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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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Review: Steve Jobs

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Danny Boyle’s intriguing biopic wisely mimics its subject in avoiding industry convention.

*spoiler free*

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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.10 – ‘The Martian’

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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.10 – ‘The Martian’ 

No fancy title for The Punch Up podcast this week, as the chaps take a full episode to review The Martian, starring Matt Damon; a more than welcome return to form for director Ridley Scott, and probably his best film for fifteen years.

*includes a spoilers segment to conclude, pre-empted by our usual spoiler alert!

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Review: Sicario

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Master of misdirection Denis Villeneuve’s drug war commentary is an intense, edge of your seat assault on the senses.

*spoiler free*

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Review: The Martian

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Ridley Scott’s popcorn-tech sci-fi is a more than welcome return to form.

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Review: Black Mass

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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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Review: Listen to Me Marlon

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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.6 – ‘TD S2: The Review’

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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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True Detective S2: The Review 

In this standalone special, The Punch Up crew steadily go the way of Ray as they take a detailed, spoiler-filled look back at Season 2 of HBO’s True Detective, starring Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch. and Vince Vaughn. A straight up review of the feature length finale intertwines with overall standout moments, low points, character analysis, story arc development, Pizzolatto chat, and a general view of the season as a whole. If you managed to sit through 8 episodes of rambling, mumbling, drunken lowlifes, then you may as well do it one more time!

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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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