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Two old friends and movie lovers discuss established classics that they like and loathe.
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May 8, 2025
May 8, 2025
1hr 2 min
Episode 25-The Holy Mountain
It’s been a while. Did you miss us?
Did you even notice we had been away?
Well, after a longer than normal hiatus the Punching Up Movie Podcast is back.
And this episode is magic. I mean literally.
The Punching Up duo discuss Alejandro Jodorowski’s cult sensation, shamanistic cinematic odyssey, The Holy Mountain.
Magic, horror, nudity, spirituality, political commentary, freaky production design, nudity, outlandish costumes, more magic, and nudity.
Adam hates it. Damian has mixed feelings.
Magical Mystery Tour, or Tragical Mystical Bore?
The ultimate midnight movie, or a pseudo spiritual cinematic excuse for looking at lady’s bosoms?
So, free your mind, expand your consciousness, tune in, find out, and meet the movie that nearly broke Adam Nightingale.
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Feb 13, 2025
Feb 13, 2025
55 min
Episode 24-Moulin Rouge
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!
The moment is here.
The hour is now.
The time has arrived.
It’s our long threatened, much delayed musical theatre episode where Damian unleashes his full fury on Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 cinematic juke box musical Moulin Rouge.
It’s been brewing for a while and Damian doesn’t hold back on Nicole Kidman’s acting and dancing, Ewan McGregor’s singing and acting, and, most of all Baz Luhrmann’s hyperkinetic, coked to the gills, MTV on absinthe editing and directing style.
This is an episode for the ages as Punching Up’s Mr Nice goes very, very dark indeed.
Tune in.
I promise you it will be spectacular….spectacular.
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Feb 6, 2025
Feb 6, 2025
26 min
Episode 23-January 2025-Some New Movies
Happy 2025 Movie Lovers and Punching up listeners
Did you miss us?
Well, have no fear, we have a proper, actual, honest to goodness full-length episode hovering in the wings (next week).
But for those of you who simply can’t wait to hear our Punching Up thoughts on….Moulin Rouge (which will be next week), here’s a bonus episode of some chit chat about some of the movies released this January 2025: Better Man, Wolf Man, William Tell Man, Nosferatu Man, and a few others that Damian likes but that Adam hasn’t seen yet.
But listeners beware, both Damian and Adam spoil the absolute living daylights out of The Wolf Man (It's not even called THE Wolf Man.)
You have been warned.
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Dec 30, 2024
Dec 30, 2024
1hr 39 min
Episode 22-The Best of 2024
It’s still the Season of Good Will and so the Punching Up Team are going to use their powers for good this time and wax lyrical about which films they loved in this year of 2024.
It’s a long one as there is a lot of affection to go around in this atypical end of the year love fest. And lest we forget that this is still the Puncing Up Podcast, there is still enough room left over to hate on a few movies that have really tested our patience, I’m talking to you Francis Ford Coppola.
So, that’s a whole lot of love, a little bit of hate and a few splashes of disappointment in the best one hour and forty minutes you will spend outside of singing Auld Lang Syne in an overcrowded bar and telling a complete stranger that you love them.
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Dec 19, 2024
Dec 19, 2024
1hr 10 min
Episode 21-The Shape of Water
Wanna see a movie where the Creature From the Black Lagoon gets it on with Mrs Brown from the first two Paddington movies?
I don’t.
But Adam (who doesn’t seem to mind a bit of interspecies fantasy love action) has forced me to watch The Shape of Water again.
I find Guillermo del Toro’s 2017 Oscar winning modern fairy tale, unoriginal, twee, borderline plagiaristic, largely miscast and a little bit queasy when it comes to matters of human/ amphibian copulation.
Adam loves it.
But then again, he’s a massive pervert.
Tune in for a lengthy discussion of this and all things Guillermo del Toro in the latest episode of Punching Up.
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Dec 12, 2024
Dec 12, 2024
55 min
Episode 20-The Terrifier Franchise
Damian and Adam
Art we a pair?
I live in Nottingham, England
He lives somewhere over there
Sydney, Australia
But Damian doesn’t like Art the Clown
But I like Art the Clown
Will it be over?
We can’t agree
On the obvious future cult classic status
Of Terrifier 1, 2 and 3
Cause Damian doesn’t like Art the Clown
But I like Art the Clowwwwwwnnnnnnn
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Nov 28, 2024
Nov 28, 2024
1hr 9 min
Episode 19- A Nightmare on Elm Street
Are you ready for Freddy?
No, not really. I’m a big horror fan but not a massive lover of Wes Craven’s 1980s classic A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Razor fingered demons with stripy shirts who kill you in your dreams, a telephone that comes alive and licks your face and Freddy Krueger’s elongated Big Bird arms don’t really do it for me. I’d much rather watch Art the Clown kill people with his big black bin liner full of weapons in Damian Leone’s Terrifier movies.
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Oct 31, 2024
Oct 31, 2024
46 min
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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The Punching Up Movie Podcast
Damian & Adam discuss lauded films and at times agree and at others disagree on 'their take', enjoyment or 'lack of' of the film in question.
Each episode we will take on a behemoth and attempt to dissect, discover and sometimes disassemble the percieved classic film.
Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode.
All research by Adam Nightingale and Damian Asher.
Produced and edited by Damian Asher.
TESTIMONIALS
"Philip Jose Farmer once said something like ”Disagreement is the heart of scholarship”. I enjoy hearing a good defence of a movie that is popularly considered to have failed to be the classic it could have been. Here, my friend Adam Nightingale takes the opposite approach and argues that one of my favourite movies, 2001, is NOT the classic it is popularly held to be.
I learned things I never knew about Kubrick’s iconic film, and enjoyed the intellectual, friendly fan disagreement with his bud, Damian Asher. Fan debates should be part of the fun of being a fan (just dont cross me on who’s stronger, Thor or The Hulk.”
Micah Harris (Graphic Novelist)
"......love listening to your podcast. Amazing and insightful and somewhat comforting too. You 'n Adam Buxton are my nos 1's at the moment."
Andrea Gordon
"Great stuff Damian. One of the best movie reviewers out there."
Terence Maynard
"This is excellent Damian. Really enjoying it."
Steven Bloomer