It’s hard to believe that Christmas is almost upon us and yet another year has almost passed us by. During this week’s podcast, as well as the usual news and reviews of the live action Gatchaman movie & The Lone Ranger, we took the opportunity to sum up the year in movies with our first “Yappies” awards, featuring such categories as “Movies so fucked up I didn’t even bother watching them”, “Soundtrack most likely to induce cardiac arrest”, “Best use of a Britney Spears song in a movie” and many more .

This is probably the last podcast for 2013 but if you have your own personal awards categories for this year’s crop of films, feel free to send them in to podcast@mcyapadnfires.com, or tweet them to Gavin or I  and we’ll share them on the next podcast.

Here’s the show notes:

• Video tribute to Paul Walker from the crew of The Fast and Furious
• First Trailer for The Amazing Spider-man 2
• First trailer for the Wachovski’s Jupiter Ascending starring Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis
• First trailer for Sabotage starring Arnie and  an almost unrecognisable Sam Worthington
• Just for fun here’s a video of Arnie driving his Tank and spouting lines from Kindergarten Cop

and finally, even though it was released AFTER we recorded the podcast here’s a link to the awesome first trailer for the return of Godzilla

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"Hey, it looks like they're recording a podcast in there"

In this week’s middle obsessed show, Gavin and I are joined by irregular contributor Choong Chi Ren, (sitting in the middle, obviously) to discuss Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight series of films; all the latest movie news and trailers (including new Robocop and Noah teasers) and review Captain Philips and Ender’s Game.

Show notes

• Cool buy of the week (Nic Cage Edition)
• Take a look at Wolverine’s Classic yellow costume revealed in DVD extra from The Wolverine
• Jean Claude Van Damme’s Epic splits video!
• Trailer for The Raid 2: Berandal
• The latest trailer for the Robocop remake
• First Trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s bat shit insane Noah starring Russell Crowe
• Another trailer for Snowpiercer
• Trailer for Jason Statham actioner Homefront (featuring redneck James Franco amongst others!)
• Goofy (fake?) trailer for Machete Kills Again…In Space!
• Trailer for The Lego Movie

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"IT'S HAMMER TIME!... UH..VERILY." etc. etc.

In this, a very special episode of the McYapandFries movie podcast we eschew the usual format to discuss Thor:The Dark World and nothing but.

What we liked, what we didn’t like and we talk SPOILERS from the very start!
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Joining Gavin and Iain on the podcast couch is good friend, writer and semi-regular podcast guest star Chi-Ren Choon.

Enjoy , and don’t forget you can provide feedback to us by using the form on the contact us page linked to above, or  emailing us at podcast@mcyapandfries.com

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"Don't worry, we'll fix it in post"

“Fuck space” is the only sane response to Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity which Gavin and Iain review on this week’s show along with Stallone & Schwarzenegger’s latest team up Escape Plan; Hollywood comedian love-in  This is the End; Aboriginals with soul flick The Sapphires; and Iain takes us on a nightmarish walk down memory lane with a retro review of Troll.

As usual here the links to everything we discuss on the show:

• The first Trailer for I,Frankenstein
• Trailer for Jack Ryan Shadow Recruit starring Chris Pine, Kiera Knightly Kevin Costner and Kenneth Branagh
• The new trailer for Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• The new trailer for the Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
• Trailer for robots versus zombies movie Battle of the Damned starring Dolph Lundgren
• Ron Burgundy’s (Anchorman) not so great ads for Ford
  • Staring contest
  • Gumball Machine
  • Ride
  • It Comes Standard

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On this week’s show we review Rush, Riddick, Runner Runner, The Purge and Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs 2 and a whole heap of news including the rather fetching poster for John Landis and Elijah Wood’s Bad Vibes. Ain’t it cool?

Show notes:

• Trailer for Grudge Match with Sylvester Stallone and Robert DeNiro squaring off
• First trailer for the remake of Robocop
• Trailer for The Art of the Steal starring Kurt Russell and Matt Dillon amongst others
• Trailer for The Double from Director Richard Ayoade (Moss from the IT crowd!)
• Cute video of the kids from School of Rock, and Jack Black, reuniting on stage for the films 10 year anniversary

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Suck it.

A lot has happened in the world of comic book films since the last podcast, not least being the casting of Ben Affleck as Batman in the sequel to Man of Steel!

We discuss our reaction to this news, as well as the rest of the internet’s, in this week’s cast, as well as more casting rumours and leaked footage from Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, a heap of trailers for new Young Adult adventures following on from the success of the Hunger Games, listener emails and reviews of Elyysium,  Magic Magic, and Pom Poko.

As usual all the trailers and items discussed the podcast are listed below for you delectation, enjoy!

• Iain’s Handbag of the Week
• Gavin’s Toy of the Week: Hobbit Edition Part The First
• Gavin’s T- shirt of the week: Hobbit Edition Part the Second
• The latest trailer for Thor:The Dark World
• Trailer for George Clooney’s The Monuments Men
• Divergent Trailer
• Trailer for How I Live Now starring Saoirse Ronan
• Trailer for Ridley Scott’s The Counselor
• The Getaway trailer, starring Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez
• Trailer for Pompeii starring (You Know Nothing) Jon Snow from Game of Thrones (Kit Harington)
• Trailer for Her directed by Spike Jonze and starring Joachim Phoenix
• Muppets Most Wanted trailer
• Pics from the new Puppet/Muppet TV game show on BBC Television

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Gavin has shown an alarming obsession with this movie

Back once again with an irreverent look at all the latest movie news, on this week’s show we discuss the rumoured Batmen up for the role of The Dark Knight in the upcoming Superman vs Batman (or Batman vs Superman depending on who you talk to), the latest set pics from Bryan Singer’s X-Men, a heap of cool t-shirt talk, Gavin reviews the long awaited horror remake Maniac starring Elijah Wood, while Iain reviews Zombie romantic comedy Warm Bodies, baseball playing gorilla Mr. Go and gets a double dose of DC animation with Superman:Unbound and Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox.

Here are the show notes for this week’s podcast:

• Gavin’s Toy of the week Part 1: Attack on Titan edition
• Gavin’s Toy of the week Part 2: Robocop Edition
• Gavin’s Toy of the week Part 3: Batmen Edition :part 1 & part 2
• The interactive Shaun of the Dead screenplay
• Latest Trailer for Ender’s Game
• Japanese Milkshake based upon The Ring!!?
• First Trailer for Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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At last, they're coming together

Once again San Diego Comic Con has come and gone leaving behind lots of juicy hints of what’s to come in the cinema over the next few years. On this week’s show we discuss some of the the most exiting news items that came out of the con, we review The Wolverine and World War Z, and Gavin gives his thoughts on Pacific Rim and the current state of blockbuster cinema.

• Gavin’s ToyS(plural) of the week
  • (Part 1) Kick-Ass 2 Ax Handle Replica
  • (Part 2) Retro Alien toys
  • (Part 3) TMNT Bebop and Rocksteady Toys
• San Diego Ccomic Con links
  • Videos of Andrew Garfield on stage in costume and in-character as Spider-man
  • Tom Hiddleston takes to the stage in-character and in costume as Loki from Thor/The Avengers
  • Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatches Sherlock video messages to Comic Con
• A pair of terrifying trailers for Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity( it’s best to watch these in order)
  • Trailer 1
  • Trailer 2
• Trailer for Out of the Furnace starring Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Forest Whitaker, Zoe Saldana, Sam Shepard and Willem Dafoe.
• Trailer for 47 Ronin starring Keanu Reeves
• Trailer for 12 years a Slave , another film with a stellar cast; Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano and  Paul Giamatti amongst others
• Red Band trailer for the new Riddick movie
• And finally Dennis Farina’s Fuck-Fest. RIP

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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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This is THE man people refer to when they say, "He the man!"

Apologies in advance or the sound quality on this week”s show. The fancy expensive mic that I bought WAS plugged in and functioning  correctly however SOMEONE (I wonder who) forgot too switch audacity over from internal to external mic.

The quality of the content however is be as high (low?) as ever with reviews of Now You See Me, The Hangover Pt 3, The Perks of Being a Wallflower,  and The Great Gatsby this week, along with all the latest movie news.

Here’s the show notes:

• Trailer for Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial debut Don Jon
• Transcript and audio of Michael Douglas’ chat with the Guardian over he causes of his throat cancer
• First set pics of The Winter Soldier from Captain America 2
• Video of Samuel L. Jackson reading the winning monologue from reddit submissions in return for charitable donations to the Alzheimer’s Association.
• TOY…OF…THE….WEEEK!:  The quite simply AMAZING (and amazingly expensive) Hot Toys Robocop and ED-209 figures
• Will Smith leads a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reunion on the Graham Norton show in the UK

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