Master of misdirection Denis Villeneuve’s drug war commentary is an intense, edge of your seat assault on the senses.
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Review: The Martian
Ridley Scott’s popcorn-tech sci-fi is a more than welcome return to form.
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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.9 – ‘Haunted Pipes’
The Punch Up is a brand new weekly film & television podcast broadcasting 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. 9 – ‘Haunted Pipes’
This week on The Punch Up the chaps talk at length re: Scott Cooper and Johnny Depp’s violent but stylish “Whitey” Bulger gangster flick, Black Mass.* A brief collection of general reviews leads with the latest documentary on The Who, Lambert & Stamp, before revisiting Seinfeld, i, Robot, and I Am Legend, and the boys look forward to Adam McKay’s new flick, The Big Short, starring Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carell.
*includes a spoilers segment at the end, pre-empted by our usual spoiler alert!
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Review: Black Mass
Scott Cooper and Johnny Depp’s examination of Boston crime kingpin/FBI informant James “Whitey” Bulger is intriguing in subject matter and entertaining enough in execution, but by no means a classic.
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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.8 – ‘It’s Such a Beautiful…Life?!’
The Punch Up is a brand new weekly film & television podcast broadcasting 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. 8 – ‘It’s Such a Beautiful…Life?!’
The Punch Up returns after a couple o’ weeks in development hell (Nick went on vacation) with plenty of chat from across the world of the reel. Stevan Riley’s fantastic doc Listen to Me Marlon takes top billing following a first look at Disney’s new The Jungle Book trailer, while recent flicks discussed include Cameron Crowe’s latest ‘meh’ effort, Aloha, and deep doc, Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine. Small screen chat focuses on Netflix’s addictive, binge worthy Pablo Escobar fest, Narcos, as well as Forte/Lord/Miller’s latest comedy creation, The Last Man on Earth. We rave about The Rock (the film, not the dude, although we’d happily do both) off the back of Nick’s new PerfAction series, Joaquin Phoenix’s under the radar role, The Immigrant, pops up, and finally there’s a welcome return for Don Hertzfeld’s quite brilliant, but oh-so-depressing It’s Such a Beautiful Day.
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PerfAction#1: The Rock (1996)
PerfAction is a new series designed solely to gush unashamedly about, you guessed it, perfect goddamn action films.
First up, a flick that should have been the start of something great for Michael Bay, but ended up the tallest peak in a rapidly depressed (but wealthy) career…
The Rock
Dir: Michael Bay
Original Release Date: 7 June 1996
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Review: Listen to Me Marlon
Stevan Riley’s deconstruction of Marlon Brando, courtesy of Marlon Brando, is probably the best documentary of the year.
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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.7 – ‘200 Dollars’
The Punch Up is a brand new weekly film & television podcast broadcasting 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. 7 – ‘200 Dollars’
This week on The Punch Up, the chaps get angsty at Colin Trevorrow’s appointment as director of Star Wars Ep. IX. On the review front, we take a look at Don Hertzfeldt’s depressing animated feature, It’s Such a Beautiful Day, dark anime classic, Grave of the Fireflies, some overrated horror in the form of The Babadook, HBO’s new series, Show Me A Hero, Batman follow up animation, The Dark Knight Returns, and Italian Academy Award winner, La Grande Bellezza. ‘Sucker Punched’ returns also, with in-depth chat re: 3 doozies, Sam Mendes’ Tom Hanks leading gangster flick, Road to Perdition, Martin Scorcese and Robert De Niro’s creepy black comedy classic, The King of Comedy, and one the greatest films you’ve never heard of, 1973’s Paper Moon.
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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.5 – ‘Bring A Coat!’
The Punch Up is a brand new weekly film & television podcast broadcasting 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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SceneKid#12: “Me…”
Robert De Niro and Robin Williams (and Randy Newman) cause me to cry. A lot.
Awakenings
Dir: Penny Marshall
Original Release Date: 22 December 1990
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