'twas the night before Christmas....

Yes, we’re finally back again with a podcast and I’m very,very happy to say that we have FINALLY sorted out all the technical issues that we’ve been having since our um, “studio’s refurbishment”. Apologies again for the issues on the last two but we really are back to the same audio quality as we once had (pity the content doesn’t match). But enough about the past, let’s look to the future, which seem to be exactly what the movie studios want you to do, judging by the absolute deluge of trailers we’ve seen over the last few weeks for 2012 releases.  As usual I’ve listed them all below so you can “watch along with Mc & Yap”. Also on this week’s show we finally have reviews of the 2011 re-quel of “The Thing”, Seth Rogen & Jospeh Gordon Levitt’s cancer drama “50/50”, “The Muppets” and “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol” in which I am reliably informed Tom Cruise is AWESOME.

All of us here at McYapandFries would like to thanks you for listening and wish you and yours the very best this holiday season.

“God bless us every one”

• Merry Christmas from Ryan Gospling, Eva Mendes, Jim Carrey and some kids
• Here’s the first awesome trailer for Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus“
• The first proper trailer for “The Dark Knight Rises” and here’s the teaser poster
• The first trailer for Peter Jackson’s return to Middle Earth for “The Hobbit”
• The Nicolas cage FREAKOUT video that Gavin mentions about haflway through the podcast
• Trailer for Bryan Singere’s “Jack the Giant Killer”
• The “Expendables 2” trailer also…Van Damme
• The “Expendables 2” teaser poster
• Pic of Stallon with weird hair from “Bullet to the head”
• Here’s the second trailer for “Battleship”
• Our first trailer for “G.I. Joe: Retaliation“
• A new trailer for “Ghost Rider:Spirit of Vengeance”
• “Paranorman” trailer (from the makers of Coraline)
• “Men in Black 3” trailer
• Trailer for the much delayed “Cabin in the Woods” film produced by Joss Whendon CAUTION MAY CONTAIN MASSIVE SPOILERS!
• The trailer fofr the hair rock muscal “Rock of Ages” starring, amongst others, Alac badlwin, Russel Brand and Tom Cruise!!?
• Trailer for “The Dictator” by Sacha Baron Cohen, the man who brought us “Borat”
• The first and second trailers for this generations “Fortress”; the Guy Pearce starring “Lockout” which now seems to be called “Escape from M.S One” or just plain “M.S One”, and which had also been described as “Taken, in space”
• The behind the scenes special effects video showing the practical effects later not used for the 2011 version of the Thing that I mentioned in my review.
• and if you are wondering what the random “Fenton” or “Jesus Christ”-ing was about on the show , wonder at this dog and his insane owner (and then watch the movie parody’s linked off to from that video)

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Are you the farmer? Have you heard this joke before?

Well shiiit, looks like we’ve missed our window of opportunity with the podcast again.

Gavin’s had to go “away” for a while for “help”..I mean “work” and it was my “birthday” last week so our already erratic schedule has been truly thrown off it’s axis.

We’re looking into options to get you a podcast soon (Especially now that “Drive”  and “Killer Elite” are coming out) so please bear with us and we’ll get right back to you as soon as we can.

That’s right folks, no podcast today. We’re going to do one over Raya instead so we can watch more stuff to review.

In the mean time here’s a nice cup of Ron to tide you over

Bloody Hell Harry that wasa BRILLIANT via http://fuckyeahdementia.com/

“Are you the farmer!?”

Oh God Kill it!!! Kill it with FIRE!!!!

But seriously we seem to have taken an unplanned break in podcasting as we kind of reviewed all the latest releases that were available in the last podcast and then I kind of went on holiday for a bit leaving Gavin high and dry (he can’t get down off the wardrobe when i move his stepladder)

Don’t worry though,  I’m back now and all better (mostly) and we should have some reviews and news coming your way any. day. now.

Honestly we have top men working on it now. Who?  Top. Men.

This week’s podcast is in the bag, but we gotta wait until Tuesday before we release it due to an embargo. Hope you come back then as it’s a belter, lotsa news and trailers from comic con, reviews of “Captain America”, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”,”Hanna”, “Insidious”, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2”, and “Take Me Home Tonight”.

No podcast today (Sunday) folks, Gavin had some “stuff to do” and I lay by the pool at day (don’t hate me).
We should bring you another cast by Tuesday however, so don’t change that dial.

We may not have a podcast this week but that doesn’t mean we won’t have new content.

The first trailer for the remake of “Fright Night” is now up online and I have to say this looks like a lot of fun!

The original starred Chris Sarandon (the creepy Prince  Humperdinck from “The Princess Bride”), Roddy McDowall (Planet of the Apes ) and William Ragsdale (who now plays Winona’s douchebag husband in “Justified” on TV), and told the tale of a high school kid who enlists the aid of an old TV horror show host to combat the vampire next door. They’ve been updated with Colin Farrell (from, well, loads), David Tennant (used to be Doctor Who) and Anton Yelchin, who I’m starting to hate on after getting plum roles as Chekov in “Star Trek”, Kyle Reese in “Terminator: Salvation” and not sucking at all.

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As you may have noticed there’s not been many.. .well ANY updates round these parts for a while.  Due to circumstances beyond our control (bloody work… rassum frassum),  Mc and Yap will not be in the same country .. or the same timezone,  for the next while,  which can make doing a weekly podcast a little bit difficult.

Keep an eye on the site and our twitter feeds for updates and as usual keep sending us questions so we can have a bumper show when we inevitably return  (no doubt when Captain America opens)

We’ll try to sort something out in the meantime but to tide you over here’s a picture of a cat doing hammer-time.

Til next time!

No podcast yet this week, however in preparation of the next podcast we’ve made it that little bit easier for you to contact us, by adding a form to the site through which you can send us messages.

The new page with the form is available here and via the “Contact us” link in the site header.

Drop us a line with the subject “Podcast Questions” and it’s pretty much guaranteed we’ll read it out on  the show.

If you are having any issues with the site let us know and set the subject as “Website help” and we’ll get back to you if we can.

Back once again with a mid-week podcast, this week’s show is chock full of Jake Gyllenhaal; with reviews of “Love and Other Drugs”, where he stars with Anne Hathaway, “Source Code” Duncan Jones directorial follow up for to last year’s “Moon”, with our Jake starring as a soldier who seems to be reliving the same train accident over and over again …or is he?

And we finish the show with a review of “True Grit”. Which doesn’t star Jake Gyllenhaal at all but what are you going to do?

Along with this, we bring you news of the villain Superman will be facing off against in Zack Snyder’s reboot of the franchise, along with the actor who will be playing them, news of Josh Brolin’s look for MIB 3, Mc’s growing anticipation for “Priest” and our usual set of bizarre questions from the mail bag.

Show Notes:

• Trailer for Arnie’s “The Governator”
• Genndy Tartakovsky’s animated prologue to “Priest”
• New Priest Trailer
• Michael Shannon’s IMDB page  (The man who will be Zod in superman)

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