This week Iain and Gavin got to watch Antoine Fuqua’s (Training Day, Olympus Has Fallen, The Equalizer) remake of  The Magnificent Seven starring  Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Byung-hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Matt Bomer, Haley Bennett, Peter Sarsgaard and Luke Grimes (phew!)

No spoilers this week, instead we discuss how the new film stacks up on it’s own, how it compares to the John Sturges original ,Fawn over Chris Pratt and puzzle over where exactly Yul Brynner was from, in the movie and real life.

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On this week’s review-heavy podcast we discuss A Walk Amongst the Tombstones starring Liam Neeson, the much fêted Birdman with Michael Keaton, 1980’s crime drama A Most Violent Year with Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain, Michael Mann’s hacker thriller Blackhat and in a time travelling double bill,the Michael Bay produced, found footage time travel movie  Project Almanac and Predestination starring Ethan Hawke!

As we recorded this before the Super Bowl we don’t  cover the super Bowl trailers in this week’s show.  Next time baby!

As usual here are the links to all the trailers and cool stuff we talked about on the show

• Trailer for the new Fantastic Four reboot
• Second trailer for Avengers Age of Ultron
• Second trailer for Chappie that shows off a darker side to the Neil Blomkamp film
• Trailer for The Voices starring Ryan Reynolds
• New trailer for Ted 2
• Trailer for Anarchy, starring Ed Harris, Ethan Hawke, Milla Jovovich, & John Leguizamo
• More wackiness From Takashi Miike in the first trailer for As the Gods Will

• Cool Stuff

  • Cool movie posters from Hero Complex as part of its Young Guns exhibition
  • Awesome Terminator and other posters from Grey Matters
  • Predator figure from Neca that looks just like the cover to the first Dark Horse Predator comic from 25 years ago
  • Batman Returns Double Bill
    • Creepy Danny DeVito Penguin figure from Neca
    • Batman Returns Penguin Commando Life-Size Statue
  • Jack Burton vest from Big Trouble in Little China(again?)
  • Very Cool  poster for Predestination from Mondo (sadly, not yet for sale)

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Yet another bad ass John Wick poster

This week we once again joined by Leon Tan of Dragonslate Media and Imaginex Studios for his Hollywood insider perspective as well as an exclusive review of Nicolas Cage’s Outcast, which was recently pulled from cinemas just hours before release in China. Iain also reviews Disney’s Maleficent and new releases Annabelle  and Dracula Untold. Gavin doesn’t have anything to review as he was busy FINALLY catching up on Game of Thrones Heres the show notes:

• John Wick Trailer 2
• Jupiter Rising Trailer 3
• Interstellar trailer 3
• Trailer for Predestination starring Ethan Hawke
• First Trailer Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper
• Hilarious first trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice
• Michael Mann’s Blackhat trailer (hopefully I should be in this somewhere as an extra!)
• Black Sea trailer
• Popeye animation test from Genndy Tartakovsky

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Suck it.

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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