Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott & Celine Roberts
The Geek Actually Podcast, your weekly dose of ‘the week in geek’. This week David McVay, Josh Philpott and Celine Roberts brave Stephenie Meyer’s world one more time and review ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’. Why?!?! We hear you scream. Like the original Rocky, win or lose we can at least say that we went the distance. We also take a look at the week’s tech and entertainment news from a geek’s perspective. This week is tech we watch Flash survive and the Kin die. In entertainment news we have Wonder Woman’s new look and the latest Harry Potter trailer. Your show links follow:
Typically we record the show live at 12pm Saturdays (AEST UTC +10) at geekactually.com/live
Breaking News (Update)
We had a breaking story about James Cameron directing a Black Eyed Peas concert film in 3D, this has been since debunked. Read the latest on this here
http://chud.com/articles/articles/24305/1/DEBUNKED-JAMES-CAMERON-IS-NOT-MAKING-A-BLACK-EYED-PEAS-MOVIE/Page1.html
Tech News
Flash ain’t dead yet
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20009244-264.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Still no Blu-Ray for Apple Macs and probably won’t be
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20009391-17.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Microsoft studying Apple for new OS
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/microsoft-game-plan-copy-apple-20100629-zh91.html and http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20009078-56.html?tag=rtcol;txt
Two months old and already dead, goodbye Microsoft Kin, we barely knew you
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20009336-56.html?tag=rtcol;txt
1.5 million iPhone 4’s sold in the first day but will the antenna issue hurt future sales?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20008852-260.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
and http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20008898-260.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
In Tech War News:
Google may be declaring war on Facebook by trying to create a Facebook killer? GoogleMe is hot off the rumour mill.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20009159-265.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Entertainment News
We watch the brand new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EC2tmFVNNE
Is Peter Jackson in negotiations to direct The Hobbit?
http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/06/peter-jackson-directing-hobbit-movies.html
and http://www.deadline.com/2010/06/urgent-peter-jackson-negotiating-to-direct-the-hobbit-films/
and now, maybe not http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45585
The directors for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs take on Lego
http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/06/cloudy-directors-play-with-lego-exclusive.html
We watch the trailer for The Social Network
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWoUgftTj3Y
Wonder Woman gets a costume and origin change
http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2010/06/29/unveiling-wonder-woman’s-new-costume-direction/
Meryl Streep in talks to play Thatcher
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3id8721154d6b175bcc11d798a3e9b30c5
And the new Spider-Man is….
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/07/01/confirmed-andrew-garfield-is-spider-man/
We watch the trailer for the remake, Let Me In
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjavOLdPk1c&feature=player_embedded
Pee Wee Herman is to return to the big screen.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/06/30/judd-apatow-developing-pee-wee-herman-film/
and http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/07/01/paul-reubens-pee-wee-herman-all-new-script/
Film Review
‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ directed by David Slade. The film was written by Melissa Rosenberg and based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer. The film stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Anna Kendricke, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Peter Facinelli, Dakota Fanning and there are others but I am bored now.
Bella, Edward and Jacob are back for round three of the mope fest. This time Victoria the redheaded vampire is building an army of new born vampires to kill Bella and the shirtless wolf boys have to team up with the mopey emo vampires to defend her. I have to ask, is she worth saving? Watch the completely misleading trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CScK6D3KROM
Our Verdict: If you are a fan of Stephenie Meyer’s soap opera then you will probably enjoy it, all others stay clear.
This episode carries an explicit tag due to infrequent coarse language.
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