Punches and Popcorn

Recorded LIVE in front of an audience during The 2025 Rochester Fringe Festival, Pauly joins a panel of fellow Lunchador podcasts Matt Austin & Chris Lindstrom (Lunchador Founders), Emily Hessney-Lynch (It's A Lot), and Mike Huntone (Punches & Popcorn) for a fun-filled hour of ranking banter. Mentioned in this episode: Punches & Popcorn The masters of Couch Potato style Mike Huntone, Jason...

SEASON TWO: SHINING STARS - Celebrating the Badasss Women In Martial Arts Cinema It's time for your Couch Potato Ninja crew to get TERMINATED... but no, not by our returning special guest, film critic cyborg, ROB HUNTER, but by ANGELS. Though there are in fact several badass women in our film this episde, ANGEL TERMINATORS 2, the hero we are celebrating is the great MOON LEE! Join as as Rob helps...

SEASON TWO: SHINING STARS - Celebrating the Badass Women of Martial Arts Cinema Season 2 celebrates the legendary MAGGIE CHEUNG in Johnnie To's unforgettable 1993 Hong Kong superhero mashup, THE HEROIC TRIO! Joined by fellow BADASS women superstars, MICHELLE YEOH and ANITA MUI, Johnnie To give us an origin story for a quirky and cocky superhero team DECADES before The Avengers. Marvel, eat your he...

SEASON TWO: SHINING STARS - Celebrating the Badass Women of Martial Arts Cinema Season 2 continues as we go BACK to celebrate an early Shaw Brothers wuxia classic, Come Drink With Me, and honor one of the true OG women martial arts superstars in CHENG PEI-PEI! Though this genuine legend, widely consider the first femalke action hero, passed away just last year (in 2024), the impact she made on the...

The boys are taking a brief interlude to their current season to bring you SAMURAI SPRING - a diversion into the world of samurai film! Of course we are starting our first SAMURAI SPRING off with... A WESTERN! RED SUN (1971) may be directed by notable Bond movie veteran TERENCE YOUNG, starring American tough guy, CHARLES BRONSON, French crime thriller superstar, ALAIN DELON, and former Bond girl,...

SEASON TWO: SHINING STARS - Celebrating the Badass Women of Martial Arts Cinema Punches & Popcorn goes to Japan for the first time ever to celebrate our next Shining Star - MEIKO KAJI in 1973's unforgettable LADY SNOWBLOOD! Grab a coffee, a bucket of popcorn, and sit back and enjoy a bucketful of revenge and BUCKETS AND BUCKETS of arterial blood sprays in this all time classic! Check out Punch...

SEASON TWO: SHINING STARS - Celebrating the Badass Women of Martial Arts Cinema Season 2 continues with a stop to honor KARA WAI and her legendary 1981 Shaw Studios film, MY YOUNG AUNTIE! Though Kara had been featured in a number of films before this, MY YOUNG AUNTIE would finally give her a leading role in this romp of a kung fu film by the MASTER, director LAU KAR-LEUNG! Join your Punchy pals as...

SEASON TWO: SHINING STARS - Celebrating the Badass Women of Martial Arts Film! This episode we bow a true OG, CYNTHIA ROTHROCK!! A fantastically talented actor and martial artist, RIGHTING WRONGS would see Cynthia Rothrock team up with Hong Kong film legend, Yuen Biao in a wild tale of murder, revenge and betrayal, helmed by one of our favorite directors, Corey Yuen! Listen in as we honor the OFFI...

We're got a SPECIAL EPISODE! Best-selling author RACHEL HARRISON joins the Couch Potato Ninja crew to talk about 2021's MORTAL KOMBAT! Rachel and your Punchy Pals dive into why this movie is SO MUCH FUN, and why it came at the perfect time to rescue us from the doldrums of the pandemic with wild action, great fights, epic FATALITIES and more! For more awesomeness, follow Rachel on IG: @rachelharri...

Season Two: SHINING STARS - Celebrating the Greatest Women In Martial Arts Film PART TWO of our season opener honoring MICHELLE YEOH and the film that won her an Oscar! Finish the journey into this unforgettable film with your Couch Potato Ninja crew! Check out Punches and Popcorn on social media: Bluesky: @punchesnpopcorn Instagram: @punchesnpopcorn And if you like what you hear, don't forget to...

We are BACK with our new season: SHINING STARS! This season we are celebrating the films of the greatest women heroes in martial arts cinema and what bettter place to start that with maybe the BIGGEST STAR and the movie that earned her an Academy Award - 2022's EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE! We are BIG FANS of Michelle and this movie- so much so that we ended up splitting this episode into 2 p...

THE BOYS ARE BACK! Your Couch Potato Ninja Clan is back for 2025 and we're kicking things off by taking a look back at the best in ACTION movies from 2024 with our friend, ROB HUNTER! Want to know what freshness we loved, and what cool stuff Rob clued us into from the very best of international action? Listen now! Check out Punches and Popcorn on social media: Twitter: @punchesnpopcorn Instagram:...

NINJA NOVEMBER 2024 concludes! Thankful for Punches & Popcorn? If you haven't seen American Ninja 3 yet, you just might be thankful your Punchy Pals watched it so you don't have to! We sure are thankful to be joined by our buddy, CHAD YOUNG, of HORROR MOVIE BBQ to take on this final film in our 2025 Ninja November slate. Is this the most Cannon of Ninja films? It's certainly a lot of SOMETHING...

NINJA NOVEMBER continues with AMERICAN NINJA 2: THE CONFRONTATION! Bluesky: @punchesnpopcorn Instagram: @punchesnpopcorn And if you like what you hear, don't forget to rate, review and subscribe! Mentioned in this episode: Pauly Guglielmo Show Pauly Guglielmo is a former radio guy turned food business entrepreneur. While running a manufacturing facility is his day job, he likes to dust off his bro...

The boys are back for our 3rd annual NINJA NOVEMBER and this year its all about THE DUDIKOFF! Ninja November 2024 starts now with AMERICAN NINJA - the start of Cannon's other big NINJA trilogy! Get ready for ninjas, machine guns, a touch of amnesia, and lots of sexy results! Check out Punches and Popcorn on social media: Twitter: @punchesnpopcorn Instagram: @punchesnpopcorn And if you like what yo...

While your Couch Potato Ninja crew is between season we took a quikc break to discuss one of this years most exciting action films with Rochester Film Community ROYALTY! Long time P&P listeners will recognize JACKIE MCGRIFF who was our first ever guest on our RAID episode (and also host of Our Voices Project's Representation In Cinema podcast, one of our partners on the Lunchador Podcast Netwo...

Another remastered classic P&P episode revisting an 80's.... classic? The boys are joined by our buddy, Chris Lindstrom, to dive into the film that unleashed STEVEN SEAGAL on the world... ABOVE THE LAW! Check out Punches and Popcorn on social media: Twitter: @punchesnpopcorn Instagram: @punchesnpopcorn And if you like what you hear, don't forget to rate, review and subscribe! Mentioned in this...

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE 80'S is over, but we're still living our best 80s lives with another REMASTERED classic Punches & Popcorn episode covering one of the most iconic 80's martial arts classic - THE LAST DRAGON! Who's the master? Find out in this remixed classic P&P ep! Check out Punches and Popcorn on social media: Twitter: @punchesnpopcorn Instagram: @punchesnpopcorn And if you like w...

BONUS EPISODE! While you're Punchy pals are between seasons we took some time to talk with two of our fav people and the smartest minds in the world of martial arts film, FRANK DJENG & CHRIS POGGIALI to talk about Severin Films' recent release, ENTER THE CLONES OF BRUCE, a documentary about the unforgettable era of Bruceploitatin cinema- a project that Frank was a Producer on! Listen in, and m...

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE 80'S may be over, but we've still got some 80's treats for you! We're touching up and releasing some of our oldest episodes where we covered some of our favorite 80s martial arts films, in. shorter, cleaner package! First up, maybe the BEST of the bunch- 1988's BLOODSPORT! Enjoy!! Check out Punches and Popcorn on social media: Twitter: @punchesnpopcorn Instagram: @punchesnp...

THE GATHERING is here for the final episode in our first season - ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE 80'S. We bring this season to a close with a battle royale with our friends from the ANOMALY FILM FESTIVAL PODCAST! When it comes to taking on this 80s sword & sorcery classic THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE true champion - and that champion is YOU for tuning into this astounding collaboration! Get your tickets now...

Once Upon A Time In The 80s is coming to a close soon, but before it does, the guys visit a movie that would influence action film in the decades beyond the 80's - John Woo's 1986 classic, A BETTER TOMORROW! Friend of the show and Lunchador Podcast Network family member, CHRIS LINDSTROM, joins us to talk about why this movie is so important, and why Chow Yun-fat's Mark is SO DANG COOL! Check out P...

We're BACK with ROUND TWO of NO HOLDS BARRED action! Thought Part One of our discussion of this landmark professional wrestling movie was wild? You aren't ready for what the boys and our buddy and pro wrestling genius CHAD YOUNG of HORROR MOVIE BBQ are clotheslining you with in Part Two!! We get deep into the greatness of ZEUS, the brilliance of KURT FULLER, and don't worry- we won't forget to tal...

PART ONE! Once Upon A Time In The 80's reaches the pinnacle of 80's sports entertainment- Professional Wrestling! We take on NO HOLDS BARRED and we're tagging in our buddy, CHAD YOUNG, of Horror Movie BBQ to drop a leg on this hammy classic! Will Hulkamania run wild on us, or will the cream of the fight movie podcasting world rise to the top? That's a question so big it's gonna take us TWO EPISODE...

Once Upon A Time In The 80's Bonus Episode! After talking POLICE STORY with the boys, ROB HUNTER, Chief Film Critic and Associate Editor for FILM SCHOOL REJECTS stuck around to chat with us about his career, his love of movies and more! Rob shares his thoughts on writing about film, why action movies matter, and more! Enjoy the extra bit of awesome from one of our FAVORITE writers! Check out Punch...