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Punching Up-Episode 33-The Odyssey

In case you haven’t noticed there is an obscure arthouse film on general release called The Odyssey that needs a bit of an extra push from the Punching Up Team.
So, Damian and Adam have graciously decided to give The Odyssey’s under resourced marketing team an assist by talking about it on their podcast.

Up for discussion are the place of fate and the will of the gods over free will and moral culpability in the Hellenistic world as interpreted by Christopher Nolan, the cinematic representation of martial chaos, Nolan’s grotesque Goyaesque creature design, and the extent to which Nolan navigates the contentious sexual politics of Homer’s original text vs the more progressive post-feminist demands of a 21st Century audience.

But by far the most important question under discussion is, which is better, The Odyssey or Jason and the Argonauts (or Conan the Barbarian)?  The answer should be obvious. I live, I love , I slay, I am content.  

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Punching Up-Episode 32-Halloween

For the first time in Punching Up’s relatively brief but illustrious history Damian takes a swing at a film Adam actually cares about, John Carpenter’s trend setting, genre launching slasher masterpiece (or should that be slash-ter-piece?), Halloween.

Adam first had the living dingles scared out of him by Carpenter’s OG serial killing bogey (or should that be boogey) man Michael Myers when he was a kid and has been serially creeped him out by him ever since.

Damian is clearly made of sterner stuff and isn’t remotely frightened by Halloween and it’s going to take more than an indestructible, William Shatner mask wearing, knife wielding embodiment of pure evil to get the D Man to soil himself anytime soon.

So, join the Punching Up team for kitchen knives at dusk and a proper Halloween carve up.

We also talk about the pedestrian Halloween 2, the really rather interesting cinematic experiment that is Halloween 3 and quite a bit more.

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