What does Gollum see!!?

On this week’s show we are back to our regular show format as we look at trailers for the ambitious adaptation of Cloud Atlas, Ang Lee’s The life of Pi,  discuss some new developments on the new Hobbit movie and review the best Exotic Marigold Hotel, starring Dame Jundy Dench and Bill Nighy among others, as well as Dave recommendation number 1 : Beerfest.

Show notes:

1. First trailer for Ang Lee’s adpatation of The Life of Pi
2. The amazing 5 minute trailer for Cloud Atlas

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WHAT ARE THESE JOKERS TALKING ABOUT?

The Dark Knight has a special place in our hearts (it’s why we started this podcast) so in honour of the release of The Dark Knight Rises, this week’s podcast  focuses almost entirely on our Dark Knight Rises reviews.

Yes, I said reviews plural; one show, two reviews as we first give our spoiler-free review, discuss some emails and then go deep into the no man’s land of spoiler  territory.

Don’t worry, there’s plenty of warning before we hit the spoilers so we shouldn’t ruin anything for you, but try and keep the second half until you’ve seen (and hopefully enjoyed)  the end of Nolan’s Batman Trilogy.

One show note this week from @darkstardave on twitter:

• Delorean monster truck!

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Jack Reacher races... to the toilet?

This week’s podcast features reviews of the Amazing Spider-man and Indie Game: The Movie as well as discussions of Neil Blomkamp’s Elysium, Naomi Watts as Princess Diana, the RZA’s The Man with the Iron Fists,which actresses we’d like to see get into a cat fight, and how ridiculous Tom Cruise looks in the New Jack Reacher trailer.

As usual most of the stuff we talk about in the show is available below:

• Pics of Ron Perlman just being an awesome human being
• Tom Cruise in the Jack Reacher trailer
• Very Cool trailer for Robot and Frank 
• Some Pics of Naomi Watts as Princess Diana, a close-up, and some other shots
• Trailer for the Man with the Iron Fists
• Also a pretty cool poster for the Man with the Iron Fists
• On-set pictures of some vehicles from Mad Max:Fury Road
  • The “Giga Horse”
  • Some kind of “Battle Wagon”
• The VERY funny Darth Bale
• Twitter thing of the week: Geordi La Forge make up test from the Star Trek:TNG Blu Ray
• The first Poster for Sam Raimi’s Oz the great and Powerful
• The trailer for Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

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Logan Marshall Green and Tom Hardy... or vice versa?

After our little break we’re back with a review of Pixar’s Brave, a quick chat about Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and Gavin shares his thoughts on John Carter now that he’s finally gotten around to seeing it. Oh and he shares his feeling on Mirror, Mirror but that doesn’t take very long at all.

The break also gave us some time to build up a backlog of news and trailers to discuss including trailers for Dredd, starring Karl Urban as the old Stone Face himself; Monsters University, the prequel to Monsters Inc,; “Liam Neeson Beats up Istanbul” (aka Taken 2) the sequel to “Liam Neeson beats up France” (aka Taken) and we have a heap of quite frankly bizarre emails to go through this week featuring Terry Crews and Australians!!

Thanks to @rue_ay_ee on twitter for the pic of Logan Marshall Green and Tom Hardy, or is it Tom Hardy and Logan Marshall Green?

Helpful Show Notes of the Visual Kind:

• Dredd trailer
• Taken 2 trailer
• FIFTY MINUTES of deleted scenes from David Lynch’s Blue Velvet
• Trailer for the animated version of Black Dynamite
• Creepy/funny Red Band Trailer (and poster) for V/H/S
• Google map link to the building used as Flynn’s Arcade in Culver City Los Angeles
• Gavin’s Toy! Of! The! Week! (Cowboy Bebop)
• Bonus Toy of the week (Black Widow)
• Gilbert Gottfried reads popular erotica 50 Shades of Gray
• Those goddamned Siri ads (Just in case you haven’t seen them)
  • Samuel L Jackson (Boo)
  • Zoey Deschanel (KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!)
  • John Maljkovitch (How delightful!)
    • Ad 1 (Life)
    • Ad 2 (Joke)

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David AFTER he's heard the Prometheus spoilercast

With our abiding love of Sir Ridley Scott’s work, the fantastic Alien universe he created, the sinister machinations of the Weylan (later -Yutani) company as well as our feelings on the actual film, we couldn’t just leave it at a spoiler free review of Prometheus in the main show, and so McYapandFries present our Prometheus Spoiler-cast where we hold nothing back in discussing the films plot points, ending,  sucesses (and failures) and where the franchise could possibly go from here.

CONTAINS SPOILERS! Seriously it’s in the headline and everything, don’t listen if you haven’t seen Prometheus!!

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David Hears that "Prometheus" is getting the McYapandFries treatment

After all the anticipation, we finally get to see the product of visionary director Ridley Scott’s return to Sci-fi on this week’s podcast, as Gavin and I review Prometheus. No need to worry about spoilers, as usual we steer well clear of those, however we will be discussing the plot in obsessive detail in a separate, spoiler-infected, Promethe-cast which should be available soon.

Also this in this week’s show I also review Malaysian movie Nasi Lemak 2.0, we talk about new trailers for the latest from Quentin Tarantino, Denzel Washington and um…Disney Animation along with a few cool posters, and the usual distractions such as Gavin’s feelings on Jake GyllenHATE.

Show Notes

• Trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s latest, Django Unchained
• Bill Murray’s cool Video Autograph
• Trailer for Flight starring Denzel Wasahington and directed by Robert Zemekis
• Trailer for End of Watch (Training Day 3) strarring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña
• Cool Dark Knight Rises poster featuring catwoman, (or at least some of her)
• First cool poster for Dredd
• First pic of Idris Elba in Pacific Rim
• The trailer for Gavin’s dream team up of Jennifer Lawrence and  Elisabeth Shue,  The House at the End of the Street 
• Herer’s a link to the demeted Italian Sci-Fi movie,  sent in by listener “Martian on Crack”

Things! Of the week!

• Gavin’s Toy(s) of the week  (for Transformers fans)
• Iain’s Toy of the week! (for Game of thrones Fans)
• Iain’s Tee of the week
• Listener Tee of the week (although we have no idea where you can buy this, or even if you should!)
• Deal of the Week (for Battlestar Galactica fans)

And finally, just to prove Gavin wrong here’s the link to my 2009 review of Wristcuters:A Love Story

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It’s not often that we’re wrong here at McYapandFries, and it’s even less often that we apologise for anything, but we are idiots on a regular basis, which is a roundabout way of saying that on last week’s cast we totally forgot to review the Malaysian Games and Comics Convention, which a certain Mr Gavin Yap presided over as head minion, a week prior.

This week’s show kicks off with our attempt at rectifying this grievous error, before we then proceed to make a whole bunch of new ones reviewing Snow White and the Hunstman; starring Kirsten Stewart, Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth, reviewing super-powered “found footage” flick Chronicle, and while discussing the merits of a possible Pauly Shore comeback, Spaced (AGAIN!), Cannes, and venerable old 2000AD.

We hope you like the show

As usual here’s the show notes those of you reading along at home:

• Malaysian Games and Comics Convention
• The Red Carpet for Maniac at Cannes (the French guy’s freakout starts about 6 minutes in)
• Gavin’s Toy of the week 
• Bonus Toy of the week (Again!)
• Iain’s Tee of the week
• Trailer for “The Miserables”
• Iron man set pics (CAUTION SPOILERS!)

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This week’s we review Tim Burton and Johnny Depp’s latest foray into dark kookiness; Dark Shadows, share our thoughts on the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Puss in Boots from a while back, reminisce about Y2K and  how long ago Spaced was made (and how old that makes us feel) and rant about the satte of modern marketing and trailers, featurettes, promos etc etc while simultaneously reviewing a load of trailers  and providing links to them below for your viewing pleasure! All this and some new features! As usual if you want to feature in the show drop us an email or use the form at the contact us link up at the top of the page.

Johnny 's reaction to the Dark Shadows Review

• Gavin’s Toy! of! the! week!
• Bonus Toy! of! the! week!
• Iain’s Tee! of! the! week!
• Bill Murray’s tour of Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom 
• Trailer for The Campaign starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis.
• Teaser trailer for the new James Bond Movie, Skyfall
• Maniac Trailer with Elijah Wood 
• Trailer for Baz Luhrman’s The Great Gatsby
• Trailer for Ben Affleck’s tache-tasic Argo
• Anchorman 2 Teaser trailer
• Gangster Squad trailer

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Loki is not best pleased with this lack of podcast

As you may has noticed there hasn’t been a podcast since last week’s Avengers cast.

This is because a) we’re still reeling from that cinematic onslaught & b) Gavin’s been busy “shaping and directing” this year’s The Platform production The Emperor at the KL Performing Arts Centre. Full details here but if you wanna catch it you’ll have to hurry, shows finish 12^th May!

Once again we’ll try and get back to a regular status once Gavin stops being so damn popular, or my dastardly plans come to fruition. What plans? That would be telling…

Yes…it’s finally here

The road that began years or decades ago when you first heard of or read your first Avengers comic, or that began for us in Summer 2010 when we first saw Earth’s Mightiest Heroes assembled on stage at San Diego Comic Con, ends this week with the release of Marvel’s The Avengers in cinemas across the world (everywhere that is except America this week for some reason).

As you can guess Gavin and I “go deep” on our review in this week’s cast but for the cautious we do avoid spoilers until the 45th minute of the cast, and we very clearly state this, so you can’t blame anyone but yourself if you hear too much.

This weeks’s show also has a very quick, non-spoilery review of The Cabin in the Woods and some of the usual news for which the show notes are below, Enjoy!

• Fresh off the internet presses, it’s the third and final Dark Knight Rises trailer
• The third trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (might be best to miss if you wnat to avoid spoilers)
• First pictures emerge of Anthony Hopkins As Alfred Hitchcock
  Trailer for Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3 : Dog Days the only movie to melt Gavin’s cold stone heart
• Here the trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Male stipper flick Magic Mike Starrign Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey!
• Trailer for promising prohibition crime drama Lawless

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