The Punching Up Movie Podcast

Punching Up Episode 28-The Goonies A first for the punching up team. Damian and Adam have somehow acquired a special guest, Matthew Chernov, the estimable LA film journalist, screenwriter and presenter of the magnificent How The West Was Cast podcast. Matthew is an enormous fan of The Goonies, that beloved 1985 family friendly (if you discount that bit where the federal agent gets murdered and his corpse is locked in a freezer with a child, as well as the ceramic penis joke) Spielberg produced adventure movie. It’s fair to say that Damian is not fan. And despite being a teenager in the 1980s, Adam hadn’t actually seen The Goonies until the day before recording the pod and is keeping his cards close to his chest. So, will Adam stand by his friend of 35 years and stick one on The Goonies and Matthew Chernov. Or will he tag-team Matthew and gang up on Damian, metaphorically throwing his old mate under the bus in defence of Mikey, Brand, Mouth, Chunk, Data, Andy and the Goonie nobody likes very much that was played by that girl who happens to be David Carradine from Kill Bill and Kung Fu’s niece? Join us and find out. Get in touch :O) by sending us an email @[email protected] Follow us on Instagram @ punchingupmoviepodcast Support Us on Patreon: Punching Up Patreon (Punching Up Patreon)  

Episode 27-The Way of the Dragon In 1972 martial arts legend Bruce Lee wrote and directed The Way of the Dragon. On the surface, a simple tale of a Hong Kong kung fu prodigy sent to Rome to protect his uncle’s restaurant from gangsters, culminating in an epic fight to the death in the Roman Colosseum with seven-time world karate champion Chuck Norris. The Way of the Dragon is regarded as one of the greatest martial arts movies of all time. But The Way of the Dragon is so much more than this. Bruce Lee was also disseminating his own unique martial arts philosophy  into the fabric of an action film, making The Way of the Dragon a martial arts manifesto revered by Lee fans as the Master’s most profound and personal work. Really? Punching Up’s Adam calls bullshit. So do not look at all this heavenly glory, or you’ll miss the fact that The Way of the Dragon is maybe a really shitty movie. Fighting talk? You betchya! So, for one episode only the Punching Up Podcast becomes The One Inch Punching Up Podcast as Adam and Damian indulge in the art of podcasting without podcasting and take on the King of Kung Fu. Kiyaaaaaaa!!! Support Us on Patreon: Punching Up Patreon Get in touch :O) by sending us an email @[email protected] Follow us on Instagram @ punchingupmoviepodcast

Episode 26-Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels What do you get if you cross a posh public school boy who wants to be a Cockney geezer, an actual football playing geezer who want to be an actor, and a future action movie star who come from Derbyshire but talks like a geezer for a bit and then talks like an American who sounds a bit like a geezer, or a geezer who sounds a bit like American? It’s all very confusing.You get Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Guy Ritchie’s geezer gangster hit starring Vinnie Jones and Jason Statham, which also happens to be one of Adam Nightingale’s least favourite movies of the entire 1990s.  But what does Damian think? Actually, he hates it as much as Adam does, but he likes Danny Dyer, who isn’t even in the movie. So, tune for a discussion of all thing geezer, and gangster..........and Danny Dyer. Get in touch :O) by sending us an email @[email protected] Follow us on Instagram @ punchingupmoviepodcast

Episode 25-The Holy MountainIt’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. Get in touch :O) by sending us an email @[email protected] Follow us on Instagram @ punchingupmoviepodcast  

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.   Get in touch :O) by sending us an email @[email protected] Follow us on Instagram @ punchingupmoviepodcast