Cinepunx

COME AT YAH WITH A BRAND NEW EPISODE! We had originally planned on this episode being a chance to talk about the recent RZA directed movie One Spoon of Chocolate but honestly we just felt like there was not enough there to carry a whole episode but really wanted to record so instead here is a brief catch up on recent movies as well as the Nitrate Film Fest. Thanks for listening! Please spend some...

BACK TOGETHER AND IT FEELS SO GOOD! Hey friends, welcome to our new episode as we check in on the cinema of today! Basically, we are working to try and record more, and I would LOVE to blame Josh but in reality scheduling has been hard for both of us. Episode is still super good, so no worries, but yes, it is a bit of a catch up so we have something to put out. Still love you though Thanks so much...

CUE THE SEXY SAXAMAPHONE, CINEPUNX IS BACK WITH THEIR OLD FRIEND EVAN VELLELA TO TALK ABOUT SOME DANG EROTIC THRILLERS! It is good to be back. Apologies again for the delay but Josh is a wild man and I was supporting my pastor wife getting ready for the Easter festivities and just life, yah know? Anyway, love you all, and so excited to be back with you, joined by my Ghoul Summer co-host Evan Velle...

I know, I know, you are asking your podcast player of choice out loud, right now, “WHY IS CHRIS REJECT BACK?” Well, it is simply because we love him. Also, LVAC is having some cool sales right now, so get some stuff printed, will yah?? On this extreme sport filled episode, Reject joins us to discuss two tubular films, Rad and Gleaming the Cube . Look, as much as we like to bust on Chri...

HOW CAN IT BE? ANTHER DOWN ON THE STREETS EPISODE OF THE INFAMOUS CINEPUNX PODCAST? On this episode we get into a conversation discussing Mikey and Nicky , the 1976 Elaine May written and directed film that sits at the junctions of crime films, buddy films, and crushing tragedies. Josh Cassavetes and Peter Falk really make this film incredible and we spend a chunk of time parsing out what makes th...

CINEPUNX RETURNS FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON!! On this incredible new episode, we discussed two films recommended by Paul Thomas Anderson, Midnight Run and Running on Empty.  Joining us on this cinematic adventure is Blavk Guy Fawkes aka Ian Robinson, and we were delighted to talk to him I won’t waste your time with more apologies about our huge break. If you listen to the episode, you’ll hear why it’s...

OMG OMG OMG I cannot BELIEVE the episode we have for you today. Hey friends, welcome back to another incredible episode of Cinepunx, the podcast that just won’t quit! On this episode we were blessed to welcome writer/director/actor Annapurna Sriram of Fucktoys If for some reason you missed our incredible episode with Justin Pearson discussing how much we loved this movie, you can find it her...

Hey friends, good to see you! On this episode of CINEPUNX we are joined by our friend and yours, Adrianna, to discuss two sapphic noir films: BOUND and HONEY DON’T ! Because Josh so recently expressed his displeasure with one of these movies you might think this episode is some kind of set up, but trust me, that is not what this is. Adrianna is a thoughtful and insightful film expert and she...

WE ARE THE HERALDS OF GOOD AND BAD MOVIES, HERE TO ENOUNCE THE DOMINION OF CINEPUNX OVER THIS PODCAST GALAXY! Hey buds, we are back with a new low effort episode for you to enjoy! Look, Josh sees a ton of movies. He gets invited to press screenings constantly and it seemed about time for him to check in and give you the run down on those movies. Now, do I see as many as him? Well in preparation fo...

WE ARE BACK AND INCREDIBLY EXCITED TO DELIVER THIS EPISODE UNTO YOU! Hey friends, welcome to episode 207 of Cinepunx! Not only do we welcome guest and hopefully new friend Justin Pearson of Swing Kids, Some Girls, Crimson Curse, Three One G records, etc. to the show, but he has brought us the incredibly unique opportunity to discuss a movie so new it is not even really in wide release yet: FUCKTOY...

CINEPUNX IS BACK WITH ANOTHER EXCITING, RIVETING, EXPLOSIVE and of course SWEATY EPISODE! Here. on episode 206 we burst into your eardrums to take our first tentative steps into the films of Ringo Lam, classic Hong Kong director. We begin this journey with two films in a thematic trilogy but for some reason skipping the second film in that trilogy by discussing City on Fire and School on Fire . Wh...

Hey friends, you know what it is, it is our NITRATE PICTURE SHOW recap episode. Sorry it is so late, there was a miscommunication between me and Sharkey and editing got delayed and the whole thing got held up. However, here we are! For this recap we are joined by Vinegar Syndrome Archivist Oscar Becher who you can see in the video below talking about dirty work As usual I don’t have a lot to...

CINEPUNX COME KICKING BACK INTO THE SPOTLIGHT WITH ANOTHER ACTION PACKED EPISODE! HEY  Friends, episode 204 featuring our friend and yours, Evan Vellela to discuss the man himself, Jackie Chan! For this episode Evan chose Rumble in the Bronx and First Strike (Police Story IV) for us to focus on!     Evan is great, Jackie Chan is incredible, this is a super fun episode. Evan and I are goi...

HAPPY 11 YEARS TO US AND WELCOME TO OUR NEW EPISODE! I am posting this on May 5th, the day AFTER our 11th birthday but it still counts. In this episode we do something we honestly almost never do, we discuss a movie a lot of people are currently discussing, even on this very podcast network. Look, this discussing current films thing, let alone films that are relevant to culture thing, is not a new...

CINEPUNX IS HERE TO ROCK IT! Oh, hey, it’s you and it’s us! Welcome to a new episode of CINEPUNX! Sometimes we get excited about a new movie and have to spend a whole episode gushing about it! Well we hope you like that cause not only did we do it this episode for FREAKY TALES, we did it for the next episode about SINNERS, so there is that. Hey, thanks for coming! We do our usual WACK...

WE ARE BACK AND HERE TO EXPLORE THE DEPRAVED BOUNDARIES OF HUMAN FLESH AND IMAGINATION, IT IS A BRAND NEW EPISODE OF CINEPUNX! It finally happened, after numerous requests for her to return, but we are blessed to be joined for the third time by our one and only SAMM DEIGHAN. Chances are you know Samm from her film writing and commentaries for folks like Criterion but I would hope you are as avid l...

200 EPISODES OF MOVIE PODCAST CHAOS!! Hey everyone, thanks for joining us for this auspicious and yet slightly delayed 200 episode Cinepunx. It took us quite a while to get here but here we are at 200 episodes, Hopefully it won’t take us another 10 years to get to 400 episodes, but we’ll see what happens! For this special episode, we invited some friends from the world of Cinepunx to join us for a...

WELCOME FRIENDS, COMRADES, FAMBLY, AND FRENEMIES TO ANOTHER GLORIOUS EPISODE OF CINEPUNX! Well, for better or worse here we are in 2025. I have so much to say about survival, resilience, preparing for the worst but also never giving up on hope, but this is not really the place for it. Just know we love you, and we want to be a source of joy for you. 2024 was not a great year for politics, society,...

I KNOW IT HAS BEEN SO LONG BUT LETS GET BACK TOGETHER LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY BABY! Hey friends, sorry for the long hiatus. Thanks to everyone who came out to our in person 10 year anniversary celebration in Philadelphia! Between life stuff and my travel for that but our decision not to record while I was in Philly, delays had to happen. Sorry friends. But we are back to catch up with you, tell you...

ALL THE THINGS THAT USED TO BE INSIDE OF US…NOW THEY ARE OUTSIDE, or rather, WELCOME to a brand new episode of the one and only CINEPUNX! In celebration of all things spooky and possibly ooky Josh and I take a short journey into Japanese horror with a discussion of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure. We obviously loved the movie, and spend some time talking about our experience with japane3se hor...

There you are, and here we are, and what do you know it is a new episode of the ole CINEPUNX! So glad you could join us for another foray into the wild world of cinema. On this wonderful episode we welcome Josh’s long time friend and my new friend, Matty King, to discuss the storied and diverse career of one NICOLAS CAGE , an actor whose work elicits a variety of opinions and takes. You won&...

HAIL AND WELL MET HEARTY PODCAST EXPLORER AND WELCOME TO THE MOST CURRENT EPISODE OF CINEPUNX! Hey so, unlike most episode of the last couple years, this was edited, mixed, and mastered by yours truly, Liam O’Donnell. I do not bring that up to boast, no indeed, rather it is a request for aid. If you hear something in this episode that is off, sounds bad, or should have been edited out, let m...

LOOK OUT EVERYONE, IT IS A WILD EPISODE OF CINEPUNX! On this new and incredible episode of Cinepunx the fellas discuss recent horror film Cuckoo and by proxy the director’s other film Luz ! Ok, you guys know I hate starting an episode notes with an apology, but here we are. We recorded this episode AWHILE ago, but our man Sharkey who usually edits these things had issues come up and so I had...

Though this episode was recorded on my end in Chicago, I am writing this in Portland so welcome to the internets best bi-coastal film podcast hosted by two punks of color. Is that specific enough for you? SORRY FOR THE LONG DELAY ON THIS EPISODE! With moving and life stuff it took me a bit to get this to Sharkey, him a bit to edit, and then I didn’t realize he had shared it with me for a wee...

CINEPUNC BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH THE MOVIE DORK REALNESS. Hey, yo, how fucking sick is The Seventh Curse? Like, crazy sick right? As you hopefully know this year is our tenth anniversary as a podcast and because of that we have been trying to plan fun shit to celebrate. In that spirit Josh and I recently programmed a 4 movie marathon on our Twitch channel and one of the films I chose was the actuall...