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Episode 18-RRR

Episode 18-RRR

Flying tigers, Indian freedom fighters and evil English scumbags.
Bloody battles, numerous songs, one spectacular dance routine and a very brutal flogging.  
What’s not to love in S.S Rajamouli’s Tolly (not Bolly) Wood breakout international action hit?
Nothing, if your Adam (despite repeatedly mispronouncing the director’s name in the podcast).
Plenty, if you are Damian (who only made it through the first twenty minutes on his first viewing).
So, what will it be? RRR or GRRR!?!  Tune in and find out.

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Episode 17-Gladiator

Episode 17-Gladiator

For those about to listen, we salute you.

In this epic episode of the Punching Up Movie Podcast Adam unleashes hell (and a couple of hungry man-eating tigers) on Gladiator, Ridley Scott’s tale of Roman revenge and arena combat.
Adam quite likes Scott but really doesn’t like Gladiator.
Damian likes Gladiator but has an axe to grind with Sir Ridley.
Let battle commence.
Will either of them earn their place in Elysium? Probably not.
But Adam might get into Valhalla on a technicality, because of the amount of time he namechecks the (in his opinion) far superior Conan the Barbarian.

So listen, by Crom, or Jupiter will get you.

 

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Episode 16-Dr Strangelove

Episode 16-Dr Strangelove

What could possibly be worse than Peter Sellers? Peter Sellers times 3.

In Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 nuclear war black comedy, Dr Strangelove, England’s greatest comic actor plays three separate characters and Damian Asher doesn’t like it.

Does three times the Sellers = three times the hate from the normally benign Stanley Kubrick uber fan Damian?
Combine that with the usual radioactive malice of myself, Adam Nightingale and will the Punching Up squad accidently trigger a chain reaction of spite that will consume the world in a permanent nuclear winter of white-hot Peter Sellers hatred? 
Or alternatively will they simply run out of horrible things to say about the man and sheepishly admit that he’s actually quite funny. 

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Episode 15-Bram Stoker's Dracula

Episode 15-Bram Stoker's Dracula

Who is the best Dracula? Is it Bela Lugosi’s suave count, Christopher Lee’s aristocratic Prince of Darkness, Max Shrek’s rat faced Nosferatu… or Gary Oldman’s lovelorn immortal who has crossed oceans of time to romance Winona Rider in Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula? Well, if you're Adam Nightingale it is most definitely not Gary Oldman, as the Lord of the Undead goes twelve rounds with the punching up team. 

It’s a long one as Damian and Adam cover all things Dracula and still have oceans of time left to mention drama school dance workouts, dirty vampires vs clean vampires, David Soul’s pop career and how Damian Asher saved Adam from Christian rock music in the early 1990s. 

You would be Vlad to miss it.  

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Episode 14-Kill Bill Volume 2

Episode 14-Kill Bill Vol 2

In the second part of our first two-parter, Punching Up punches up at its first sequel, Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol 2.
Damian perpetuates his beef with QT’s roaring, raging, rampage of revenging but narrows his focus to the eponymous Bill himself. Damian doesn’t like David Carradine’s performance. Adam tries manfully to defend the late martial artist movie star who can’t do martial arts, who once adorned yellow face to play a Chinese criminal named Wang Dong and died under very dubious circumstances in a Thailand hotel room (which we gallantly do not mention in this episode).
Who will win this roaring, retributive, rampage of retribution-ism-ing.  
Tune in and find out. 

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Episode 13-Kill Bill Volume 1

Episode 13-Kill Bill Volume 1

In this episode Damian and Adam don’t so much punch up but chop down, with a katana sword (or to be more precise, a Hattori Hanzo sword), as it is time to kill Kill Bill, or kill Kill Bill Volume 1 (to be even more precise), Quention Tarantino’s martial arts masterpiece of retribution and revenge.

So, expect 450 gallons of blood, a million cult movie references, a hundred million needle drops, multiple flying body parts, and attractive ladies naked feet…so, so many attractive ladies naked feet. It’s going to get bloody and it’s going to get weird as Damian and Adam cross swords (and play footsy) with the great Q T.

 

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Episode 12-Bande a Part

Episode 12-Bande a Part

In the immortal words of Thin Lizzy (or that blues band that played in 48 Hours),
The Boys Are Back In Town.

That's right, Punching Up The Movie Podcast is back.

This week we take shots at one of the pioneers of the French Nouvelle Vague cinema, Maoist essayist and intellectual contrarian, Jean Luc Godard and his supposedly most accessible film Bande a Part.

Will Godard’s fourth-wall breaking tale of two guys, one beautiful girl, smoking, shrugging, dancing and petty crime expand Damian and Adam’s intellectual horizons?
Or will it be the most boring and pretentious 90 minutes they have ever collectively endured.
Listen in and find out.

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Episode 11-Easy Rider

Episode 11-EASY RIDER (1969)

Two men went looking for a podcast and couldn’t find it anywhere.

On this episode Adam takes a swing at the biker movie, road movie, hippytastic gamechanger that singlehandedly launched the New Hollywood, 1969’s Easy Rider, not realizing that it is one of Damian’s favourite movies. 

Will their friendship survive, or will they (in the paraphrased words of the immortal Peter Fonda) Blow It? 

Why does Damian like Easy Rider so much?
Is it his innate love of counter culture and the magic herb?

Why does Adam hate Easy Rider so much and what has he got against travelling troops of Hippy actors? Does it have something to do with his murky Christian drama group past? 

Hold on. Is it therapy time, again????

Come on Adam, let the sunshine in.

In the paraphrased words of the immortal Stephen Schwartz: Join Us and find out.

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