Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott 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 Geek Actually Tech co-host and friend Shane Gregory for a look at the latest from Apple as Steve Jobs takes to the stage at WWDC and announces iPhone 4. We then review the film ‘The A-Team’ and you might be a little surprised at our reaction. Your show links follow:
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Tech News
Stop the presses! A late breaking story gets thrown in at the last minute. The Australian Government wants to start tracking and saving your Internet Browsing history! This has got to breach a bunch of privacy laws.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/govt-wants-isps-to-record-browsing-history-339303785.htm
SteveNote!!! Yes, Steve Jobs takes to the stage at WWDC and announces iPhone 4. We give our opinions on the keynote and the device.
New iPhone 4 – What’s on Offer and what do we think?
http://www.apple.com/au/iphone/features.html
We then take a look at the Sam Mendes iPhone 4 ad.
https://geekactually.com/2010/06/09/sam-mendes-new-iphone-4-commercial/
Entertainment News
John Carpenter returns to the director’s chair and vampires.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/06/07/john-carpenter-preparing-to-direct-hilary-swank-in-fangland/
The ‘Fright Night’ remake is moving ahead
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/06/07/details-on-fright-night-remake-vegas-and-a-vampire-in-the-amblin-tradition/
and it has some casting news that makes Josh very excited
http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/06/doctor-who-and-red-mist-join-fright-night-exclusive.html
We watch the new trailer for ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’
http://movies.yahoo.com/premieres/20243566/standardformat
The Les Grossman Film is happening, bad idea.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/06/09/les-grossman-movie-officially-happening/
A new Muppet movie is officially on the way, and we are very happy!
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/06/08/new-muppet-movie-will-hit-theaters-on-christmas-2011/
We take a look at the ET footage from the set of ‘Thor’
http://www.etonline.com/news/2010/06/87855/index.html
And AICN has some interesting Die Hard and Fantastic Four rumours (said to be confirmed)
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45409?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+AintItCoolNews+(Ain’t+It+Cool+News)
Film Review
‘The A-Team’ directed by Joe Carnahan. The film was written by Joe Carnahan, Brian Bloom and Skip Woods and is based on characters created by Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell. The film stars Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Sharlto Copley, Jessica Biel, Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson, Brian Bloom and Patrick Wilson.
A remake of the classic Stephen J. Cannell action series about a group of elite soldiers who are framed for a crime they didn’t commit and now fight as freedom fighters while trying to clear their names.
The movie version ups the ante and has them involved in a CIA sting operation that involves treasury plates that would allow the bad guys to print their own money. However the film does just become the ‘They are framed and escape to catch the bad dudes and clear their names’ trope and it is pretty much what you expect from there. Trailer http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox/theateam/
Our Verdict: Really not as bad as we expected. It is by no means an excellent piece of cinema but if you are willing to disengage your brain and go along for the ride, it is kind of fun. It is a lot funnier than expected with Sharlto Copley stealing the film whenever he is on screen.
This episode carries an explicit tag due to infrequent coarse language.
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