1993

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Review: We Are Many

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Focusing on the build up to, and protest of the Iraq War, Amir Arimani’s moving, thoroughly engaging documentary is a definitive journey through one of the chief high-profile social and political chapters of the early 21st century.1000

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