David McVay

Owner and admin of GeekActually.com and the host of the Geek Actually and Film Actually podcasts..

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Kevin Rudd May Shelve Internet Censorship

For over a year we have been harping on about The Australian Internet Censorship Filter, and finally there is light at the end of the tunnel. The Australian newspaper reported last week that The Rudd Government is sitting on the policy for the moment and would not introduce the policy in this month’s or June’s …

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Geek Actually Replay – Geek Actually Episode 83 Live Show

Here is this weeks live video version of The Geek Actually Podcast Episode 83 – T.G.I.F. This week David McVay, Josh Philpott and Brandon McLelland review the Swedish film ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’. The audio podcast of this episode can be found on this site or on iTunes. Just a quick note about …

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DVD2BLU – Why Don’t We Have This Service?

Let’s start by saying the Warner Bros. DVD-to-Blu-Ray upgrade service is expanding it’s list to 90 titles. You simply send your DVD to Warner Bros. with a small fee of $4.95 and they send you the Blu-Ray version, awesome! Now the kicker, it is only available in the US! Why? Why can’t we in other …

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Zynga May Leave Facebook to Form New Social Gaming Network

Zynga games, the social gaming company that makes Mafia Wars, Farmville, Cafe World, YoVille, Pirates and many other Flash based games on Facebook could be gearing up to create it’s own social gaming network, Zynga Live. One could argue that Zynga and Facebook have a kind of symbiotic relationship, Zynga needed Facebook to get millions …

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Book Review: Kick-Ass: Creating the Comic, Making the Movie

It is no secret that I loved the film ‘Kick-Ass’, we reviewed it very positively in episode 79 of the The Geek Actually Podcast. We also reviewed this wonderful book, ‘Kick-Ass: Creating the Comic, Making the Movie’ by Mark Millar and published by Titan Press (ISBN 9781848564091) on that same show. I couldn’t just leave it there, …

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Space Paranoids Game Now Online!

The marketing for ‘Tron Legacy’ is starting to kick into high gear and the film is still months away. If you are at all familiar with the first ‘Tron’ film you will love this new free online game of ‘Space Paranoids’ at spaceparanoidsonline.com. It is a really cool version of the game that is played …

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