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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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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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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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