Review: Hell or High Water

The West dusts off its wild side to give us one of the films of the year.

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Review: The Revenant

Iñárritu + Lubezki + DiCaprio + Hardy

Conclusion? Don’t watch it on a laptop.

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Review: The Hateful Eight (70mm)

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

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Underrated#1: Val Kilmer in Tombstone

Val Kilmer’s turn in a random early 90s western was fucking fantastic, yet it received no Academy recognition and enjoys an unjustly low level of the modern day hype usually lavished unreservedly upon such a cult performance.

Tombstone
Dir: George P. Cosmatos
Original Release Date: 24 December 1993

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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.11 – ‘I’m Your Huckleberry’

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.11 – ‘I’m Your Huckleberry’ 

Sucker Punched returns on The Punch Up with an in-depth look at three pictures, each selected at random by the usual trio of presenters. This week the chaps chat Jonathan Glazer’s 2013 sci-fi horror, Under The Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson, Tombstone, also starring Kurt Russell, and the 2013 sci-fi drama, I, Origins, starring Michael Pitt.

This week the chaps chat Jonathan Glazer’s 2013 sci-fi horror, Under The Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson, the how-the-fuck-did-Val-Kilmer-not-recieve-a-Best-Supporting-Actor-nomination 1993 western, Tombstone, also starring Kurt Russell, and the 2013 sci-fi drama, I, Origins, starring Michael Pitt.

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