David McVay

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

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Fox Shows Off 20 minutes of “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”

Yesterday I got the opportunity to see about 20 minutes of footage from the new Twentieth Century Fox film “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” and I was very impressed. Fox gave a nice presentation hosted by Weta Digital’s special effects guru Joe Letteri. According to Letteri this is the second biggest film, after …

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No Podcasts This Week

Due to an extremely harsh cold that has just wiped me (and Josh) out this week, we have decided to not record shows this week. We will take some time to just get better and come back strong for next week’s podcasts. So, once again, there are no shows being recorded this week (July 9th) …

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Trailer and Poster for the Remake of Footloose

Well this is a strange one. When I heard about this remake I assumed it was a film version of the Broadway Musical that was based on the original 1984 Kevin Bacon film of the same name. This kind of made sense to me as “Hairspray” (2007) was very successful and it was based on …

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Film Actually Ep046 (138) – Transformers Dark of the Moon

http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/geekactually/geekactually.com/wp-content/filmpodcast/FilmActuallyEp046.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadHosts: David McVay & Josh Philpott and guest Richard Gray This week David and Josh are joined by Richard Gray (theReelbits.com) for a review of “Transformers Dark of the Moon”. They also take in some entertainment news, including the new trailers for “Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol” and Pixar’s “Brave”. …

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Trailer: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

All I can say is genius! This is how you make a trailer (watch it below). I was a child when the mini series based on John Le Carré amazing spy novel came out in 1979. I remember Alec Guinness being brilliant as Smiley and I remember the incredibly dense storyline but I wasn’t old …

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Australian Trailer: Captain America The First Avenger

Now we’ve had the U.S. version of this trailer up for awhile but an Australian one has become available to us from our friends at Paramount Pictures Australia and considering our geographic location it seemed right to post this here. Considering that half of our audience is in the States I have left that other …

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