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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.5 – ‘Bring A Coat!’

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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 covering regular news, reviews, previews, and retrospect from the world of the reel.

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Ep.5 – ‘Bring A Coat!’

This week on The Punch Up, the chaps sing the praises of dreamy Tom Cruise and his latest MI flick, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. Things get chilly in the The Trailer Park as QT’s The Hateful Eight and HBO’s Show Me A Hero loom into view, while other titles reviewed include Judd Apatow and Amy Schumer’s romantic comedy, Trainwreck, the 2014 romantic dramedy, The One I Love, and the hit adult animated comedy, Rick & Morty.

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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.4 – ‘A Straight-to-Internet Release’

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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 covering regular news, reviews, previews, and retrospect from the world of the reel.

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Ep.4 – ‘A Straight-to-Internet Release’

This week on The Punch Up, the chaps bite off more than they can chew as they tear apart the rotten carcass of The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride during Sucker Punched. Things get a bit misty eyed as the emotional, not-talked-about-as-much-as-it-should-be De Niro/Williams true story, Awakenings, also features, as does Roman Polanski’s influential 1968 horror classic, Rosemary’s Baby. General reviews include Alex Garland’s marvelous sci-fi/thirller, Ex Machina, Hayao Miyazaki’s 2013 anime war tale, The Wind Rises, and John Woo’s hit-and-miss Mission Impossible 2, before one of us drunkenly fell asleep during True Detective, cutting things a tad short(er)…

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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.3 – ‘Short Changed’

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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 covering regular news, reviews, previews, and retrospect from the world of the reel.

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Ep.3 – ‘Short Changed’

This week on The Punch Up, the chaps look forward to Marlon Brando on Marlon Brando, before officially making the case for the industry to make a goddam bigger deal of short films. The fall from grace of the mainstream parody genre is traced, from Leslie Neilson to Scary Movie, as is the steady evolution of adult animation series with the recent release of BoJack Horseman. Tig, Aliens, Grease, and While We’re Young also feature, as does a 20th anniversary chat on Larry Clark’s highly controversial flick, Kids. To finish, as always, it’s True Detective spoiler time (s02e06) – a show well and truly stuck in second gear.

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Retrospect: Kids

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On the 20th anniversary of Larry Clark’s controversial youth-focused flick, we take a look back at its brutally raw, fucked up, lightning in a bottle qualities.

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Dir: Larry Clark
Original Release Date: 28 July 1995

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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.2 – ‘Blow Me’

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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 covering regular news, reviews, previews, and retrospect from the world of the reel.

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Ep.2 – ‘Blow Me’

This week the chaps look forward to Iñárritu’s epic western, The Revenant, in new segment ‘The Trailer Park’. There’s discussion on what everyone’s been viewing recently, including sci-fi thriller Ex Machina, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt’s sort-of-forgotten hit, Interview With a Vampire, and the not-as-good-as-you-remember biopic, Blow. ‘Sucker Punched’ makes it return with Jean-Claude Van Damme’s The Quest, Disney’s Mighty Joe Young, and the arcade game doc King of Kong under the microscope, before the boys wrap things up with their usual spoiler filled venture into trying to solve just what the hell’s going on in True Detective (so2e05).

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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.1 – ‘Suicide Pod’

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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 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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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.

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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.

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For a more interactive experience, listen on acast.

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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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