The Punching Up Movie Podcast

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 …

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 …

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 episo…

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 unle…

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 hover…

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 o…

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 …

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 t…

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 …

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 …

Episode 17-Gladiator

Episode 16-Dr Strangelove

What could possibly be worse than Peter Sellers? Peter Sellers times 3.

In Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 nuclear war black comedy, Dr Strangelove, England’s greatest comic actor …

Episode 15-Bram Stoker's Dracula

Who is the best Dracula? Is it Bela Lugosi’s suave count, Christopher Lee’s aristocratic Prince of Darkness, Max Shrek’s rat faced Nosferatu… or Gary Oldman’s lovelo…

Episode 14-Kill Bill Vol 2

In the second part of our first two-parter, Punching Up punches up at its first sequel, Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol 2.
Damian perpetuates his beef with QT’s roaring,…

Episode 13-Kill Bill Volume 1

In this episode Damian and Adam don’t so much punch up but chop down, with a katana sword (or to be more precise, a Hattori Hanzo sword), as it is time to kill Kill Bill…

Episode 12-Bande a Part

In the immortal words of Thin Lizzy (or that blues band that played in 48 Hours),
The Boys Are Back In Town.

That's right, Punching Up The Movie Podcast is back.

This week …

Episode 11-EASY RIDER (1969)

Two men went looking for a podcast and couldn’t find it anywhere.

On this episode Adam takes a swing at the biker movie, road movie, hippytastic gamechanger that singleha…

Episode 10-THE DEPARTED (2006)

What has poor Martin Scorsese done to annoy the Punching Up team?
Our series hasn’t been going that long and this is the third time around for America’s greatest livin…

Episode 8-ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (2017)

What happens when the weight of expectations ruins an experience?

Find out in the latest Punching Up episode when Adam and Damian discuss the cult fave from a few…