We're totally not trapped on an island with a smoke monster...honest

We’ve just been very,very naughty…I mean busy. My new job is giving me headaches and Gavin, well Gavin just finished a restaging of “Someone to Watch over me” in KL and is now in Penang with the show (more info at http://theactorsstudio.com.my/penangpac/index.html) and it just wouldn’t seem right to record show number 99 & 100 without him, so I hope you can bear the wait until he returns for the next slice of “fried gold”.

We may even have some very special  guests for #100, who knows…

Stay tuned!

we’ve just been very very naught.. I mean busy

…at Chinese New Year…and a podcast happens! This week at we are very happy to be joined on the show by renowned thespians Charles Donnelly and Kingsley Judd, both of whom will be joining Gavin on stage soon at the Actors Studio KL in a production of Frank McGuinness’ “Someone to watch over me” , as well as “The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)“. More information on both shows can be found at the Actors Studio website http://www.theactorsstudio.com.my/

With our guests in tow, this week we review kitchen sink-come-hitman drama “Kill List”, as well as teenage hi-jinks on holiday in “The Inbetweeners”, Plus as part of our special Chinese New Year feature we discuss some of our favourite Chinese movies. GONG XI FA CAI!

As usual here are links to the more visual news items we discuss this week:

• Gavins Toy! Of! The! Weeeeeek!
• Pictures of what Beavis and Butthead would look like in real life
• First official image from the new James Bond film Skyfall, is underwhelming to say the least
• Michael Cera looks like…
• DC comics new logo
• Sad confused Yoga doesn’t understand modern mobile phones
• Trailer for Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom”
• Trailer for Kids with Friends
• Trailer for Resident Evil:Retribution
• Trailer for  Side By Side where Keanu Reeves interviews various filmaker about working with film and digtal filmmaking.
  
• Detective Dee trailer mentioned later in the show

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What's YOUR status baby? If it's unconcious then that's ok I can work with that...

This week we are very proud to present our review of “Relationship Status” the new Malaysian made movie starring a very talented young actor, Mr, Gavin Yap, (who even pops in to the show after the review to answer some questions!)

Also on this week’s show we have reviews  of George Clooney’s latest directorial effort the “Ides of March”, as well as the directorial debut of Richard Ayoade (he who played big haired Moss in the “I.T. Crowd” TV series); “Submarine”.

All of this plus our new feature…GAVIN’S TOY OF THE WEEK!
As usually check the links below for everything we talk about on the show!

Show Notes:

• NEW FEATURE Gavins Toy! Of! The! Weeeeeek!
• The website for “Relationship Status” for those of you who have no idea what we are talking about.
• Corey Feldman in Dancing on Ice (See! We’re not making it up!).
• Michael Madsen joins Celebrity Big Brother in the UK (click though for his AMAZING shirt).
• From the makers of “Buried” comes the first trailer for “ATM”!!!  (Apparently this is not a joke it’s a real movie!).
• The trailer for “Double Impact” that Gavin mentioned on the show.

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'twas the night before Christmas....

Yes, we’re finally back again with a podcast and I’m very,very happy to say that we have FINALLY sorted out all the technical issues that we’ve been having since our um, “studio’s refurbishment”. Apologies again for the issues on the last two but we really are back to the same audio quality as we once had (pity the content doesn’t match). But enough about the past, let’s look to the future, which seem to be exactly what the movie studios want you to do, judging by the absolute deluge of trailers we’ve seen over the last few weeks for 2012 releases.  As usual I’ve listed them all below so you can “watch along with Mc & Yap”. Also on this week’s show we finally have reviews of the 2011 re-quel of “The Thing”, Seth Rogen & Jospeh Gordon Levitt’s cancer drama “50/50”, “The Muppets” and “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol” in which I am reliably informed Tom Cruise is AWESOME.

All of us here at McYapandFries would like to thanks you for listening and wish you and yours the very best this holiday season.

“God bless us every one”

• Merry Christmas from Ryan Gospling, Eva Mendes, Jim Carrey and some kids
• Here’s the first awesome trailer for Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus“
• The first proper trailer for “The Dark Knight Rises” and here’s the teaser poster
• The first trailer for Peter Jackson’s return to Middle Earth for “The Hobbit”
• The Nicolas cage FREAKOUT video that Gavin mentions about haflway through the podcast
• Trailer for Bryan Singere’s “Jack the Giant Killer”
• The “Expendables 2” trailer also…Van Damme
• The “Expendables 2” teaser poster
• Pic of Stallon with weird hair from “Bullet to the head”
• Here’s the second trailer for “Battleship”
• Our first trailer for “G.I. Joe: Retaliation“
• A new trailer for “Ghost Rider:Spirit of Vengeance”
• “Paranorman” trailer (from the makers of Coraline)
• “Men in Black 3” trailer
• Trailer for the much delayed “Cabin in the Woods” film produced by Joss Whendon CAUTION MAY CONTAIN MASSIVE SPOILERS!
• The trailer fofr the hair rock muscal “Rock of Ages” starring, amongst others, Alac badlwin, Russel Brand and Tom Cruise!!?
• Trailer for “The Dictator” by Sacha Baron Cohen, the man who brought us “Borat”
• The first and second trailers for this generations “Fortress”; the Guy Pearce starring “Lockout” which now seems to be called “Escape from M.S One” or just plain “M.S One”, and which had also been described as “Taken, in space”
• The behind the scenes special effects video showing the practical effects later not used for the 2011 version of the Thing that I mentioned in my review.
• and if you are wondering what the random “Fenton” or “Jesus Christ”-ing was about on the show , wonder at this dog and his insane owner (and then watch the movie parody’s linked off to from that video)

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Would you use an almost new spy-gadget from this man?

This week we are back on schedule and back to somewhat decent sound quality (I think, fingers crossed) with another great show featuring the usual news, including the casting of the new Q in the ext Bond movie “Skyfall” (that’s him over there) and reviews of “Larry Crowne”, directed by Tom Hanks and starring Julia Roberts amongst others; Ryan Gosling’s “Drive”; “The Trip” starring Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge and Phileas Fogg from the “Around the World in 80 Days” movie with Jackie Chan) and Rob Brydon (Uncle Bryn from Gavin and Stacey) as themselves as they argue and try out restaurants.

You’ll also finally get to hear Gavin’s thoughts on Tin Tin .
Here’s the show notes:

• Link to the pictures of John Logan, screenwriter of the next Bond movie “Skyfall” that Gavin found… interesting.
• Video of  the production of “Aliens…on ice!” by The Old Murder House  Austin.
• Simon Pegg’s “Mission Impossible: Ghost protocol” featurette (we love ‘im we do).
• Pics of Mila Kunis at the Marine Ball which she was invited to by a Marine Sergeant over YouTube!
• “The Oatmeal” on how “Twilight” works.
• Cool set pics from Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus”, the “prequel-or-is-it to Alien.

Finally, here’s Amy Smart’s..um acting ability in full force as referred to by Gavin in the podcast, enjoy!

Amy Smart ...um.. enjoying herself.

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Consider yourself warned.

Due to either the electromagnetic properties of Gavin’s farts, the fact that David Knight’s musical genius disrupts all known recording media, or because I screwed up the “refurbishment” of our “recording” “studio“(aka messed up the reinstallation of my laptop) this weeks’ podcast goodness is plagued by clicks and echo’s which I’m afraid no end of post processing and audio magick has been able to fix.

I’m putting it up as we had such a good time making it and we managed to get a guest star to join in, but the quality is, like, the worst. Consider this McYapandFries lost tape volume 1 (although that should really be the London-KL skype cast with 5 minutes delay between each end, but that’s really unlistenable).

Anyway if you can bear the rubbish sound quality this week’s cast features reviews of comedy Drama “Crazy, Stupid Love”, starring Steve Carrell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore and Emma Stone; banking crisis drama “Margin Call” with a stellar cast featuring Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons and Zachary Quitno amongst others; body switch gross out comedy “The Change up“ starring Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman, and finally “Melancholia”, the latest from Danish nut job Lars von Trier.

As usual here’s all the trailers that we discuss in the show, the next show should be back to full audio quality once more (if not quality of content). Enjoy!

• Trailer for Maggie Thatcher drama “The Iron Lady”
• In the first of the competing Snow White trailers we have Kristen Stewart,Chris Hemsworth & Charlize Theron (as the Evil Queen) in “Snow white and the Huntsman”
• Followed by an altogether differnet take with Julia Roberts hamming it up in “Mirror, Mirror”.
• Trailer for Madonna’s directorial debut W.E.
• (The “sizzle reel”  for Liam Neeson’s “The Grey” has been taken down)

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Yes, that subtle dig at Gavin in the title means that once again Geoff has stepped in to provide his thoughts on the latest movie news and reviews, and this time we’re taking it outside! Yes it’s our first McYapandFries  outside broadcast at Overtime at the Pavilion shopping Centre in KL (Gavin’s house doesn’t really count as “outside”)

This week, over a pint or two naturally,  we review “Tower Heist”,”The Adventures of TinTin”, “Real Steel” and “Immortals”. As  bonus the show also guest stars the waiting staff  from Overtime!

As usual here’s some links to some of the stuff that we discussed on the show, let us know what you thinkof us “doing it” outside!

• Red band Trailer for hockey comedy “The Goon” starring Sean William Scott
• First trailer for “Safe”, Jason Statham’s latest
• Super powered assholes movie Chronicle
• we’ve seen Liam Neeson beat up paris in “Taken”, now it’s alaska’s turn in the trailer for “The Grey”
• Kate Beckinsale slips back into her leathers in the trailer for “Underworld:Awakening”
  

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aaaand we’re back, kinda. Gavin’s still away so I’ve roped in a very special stand in guest; Geoff, to at least try and keep some kind of regular schedule.

In this week’s show, Geoff and I  review Irish Crime drama  “The Guard”, starrring Brendan Gleeson (Bravehearts Flame haired mate) & Don Chealde (Iron Man’s army buddy MK 2);  “Red State” by Kevin Smith, he of Clerks, Dogma & Mallrats fame, red-neck horror comedy “Tucker and Dale vs Evil” and  the latest Jason Statham movie also starring ROBERT DE NIRO(!!!???) “Killer Elite” .

As usual we also cover all the latest movie news including news of a new electric DeLorean  going on sale soon (heavy!), reviews of “The Thing” , talk of Top Gun 2, and chat about the trailers below, hope you enjoy!

• First trailer for Clint Eastwood’s J Edgar
• Red Band Trailer for “A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas”
• The Second Trailer for “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows”
• Second Trailer for “The Adventures of Tin Tin”
• First Trailer for “The Avengers”
• “The Thing”…the musical!!?
• The Cast of  “The Thing” (1982) watch “The Thing” (2011)

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Are you the farmer? Have you heard this joke before?

Well shiiit, looks like we’ve missed our window of opportunity with the podcast again.

Gavin’s had to go “away” for a while for “help”..I mean “work” and it was my “birthday” last week so our already erratic schedule has been truly thrown off it’s axis.

We’re looking into options to get you a podcast soon (Especially now that “Drive”  and “Killer Elite” are coming out) so please bear with us and we’ll get right back to you as soon as we can.

We’ve got the 80’s on our mind this week with news of remakes/sequels/reboots of  “Point Break”, “Highlander” and “The Evil Dead”, news of “Top Gun” in 3D, along with a review of another 80’s remake; “Fright Night”, starring Colin Farell, Toni Collete, Checkov from Star Trek  and McLovin’. Finishing off this week;s show we also review “Hesher” starring Joseph Gordon Levitt and Natalie Portman.

Here’s the show notes/links:

• Badass trailer for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
• “Mouth Taped Shut” a behind the scenes blog for “The Girl with the dragon Tattoo”
• Pasty set pics of Johnny Depp in “Dark Shadows”
• All the videos of the Nike MAGS shoes, as worn by Marty McFly in 2015 in “Back to the Future II”, which are  now on sale for charity
• and here’s where you can buy the shoes to benefit Michael J Fox’s Parkinson’s Charity (sale ends soon!)
• Interesting trailer for “Premium Rush” starring Joseph Gordon Levitt
• and for some fun here’s what R2D2’s really saying in episode 1

Hope you enjoy the podcast!

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