Mar 19

Trailer: Four Lions

Came across this trailer for a new English comedy about terrorists. This made me laugh out loud in places and I thought I should share. Four Lions is directed by Christopher Morris and according to IMdB it’s plot is as follows:

‘Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce. In a storm of razor-sharp verbal jousting and large-scale set pieces, Four Lions is a comic tour de force; it shows that-while terrorism is about ideology-it can also be about idiots.’

It debut at Sundance early this year and opens in the UK in May. When does it get a release date here? Unknown at this time.

Mar 18

Does this mean Red Sonja is now officially dead?

If you listen to the Geek Actually Podcast you will know that for the last two weeks we have been discussing the casting confirmations and rumours of the new ‘Conan’ remake directed by Marcus Nispel. So far we have Jason Momoa (‘Stargate: Atlantis’) cast as Conan, Ron Perlman (‘Hellboy’) as his father (replacing the rumoured Mickey Rourke) and Stephen Lang (‘Avatar’) looks to be confirmed as Khalar Singh, the bad guy of the piece.

However, in a new piece of casting, Rose McGowan (‘Planet Terror’) has been added to the cast as a rumoured evil half-human/half-witch character. The reason that this is odd is she was cast to play the title character in the Robert Rodriguez produced remake of Robert E. Howard’s ‘Red Sonja’ (see the poster at the head of this post). Now she is cast in the ‘Conan’ remake, does this finally kill off the on again/off again production of ‘Red Sonja’?

Details of the character that she is playing in ‘Conan’ are sketchy at this time, I am hoping (I think hopelessly) that she isn’t playing the character mentioned above but instead is Red Sonja in some sort of crossover cameo to test run the character. I like the character of Red Sonja from the books and she deserves a better screen treatment than the awful 1985 Richard Fleischer  film starring Brigitte Nielsen.

‘Conan’ started filming this month and is scheduled for release in 2011.

Mar 18

Geek Actually Tech Episode 006 – Enemy of the Internet

Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott and Shane Gregory

The tech show by geeks for geeks and non-geeks. Accessible tech for everyone is the motto we live by. This weeks topic, Which computer is right for you? Let Josh and Shane guide you through the laptop minefield. Here are the show notes (links) for the episode.

Geek Actually Tech is recorded live on Ustream with chat interaction.

Follow Up To Last Week:

Leo Laporte’s random Twitterer LisaTickledPink is now up to 22,000 followers in a week.

Google now 99.9% certain to pull out of China
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/enterprise/google-almost-certain-to-pull-out-of-china-report-20100315-q7gg.html

News:

Video Game R18+ rating reaches a stand off over anti-social behaviour
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/games/video-game-violence-standoff-20100310-pzag.html

Australia ‘Under Surveillance’ as an ‘Enemy of the Internet’
http://www.news.com.au/technology/australian-listed-on-media-watchdogs-internet-enemies-list-over-web-filter-plan/story-e6frfro0-1225839870235 and
http://www.news.com.au/technology/stephen-conroy-hits-out-at-internet-enemies-report/story-e6frfro0-1225841257815

Your iPad’s battery dying? Have a new iPad!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_apple_ipad_batteries

Thought ‘iPad’ was a bad name. check out the Dell ‘Streak’ tablet.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/leaked-dell-mini-5-flyer-shows-multitude-of-color-options-confi/

Open vs Closed – Open GL 4 takes aim at DirectX 11
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000277-264.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Watch what you plug into your computer, you don’t know were it’s been :-)
http://www.news.com.au/technology/computer-viruses-found-in-photo-frames-battery-chargers/story-e6frfro0-1225839440129

Did Apple bite off more than it could chew again or is this normal?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10468860-37.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

While Google and Apple face off, a new Google employee says it like it is – The War Is Back!
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-google-employee-blogs-about-wanting-to-kill-the-iphone-2010-3

and finally – A woman fearing the apocalypse, takes the LHC to court
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10467056-71.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Topic of the Week:

Which computer is right for you? Josh and Shane (both work in computer sales) take a walk through what to buy and what to avoid in the portable computer space.

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Mar 17

Geek Actually Replay – Platforms Episode 23 Live Show

Every week we record the Platforms Podcast while feeding it live to Ustream. We record the Ustream feed and it is available go back and watch later if you want. It occurred to me that we should just embed the past shows here so you can find them easily. You never know, you’re listening to that podcast and something visual happens, now you can simply find the show here and watch what happened. Enjoy. Note: This week there was a server glitch and the episode is in two parts.

Platforms Episode 23 (Recorded 15th of March 2010)

Mar 17

Geek Actually Replay – Geek Actually Episode 75 Live Show

Here is this weeks live video version of The Geek Actually Podcast Episode 75 – Hooray for Holliewood. This week David and Josh are joined by very special guest Hollie McKay for foxnews.com. Later David and Josh review Tim Burton’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’. The audio podcast of this episode can be found on this site or on iTunes.

Almost every week we record the Geek Actually Podcast while feeding it live to Ustream. We record the Ustream feed and it is available go back and watch later if you want. It occurred to me that we should just embed the past shows here so you can find them easily. You never know, you’re listening to that podcast and something visual happens, now you can simply find the show here and watch what happened. Enjoy. (Note: We only started recording the feed as of episode 46, there are no videos of earlier shows.)

Mar 16

Platforms Episode 23 – Dave’s Back!

Josh Philpott, Dave Kozicki and Denny Markovic (with David ‘Beardy’ McVay).

Platforms is a gamers podcast by gamers. The podcast is recorded live on Ustream with chat interaction so come and join the fun as your host candidly discuss the latest in the gaming world. The podcast is uncensored, explicit, honest and very non ‘PC’. We kick off this week with the trailer for ‘Bad Company 2’, this week’s feature review. This week we are again by Denny Markovic from PALGN

After Dave tells us about his adventure in the US at GDC we move into:

News This Week: Is a new Nintendo DS on the way? Josh fills us in on his Nintendo event and the new ‘Monster Hunter’, PS3 Motion announced, an epic new trailer for ‘Deus Ex 3’, rumours circle about Naughty Dog going multi-platform, a great new trailer for ‘Brink’ and are we all ready to be hamsters? This new concept in VR thinks we are.

Coming Soon Titles: This week: ‘Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver’ and ‘God of War 3’. Coming Soon: ‘Metro 2033’ and ‘Command and Conquer 4’.

Review of the Week: This week, an in depth review for ‘Bad Company 2’. This could well be the ‘Modern Warfare 2’ killer. Denny thinks it could be Multiplayer game of the year.

Opinion: This week, a discussion on what makes the best online games great.

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Quick shout outs to our friends at Game Pron, Oxcgn, Australian Gamer Podcast and The Game Arena Podcast (which Dave will be guesting on this week, make sure you check it out.)

A special shout out goes out to PALGN for their fantastic campaign for the R18+ rating for games. Got to www.everyoneplays.org.au for more information.

This episode carries an explicit tag due to frequent coarse language and adult themes.

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The Platforms Podcast is recorded live on Ustream every Monday Evening 8pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (UTC+11). If you still just want to listen to the audio podcast, it will go out as normal on Tuesday. Unfortunately this week’s episode had a technical glitch and it is saved as two replay files, make sure you check out both halves of the show.