We start 2015 with a flat out BAN on Back to the Future 2 jokes, some discussion of the first Ant-Man trailer, Neil Blomkjamp’s aborted  Alien pitch, Michael Biehn, Ed Harris, the Ghost in the Shell casting and much more.

Also on this week’s show, Gavin reviews Malaysian film Terbaik Dari Langit while Iain reviews Seventh Son, The Raid 2 and Frank and we get as heap of Email/Twitter/Facebook correspondence!

Show Notes:

• First Trailer for Marvel’s Ant-Man Starring Michael Douglas and Paul Rudd
• … here’s a fan re-edit of the Ant-Man trailer that inserts a little more OOOMPH at the end
• … just in case you missed it here’s Marvel’s “Ant-Sized” Ant-Man trailer that they released before the full one above
• …and finally here’s the funny first poster for Ant-Man
• Daredevil “Motion poster” revealing  the Netflix show’s air date
• All the pictures Neil Blomkamp shared on his Instagram from his seemingly abandoned pitch for a new Alien movie
• Trailer for Dragon Blade Starring Jackie Chan, Adrien Brody and John Cusack!?
• First Trailer for the Entourage movie
• Interesting trailer for Good Kill,  the Andrew Niccol film about Drone pilots starring Ethan Hawke
• Green Lantern and The Queen team up in the trailer for Woman in Gold
• Incredibly Spoilery trailer for The Lazarus Effect (click at your own risk!)

Cool Stuff!

• Non-dancing baby Groot from Hot Toys available from Shiok Toys in Malaysia
• More Cool posters, this time from Skuzzles.com
• More information on the auction of props from the Laika auction (the studio who brought us Coraline, Paranorman, and The Boxtrolls

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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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