The Punching Up Movie Podcast

Episode 6-Inception (2010) It’s a Punching Up first!!!!! Damian has decided to play the bad guy this time and has nominated Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending sci-fi actioner Inception for the Punching Up (TM) treatment. The normally misanthropic Adam is attempting to defend Nolan’s dream-within-a-dream..…within a dream masterpiece. So, will it be sweet dreams or will it be lights out for the cerebr...

Episode 5a-KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON AT FREDDY'S Punching Up is back with a mini episode before we launch Season 2. It’s Punching Up’s first re-match. For the second time, Damian and Adam have the great man Scorsese in their sights, taking Marty to task for the inordinate length of his latest smash, Killers of the Flower Moon. His blood still up, Adam takes a brave swing at the Five Nights at Fre...

Episode 5-CAT BALLOU (1965) You can’t accuse Adam Nightingale of not being objective.  In this episode, Adam punches up at one of his favourite actors, Lee Marvin for his outrageous Oscar-winning performance in the comedy musical western Cat Ballou. Damian and Adam discuss why great actors often get rewarded for awful performances. But Adam is also hedging his bets as he offers up Lee Marvin’s BAF...

Episode 4: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968) It’s episode 4 and this time Adam Nightingale takes Sergio Leone’s Italian cowboy epic to task for its torturous length and lofty pretensions. Damian Asher honestly can’t understand what Adam could possibly have against this cinematic masterpiece. So, is Sergio Leone’s deconstruction of the semi-mythical tropes of the American West completely up its o...

Episode 3: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) Buggin and mugging with Marty and Gene The Punching Up Movie Podcast tackles its first comedy, Mel Brook’s 1974 spoof of the classic Universal Frankenstein movies. Adam cannot stand the OTT comedy mugging of Marty Feldman and Gene Wilder but likes the musical comedy. Damian likes the movie but doesn’t like musical comedy, and really doesn’t like musicals. What...

Episode 2-RAGING BULL (1980) Can an actor be too good at their job? Adam Nightingale seems to think so, taking Robert de Niro to task for far too successfully inhabiting the role of the charmless, misogynistic, ultimately alienating pugilist Jake La Motta. Damian Asher is not so sure. Spoiler warning! Adam and Damian casually spoil the endings of Godfather II, Nil By Mouth, Once Were Warriors, Onc...

Episode 1-2001:A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) “In space, no one can hear you yawn!” Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 ground-breaking sci-fi classic is Damian Asher’s favourite film of all time. Adam Nightingale thinks it is boring. Will this difference of opinion destroy their friendship and wreck the podcast before it has even started? Probably not. It’s only a movie, albeit a visionary one, or a boring one. You d...

2001: A Space Odyssey “In space, no one can hear you yawn!”

Punching Up The Movie Podcast The Punching Up movie podcast takes to task great films from the canon, both cult classics and beloved popular cinematic movies that Adam or Damian may have a problem with. Each episode they will take on a behemoth and attempt to dissect, rediscover and sometimes disassemble the perceived classic film. Sick of people punching down? Then Punch Up with Damian and Adam.