Geek Actually Episode 90 – The Toys Are Back in Town

Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott & Shane Gregory

The Geek Actually Podcast, your weekly dose of ‘the week in geek’. This week David McVay, Josh Philpott and Shane Gregory take a look at the effects that the change in the Prime Minister may have on geeks. On top of that we take an overview of tech and film news including: Telstra joining the NBN, Google starting a music service, ‘The Green Hornet’ trailer, another ‘Rock’em Sock’em Robots’ movie and ‘Avatar’ porn in 3D! All this and a review of Pixar’s latest film ‘Toy Story 3’ adds up to an hour and a half on informative fun. Your show links follow:

Typically we record the show live at 12pm Saturdays (AEST UTC +10) at geekactually.com/live

Tech News

Julia Gillard is the new Prime Minister – How is this relevant to us geeks? She will be changing up the ministers for her new cabinet, there is a possibility that Stephen Conroy would be replaced as communications minister and that would be big news. The new PM is also agnostic which hopefully means that god and religion will be taken out of the rhetoric.

Some articles that helped shape the discussion:

Telstra joins the National Broadband Network
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/biz-tech/telstra-joins-broadband-revolution-with-11b-sweetener-20100621-ypuu.html

YouTube beats Viacom…finally.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/youtube-copyright-suit-thrown-out-20100624-z0da.html

War News! Google to open a music store to rival iTunes!
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/googles-new-assault-on-apple-a-music-store-20100623-yxfd.html

Entertainment News

In ‘Green Hornet’ news… a trailer finally appears
https://geekactually.com/2010/06/22/trailer-the-green-hornet/

The ‘Rock’em Sock’em Robots’ movie is coming…wait a minute, haven’t we already heard this?
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/06/24/wolfgang-peterson-attached-to-direct-rockem-sockem-robots/

We watch the trailer for Warren Ellis’ ‘Red’ – I’m looking forward to this one.
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/red.html?showVideo=1

An update on the Escape from New York remake
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=67260

Marvel’s ‘Dr. Strange’ is coming
http://www.deadline.com/2010/06/will-dr-strange-be-marvels-first-superhero-to-fly-under-the-disney-banner/

‘Jaws’ turned 35 this week – Happy Birthday
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/06/20/jaws-was-released-35-years-ago-today/

The new international ‘Predators’ trailer
https://geekactually.com/2010/06/24/international-trailer-predators/

Oh, we should have seen this cumming… sorry, coming.
http://www.2snaps.tv/98110180

Film Review

‘Toy Story 3’ directed by Lee Unkrich. The film was written by Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich. The film stars Woody, Buzz, Jessie, Mr and Mrs Potatohead, Jessie, Rex, Hamm… sorry let’s try that again. The film stars the returning voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Estelle Harris, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, and Jodi Benson. They are joined by newcomers to the series Ned Beatty, Michael Keaton, Timothy Dalton, Whoopi Goldberg and Javier Fernandez Pena.

The Toys are back for this finale to the Toy Story tale. Now that Andy is all grown up what happens to the toys? The Attic, trash or donation. The Toys find themselves donated to a gulag, also known as a daycare centre. Adventure ensues as the toys live in a post Andy world. Watch the trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNMpa5yBf5o

The rumour of a ‘Toy Story 4’ not true
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/06/18/another-toy-story-film-in-june-2011/

Our Verdict: Pixar does it again. The film is a wonderful experience for children and adults. Woody, Buzz and rest of the gang are still fresh and fun and this film is a perfect end to the ‘Toy Story’ trilogy. Highly recommended, it will probably end up being one of the top 5 films of the year.

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

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And finally, as promised, here is the photo of Stephen Conroy and Kate Lundy that made us laugh:

Geek Actually Episode 90 After Show – The Supanova 2010 Special | Geek Actually on June 30, 2010 at 6:08 pm
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