Geek Actually Episode 49 – Some Say Too Fast

David McVay is joined by Josh Philpott

Recorded live on Ustream.

To start the show, we answer our mail bag including a negative review that is a little too personal to let slide past. We also read a letter form a listener who has experienced the cracked Mac problem.

Game News This Week: Batman – Arkham Asylum is coming soon and it looks good, we look at the cost of Xbox Live gaming and Australia is getting an Xbox price drop.

In “Great Internet Tech War of 2009” News: Apple, AT&T and Google answer the FCC’s questions and Apple fires back at Microsoft’s Laptop Hunter Ads with a couple of ads of their own.

Tech News This Week: McAfee declares Jessica Beil the most dangerous celebrity on the web, Microsoft appeals the injunction against Word, Apple releases Snow Leopard (beware the fakes) and Nokia is releasing a netbook (sorry I mean mini-laptop).

Entertainment News This Week: Australia may lose “Green Lantern”, Spielberg to make Michael Crichton’s “Pirate Latitudes”, Foxtel gets slapped on the wrist, David Fincher signed to make the Facebook movie and has McG lied about Moon Bloodgood’s boobs again?

For our feature reviews this week Josh and David review “The Hurt Locker”, arguably the best movie about the Iraq war. “The Taking of Pelham 123” is then reviewed from two different directons, Josh hasn’t seen the original 1974 film so takes the new film on it’s own merits, David has seen the original and compares the two. Final verdict, the new film is very average. Not bad, not good, just very average.

Finally, Nicholas ‘The Little Geek’ McVay has animated lego to an excerpt from a past show and it is very cute. Watch the video here

As always this episode carries an explicit tag due to small amounts of bad language.

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