The Punching Up Movie Podcast

Punching Up-Episode 31-Highlander Here we are, born to be kings, we are princes of the podcast-verse. And to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the head lopping, Queen scored, Sean Connery featuring, 1980s cult classic that made an unlikely star of Christophe Lambert, the Punching Up crew will be putting Highlander to sword. On the chopping block this episode will be wayward Scottish accents, wayward Egyptian/Spanish accent hybrids, the weird appeal of Christophe Lambert, MTV editing, inexplicably crap swordfights and the bulletproof nature of Sean Connery’s superstardom. We also discuss whether it’s a good idea to do backflips in the middle of a dual in a dirty 1980s New York underground carpark. It’s not all negative though. Damian and Adam also take a little time to throw out some qualified love toward an Australian movie about a pig. And it’s not Babe. Because Babe doesn’t eat people. Confused. Don’t worry. It will all makes sense when you tune in. A lot more sense than the plot of Highlander. Get in touch :O) by sending us an email @punchingupmoviepodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram @ punchingupmoviepodcast You can support Us on Patreon: Punching Up Patreon (Punching Up Patreon)

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. Damian Asher feels differently. He saw Nightmare on Elm Street when he was a wee nipper, and it scared the living daylights out of him. Damian is also, possibly a little ambivalent about Art the Clown and his more recent, ultraviolent shenanigans. So, it’s Freddy vs Art and Adam vs Damian for the ultimate movie monster smack-down in our post Halloween, pod cast horror-thon. One-Two Adam’s coming for you. Get in touch :O) by sending us an email @ punchingupmoviepodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram @ punchingupmoviepodcast

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. Get in touch :O) by sending us an email @ punchingupmoviepodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram @ punchingupmoviepodcast

Episode 15-Bram Stoker's DraculaWho 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. Get in touch :O) by sending us an email @ punchingupmoviepodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Instgram @ punchingupmoviepodcast

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. Get in touch :O). Send us an email @ punchingupmoviepodcast@gmail.com

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. Get in touch :O) Send us an email @: punchingupmoviepodcast@gmail.com

Episode 9-HARD BOILED (1992)Can an action movie have too much action? Punching Up’s Adam thinks so. Is John Woo’s cop vs triads cult classic, Hard Boiled really better than a dozen Die Hards, or does it suffer from a terminal case of the try-hards? Adam thinks it does. Is John Woo really the Mozart of Mayhem, or is he actually the Andre Rieu of Chinese Gun fu? Adam reckons he might be Rieu, making the case that two hours of wall-to-wall gun fighting (however exquisitely choreographed) can be quite boring. As always, Damian disagrees with him. So, grab a 45 in each hand, put a matchstick in your mouth, release the doves and listen to Damian and Adam dance their slow-motion bullet ballet for your listening entertainment to determine whether Hard Boiled really deserves its Punching Up status. Get in touch :O) Send us an email @: punchingupmoviepodcast@gmail.com First person to email with a question or comment gets a special prize!!!!!!!!

Episode 7-SHAFT (1971) According to the legendary Isaac Hayes, John Shaft is a “Bad Mutha” as well as being a “sex machine to all the chicks,” whilst also being a “complicated man… who will risk his neck for his brother man.” But is the 1971 Blaxploitation classic that bears his name any good? While fully and freely conceding Shaft’s status as a cinematic cultural landmark, Adam suspects that the film itself, (to quote John Shaft), might actually be a little bit “Shitty!” What does Punching Up’s own Complicated Man, Damian think?Tune in and find out. Can you dig it? Although respectful to the legacy and talent of Shaft’s iconic leading man Richard Rountree, this episode was recorded before the great man’s passing. Get in touch :O) Send us an email @: punchingupmoviepodcast@gmail.com