David McVay is joined by Josh Philpott and Katrina Smith
Recorded live on Ustream. It’s our first birthday here on the Geek Actually podcast, so we have a long show this week. First, Josh fills us in on the new PS3 virtual pet experiment and game design company THQ’s commitment to Project Natal on Xbox.
Tech News This Week: Microsoft partners up with Yahoo and Josh and David are here to keep you up to date on the developments of the Great Internet War of 2009! Google gets rejected by Apple but picked up by Palm, new vending machines in Japan use a new type of biometrics and just how big is that damn internet thing anyway?
Film News This Week: The Tron Legacy trailer is released and it is pure gold, director James McTeigue (V for Vendetta) gets out from under the shadow of the Wachowski (The Matrix films) Bro’s with “Ninja Assassin” starring Rain, Hollywood kicks The Pirate Bay while its down and the 1979 film “Alien” gets a prequel and a shock new director.
For our feature review we look at Michael Mann’s latest effort, “Public Enemies”. This film is not received well by any of us here at Geek Actually. From cheap ass video cinematography and a cast that looks like they are sleep walking, all we can really say is that this (after “Miami Vice”) could be the end of Michael Mann for us. This film even managed to make Johnny Depp look bad and that takes some kind of effort!
As always this episode carries an explicit tag due to small amounts of bad language.
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