Episode 162 Michelle Yeoh Needs The Money
by Mc on Jan.22, 2016, under Podcasts
We kick off the first McYapAndFries movie podcast of 2016 with a review of all the news and trailers that we missed over the festive season, along with a few new promising ones, along with reviews of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s Sisters, post modern horror comedy The Final Girls, slacker-assassin-action-flick American Ultra, financial crisis drama The Big Short, and in the world of Comics we take a look at Max Landis’ Superman:American Alien series so far.
All this and we respond to listener’s emails, including a few that just missed inclusion in our Star Wars The Force Awakens spoilercast, discuss some dodgy Scottish’ Space Pirate accents and provide details of a new discount code from our proud sponsor greenroom136.com!
You’ll have to listen to the cast for that one, but do head over there and check out their handmade Malaysian bags
Here’s the Show Notes:
-  X-Files sizzle reel ahead of the shows return THIS SUNDAY!!!
- Goof y 2nd trailer for the Coen Brothers Hail Caesar
- Trailer for J.J. Abrams new TV series, Steven King adaptation 11.22.63 starring James Franco
- Trailer for Elvis and Nixon starring Michael Shannon nd Kevin Spacey
- X-Men Apocalypse trailer
- Star Trek Beyond trailer
- Trailer for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2
- Trailer for The Legend Of Tarzan with a scenery chewing Samuel L Jackson and Christoph Waltz
- First trailer for The BFG
- Trailer for the second turtles movie; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
- Interesting trailer, dumb name , 10 Cloverfield Lane
- SLICK High Rise trailer starring Tom Hiddleston
Cool Suff
- Batman 1966 Lego to Celebrate the TV show’s 50th anniversary
- Quattro with a Shotgun poster series at Hero Complex Gallery
- Evil Dead 2 Ash Sixth Scale Figure!
- More Aliens miniatures (that Iain may have mentioned before)!
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Star Wars The Force Awakens Spoilercast
by Mc on Jan.11, 2016, under Podcasts, Spoilercast
Better late than never, we kick off 2016 with our in-depth, spoiler-filled, discussion of The Force Awakens.
SPOILER ALERT! WE INTENTIONALLY SPOIL THE ENDING OF THE MOVIE  IN THE OPENING MINUTES OF THE POD-CAST, SO CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED!
Plus, if you haven’t seen the movie already what have you been doing!?
If you’d like to share your thoughts on the movie with us or you agree/disagree with us on any of the points we talk about, let us know by emailing us at podcast@mcyapandfries.com, tweeting at us at @mcyapandfries, @gavyap or @mcnastyprime or you can leave a comment or send us a message via our Facebook page.
Stay tuned for our next regular podcast soon!
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Episode 160 He Called for a Monster…
by Mc on Nov.26, 2015, under Podcasts
Thanks to work commitments, illness, visiting friends from out of town and a whole heap of other nonsense this week’s podcast is a little on the late side however it’s finally here with reviews of  Pixar’s latest, The Good Dinosaur and the comic book return of Tyler Durden in Fight Club 2 and a whole heap of trailers!
Check the show notes below for links to all the trailers discussed and don’t forget to check out greenroom136.com, our sponsors,  for all your urban carry gear needs!
Show Notes:
- Check out Star Wars at Singapore’s Changi Airport
- First pics of Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange
- First look at Chris Pine as Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman
- NSFW trailer for Bill Burr’s animated comedy F is for Family
- Very cool trailer for A Monster Calls starring Liam Neeson’s voice
- Awesome trailer for Moonwalkers
- Trailer for Now You See Me 2… whatever
- Trailer for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2…why!??
- Neat trailer for Zoolander 2
- WTF trailer for Gods Of Egypt
- Rage inducing trailer for Christmas Eve
- Far better festive comedy in The Night Before
- Trailer for 13 Hours The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,  a Michael bay film…really?
- Alice Through the Looking Glass trailer
- Amazing Midnight Special trailer
- First full trailer for the Warcraft movie from last week
Cool Stuff!
- FULL SIZE NECA Alien facehugger and egg!!
- Weird Alien warrior figures in odd poses from Kotobukiya
- Sweet Universal Solider action figures
- Amazing Hollywood Collectibles statue of Peter Venkman from Ghostbusters
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Podcast 159: Arcane Reality
by Mc on Nov.05, 2015, under Podcasts
On this week’s show we take a look at James Bond’s latest cinematic outing in Spectre, Ben Kingsley and Ryan Reynolds becoming one in  Self/Less, and Vin Diesel’s one man war on the supernatural in The Last Witch Hunter.
Gavin also takes a look at recent comics Bizarro and Journey to the Force Awakens:Shattered Empire, you get a new “Duck Rice” update and some tales from the set of the upcoming Buku Fixi short film Breaking Point from Doghouse 73 Pictures.
As usual the podcast this week is proudly sponsored by Greenroom136.com, check out their new  OttoBook Travel,  a travel companion for all your travel needs in one convenient wallet that can be  tethered to your bag or waist with a carabinier. Buy it at http://greenroom136.com/shop or retail at pop by jaya one and istore at Publika.
Show Notes:
- First Trailer for AMC’s new Preacher TV Series
- How Deadpool spent Halloween
- First proper trailer for Netflix’s next Marvel TV show Jessica Jones
- Trailer for grungy looking action-horror He Never Died starring Henry Rollins
- The trailer for the Warcraft movie is out until Friday but here’s the teaser
- Trailer for Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq
Cool Stuff!
- Hamilton watch as featured in The Martian
- Cool retro Christmas sweaters from Mondo Store
- Cool Stan Lee action figure!
- Cool posters (and screening details) for on eof Edgar Wright’s first films, A Fist Full of Fingers
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Podcast 158: James Bourne Begins
by Mc on Oct.20, 2015, under Podcasts
On this week’s show we review a very curious set of movies as Gavin investigates The Snowtown Murders and Bridge of Spies while Iain tries out The Intern, and reviews the final series of Continuum and talks a little about his experience with the Star Wars Battlefront Beta
As usual we also run down all the latest news and read through our longest email/comment EVER, but please note that we recorded this podcast BEFORE the new trailer for Star Wars was released so we don’t talk about that (I thought it was awesome by the way).
Gavin’s first book  “How I Made My First Movie (Or, A Decade of Favours)” is also now available to buy on-line at MPH book stores by clicking here!
You can find the links for any trailers or cool stuff we talk about in the show notes below:
Show Notes:
- New Star Wars: The Force Awakens poster
- Friday the 13th videogame kickstarter (buyer beware , as with all kickstarter projects there’s no guarantee it will ever be delivered)
- Neil BlomKamp shows off the new Pulse Rifles for his new Alien film on his Instagram account
- Trailer for heavy metal  Black and white “silent movie” Gutterdämmerung
- Great trailer for the new Coen Brothers film Hail Caesar
- Smart trailer for Kill Your Friends starring Nicholas Hoult
- Latest odd trailer for the equally odd seeming The Good Dinosaur
- Final trailer for the latest James Bond film Spectre
- Trailer for A Very Murray Christmas, starring, who else, Bill Murray
- Trailer for animated videogame adaptation Ratchet and Clank
- Spectre director Sam Mendes interviews a swathe of A-list directors from Steven Spielberg to Edgar Wrigh, as part of his guest editorship of Empire Magazine
Cool Stuff!
- Pepsi releases limited edition Pepsi Perfect bottle from Back to the Future II to coincide with 21st October 2015
- More Back to the Future II goofiness with Universal’s Jaws 19 trailer
- Cool Aliens themed plastic toy soldiers
- Replica Pulse Rifles soon to go on sale from Aliens
- Free downloadable comic prequel to the upcoming Jessica Jones Netflix show over at Comixology
- Tom Whalens’s Guardians of the Galaxy poster over at Grey Matter Art Gallery
- Matt Ferguson’s Captain America: The First Avenger poster over at Grey Matter Art Gallery
- Matt Ferguson’s glow in the dark Iron Man poster over at Grey Matter Art Gallery
- Cool video of a guy who built a magnetic Thor’s hammer with thumb print scanner that only he was “worthy” of picking up
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Episode 157: Straight on the Carpet
by Mc on Oct.02, 2015, under Podcasts
Gavin’s back from his Australian adventure so we jump straight back into it, with a show full of news and reviews. This week’s show we review Straight Outta Compton, Wet Hot American Summer the 2001 movie and the more recent Netflix series, Everest and The Martian. We also announce the winner s of our greenroom136 competition!  We’ll be in touch with the winners soon to figure out how to get their prizes to them! Stay tuned for our next competition coming soon! Gavin’s book also went on sale recently. You can buy “How I Made My First Movie, or a Decade of Favours” in bookstores around Malaysia or online at mphonline!
Show Notes:
- New teaser trailers for Netflix’s & Marvel’s Jessica Jones:
- 2nd Avengers: Age Of Ultron gag reel
- X-Files abridged Vine series
- First big trailer for the new season of The X-files
- First trailer for the Angry Birds movie
- First trailer for banking crisis drama/comedy (?)  The Big Short
- The Peanuts Movie gets a proper trailer
- Heist movie… um… Heist gets a trailer
- Playlist of all the Alamo Drafthouse’s  #DontTalk Ads
Cool Stuff!
- Very cool statue/toy of Captain Phasma from Stars Wars: The Force Awakens
- Here’s that Judge Dredd Action Figure With Bike we mention on the podcast
- Wearable Iron Man Mark 43 (XLIII) Suit!
- Tyler Stout’s very cool Avengers: Age Of Ultron posters over at Hero Complex Gallery
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Epsiode 156: Fix it in Post
by Mc on Sep.22, 2015, under Podcasts
As Gavin is out of the country this week Iain is joined by two of the Geeks in Malaysia; Amelia Chen and Bahir Yeusuff who share their experience of Singapore’s Toys Games and Comics Convention 2015, and we review The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit, Cameron Crowe’s Aloha, and briefly get our guests opinions on previously reviewed Inside Out and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
As Gavin is away (and it’s his question) we will announce the winners of our greenroom136  Man of Steel Pocket book slim wallets on next week’s show!
For any of you who had issues with the volume  of the last few podcasts, my apologies. I think this week’s show should be back to full volume.
Here’s the links to all the stuff we discuss on the show :
- Ron Perlman’s Facbook post about Hellboy and Sons
- First look at Michael Fassbender in Assassin’s Creed
- Superhero stuff!
- Trailer for All Things Must Pass a documentary about the rise and fall of Tower Records
- Trailer for MTV’s TV adaptation of Shannara Chronicles
- Trailer for heavy metal horror movie Deathgasm
- Trailer for Jon Favreau’s live action Jungle Book
- The latest impressive trailer for Ron Howard’s Moby Dick film, In the Heart of the Sea
- Another pointless trailer for the Point Break remake
- A second excellent trailer for Rocky spin-off Creed
- Another trailer for the fun looking The Last Witchhunter starring Vin Diesel
- Latest trailer for the Aaaron Sorkin scripted Danny Boyle directed Steve Jobs film
 Cool Stuff!
- Stars Wars opening crawl on the cash register’s at Target in the US ahead of “Force Friday”
- Soon you’ll be able to purchase your own Tobin’s Spirit Guide as seen in Ghostbusters!
- Floating Back to the Future DeLorean’s and hoverboards!
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Episode 155: Fridge Poetry
by Mc on Aug.28, 2015, under Podcasts
This week on the show we get interrupted by car alarms (thankfully, only very briefly)  and Iain reviews 60’s spy reboot The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Pixar’s latest: Inside Out, videogame adaptation Hitman: Agent 47 and vampire mockumentary What we do in the Shadows while Gavin looks on.
Also, thanks to friend of the show We Jun both Iain and Gavin preview Salvaj, a short indie film made right here in Malaysia that will be shown this coming Monday, 31st August at 7pm  on Sundance TV (Astro HD Channel 438).
SPOILERS: you should totally check it out and support local film-making!
Click on the image below for more information on the film
This is also your last chance to enter our competition to win one of these sweet Man of Steel Pocket book slim wallets from our sponsor Greenroom136. Listen to the podcast and Gavin’s question in the show and send the answer to podcast@mcyapandfries.com
You won’t find these babies in the store at http://greenroom136.com/ but you will find all sorts of high quality hand made urban urban carry gear from back backs to pouches to wallets. Check them out and let us know what you think at podcast@mcyapandfries.com
As usual here’s links to all the cool shit we talked about on the show:
- Interview with awesome poster artist Drew Struzan including pics of his poster for The Force Awakens
- The first four-minute episode of the new animated CW Seed series Vixen, which is set in the same universe as Arrow and The Flash
- Indiegogo campaign to build Minas Tirith from The Lord Of The Rings
- Indiegogo campaign to destroy Minas Tirith from The Lord Of The Rings
- First trailer for Tarantino’s Hateful 8
- First trailer for the Dad’s Army remake
- Trailer for Scouts guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
- Trailer for Lumberjack Man
- Trailer for The Final girls
- Trailer for Bryan Cranston’s latest film Trumbo
- First trailer for Steven Spielberg’s next film Bridge of Spies starring Tom Hanks
- First trailer for Victor Frankenstein  starring James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe
- UK trailer for Victor Frankenstein showing some different footage
- Another awful looking trailer for Jem and the Holograms
- Trailer for one of Robin William’s final film roles, Boulevard
- Trailer for Life a film about about James Dean  starring Dane DeHaan and Robert Pattinson
Cool Stuff!
- Back to the Future monopoly!!?
- Bob’s Burgers Cookbook coming  soon!
- Very cool Vinyl Sugar Batman 1966 statues
- Vinyl Sugar’s series of Seinfeld Figures
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Matthew McConaughey IS Bluegrass
by Mc on Aug.11, 2015, under Podcasts
“I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum”
On this week’s McYapandFries movie review podcast we bid farewell to “Rowdy” Roddy Piper review Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and Iain provides one of the very rare slightly positive reviews of Fantastic Four. Don’t forget, all this August we are  giving away two, yes TWO Pocketbook Slim Wallets exclusively made for the show by our sponsors Greenroom136, makers of fine urban carry gear available at http://greenroom136.com. To be in with a chance to win one of these  highly coveted items, listen to the podcast and answer the question asked in the email section and email us at podcast@mcyapandfries.com! Here’s links to anything we discussed on the show:
- The Deadpool teaser trailer for the trailer
- Deadpool Green Band trailer
- Deadpoool Red Band Trailer
- Deadpool director Tim Miller’s trailer breakdown over at Empire magazine ÂÂ
- The latest Hitman: Agent 47 trailer
- Trailer for The Last Witch Hunter starring Vin Diesel
- Trailer for interesting looking horror Bound to Vengeance
- Weird ass retro trailer for Queen of Earth staring Elizabeth Moss
- Awful looking Norm of the North Trailer
- Trailer for By the Sea starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
Cool Stuff!
- Home alone toys of Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern)!
- Very cool photos from a Jurassic Park themed going away party
- Great AV club article on how Mark Hamill has been defacing  Star Wars trading cards for years
- Werner Herzog’s Ant-Man
- Rick and Morty’s Rickstaverse over on instagram
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Mysterio writes
by Mc on Jul.27, 2015, under Avengers, Podcasts
Welcome to a new era in McYapandFries history as we are proud to announce that McYapandFries movie podcast is now officially sponsored by Greenroom136.com.
Greenroom136 make laptop bags, camera bags wallets and “sidekeeps” all designed and handmade in Malaysia since 2011, so please check out http://greenroom136.com and take a look!
On this week’s show we run through our favourite news from San Diego Comic-Con, discuss Chris Pine’s “bahstahn  accaent”, and review Marvel’s Ant-Man and Ted 2.
Greenroom136 have also generously given us some fantastic prizes to give away: these TWO brand new Pocketbook Slims.
These are thin, simple Pocketbooks for people looking for a minimalist approach to carrying their finance, are exclusively made only for this contest and feature an officially licensed printed fabric of the Man of steel. Check them out in the  video below.
You’ll need to listen to the podcast to hear the question but you have until the end of August to email the answers to us at podcast@mcyapandfries.com!
As usual here’s links to anything we discussed on the show:
- That Star Wars behind the scenes trailer from San Diego Comic-Con 2015
- You can also see the whole Star Wars Comic-Con panel here
- Here’s a taste of the free Star Wars concert at Comic -con
- Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice Comic-Con Trailer
- Steven Amell’s appearance in character as Green Arrow at Comic-Con
- Bryan Cranston’s epic mike drop
- Trailer for Ash vs Evil Dead
- Suicide Squad Comic-Con trailer
- Look at the state of Apocalypse in these stills from X-men Apocalypse
- Chris Pine’s Massachusetts accent stars in the trailer for The Finest Hours
- Fred Arminsen is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Ben Affleck in this SNL clip from 2013
- Cool looking first trailer for The Revenant by director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Birdman) starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Tom Hardy
- Latest trailer for latest James Bond flick SPECTRE
- First trailer for Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur
Cool Stuff!
- Back to the Future: The Complete Collection
- Shota Kotake’s insanely cool Father Ted a day project
- Kevin Tong’s tragic sunshine poster store
- Vin Diesel’s Dungeons & Dragons themed birthday cake
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