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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.21 -‘TPU’s Best of 2015!… Part 1: Movies’

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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.21 – ‘TPU’s Best of 2015! Pt. 1: Movies’

The Punch Up Podcast returns for our first episode of 2016! And what better way to kick off the new year than by talking all about the cinematic highs of the previous year…

Along with special guest Haley McNamara, the chaps take this opportunity to countdown their top 5 feature films of 2015.

From The Revenant to The Little Prince, End of Tour to Mad Max, Inside Out to The Hateful Eight – we cover any and all points of interest re: the creative, the technical, and our own experience with each production.

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ILT’s Top 10 Films of 2015!

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One word to describe cinema during 2015: BIG

As close to an ‘order’ as I could get, here’s ILT’s 10 favourite flicks of the year…

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Review: The Revenant

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Iñárritu + Lubezki + DiCaprio + Hardy

Conclusion? Don’t watch it on a laptop.

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*The Revenant features on ILT’s Top 10 Films of 2015! Find out where it ranked here.*

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Review: The Hateful Eight (70mm)

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Quentin Tarantino reigns in the wacky in favour of technical mastery.

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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.20 – ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’

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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.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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First Impression… Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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I think I need to watch it again.

*spoiler free*

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Review: Sanjay’s Super Team (Pixar Short Film)

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Pixar’s latest short (and accompaniment to The Good Dinosaur) is a divine masterpiece of animation.

"Sanjay's Super Team" Comes to the Con — Director Sanjay Patel and producer Nicole Grindle are taking Pixar Animation Studios' new short to San Diego's Comic-Con International next month for its North American premiere and a peek behind the scenes of the production process. The Super Story Behind the Pixar Short "Sanjay's Super Team," slated for Thurs., July 9 at 11 a.m. in the Indigo Ballroom, Hilton Bayfront, reveals the unique inspiration for this incredibly personal film that features superheroes like never before. The short debuts in U.S. theaters in front of Disney-Pixar's "The Good Dinosaur" on Nov. 25, 2015.

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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.14 – ‘Spectre’

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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.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

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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’

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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.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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