Darth Abrams?

It is official! JJ Abrams, director of Star Trek is hogging ALL THE TOYS and has been officially announced by Disney as the director of Star Wars Episode VII.  On this week’s podcast Gavin and I discuss our reaction to the news, we debut new feature “Ian-Beale/Ludicrous-English soap-watch”, we show some love for R Lee Ermey and we also review The Watch, Pitch Perfect and discuss how awesome the classic western, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is.

For those of you following along at home, here’s this week’s show notes:

• Visual aids for “Ian Beale Watch” 
• T-Shirt of the week makes a bold return (As sweater of the week)
• The first pictures of Michael Fassbender as Frank Sidebottom in the film Frank are here and here and you can getr a look at pics of the REAL, original, Frank Sidebottom here.
• Here’s an advert by rumoured Robotech director Nic Mathieu. Think he’s got what it takes to bring it to the screen? 
• You can find some pictures of the Dhango Unchained “dolls” (henceforth known as “Gavin’s Greatest Mistake”) that have been recalled and will no longer be available here 
• Here‘s the Deviant Art artwork that has inspired Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson produce make a movie 
• Some visual clues about the Damon Lindelof/Brad Bird/George Clooney project 1952 are available here
• Here’s the first picture of Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate, aka the Wikileaks movie) 
• And finally, here’s one of the leaked concept posters for Keanu Reeves 47 Ronin (the rest have been taken down)

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What's in store for 2013?

On this weeks McYapandFries podcast we eschew the usual news and chat for a special look at all the films coming out in 2013, month by month, picking out the flicks we’re most exited for, and not bothered about, as we  go.

At the end of the cast we also mangwe to squeeze in reviews of Les Miserables, Robot & Frank,  and  Upside Down.

No show notes this week as there’s TOO MANY MOVIES  talked about in this week’s show to get all the trailers!

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The Hobbit is finally here WHEEEEEEEEEE!

This week’s show could be our most upbeat and optimistic EVER, featureing, as it does, our reviews of Peter Jackson’s return to Middle Earth in The Hobbit, The Life of PI, The Raid and Killer Joe, and our thoughts on the avalanche of awesome trailers that have popped online in the last month (Links to all the trailers discussed in this week’s show are below as usual.)

This should be our last show for 2012, unless something pops up over the Christmas holidays, and if the world doesn’t end 21^st December we’ll see you for more movie chat in 2013!

Show notes:

• “Announcement” trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness (Scroll down to “Announcement – JP Sub” for a slightly longer version)
• The 2^nd Trailer for the new Superman Film: Man of Steel
• Awesome first trailer for Gullermo Del Toro’s giant monster and robot smack down Pacific Rim
• Two of a kind: Trailers for movies set when Humanity has left earth behind
• Oblivion starring Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman
• After Earth starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith
• Second trailer for the Lone Ranger sratrring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer 
• A heap of trailers for Tarantin’s Django Unchained
• Horrid trailer for Charlie Sheen starer A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
• Motion poster for the Next Wolvine movie
• Images of Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore in Seventh Son 
• And finally a terrific image from cimnic artist Chris Weston on twitter of what could have been if the Carry On films had teamed up with Marvel back in the day for the X-men.

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Hey Michael! Would you agree that you're the best thing in Twilight?

On this week’s show Iain decides to take the plunge and watch all five Twilight movies, catching up on all the previous films before reviewing the most recent Breaking Dawn Part 2.

Meanwhile Gavin stays well clear and reviews Seth McFarlane’s Ted.

Just to prove that we’re not going soft we’ve also got the latest news on the new Star Trek movie, the new Robocop remake, issues with The Hobbit , lionize Paul Verhoeven a bit, question Melisa McCarthy’s career choices, as well as discuss news on TWO new movies both called The Host.

Here’s the Show notes for everything discussed on today’s show:

• The hobbit production video  #9
• Trailer for The Host, based upon the book written by Stephanie Meyer, author of the Twilight series 
• Featureette for The Host 2 acompletely separate  Korean movie to The Host above
• Latest trailer for Oz: The Great and Powerful starring James Franco
• Trailer for The Heat starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy

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Just a couple of chumps and an Achilles class Battle Tripod

Mc and Yap Are BACK, finally!

After our two month sabbatical (which we explain on the show) we are back on the air to bring you all the latest movie news that we care about, on a semi regular basis.

This week we discuss the latest Star Wars news, TomCruise’s choice of apparel in his latest flick, the heaps of trailers and movie related updates that have happened while we were away, plus our thoughts on War of the Worlds: Goliath, the animated film that Gavin worked on as voice director and Iain played some steroetypical Irish characters.

We attended the gala premiere for this the first Malayisan 3D animated film last night and share what we thought ahead of the films 15th November release.

In this week’s show you’ll also get our reviews of James Bond’s latest adventure in Skyfall, Looper, Dredd, and Madagaascar 3!

As usual here’s the show notes for all the trailers and pics from today’s show.

• Picture of  Tom Cruise’s futuristic get up in All You Need is Kill
• Iron Man 3 trailer and the screen grabs from the same that we discuss on the show
• TRaiiler for Brad Pitt’s World War Z
• Red Band (i.e. icky) trailer for the remake of The Evil Dead
• Teaser trailer for the remake of Carrie

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This week’s podcast is all ACTION as bullets fly in Iain’s review of The Expendables 2, (as well as in our discussions of the trailers for Stallone’s and Arnie’s latests flicks), pedals hit the .. er…metal as Gavin reviews Joseph Gordon Levitt’s mad dash Premium Rush, Iain looks at Guy Pearce  in..wait….what!!?

You want me to post what along with the podcast??

But it doesn’t make sens-

No, it’s not righ-

Oh jeez all right then….

I SAID ALRIGHT!

Um here’s a picture of a cute dog because the Beauty Queen from Mars demanded it

What fresh hell is this????

(Christ! What kind of site do you think we’re running here!?)

Anyway where was I ? Oh yes Iain reviews Guy Pearce in SPAAAAAACE  sci-fi actioner Lockout, and finally Gavin gives a report on Mel Gibson’s How I Spent My Summer Vacation, also known as Get the Gringo, depending on who you ask. All this and a load of bad Christopher Walken,Arnie and Sly Stallone “impressions“.

If all that seems a bit too much for you we finish of with a nice relaxing review of the Harry Potter Exhibit at the ArtScience Museum Singapore.

As usual here’s all the stuff we looked at in the podcast

• Clint Eastwood talking to a chair at the Republican National Convention over the weekend
• Colin Farrell,Sam Rockwell and CHRISTOPHER WALKEN  look amazing in the trailers for Seven Psychopaths, available in sweary and non-sweary versions.
• The original “Toronto Batman”
• Toronto Batman helps review the new Hyundai in London
• Sylvester Stallong and Jason Momoa in the first trailer for Bullet to the Head
• Trailer for The last stand starring Johnny Knoxville and ARNIE
• The Dredd poster we mentioen in the cast…. along with a clever piss take
• Get your “One” ring right here!
• Sweet TMNT DVD box set
• Hot Toys (not life size) Anne Hathaway Selina Kyle figure
•  Joe Carnahan’s (the grey) sizzle reel for his take on Daredevil 

If you’d like more infromation on the Harry potter Exhibit inSingpaore you can find it here

Hope you enjoy the cast,  and don’t forget to share your thoughts using the form on the Contact Us page!

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The last supper? Looks like there's bullets for breakfast!

This week’s show goes heavy on the superheroes and the Marvel-love in particular, with lots of news on Joss Whedon’s involvement in Avengers 2 (and the rest of the marvel stable) , juicy rumours about X-men First Class 2, casting news for Thor 2 and we even take a dip in the DC side of the pool with more rumours of the Justice league remake.

On the review front Gavin shares his thoughts on the Total Recall remake and We need To Talk About Kevin, while Iain reviews a book (!!??).

Here’s the Show Notes:

• Very cool “Paranorman” toys being sent out to journalists
• Hi-Res version of the Amazing Expendables 2 Last Supper painting above
• The surprisingle promising  trailer for Cockney’s Vs. Zombies
• Finally a trailer for the much delayed remake of 1980’s Red Dawn!
• Charlie Hunnan and Chris O’Dowd star in indie looking comedy drama  “3, 2, 1… Frankie Go Boom” (along with a crossdressing Ron Perlman!)

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What does Gollum see!!?

On this week’s show we are back to our regular show format as we look at trailers for the ambitious adaptation of Cloud Atlas, Ang Lee’s The life of Pi,  discuss some new developments on the new Hobbit movie and review the best Exotic Marigold Hotel, starring Dame Jundy Dench and Bill Nighy among others, as well as Dave recommendation number 1 : Beerfest.

Show notes:

1. First trailer for Ang Lee’s adpatation of The Life of Pi
2. The amazing 5 minute trailer for Cloud Atlas

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WHAT ARE THESE JOKERS TALKING ABOUT?

The Dark Knight has a special place in our hearts (it’s why we started this podcast) so in honour of the release of The Dark Knight Rises, this week’s podcast  focuses almost entirely on our Dark Knight Rises reviews.

Yes, I said reviews plural; one show, two reviews as we first give our spoiler-free review, discuss some emails and then go deep into the no man’s land of spoiler  territory.

Don’t worry, there’s plenty of warning before we hit the spoilers so we shouldn’t ruin anything for you, but try and keep the second half until you’ve seen (and hopefully enjoyed)  the end of Nolan’s Batman Trilogy.

One show note this week from @darkstardave on twitter:

• Delorean monster truck!

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Jack Reacher races... to the toilet?

This week’s podcast features reviews of the Amazing Spider-man and Indie Game: The Movie as well as discussions of Neil Blomkamp’s Elysium, Naomi Watts as Princess Diana, the RZA’s The Man with the Iron Fists,which actresses we’d like to see get into a cat fight, and how ridiculous Tom Cruise looks in the New Jack Reacher trailer.

As usual most of the stuff we talk about in the show is available below:

• Pics of Ron Perlman just being an awesome human being
• Tom Cruise in the Jack Reacher trailer
• Very Cool trailer for Robot and Frank 
• Some Pics of Naomi Watts as Princess Diana, a close-up, and some other shots
• Trailer for the Man with the Iron Fists
• Also a pretty cool poster for the Man with the Iron Fists
• On-set pictures of some vehicles from Mad Max:Fury Road
  • The “Giga Horse”
  • Some kind of “Battle Wagon”
• The VERY funny Darth Bale
• Twitter thing of the week: Geordi La Forge make up test from the Star Trek:TNG Blu Ray
• The first Poster for Sam Raimi’s Oz the great and Powerful
• The trailer for Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

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