WARNING! PODCAST CONTAINS SPOILERS FROM THE VERY START FOR Captain America:The Winter Soldier, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (up to and including episode 19, 22nd Apr 2014, “The Only Light in the Darkness”) and Thor The Dark World!

In this special SPOILER-filled show Iain and guest Chi Ren discuss Captain America:The Winter Soldier in depth, discussing, amongst other things:

• What we each thought of the film
• Who that blonde chick was
• The possible impact on the Marvel cinematic universe
• What was with that computer thing
• What lasting effects this could have on the Agents Of SHIELD TV show
• What we think of the Agents Of SHIELD TV show

and why Captain America is “better” than Superman 😉

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Oh Shit Jonah Hill!

The summer blockbuster season is in full swing, so it’s the perfect time for another McYapandFries podcast. On this week’s show we catch up on the best of the news that we missed while we were away (featuring the aforementioned Mr Hill) and review Despicable me 2, Pacific Rim, Keanu Reeves directorial debut Man of Tai Chi and we finish up with a spoiler filled review of Superman’s return in Man of Steel; it’s at the very end of the cast and we flag it pretty clearly so you can avoid spoilers if you wish).

As usual here’s the show notes for all the picture, poster and trailer news we discussed this week.

•  Gavins TOY. OF. THE. WEEK!!!!
• Teaser poster for the new Godzilla film
• Trailer for Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake starring Josh Brolin
• Pictures of James Franco as Janet Leigh in his Psycho inspired art installation
• First pics and poster for Tom’s Cruise’s All you need is Kill (now retitled Edge of Tomorrow)
• First Trailer for Steve Coogan’s Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
• Badass trailer for Neil Blomkamp’s District 9 follow up, Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Sharlto Copley
• Trailer for the Japanese Remake of Unforgiven starring Ken Watanabe
• Trailer for The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leonardo DiCaprio &, yes, Jonah Hill

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Ooh, now I'm DYINGÂ to see this!

See this? This is a “motion poster” one of the most worthless tools in the movie marketeers  publicity toolbox,  the inspiration for today’s podcast title and overall waste of time. On this week’s podcast we discuss this travesty, all the news stories linked below, give our reviews Fast and the Furious 6, Jack Reacher, Silver Lining’s Playbook, AND  we respond to listener  emails and your tweets!

Show notes:

• Cool work in progress picture of that Robocop statue that was kickstarted last year
• Poster and Trailer for the trippy looking A Field in England from Ben Wheately.
• Agent Coulson ,lives in the first full trailer from NBC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D
• Another trippy trailer, this time for partially animated The Congress starring Robin Wright Penn
• Behind the scenes photos from Michael Bay’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles remake
  

  Not Pictured: Realism

• Latest cool looking trailer for The Wolverine
• So-so trailer for Vin Diesel’s return as Riddick
• The latest trailer for Man of Steel which focuses on Zod
• Video of the kids who edited  Toy Story 3 to end at the bleakest moment of the film before they showed it to their mom!

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Oh Hell Yeah!

THE HIATUS IS OVER! Gavin’s back in town and this podcast is ON LIKE DONKEY KONG!

On this week’s show Gavin and Iain fill you in on where we’ve been the last few months, discuss the latest movie news and trailers (links below) and provide our reviews of Star Trek Into Darkness, Iron Man 3, Oblivion and Stoker.

• The amazing Pacific Rim trailer shown at Wondercon
• The fantastic Man of Steel Trailer 
• and here’s some samples from the Man of Steel  soundtrack, including the track used in the above trailer
• The teaser trailer for Simon Pegg, Edgar Wreight and Mark Frost’s The Worlds End
• The trailer for This is the End that we briefly mention on the cast
• First Trailer for Ender’s Game
• You can see all the set pics released so far from X-Men:Days of Future Past here
• NSFW trailer for Filth starring James McAvoy
• The trailer for RED 2 with Bruce Willis.
• RIPD trailer starring Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges
• Here’s the Red band trailer for Only God forgives, and here’s the green band trailer (they are a bit different from each other and  both are pretty cool)
• Trailer for The Butler starring EVERYONE apparently
• Here’s the article Iain mentions about the superhero “bubble”
• Iain’s Morgan Freeman gag might make a little more sense if you’ve seen this
• and finally here’s the Brazzaville teen-ager short film made by Michael Cera  that Gavin referred to.

Until next time….

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