June 29, 2009
I want to thank our regular listener AtomicBetty for sending this review to me, it is quite possibly the best review of the new Transformers movie I have read yet. I was laughing out loud. Click the link below and prepare to have your mind expanded Let’s face it, this is what we are all [...]
Tags: best, Mark Frauenfelder, Movie, Review, transformers revenge of the fallen
Posted in Movies, Reviews
June 29, 2009
I think Hollywood may now have officially reached creative rock bottom. Variety reported that Hugh Jackman and Miley Cyrus are teaming up for a ‘kind of’ tween, musical remake of The Bodyguard (remember Whitney and Kevin?) called Personal Security (obviously tweens don’t know what the word bodyguard means). Jackman will play a New York police [...]
Tags: bodyguard, creative rock, heiress, hollywood, hugh jackman, miley cyrus, new york police, personal security, police detective, pre teen girls, rock bottom
Posted in Movies
June 29, 2009
It’s been awhile since we at Geek Actually had a go at the Australian Federal Government, but something new just came up and here we go again. The Sydney Morning Herald had an interesting article today, which you can read here. In a nutshell (and I am paraphrasing a lot), Stephen Conroy (The Federal Communications [...]
Tags: australian federal government, censorship laws, downloadable games, entertainment association, federal communications, federal minister, gamers, ieaa, interactive entertainment, internet censorship, isps, morning herald, online games, parental supervision, second life, stephen conroy, sydney morning herald, world of warcraft
Posted in Games, Opinion, Tech
June 28, 2009
David McVay is joined by Josh Philpott, Sarah Kalpokas and Nicholas McVay Recorded live on Ustream. David, Josh and Sarah discuss the deaths of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, the return of Steve Jobs to Apple and the teaser trailer for The Last Airbender. Then we reviewed (spoilers and all) Transformers : Revenge of the [...]
Tags: Apple, australian eastern standard time, avatar, David McVay, deaths, farrah fawcett, Geek, josh philpott, michael jackson, reminder, revenge, robots, saturday morning, steve jobs, teaser trailer, transformers, transformers revenge of the fallen, ustream, video game
Posted in Podcast
June 26, 2009
Just a reminder that the Geek Actually Podcast will record live tomorrow (Saturday Australian time) at 11am AEST (UTC+10). Hope you can join us in the chat room. Just click the live link above and log into Ustream (it’s free) to join the chat. The audio version will be released on Sunday on the feed [...]
Tags: aest, chat room, Geek, Geek Actually, live tomorrow, Podcast, reminder, ustream
Posted in Podcast
June 26, 2009
On a brighter note, Steve Jobs has returned to Apple. All the speculation and rumour mongering that has been going on over the last few months, Steve Jobs quietly returned to work at Apple a week ago. He had a liver transplant two months ago but everyone is being tight lipped as to why, but [...]
Tags: Apple, helm, keynote, liver transplant, rumour mongering, speculation, steve jobs
Posted in Tech
June 26, 2009
What a day! I woke up to the news today that Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett have both died. Farrah Fawcett has been battling cancer for the last couple of years and last night she passed. Farrah Fawcett was one of the original cast members of the 70′s show Charlie’s Angels and became as famous for [...]
Tags: acting, cancer, cast members, charlie s angels, couple of days, farrah fawcett, hair style, michael jackson, news today, original cast, poster girls, relationship, robert altman, ryan o neal, sad day
Posted in General, Movies
June 26, 2009
After much speculation this morning, it has been now confirmed that Michael Jackson has died of a heart attack at the age of 50. This marks the end of an era for me, I was a child when The Jackson 5 were huge during the 70′s and I was a teenager during Jackson’s solo career [...]
Tags: apologist, heart attack, jackson 5, john landis, john singleton, king of pop, later days, martin scorsese, michael jackson, music legend, rabid fan, rest in peace, sad day, showman, solo career, speculation, teenager, thriller, video clip, weirdness
Posted in General, Movies