The Punching Up Movie Podcast

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Two old friends and movie lovers discuss established classics that they like and loathe.... more

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July 17, 2025 Episode 27-The Way of the Dragon
Episode 27-The Way of the Dragon
In 1972 martial arts legend Bruce Lee wrote and directed The Way of the Dragon.
On the surface, a simple tale of a Hong Kong kung fu prodigy sent to Rome to protect his uncle’s restaurant from gangsters, culminating in an epic fight to the death in the Roman Colosseum with seven-time world karate champion Chuck Norris.
The Way of the Dragon is regarded as one of the greatest martial arts movies of all time. But The Way of the Dragon is so much more than this. Bruce Lee was also disseminating his own unique martial arts philosophy into the fabric of an action film, making The Way of the Dragon a martial arts manifesto revered by Lee fans as the Master’s most profound and personal work.
Really? Punching Up’s Adam calls bullshit.
So do not look at all this heavenly glory, or you’ll miss the fact that The Way of the Dragon is maybe a really shitty movie.
Fighting talk? You betchya!
So, for one episode only the Punching Up Podcast becomes The One Inch Punching Up Podcast as Adam and Damian indulge in the art of podcasting without podcasting and take on the King of Kung Fu.
Kiyaaaaaaa!!!
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1h 2min
June 26, 2025 Episode 26-Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Episode 26-Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
What do you get if you cross a posh public school boy who wants to be a Cockney geezer, an actual football playing geezer who want to be an actor, and a future action movie star who come from Derbyshire but talks like a geezer for a bit and then talks like an American who sounds a bit like a geezer, or a geezer who sounds a bit like American?
It’s all very confusing.

You get Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Guy Ritchie’s geezer gangster hit starring Vinnie Jones and Jason Statham, which also happens to be one of Adam Nightingale’s least favourite movies of the entire 1990s.
But what does Damian think? Actually, he hates it as much as Adam does, but he likes Danny Dyer, who isn’t even in the movie.
So, tune for a discussion of all thing geezer, and gangster..........and Danny Dyer.
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50min
May 08, 2025 Episode 25-The Holy Mountain
Episode 25-The Holy Mountain
It’s been a while. Did you miss us?
Did you even notice we had been away?
Well, after a longer than normal hiatus the Punching Up Movie Podcast is back.
And this episode is magic. I mean literally.
The Punching Up duo discuss Alejandro Jodorowski’s cult sensation, shamanistic cinematic odyssey, The Holy Mountain.

Magic, horror, nudity, spirituality, political commentary, freaky production design, nudity, outlandish costumes, more magic, and nudity.
Adam hates it. Damian has mixed feelings.

Magical Mystery Tour, or Tragical Mystical Bore?
The ultimate midnight movie, or a pseudo spiritual cinematic excuse for looking at lady’s bosoms?
So, free your mind, expand your consciousness, tune in, find out, and meet the movie that nearly broke Adam Nightingale.
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1h 3min
February 13, 2025 Episode 24-Moulin Rouge
Episode 24-Moulin Rouge
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!
The moment is here.
The hour is now.
The time has arrived.
It’s our long threatened, much delayed musical theatre episode where Damian unleashes his full fury on Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 cinematic juke box musical Moulin Rouge.
It’s been brewing for a while and Damian doesn’t hold back on Nicole Kidman’s acting and dancing, Ewan McGregor’s singing and acting, and, most of all Baz Luhrmann’s hyperkinetic, coked to the gills, MTV on absinthe editing and directing style.
This is an episode for the ages as Punching Up’s Mr Nice goes very, very dark indeed.
Tune in.
I promise you it will be spectacular….spectacular.

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56min
February 06, 2025 Episode 23-January 2025
Episode 23-January 2025-Some New Movies
Happy 2025 Movie Lovers and Punching up listeners
Did you miss us?
Well, have no fear, we have a proper, actual, honest to goodness full-length episode hovering in the wings (next week).
But for those of you who simply can’t wait to hear our Punching Up thoughts on….Moulin Rouge (which will be next week), here’s a bonus episode of some chit chat about some of the movies released this January 2025: Better Man, Wolf Man, William Tell Man, Nosferatu Man, and a few others that Damian likes but that Adam hasn’t seen yet.
But listeners beware, both Damian and Adam spoil the absolute living daylights out of The Wolf Man (It's not even called THE Wolf Man.)
You have been warned.

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27min
December 30, 2024 Episode 22-The Best of 2024
Episode 22-The Best of 2024
It’s still the Season of Good Will and so the Punching Up Team are going to use their powers for good this time and wax lyrical about which films they loved in this year of 2024.
It’s a long one as there is a lot of affection to go around in this atypical end of the year love fest. And lest we forget that this is still the Puncing Up Podcast, there is still enough room left over to hate on a few movies that have really tested our patience, I’m talking to you Francis Ford Coppola.
So, that’s a whole lot of love, a little bit of hate and a few splashes of disappointment in the best one hour and forty minutes you will spend outside of singing Auld Lang Syne in an overcrowded bar and telling a complete stranger that you love them.
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1h 40min
December 19, 2024 Episode 21-The Shape of Water
Episode 21-The Shape of Water
Wanna see a movie where the Creature From the Black Lagoon gets it on with Mrs Brown from the first two Paddington movies?
I don’t.
But Adam (who doesn’t seem to mind a bit of interspecies fantasy love action) has forced me to watch The Shape of Water again.
I find Guillermo del Toro’s 2017 Oscar winning modern fairy tale, unoriginal, twee, borderline plagiaristic, largely miscast and a little bit queasy when it comes to matters of human/ amphibian copulation.
Adam loves it.
But then again, he’s a massive pervert.
Tune in for a lengthy discussion of this and all things Guillermo del Toro in the latest episode of Punching Up.
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1h 11min
December 12, 2024 Episode 20-The Terrifier Franchise
Episode 20-The Terrifier Franchise
Damian and Adam
Art we a pair?
I live in Nottingham, England
He lives somewhere over there
Sydney, Australia
But Damian doesn’t like Art the Clown
But I like Art the Clown
Will it be over?
We can’t agree
On the obvious future cult classic status
Of Terrifier 1, 2 and 3
Cause Damian doesn’t like Art the Clown
But I like Art the Clowwwwwwnnnnnnn

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56min
November 28, 2024 Episode 19-A Nightmare on Elm Street
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.

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1h 10min
October 31, 2024 Episode 18-RRR
Episode 18-RRR
Flying tigers, Indian freedom fighters and evil English scumbags.
Bloody battles, numerous songs, one spectacular dance routine and a very brutal flogging.
What’s not to love in S.S Rajamouli’s Tolly (not Bolly) Wood breakout international action hit?
Nothing, if your Adam (despite repeatedly mispronouncing the director’s name in the podcast).
Plenty, if you are Damian (who only made it through the first twenty minutes on his first viewing).
So, what will it be? RRR or GRRR!?! Tune in and find out.
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47min

FAQs about The Punching Up Movie Podcast:

How many episodes does The Punching Up Movie Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 30 episodes available.