Geek Actually Episode 69 – The Butler Did It

January 31, 2010

Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott and Dave Kozicki

The Geek Actually Podcast is recorded live on Ustream with chat interaction.

This week David, Josh and Dave make up for missing last weeks show with two feature reviews ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ and ‘Up in the Air’. A shout out to our friends at The Reel Junkies Podcast at weekendronin.com and The Movie Fan House Podcast at moviefanhouse.com.

News: Tim Burton remakes ‘Sleeping Beauty’, Danny Elfman’s music back in ‘The Wolfman’, ‘Clash of the Titans’ and ‘Harry Potter’ get the 3D treatment and ‘Green Lantern’ concept art leaked. We also take a look at the trailers for ‘Alice in Wonderland’, ‘Knight and Day’ and the leaked ‘Piranha 3D’.

This Week in Television: On the eve of the last ever episode, the two Daves examine the final days of’ ‘Dollhouse’ and the state of the current season of ‘Chuck’.

This Week’s Feature Review: This week we look at two feature films. First up ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ which starts strong and falls apart about half way through. Wait for DVD to enjoy a good performance by Gerard Butler. Then we move on to Jason Reitman’s new film ‘Up in the Air’ starring George Clooney. This is a wonderful, charming and grown up movie that is highly recommended to all. George Clooney is pitch perfect in the role.

This episode carries an explicit tag due to infrequent coarse language.

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Geek Actually Episode 69 Media

January 30, 2010

As usual, here are the video clips that will be shown on The Geek Actually Podcast episode 69. These are presented here for our audio listeners.

Piranha 3-D Leaked Trailer (You have to fast forward 46 seconds)

Knight and Day Trailer

Alice in Wonderland Trailer

Up in the Air Trailer

Law Abiding Citizen Trailer

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Green Lantern Concept Art

January 29, 2010

/Film has posted up a bunch of concept art pictures for the upcoming Martin Campbell film ‘Green Lantern’. If these are real, they are on the right track. We’ll discuss these in detail tomorrow on episode 69 of The Geek Actually Podcast.

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Platforms Episode 16 – Null and Void

January 26, 2010

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Josh Philpott and Dave Kozicki (with David ‘Beardless’ McVay).

Platforms is a gamers podcast by gamers. The podcast is recorded live on Ustream with chat interaction so come and join the fun as your host candidly discuss the latest in the gaming world. The podcast is uncensored, explicit, honest and very non ‘PC’. We kick off with the trailer for ‘Dark Void’. We have more tragedy this week as David McVay’s Xbox dies and Josh’s Ps3 Dies! Is this the Kozicki curse?

News This Week: Persona 3 coming to PSP July 6th, Next ‘Borderlands’ DLC promises to be the biggest yet, ‘Elderscrolls’ MMO to be released in 2011 and ‘Assassins Creed 2′ DLC to be released Jan 28th.

Coming Soon Titles: ‘Mass Effect 2′ (28th Jan) and a new ‘Mass Effect 2′ trailer just leaves us wanting more and more! Also, ‘Tatsonoko vs Capcom’ (Wii) and ‘Dante’s Inferno’.

Review of the Week: This week, an in depth review of Capcom’s new game ‘Dark Void’. Over all it seems just a little ho-hum.

Opinion of the Week: What are your favourite guilty pleasures? What games do you play even though you know it isn’t that good?

All this and a voice mail from our good friend Brad at The Movie Fan House. Want to leave a voice mail? Call 02 8011 3167.

Quick shout outs to our friends at Game Pron and Oxcgn

This episode carries an explicit tag due to frequent coarse language.

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Send feedback for this show to platforms@geekactually.com or leave us a voice mail message to play on the show at +61 02 8011 3167 or Skype a voicemail using Skype username: geekactually. If you are an iTunes user, please leave a review as we are trying to get on the featured list and every review helps. Your comments (good or bad) help us improve the show. You can contact us here. Make sure you join our Facebook Page at facebook.com/PlatfromsLive (yes it is mis-spelt on purpose)

The Platforms Podcast is recorded live on Ustream every Monday Evening 8pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (UTC+11). If you still just want to listen to the audio podcast, it will go out as normal on Tuesday. If you missed the live show, you can watch the replay all week at http://geekactually.com/platforms.

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No show this this week due to weather

January 22, 2010

Sorry to do this to guys but we have cancel the show this week because of extremely hot weather and we are concerned about the equipment. The temperature is predicted to be 40 degrees (celsius) tomorrow (and the studio gets hotter than that!) and the programs we run to make Geek Actually possible are very CPU intensive. The computers get really hot on a normal day so I am predicting big time crashes if we try and do this tomorrow.

The weather breaks on Sunday so Platforms goes ahead as normal and Geek Actually will be back next week.

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Platforms Episode 15 – Bro-Fisting

January 19, 2010

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Josh Philpott, Dave Kozicki and Nathan ‘NachoJustice’ Lawrence (with David ‘Beardless’ McVay).

Platforms is a gamers podcast by gamers. The podcast is recorded live on Ustream with chat interaction so come and join the fun as your host candidly discuss the latest in the gaming world. The podcast is uncensored, explicit, honest and very non ‘PC’. We kick off with the trailer for ‘Army of Two – 40th Day’. Dave Kozicki and Josh Philpott are joined this episode by fellow gamer geek and chatroom regular Nathan ‘NachoJustice’ Lawrence.

News This Week: Stats are out, but what are the best selling games and consoles? Netflix is Wii bound, Bioshock 2’s new trailer is hot, God of War 3 passed the Australian censors, Warner Interactive begins culling, Splinter Cell: Conviction and R.U.S.E. delayed, DSI XL dated for Europe, The new AVP trailer is giant up yours to the censorship board and a first look at the very strange looking NBA Jam for Wii.

Coming Soon Titles: ‘Dark Void’ (21st Jan) and ‘Mass Effect 2′ (28th Jan).

Reflection of the Week: With the release of Army of Two – 40th Day, the boys take a trip down memory lane and discuss the first Army of Two game.

Review of the Week: This week, an in depth review of Army of Two – 40th Day. We start this off with one of the strangest ad campaigns for the game. Dave K., Nathan and Josh liked the game but the single button control system could cause problems.

This episode carries an explicit tag due to frequent coarse language.

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We Need Your Help

January 19, 2010

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The Geek Actually Podcast Episode 68 Sampler

January 18, 2010

Here is the latest episode in it’s 10min sampler format. Remember, if you want to hear the whole show you can grab it here or subscribe on iTunes. You can also watch the whole show by going to geekactually.com/live, the repeat runs all week.

This video carries an explicit tag due to frequent coarse language.

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Geek Actually Ep068 – The Little Geek Segment

January 17, 2010

Here is the complete Little Geek section of this weeks show. Nicholas McVay is usually recorded separately from the main show as an audio exclusive but this week we took him live on the Ustream feed. The only thing abridged in this clip is the trailer to save time because of YouTube’s time limits.