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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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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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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