Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.23 – ’88th Academy Awards Preview Show’

This week on The Punch Up podcast, the chaps look forward to the 88th Academy Awards – with coverage of each and every category, nomination, and outrageous snub…

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Review: Pre Vis Action

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

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!

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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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.17 – ‘An Animated Discussion’

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.17 – ‘An Animated Discussion’

It’s a very animated discussion this week on The Punch Up, as the chaps are joined by our very first special guest, Vancouver-based animator Haley McNamara! Providing her own unique insight, Haley takes us into the world of professional animation, revealing a few surprises along the way…

On the review front we take a look at Pixar’s latest releases, The Good Dinosaur, Sanjay’s Super Team, and Inside Out, as well as the astounding French picture, The Little Prince.

We also look forward to future animated features coming out next year, including Disney’s Zootopia, Pixar’s Finding Dory, and the it-could-be-great-could-be-meh, The Life of Pets.

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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.16 – ‘War, THIS Is What It’s Good For’

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.16 – ‘War, THIS Is What It’s Good For’

This week on The Punch Up podcast it’s a Sucker Punched special as the chaps chat war, and how it’s really only good for making movies…

Leading the conversation are three very different flicks straight from the front line; The Big Red One (1980), starring Lee Marvin and Mark Hamill, Enemy at the Gates (2001), starring Jude Law and Rachel Weisz, and a stunning foreign language entry, the German-made, The Lives of Others (2006).

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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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Review: Kung Fury

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

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: Fury Road

George Miller’s ‘Mad’ Max Rockatansky returns in a tanked up, high-octane beast of a picture, that is not only goddamn marvellous in its own right, but also part catalyst for a dramatic cinematic swing in the right direction…

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