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Hosts: David McVay & Josh Philpott and guest Richard Gray
This week David and Josh are again joined by Richard Gray (theReelbits.com) for a review of Robert Redford’s new film “The Conspirator”. They also take a look at some entertainment news, including the new teasers for “The Dark Knight Rises” and “The Amazing Spider-Man”. Plus an all new Lists of Five: Five Conspiracy Films. Film Actually is the official movie podcast of geekactually.com.
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Your show notes:
What We’ve Been Watching
Avoid “Bad Teacher” and “5 Days of War”.
Feature Film Review
‘The Conspirator’ directed by Robert Redford and written by James D. Solomon based on a story by James D. Solomon and Gregory Bernstein. It stars James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Kevin Kline, Tom Wilkinson, Justin Long, Danny Huston, Colm Meaney, and Evan Rachel Wood.
In the wake of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, the Vice-President, and the Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. As the trial unfolds, Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son. – Anonymous on IMDB
Our Verdict: A great historical drama about a part of history that isn’t often talked about. Well worth watching.
Watch the trailer here: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/theconspirator/
Entertainment Buzz
The first teaser for “The Dark Knight Rises”.
https://geekactually.com/2011/07/19/first-teaser-the-dark-knight-rises/
Robert Rodriguez grabs the rights to Heavy Metal.
http://www.badassdigest.com/heavymetal
Netflix wants to come to Australia, this is some of the best news I’ve ever heard.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/07/netflix-seeks-australian-isp-partner-for-movie-streaming/
Ridley Scott says he’ll never work without 3D again.
http://www.slashfilm.com/ridley-scott-work-3d/
The first teaser for “The Amazing Spider-Man”.
https://geekactually.com/2011/07/21/first-look-trailer-the-amazing-spider-man/
The Harry Potter phenomenon continues – records are smashed and it’s still going.
http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3217&p=.htm
Guillermo del Toro to direct Beauty and the Beast starring Emma Watson.
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=79906
Well, something good came out of the success of the Transformers films.
http://www.movieweb.com/comic-con/2011/news/sdcc-2011-voltron-live-action-movie-coming-from-relativity-media
Lists of Five
This week our Lists of Five: Five Conspiracy Films. Nothing is more fun than making things more complicated than they seem to be or huge complicated cover ups. List five great conspiracy films.
Just a reminder, because we never like to just make things easy on ourselves, our lists are not necessarily top five lists, they are more or a less a list of film recommendations within the theme of the list.
The Rest…
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The Reel Junkies podcast can be found at weekendronin.com
Brad and Charlie (formerly of “Movie Fan House”) are back, their new site is ReboundRadio.com and their new podcast is “Good Day Sir!”
Rachelle is over at The Funky Film Show, Thursdays on Radio Freemantle 107.9 FM or radiofreemantle.com
Find out about Josh’s other site and to listen to his other show DLC Live go to RawDLC.com or follow him on Twitter @DoGM3At
Check out Nicholas ‘The Little Geek’ McVay’s Lego animations at YouTube.com/NickyMcVay
Our show logo is by Josh Spencer over at Spencer Cartoons at http://attackninja.blogspot.com
Our opening clip this week is from the film “The Pirates of Silicon Valley”.
We close the show with the End Titles track from “The Conspirator” from the soundtrack by Mark Isham.
