Film Punch Podcast

Our final podcast discussion, on Spielberg's Jurassic Park. Unedited.

Akira Kursowa's High and Low discussion. Unedited track. One of two final un-uploaded episodes.

Listen to us discuss the original Oceans 11 from 1960 starring the Rat Pack. Army buddies hatch a scheme to steal money from 5 casinos in Las Vegas at the same time. It doesn't quite go the way they hoped...

Listen to us Film Punch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It's not your typical western, it's more of a "buddy movie". Starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, it tells the story of two bank robbers based on their true story.

Listen to us Film Punch Fast Color, the opening night film of the Chicago Critics Film Festival 2018. Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and directed by Julia Hart, a woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home.

For our bad movie month, we Film Punch two delightfully terrible movies, Neil Breen's Fateful Findings and Roger Corman's Battle Beyond the Stars. Hilarity ensues. :)

Listen to us Film Punch Isle of Dogs, directed by Wes Anderson and starring Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, and Bryan Cranston. Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog after the mayor bans all dogs to an island of garbage due to a disease they carry. One boy searches for his lost dog while a cure is searched for on the mainland.

Listen to us Film Punch Annihilation, directed by Alex Garland and starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Oscar Isaacs. A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

Listen to us Film Punch Shape of Water, which went on to win Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Score, and Best Production Design Oscars. Starring Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer, and Michael Shannon, The Shape of Water is directed by Guillermo Del Toro. At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.

Listen to us Film Punch Lady Bird, the 2017 Oscar nominated film directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf. Lady Bird is about "Lady Bird" McPherson's senior year of high school. She has a dysfunctional relationship with her mother and longs to live somewhere exciting. She experiences love and heartbreak along the way.