February 27, 2009
Hosts: David McVay and Jacob Oberman Geek Actually is brought to you by listeners, just like you. Thanks for your donations. If you wish to make a donation, go to geekactually.com. David is joined in studio by Jacob as they discuss the latest in film and tech. In tech news: Telstra boss Sol Trujillo fires [...]
Tags: australian internet, biopic, clive owen, danny boyle, dark knight returns, David McVay, eddie murphy, internet filter, myspace, naomi watts, neverending story, oberman, pot smoking, remakes, richard pryor, samuel l jackson, sol trujillo, total recall, watchman, zack snyder
Posted in Podcast
February 26, 2009
Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) is set to Direct a big screen adaptation of the board game Clue (Cluedo for the Australians). If this sounds familiar, it is. John Landis directed a big screen version of the game in 1985. Why is this a good idea? That’s it. No funny remarks or comments from me, I [...]
Tags: australians, board game clue, cluedo, deductive reasoning, funny remarks, gore verbinski, john landis, jonathan, mystery, pirates of the caribbean, screen adaptation, storytelling engine, thriller, transmedia, wink
Posted in Movies
February 26, 2009
A few weeks ago it was reported everywhere that Samuel L. Jackson was having ‘issues’ with Marvel Productions and was not going to return as Nick Fury in the Iron Man Sequel or The Avengers movie. Well, it was reported today that Marvel and Jackson have worked out their differences and Jackson has signed a [...]
Tags: avenger, captain america, espionage, films, franchises, iron man, marvel comics, marvel productions, marvel superhero, new deal, nick fury, samuel l jackson, sequel, sequels, thor
Posted in Movies
February 24, 2009
Hi there, Okay, we posted yesterday our predictions for the Oscars, here are the winners (and where we got it right and wrong). The Top Eight Best Picture – Slumdog Millionaire (we got it right) Best Director – Danny Boyle (we got it right) Best Actor – Sean Penn (we predicted Mickey Rourke) Best Actress [...]
Tags: actor heath, actress penelope, best actress, best adapted screenplay, best animated feature, best art direction, best cinematography, best costume design, best film editing, best foreign language film, best makeup, best original music, best supporting actress, curious case of benjamin button, feature wall, hellboy 2, mickey rourke, penelope cruz, technical awards, viola davis
Posted in Movies
February 23, 2009
Hosts: David McVay and Jacob Oberman Geek Actually is brought to you by listeners, just like you. Thanks for your donations. If you wish to make a donation, go to geekactually.com. David and Jacob for this special Geek Actually wrap up of the 81st Academy Awards. We talk about the show, the winners and the [...]
Tags: academy awards, David McVay, donations, Geek, hosts, itunes, jacob, listeners, losers, oberman
Posted in Podcast
February 23, 2009
Hi, Just to let you know that we will be publishing a special Oscar post show today. It is the movie industry’s big night and we will be watching closely. We have been calling our picks for the last few weeks on the show, now we get to see if we are right. Our predictions [...]
Tags: best actor, best actress, best animated film, best art direction, best cinematography, best director, best documentary feature, best foreign film, best makeup, best score, best supporting actor, best supporting actress, costume design, danny boyle, dark knight, heath ledger, man sound, mickey rourke, movie industry, viola davis
Posted in Podcast
February 20, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, me and my dad, The Big Geek, bought iLife ’09 and it is really cool. I like iMovie ’09, it is better than iMovie ’08 because it felt to me that I couldn’t do much with iMovie ’08. But iMovie ‘o9 is like Final Cut Express but easier to use. And my [...]
Tags: dad, face recognition, final cut express, Geek, imovie 08, o9
Posted in The Little Geek
February 20, 2009
Hosts: David McVay, Jacob Oberman and Nicholas McVay Geek Actually is brought to you by listeners, just like you. Thanks for your donations. If you wish to make a donation, go to geekactually.com. David is joined in studio by Jacob as they discuss the latest in film and tech. In tech news: Telstra boss Sol [...]
Tags: academy award winners, action film, David McVay, eliza dushku, film news, ironman, itunes, john patrick, john patrick shanley, mickey rourke, oberman, oliver stone, pickpocket, reboot, robert rodriguez, sol trujillo, stallone, Telstra, wachowski
Posted in Podcast