Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott & Celine Roberts
Welcome to the Film Actually podcast, your weekly dose of movie geek. Film Actually is the official movie podcast of geekactually.com. This week David McVay and Josh Philpott are joined by our good friend Celine Roberts for two feature file reviews. First up we take a look at the geekfest that is ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. The World’ and then we take a testosterone fueled journey into Sylvester Stallone’s with ‘The Expendables’. We also have new trailers and a new List of Five.
*Update 14/10/2011 – Film Actually was a split off from the main Geek Actually show and originally maintained numbering continuity with that show. That logic no longer works as the shows have become two unique entities, so we have gone back and re-numbered the Film Actually shows to reflect their true episode number. This show is now officially episode 5 but when you listen to the show you will hear it referred to as episode 97, this is why. Sorry about any confusion or inconvenience.
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Feature Review
‘Scott Pilgrim vs. The World’ directed by Edgar Wright and written by Edgar Wright and Michael Bacall and is based on the comic series by Bryan Lee O’Malley. It stars Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ellen Wong, Alison Pill, Mark Webber, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza and as the evil exes: Satya Bhabha, Chris Evans, Mae Whitman, Brandon Routh, Jason Schwartzman, Keita Saitou and Shota Saito.
Scott Pilgrim’s life is so awesome. He’s 23 years old, in a rock band, “between jobs,” and dating a cute high school girl. Everything’s fantastic until a seriously mind-blowing, dangerously fashionable, roller blading delivery girl named Ramona Flowers starts cruising through his dreams and sailing by him at parties. But the path to Ms. Flowers isn’t covered in rose petals. Ramona’s seven evil exes stand between Scott and true happiness. Can Scott defeat all seven of the bad guys and get the girl without turning his precious little life upside-down, before the game is over? – source IMDB
Our Verdict: Complete awesomeness for Über-geeks! Highly recommended if you are willing to accept Scott’s world.
Watch the trailer here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgOLmjhxVVU&feature=search
Entertainment Buzz
We take a look at the new trailer for Wes Craven’s new horror film ‘My Soul To Take’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmByUgdi6wE
And we take a look at the new trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s new film ‘Black Swan’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jaI1XOB-bs
Feature Film Review
‘The Expendables’ directed by Sylvester Stallone and written by Sylvester Stallone and Dave Callaham. It stars Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, Mickey Rourke, Terry Crews, David Zayas, Gary Daniels, Giselle Itié and Charisma Carpenter.
Barney Ross leads the “Expendables”, a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road and loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church to assassinate the merciless dictator of a small South American island, Barney and Lee head to the remote locale to scout out their opposition. Once there, they meet with local rebel Sandra and discover the true nature of the conflict engulfing the city. When they escape the island and Sandra stays behind, Ross must choose to either walk away and save his own life – or attempt a suicidal rescue mission that might just save his soul. – source IMDB
Our Verdict: We are split, Josh and David think it is big dumb fun. A bad film that is just a whole lot of nonsense. You groan at the dialogue just as much as you cheer the explosions and violence. Celine hated it. It must be a boy thing :-)
Watch the trailer here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6RU5y2fU6s&feature=search
Lists of Five
Five 80’s Meat Head Action Films: or films that you know will lower your IQ but you can’t help but watch them.
This episode carries an explicit tag due to infrequent coarse language.
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