Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott, Dave Kozicki and Shane Gregory
The Geek Actually Podcast, your weekly dose of ‘the week in geek’. This week David McVay and Josh Philpott are joined by Dave Kozicki and Shane Gregory for a look at the latest in tech and entertainment news and a review of the latest comic book adaptation to film ‘The Losers’. You can find more Dave, Shane and Josh at rawDLC.com. Your show links follow.
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Tech News
Foxtel comes to Xbox Live
http://www.news.com.au/technology/foxtel-now-available-on-xbox-360/story-e6frfro0-1225869151122
Forget downloading games, how about downloading the source code! Bad move.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/man-faces-five-years-jail-after-caught-downloading-breach-code-off-xbox-360-test-kit/story-e6frfro0-1225868980023
Steve Jobs engages in an email exchange with Gawker Media. Wow!
http://gawker.com/5539717/
Let’s completely lose all privacy in Australia, Customs searches for porn!
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/travellers-to-be-searched-for-porn-20100520-vh09.html
Google, not content to rule the Internet, releases Google TV
http://www.news.com.au/technology/its-conquered-the-web-now-google-wants-your-tv/story-e6frfro0-1225869453466
Okay, fun’s over, the internet is full.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/no-room-at-the-internet-20100517-v9gs.html
Entertainment News
David Fincher’s ‘The Social Network’ may roast Mark Zuckerberg…Yay!
http://www.news.com.au/technology/mark-zuckerbergs-privacy-on-line-as-the-social-network-release-draws-near/story-e6frfro0-1225867824057
Terry Gilliam is at it again!
https://geekactually.com/2010/05/18/terry-gilliam-is-chasing-windmills-again/
We watch the trailer for the new Philip K. Dick Adaptation, ‘The Adjustment Bureau’.
https://geekactually.com/2010/05/17/trailer-philip-k-dicks-the-adjustment-bureau/
Shia stop apologising!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/05/shia-labeouf-wall-street-2-indiana-jones-steven-spielberg.html
and https://geekactually.com/2010/05/17/shia-labeouf-apologises-for-his-past-films-again/
Megan Fox out of ‘Transformers 3’
http://www.deadline.com/2010/05/michael-bays-revenge-no-more-megan/
We watch the trailer for, probably, the most unusual documentary ever, ‘The Winnebago Man’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO05RfHO_4s&feature=player_embedded
The Wachowski’s shop a new film, it’s probably not what you expect.
http://www.deadline.com/2010/05/larry-and-andy-wachowski-shop-u-s-iraqi-war-tale-with-hard-r-gay-love-story/
Robert Rodriguez to make a live action version of ‘Fire and Ice’ – So Cool!
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45169
watch the original’s trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz-yLWGaIxM&feature=player_embedded
Film Review
‘The Losers’ directed by Sylvain White. The film was written by Peter Berg and James Vanderbilt based on the Vertigo comic series written by Andy Diggle. The film stars Jeffery Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Columbus Short, Idris Elba, Oscar Jaenada and Jason Patric.
The official plot according to Warner Bros Pictures is:
A tale of double cross and revenge, centered upon the members of an elite U.S. Special Forces unit sent into the Bolivian jungle on a search and destroy mission. The team – Clay, Jensen, Roque, Pooch and Cougar – find themselves the target of a lethal betrayal instigated from inside by a powerful enemy known only as Max.
Presumed dead, the group makes plans to even the score when they’re joined by the mysterious Aisha, a beautiful operative with her own agenda. Working together, they must remain deep undercover while tracking the heavily-guarded Max, a ruthless man bent on embroiling the world in a new high-tech global war..
Our Verdict: A three way triangle, Josh really didn’t like it at all. Dave K. thought it was good popcorn nonsense and the cast was excellent. David was on the fence, it was what it was. A good cast that doesn’t get much to do and all the best moments are in the trailer. The film tries to be cool and that never works out well. You are cool or you are not, you should have to work so hard to convince us.
‘The Losers’ Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypdB65jNpu0
This episode carries an explicit tag due to infrequent coarse language.
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