"Don't worry, we'll fix it in post"

“Fuck space” is the only sane response to Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity which Gavin and Iain review on this week’s show along with Stallone & Schwarzenegger’s latest team up Escape Plan; Hollywood comedian love-in  This is the End; Aboriginals with soul flick The Sapphires; and Iain takes us on a nightmarish walk down memory lane with a retro review of Troll.

As usual here the links to everything we discuss on the show:

• The first Trailer for I,Frankenstein
• Trailer for Jack Ryan Shadow Recruit starring Chris Pine, Kiera Knightly Kevin Costner and Kenneth Branagh
• The new trailer for Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• The new trailer for the Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
• Trailer for robots versus zombies movie Battle of the Damned starring Dolph Lundgren
• Ron Burgundy’s (Anchorman) not so great ads for Ford
  • Staring contest
  • Gumball Machine
  • Ride
  • It Comes Standard

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On this week’s show we review Rush, Riddick, Runner Runner, The Purge and Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs 2 and a whole heap of news including the rather fetching poster for John Landis and Elijah Wood’s Bad Vibes. Ain’t it cool?

Show notes:

• Trailer for Grudge Match with Sylvester Stallone and Robert DeNiro squaring off
• First trailer for the remake of Robocop
• Trailer for The Art of the Steal starring Kurt Russell and Matt Dillon amongst others
• Trailer for The Double from Director Richard Ayoade (Moss from the IT crowd!)
• Cute video of the kids from School of Rock, and Jack Black, reuniting on stage for the films 10 year anniversary

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Suck it.

A lot has happened in the world of comic book films since the last podcast, not least being the casting of Ben Affleck as Batman in the sequel to Man of Steel!

We discuss our reaction to this news, as well as the rest of the internet’s, in this week’s cast, as well as more casting rumours and leaked footage from Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, a heap of trailers for new Young Adult adventures following on from the success of the Hunger Games, listener emails and reviews of Elyysium,  Magic Magic, and Pom Poko.

As usual all the trailers and items discussed the podcast are listed below for you delectation, enjoy!

• Iain’s Handbag of the Week
• Gavin’s Toy of the Week: Hobbit Edition Part The First
• Gavin’s T- shirt of the week: Hobbit Edition Part the Second
• The latest trailer for Thor:The Dark World
• Trailer for George Clooney’s The Monuments Men
• Divergent Trailer
• Trailer for How I Live Now starring Saoirse Ronan
• Trailer for Ridley Scott’s The Counselor
• The Getaway trailer, starring Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez
• Trailer for Pompeii starring (You Know Nothing) Jon Snow from Game of Thrones (Kit Harington)
• Trailer for Her directed by Spike Jonze and starring Joachim Phoenix
• Muppets Most Wanted trailer
• Pics from the new Puppet/Muppet TV game show on BBC Television

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Gavin has shown an alarming obsession with this movie

Back once again with an irreverent look at all the latest movie news, on this week’s show we discuss the rumoured Batmen up for the role of The Dark Knight in the upcoming Superman vs Batman (or Batman vs Superman depending on who you talk to), the latest set pics from Bryan Singer’s X-Men, a heap of cool t-shirt talk, Gavin reviews the long awaited horror remake Maniac starring Elijah Wood, while Iain reviews Zombie romantic comedy Warm Bodies, baseball playing gorilla Mr. Go and gets a double dose of DC animation with Superman:Unbound and Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox.

Here are the show notes for this week’s podcast:

• Gavin’s Toy of the week Part 1: Attack on Titan edition
• Gavin’s Toy of the week Part 2: Robocop Edition
• Gavin’s Toy of the week Part 3: Batmen Edition :part 1 & part 2
• The interactive Shaun of the Dead screenplay
• Latest Trailer for Ender’s Game
• Japanese Milkshake based upon The Ring!!?
• First Trailer for Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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At last, they're coming together

Once again San Diego Comic Con has come and gone leaving behind lots of juicy hints of what’s to come in the cinema over the next few years. On this week’s show we discuss some of the the most exiting news items that came out of the con, we review The Wolverine and World War Z, and Gavin gives his thoughts on Pacific Rim and the current state of blockbuster cinema.

• Gavin’s ToyS(plural) of the week
  • (Part 1) Kick-Ass 2 Ax Handle Replica
  • (Part 2) Retro Alien toys
  • (Part 3) TMNT Bebop and Rocksteady Toys
• San Diego Ccomic Con links
  • Videos of Andrew Garfield on stage in costume and in-character as Spider-man
  • Tom Hiddleston takes to the stage in-character and in costume as Loki from Thor/The Avengers
  • Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatches Sherlock video messages to Comic Con
• A pair of terrifying trailers for Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity( it’s best to watch these in order)
  • Trailer 1
  • Trailer 2
• Trailer for Out of the Furnace starring Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Forest Whitaker, Zoe Saldana, Sam Shepard and Willem Dafoe.
• Trailer for 47 Ronin starring Keanu Reeves
• Trailer for 12 years a Slave , another film with a stellar cast; Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano and  Paul Giamatti amongst others
• Red Band trailer for the new Riddick movie
• And finally Dennis Farina’s Fuck-Fest. RIP

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Oh Shit Jonah Hill!

The summer blockbuster season is in full swing, so it’s the perfect time for another McYapandFries podcast. On this week’s show we catch up on the best of the news that we missed while we were away (featuring the aforementioned Mr Hill) and review Despicable me 2, Pacific Rim, Keanu Reeves directorial debut Man of Tai Chi and we finish up with a spoiler filled review of Superman’s return in Man of Steel; it’s at the very end of the cast and we flag it pretty clearly so you can avoid spoilers if you wish).

As usual here’s the show notes for all the picture, poster and trailer news we discussed this week.

•  Gavins TOY. OF. THE. WEEK!!!!
• Teaser poster for the new Godzilla film
• Trailer for Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake starring Josh Brolin
• Pictures of James Franco as Janet Leigh in his Psycho inspired art installation
• First pics and poster for Tom’s Cruise’s All you need is Kill (now retitled Edge of Tomorrow)
• First Trailer for Steve Coogan’s Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
• Badass trailer for Neil Blomkamp’s District 9 follow up, Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Sharlto Copley
• Trailer for the Japanese Remake of Unforgiven starring Ken Watanabe
• Trailer for The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leonardo DiCaprio &, yes, Jonah Hill

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This is THE man people refer to when they say, "He the man!"

Apologies in advance or the sound quality on this week”s show. The fancy expensive mic that I bought WAS plugged in and functioning  correctly however SOMEONE (I wonder who) forgot too switch audacity over from internal to external mic.

The quality of the content however is be as high (low?) as ever with reviews of Now You See Me, The Hangover Pt 3, The Perks of Being a Wallflower,  and The Great Gatsby this week, along with all the latest movie news.

Here’s the show notes:

• Trailer for Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial debut Don Jon
• Transcript and audio of Michael Douglas’ chat with the Guardian over he causes of his throat cancer
• First set pics of The Winter Soldier from Captain America 2
• Video of Samuel L. Jackson reading the winning monologue from reddit submissions in return for charitable donations to the Alzheimer’s Association.
• TOY…OF…THE….WEEEK!:  The quite simply AMAZING (and amazingly expensive) Hot Toys Robocop and ED-209 figures
• Will Smith leads a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reunion on the Graham Norton show in the UK

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Ooh, now I'm DYING to see this!

See this? This is a “motion poster” one of the most worthless tools in the movie marketeers  publicity toolbox,  the inspiration for today’s podcast title and overall waste of time. On this week’s podcast we discuss this travesty, all the news stories linked below, give our reviews Fast and the Furious 6, Jack Reacher, Silver Lining’s Playbook, AND  we respond to listener  emails and your tweets!

Show notes:

• Cool work in progress picture of that Robocop statue that was kickstarted last year
• Poster and Trailer for the trippy looking A Field in England from Ben Wheately.
• Agent Coulson ,lives in the first full trailer from NBC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D
• Another trippy trailer, this time for partially animated The Congress starring Robin Wright Penn
• Behind the scenes photos from Michael Bay’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles remake
  

  Not Pictured: Realism

• Latest cool looking trailer for The Wolverine
• So-so trailer for Vin Diesel’s return as Riddick
• The latest trailer for Man of Steel which focuses on Zod
• Video of the kids who edited  Toy Story 3 to end at the bleakest moment of the film before they showed it to their mom!

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Woluld you buy a used pig from this man?

Yep we’re back… AGAIN. After someone’s honey moon break we’re back to full podcasting strength and jump straight back into it with news of why James Cromwell is looking so weird in that pic, what’s going on with the next Star Wars and Turtles movies and our reviews of…(deep breath)… Wreck it Ralph, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Lincoln, Cockneys vs Zombies, Hitchcock, Life of Pi ( Gavin’s review) and our take on Cloud Atlas.

Phew! In amongst all that we’ve also got some more news and we talk about the trailers below.

If you are an iTunes user you may think we’ve been even quieter recently that we have actually been; you see unfortunately the iTunes feed …um broke. It should be all fixed now so you should have a nice backlog to listen to ( thanks to Nev for pointing this out, you should check out his band  on twitter @youthmass).

Here’s the show notes so you can play along at home:

• Here’s the video of James Cromwell’s PETA protest at Wisconsin University
• Awesome red band Trailer for Danny Boyle’s Trance
• Trailer for Welcome to the Punch starring James McAvoy & Mark Strong
• The trailer for The Hangover part III
• Trailer for Kevin Smith & Scott Mews in Jay & Silent Bob’s Super Groovy Cartoon Movie
• The latest action packed trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness
• And finally another trailer for Will & Jaden Smith’s After Earth

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Chris Pratt IS "Starlord" in "Guardians of the Galaxy" ! I don't know what ANY of that means?

In our last podcast for a while (you will have to listen to the show to find out why) we discuss so much Star War and Marvel news that we probably should just rename the podcast to the Disney show! We talk about more updates on those Star Wars spinoff movies, what might be next in Marvels long term plan for the Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, our thoughts on all the trailers from last week’s Super Bowl and a few more bits an d pieces of odd news.

In reviews this week, we review Arnie’s return to action in The Last Stand, Ben Affleck’s Argo and the 5^th film in the Die Hard series: A good Day to Die Hard.

We should be back with another show in March, you’ll find us on twitter in the sidebar.

Show notes:

• Super Bowl Trailers
  • Star Trek Into Darkness
  • The Lone Ranger
  • Iron Man 3 “Extended Look”
  • Oz the Great and Powerful
• Clip of Robert De Niro on Katie Kouric’s chat show
• Trailer for HBO Film’s Phil Spector movie with Al Pacino and Helen Mirren
• Mock up of Quvenzhané Wallis as little orphan Annie
• Link to Dredd online prop auction
• Space Captain Harlock trailer
• First pic of Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in HBO’s Liberace film: Behind the Candelabra
• Trailer for Neil Jordans Vampire film Byzantium

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