Mar 13

Geek Actually Episode 75 – Hooray for Holliewood

Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott and Hollie McKay

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This week on Geek Actually we are joined by our very special guest Hollie McKay who is the entertainment reporter at foxnews.com. Hollie is visiting Australia for a week and we are honoured that she took the time out of her busy schedule to come and visit us in the Geek Actually studio. After Hollie’s visit David and Josh review Tim Burton’s new film ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Before we start with the news, Hollie tells us a little of her experiences during award season in Hollywood.

News

Hugo Weaving in final stages to play Red Skull in ‘The First Avenger: Captain America’
http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/03/captain-america-villain-hugo-weaving-as-red-skull.html

The new Tron Legacy Teaser – Watch it here

Corey Haim dies at 38
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-corey-haim-obit,0,7616140.story

Midnight Run 2 is happening – god save us all!!!!
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/03/05/midnight-run-2-really-happening-de-niro-returning/

The new Iron Man 2 Trailer – Watch it here

Guy Ritchie’s new King Arthur movie, is this just a remake of Excalibur?
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/03/10/trainspottings-john-hodge-rewriting-guy-ritchies-king-arthur-project/

The new Twilight Sage: Eclipse Teaser – Watch it here

 

We finish our news segment with this very cleaver video on the predictability of earnest trailers – Watch it here

Hollie has to leave but just wanted to express her opinion on our feature review – She enjoyed ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and loved Helena Bonham Carter.

Film Review

This week we review Tim Burton’s new film, ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Both David and Josh were completely unimpressed with the film. Visually splendid but empty. That’s two strikes (after ‘Public Enemies’) for Johnny Depp. David also gives his opinions on the 3D conversion process used for the film – it was like watching an old ViewMaster, not impressed.

This episode carries an explicit tag due to infrequent coarse language.

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Mar 13

Spot on Parody – Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer

Here is the mock movie trailer we discussed on the latest episode (ep 75) of The Geek Actually Podcast. It is an absolutely spot on parody and sums up the predictability of earnest movie trailers. Listen to the episode to hear our thoughts on this gem.

*Updated 27th Feb 2011 with new embed*

Mar 13

Teaser – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse – Here We Go Again

Here is the ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ trailer that we discussed on the latest episode (ep 75) of The Geek Actually Podcast. Listen to the episode for our opinions. They are not good.

Mar 11

Geek Actually Tech Episode 005 – Getting Leo’ed

Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott and Shane Gregory

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

The tech show by geeks for geeks and non-geeks. Accessible tech for everyone is the motto we live by. This weeks topic, Conan O’Brien and Leo Laporte’s Twitter stunts. Here are the show notes for the episode.

Follow Up To Last Week:

Webcamgate heats up with photos being turned over to police.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19518_3-10465117-238.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

News

iPad gets a release date in the US
http://www.news.com.au/technology/apple-announces-sales-dates-for-new-ipad-but-australia-will-have-to-wait/story-e6frfro0-1225837583688

Sony developing new gadgets – PSP phone anyone
http://www.news.com.au/technology/sony-rumoured-to-be-working-on-psp-phone-handheld-devices-to-counter-apple/story-e6frfro0-1225837637268 and
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-10464636-260.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Atkinson backs the video game cancer group
http://www.news.com.au/technology/video-game-cancer-group-funded-by-atkinson/story-e6frfro0-1225837330811
and David addresses his inflammatory blog post about this – read it here

Please! Have the politicians forgotten what it is like to be a teenager?
http://www.news.com.au/technology/teens-who-send-sex-images-face-jail/story-e6frfro0-1225838476977

Internet surfing is a fundamental human right – right on…or not!
http://www.news.com.au/technology/four-in-five-believe-internet-access-is-a-basic-right/story-e6frfro0-1225838519896

iKey, kinda neat tech
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/03/08/0053237/Apples-iKey-Wants-To-Unlock-All-Doors?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Steam confirmed for Mac
http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/08/1924208/Valve-Confirms-Mac-Versions-of-Steam-Valve-Games?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Why does Google get to know everything about us but we don’t get to know about them?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10465492-261.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Opinion

Earlier this week Leo Laporte decided to challenge Conan O’Brien’s Twitter stunt. After telling his listeners to follow LisaTickledPink on Twitter, she got thousands of followers. She has become an overnight celebrity. It raises a couple of questions: How powerful are the geeks? and could this stunt somehow be a breach of her privacy? We discuss it out.

Conan O’Brien decides to change someone’s life on twitter
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10464923-71.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

and Leo Laporte copies him
http://petes2cents.posterous.com/lisatickledpink-meets-twits-leo-laporte

Meet LisaTickledPink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rQo2Gs9UEM

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Mar 10

This Week on The Geek Actually Podcast – Hollie McKay Pays Us a Visit

Hollie McKay - FoxNews.com

This week on The Geek Actually Podcast (episode 75) David McVay and Josh Philpott are joined in studio by special guests Mirren Lee (actress/dialect coach/writer/ex-actor’s agent) and Hollie McKay (entertainment reporter for foxnews.com).

This week we examine a little entertainment news and review Tim Burton’s new film “Alice in Wonderland”.

This week’s episode is going out an hour later to accommodate Hollie’s schedule, so if you do want to come watch live and join the chat room, got to https://geekactually.com/live at 1pm Saturday (13th of March) Australian Eastern Time. Why not ask us a question for the show: voice mail line 02 8011 3167

If you would like to know more about Hollie, her website is holliemckay.com or why not check out her work on foxnews.com or watch this video:

Mar 09

Iron Man 2 – New Trailer

Okay, this came out a couple of days ago but with the Oscars and everything I was a little overwhelmed. When I am too late on this stuff, I usually just skip it as it has been well covered, but this is Iron Man 2 dammit! This trailer rocks and we will discuss it on Saturday’s Geek Actually Podcast.

That portable Iron Man suit at the end is just awesome.