A lot has happened since we last podcasted all those weeks ago but we’re finally back and this week we try to cover it all with reviews of  Aaron Eckhart’ s gritty “Battle Los Angeles”, Oscar Winning boxing movie “The Fighter”, geeks and aliens road comedy “Paul”,  sci-Fi romance “The Adjustment Bureau” and we finish off with a review of the quite frankly bizarre animated lizard western “Rango”.

On the news front we take a look at the latest “Winning “insanity to Come from Charlie Sheen; who we think will be next in the celebrity nut house; our take on the Wonder Woman costume for the new TV show and all the latest trailers  including “The Smurfs”, “Conan The Barbarian” , “Super 8”, “Attack the Block” and Tom Hanks & Julia Roberts  dramedy “Larry Crowne”, all of which are linked to below for your viewing pleasure.,

Enjoy

Show notes

• Charlie Sheen’s Winning Recipes
• Bret Easton Ellis on Charlie sheen and the “End of Empire”
• Michael Cera gets fired from knocked up
• First look at Adrianne Palicki in her costume as Wonder Woman for the upcoming  TV show
• J.J. Abrams Super 8 Trailer
• Attack the Block Trailer
• Larry Crowne Trailer
• The Smurfs Trailer  (at www.smurfhappens.com ugh!)
• Conan the Barbarian Teaser trailer

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…that there’s no podcast this week.

Well, this is due to the minor issue that Gavin and I are separated by eight timezones at present, as I got sent away to the UK for work.

I should be back and normal service will resume in about two weeks and, time permitting, I’ll bring back some early reviews of movies that come out in Europe befiore they do in Asia.

Until then maybe you could email us in YOUR reviews to podcast@mcyapandfries.com

..according to our guest this week, one Mr. Paul Hasham, who joins Gavin and Iain in discussing the Superbowl trailers from last week, rumours of a Robocop statue in “old” Detroit, the emails we’ve received and in reviewing Oscar nominated “The King’s Speech”, and crazy anime  “Summer Wars”.

Show notes

• First trailer  for X-Men: First Class
• Trailer for the remake of Arthur
• New trailer for Hop
• First picture of Meryl Streep as Magaret Thatcher

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This should totally work!

We’re late with our round up of the Superbowl teasers, (surprise, surprise) but I thought it best to get these up on the site so you could while away a few minutes on on Friday watching these and, if you feel like it, emailing us any thoughts or questions you might have on this year’s collection of summer blockbusters to podcast@mcyapandfries.com (or leaving comments at the end of the page).

I can’t remember when the first time was that I waited around for the Superbowl trailers to pop online, it can’t have been that long ago because its a relatively new thing that the ads are available so soon after showing on TV, maybe it was the first Michael Bay Transformers flick.
I do vaguely remember squinting at the screen for those 30 second snippets trying to glean what I could about the upcoming summer entertainments.

This years batch look pretty good, in order of my anticipation we start with our first real look at Chris Evans in “Captain America: The First Avenger”

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Let’s roll Kato!
Yes we are back again, and this week we review the Green Hornet and 127 hours and discuss what we think of the new Superman (Henry Cavill) and the new Captain America Poster.
Disclaimer the podcast was recorded BEFORE the superbowl so we didn’t get to comment on the trailers in the cast but we will next week (and I’ll put up links to them over the next while)

Show Notes

• THIS is your Captain America

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“Two podcasts in a single week after over a month of silence are you are you kidding me!!!?”
No, we’re not.

Gavin’s going top be away next week, so we thought we’d use what little time he has to have a few beers (and we ended up recording a podcast).

This week we’ve got news on what we can expect trailer wise from superbowl Sunday, updates on even more pictures from X-Men: First Class and Spider-man as well as Judge Dredd shooting in South Africa amongst others.
As for reviews, this week we review awards season darling “The Kids are Alright”, Bansky’s street art “documentary” (or is it?) “Exit through the Giftshop”, romantic comedy “Going the distance” starring Justin Long and Drew Barrymore, and quirky UK supernatural drama “Skeletons”.

Throw in some surreal talk of dreaming, shoplifting and great British sitcoms and you’ve got yourself quite a show. Enjoy!

Show Notes:

• Magneto and Xavier xmen first class action pics
• Spidey out for a jog
• On Yer Bike Dredd
• Trailer for the demented “Rubber”

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We’re back and  starting our first podcast of 2011 with lashings of movie news, including  our thoughts on the new set of pics from X-men First Class , the casting news from The Dark Knight Rises  and what we think  of the new  Spider-man costume.This week’s  show also features reviews of Tron:Legacy, recession drama The Company Men, high school comedy Easy A, and Darren Aronofsky’s Oscar bait (in a good way) Black Swan.

Also this week we’re introducing “Show Notes” for our podcast; links to the images and trailers that we frequently talk about but that you never get to see.

Let us know what YOU think about the new images and trailers by emailing us at podcast@mcyapandfries.com

Hope you enjoy our first podcast back and we look forward to another year of talking rubbish.

Show notes

• First pic of Andrew Garfield as Spider-man
• X-Men: First Class cast civvies pictures
• X-Men first class in X-costumes
• Trailer for Rango starring the Johnny Depp
• Trailer for “Paul” starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frosts and Seth Rogen
• Captain America  in Action
• Another Captain America  pic
• FX guru Steve Johnson facebook page with loads of behind the scenes pics from many movies , including some that never got completed
• and finally the trailer for “Friends with benefits” mentioned during the “Easy A” review

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We had planned to do a podcast yesterday to start off a new year of content, but we’ve decided had to hold off a week so we can kick off the new year in style (and not be so tired!)

We should have a podcast up for you next weekend but in the meantime if you are looking for something to do and fancy a bit of “culture” you could go catch Gavin in the excellent “Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me” at The Actors Studio at Lot 10 in Kuala Lumpur.

I saw the play on Sunday and it was well worth it.

It runs until next Sunday 16th January, before moving to Singapore, more details and can also be found on the Facebook page.

Looks like there’s be no cast this week, and none until the new year. Yap had work commitments over the weekend and I’m flying off to Europe this evening (snow in Heathrow allowing) so unless we can get our shit together for a very special christmas special over the interwebs, or I can rope in some locals to help out, that should be it for 2010!

As usual we’ll probably do our round up of 2010’s movies in January (it’s tradition now!)so until then Merry Christmas  to all and Happy New Year from McYapandFries!

McYpandFries will return in 2011 in “Danger is a Dancer”