The McYapAndFries Movie Podcast

Darth Abrams? It is official! JJ Abrams, director of Star Trek is hogging ALL THE TOYS and has been officially announced by Disney as the director of Star Wars Episode VII.  On this week’s podcast Gavin and I discuss our reaction to the news, we debut new feature "Ian-Beale/Ludicrous-English soap-watch", we show some love for R Lee Ermey and we also review The Watch, Pitch Perfect and discuss h...

What's in store for 2013? On this weeks McYapandFries podcast we eschew the usual news and chat for a special look at all the films coming out in 2013, month by month, picking out the flicks we're most exited for, and not bothered about, as we  go. At the end of the cast we also mangwe to squeeze in reviews of Les Miserables, Robot & Frank,  and  Upside Down. No show notes this week as there's...

The Hobbit is finally here WHEEEEEEEEEE! This week’s show could be our most upbeat and optimistic EVER, featureing, as it does, our reviews of Peter Jackson's return to Middle Earth in The Hobbit, The Life of PI, The Raid and Killer Joe, and our thoughts on the avalanche of awesome trailers that have popped online in the last month (Links to all the trailers discussed in this week’s show are b...

Hey Michael! Would you agree that you're the best thing in Twilight? On this week’s show Iain decides to take the plunge and watch all five Twilight movies, catching up on all the previous films before reviewing the most recent Breaking Dawn Part 2. Meanwhile Gavin stays well clear and reviews Seth McFarlane’s Ted. Just to prove that we’re not going soft we’ve also got the latest news on t...

Just a couple of chumps and an Achilles class Battle Tripod Mc and Yap Are BACK, finally! After our two month sabbatical (which we explain on the show) we are back on the air to bring you all the latest movie news that we care about, on a semi regular basis. This week we discuss the latest Star Wars news, TomCruise's choice of apparel in his latest flick, the heaps of trailers and movie related up...

This week’s podcast is all ACTION as bullets fly in Iain’s review of The Expendables 2, (as well as in our discussions of the trailers for Stallone’s and Arnie’s latests flicks), pedals hit the .. er...metal as Gavin reviews Joseph Gordon Levitt's mad dash Premium Rush, Iain looks at Guy Pearce  in..wait....what!!? You want me to post what along with the podcast?? But it doesn’t make se...

The last supper? Looks like there's bullets for breakfast! This week’s show goes heavy on the superheroes and the Marvel-love in particular, with lots of news on Joss Whedon’s involvement in Avengers 2 (and the rest of the marvel stable) , juicy rumours about X-men First Class 2, casting news for Thor 2 and we even take a dip in the DC side of the pool with more rumours of the Justice league r...

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: First...

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...

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 stu...

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 bui...

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 ho...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Nope, we've not even made ONE of these doing this bloody show Yes, not only have we managed to do another podcast only the week after the last one, but  this week's show also marks the 100 episode (I'm not evevn kidding!). With our usual panache, style and attention to  preparation we've done absolutely nothing special for this week's podcast to celebrate and instead we get on with the very impo...

As you can tell from the headline, ripped from the podcast itself, absolutely nothing has changed during our little break from podcasting. We have returned as immature and vulgar as ever. Thor and Agent Coulson eagerly await the mcyapandfries podcast to finish downloading, on dial-up As we've been away quite a while, on this week's show we discuss only the very best and most interesting  of the m...

...at Chinese New Year...and a podcast happens! This week at we are very happy to be joined on the show by renowned thespians Charles Donnelly and Kingsley Judd, both of whom will be joining Gavin on stage soon at the Actors Studio KL in a production of Frank McGuinness’ “Someone to watch over me” , as well as “The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)“. More information on both shows...

What's YOUR status baby? If it's unconcious then that's ok I can work with that... This week we are very proud to present our review of “Relationship Status” the new Malaysian made movie starring a very talented young actor, Mr, Gavin Yap, (who even pops in to the show after the review to answer some questions!) Also on this week’s show we have reviews  of George Clooney’s latest director...

'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 p...

Would you use an almost new spy-gadget from this man? This week we are back on schedule and back to somewhat decent sound quality (I think, fingers crossed) with another great show featuring the usual news, including the casting of the new Q in the ext Bond movie "Skyfall" (that's him over there) and reviews of “Larry Crowne”, directed by Tom Hanks and starring Julia Roberts amongst others; Ry...

Consider yourself warned. Due to either the electromagnetic properties of Gavin's farts, the fact that David Knight’s musical genius disrupts all known recording media, or because I screwed up the “refurbishment” of our “recording” “studio“(aka messed up the reinstallation of my laptop) this weeks’ podcast goodness is plagued by clicks and echo’s which I’m afraid no end of post...

Yes, that subtle dig at Gavin in the title means that once again Geoff has stepped in to provide his thoughts on the latest movie news and reviews, and this time we're taking it outside! Yes it's our first McYapandFries  outside broadcast at Overtime at the Pavilion shopping Centre in KL (Gavin's house doesn't really count as "outside") This week, over a pint or two naturally,  we review "Tower...

aaaand we're back, kinda. Gavin's still away so I've roped in a very special stand in guest; Geoff, to at least try and keep some kind of regular schedule. In this week's show, Geoff and I  review Irish Crime drama  "The Guard", starrring Brendan Gleeson (Bravehearts Flame haired mate) & Don Chealde (Iron Man's army buddy MK 2);  "Red State" by Kevin Smith, he of Clerks, Dogma & Mallrats fame,...