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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…

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 HEROI…

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 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…

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 unforg…

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 …

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 woul…

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 …

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 un…

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…

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 wh…

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 thank…

NINJA NOVEMBER continues with AMERICAN NINJA 2: THE CONFRONTATION!

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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 r…

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 …

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 L…

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 - T…

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…

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 a…

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 PO…