Feb 27

Geek Actually Episode 73 – Wax On Wax Off

Hosts: David McVay, Dave Kozicki and Katrina Smith

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This week on Geek Actually: Our film news section takes a decidedly geeky turn with an awful lot of comic book movie news, and in our feature review we take a look at the Luc Besson produced action film ‘From Paris With Love’.

Television

William Shatner to star in Shit My Dad Says – awesome!

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/02/19/perfect-casting-william-shatner-in-shit-my-dad-says/

Film News

Brian DePalma directing Paranormal Activity 2 – wtf?

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/44087

We show the new trailer for The Kung Fu Ki…Sorry, The Karate Kid remake – See It Here

There may be a shred of hope for Pirates of the Caribbean 4 – Ian McShane cast as Blackbeard.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/02/22/ian-mcshane-cast-in-pirates-of-the-caribbean-on-stranger-tides/

It’s okay, we can all relax – Battleship won’t be in 3D! This is news???

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/02/23/exclusive-battleship-wont-begin-with-an-alien-war-no-3-d-planned/

We show the new trailer for A Nightmare on Elm Street with More Jackie Earle Haley – See It Here

Conan remake news. Micky Rourke cast as Conan’s father and Bob Sapp cast as the villian.

http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/02/mickey-rourke-to-play-conans-father.html

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/02/25/mma-fighter-bob-sapp-cast-in-conan/

It would seem that it is confirmed, Mark Strong is Sinestro.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/02/21/geoff-johns-tweets-confirmation-that-mark-strong-will-be-sinestro/

The Flash movie is back on track and almost has a director.

http://iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8500:iesb-exclusive-the-director-of-the-flash-is&catid=41:news&Itemid=71

David Goyer has been hired to make Superman fly again.

http://www.latinoreview.com/news/exclusive-david-goyer-hired-to-write-superman-the-man-of-steel-9286

Has Marvel Productions lost it’s mind when it comes to Captain America casting?

http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/02/captain-america-contenders-krasinski-cassidy-vogel-fluger-more.html

Film Review

David McVay gives us a short  history of Europa Corp. and The Digital Factory. This leads us into a feature review of their new film ‘From Paris With Love’ starring John Travolta and directed by Pierre Morel. David and Dave really enjoyed the film but recogised that it is a very silly film. Good throw back to the 1980s buddy film. Katrina was a little harder on the film suggesting that you wait for DVD.

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

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Feb 27

Geek Actually Replay – Geek Actually Episode 73 Live Show

Here is this weeks live video version of The Geek Actually Podcast Episode 73 – Wax On Wax Off. We review the film ‘From Paris With Love’ and almost have a geekgasm over all the comic book movie news. 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.)

Feb 26

Geek Actually Replay – Geek Actually Tech Episode 3 Live Show

Here is this weeks live video version of The Geek Actually Tech Podcast Episode 3 – Opt-In or Else. We discuss the issue of privacy in great detail. We also tackle those hard hitting tech news stories like getting married in the Apple Store, Apple removing porn from the App Store and what the actual average age of the casual gamer is. The audio podcast of this episode can be found on this site or on iTunes.

Geek Actually Tech Episode 3 – recorded February 24th 2010

We try to record the live stream of the Geek Actually Podcasts while feeding it live to Ustream. Some weeks technical issues get in the way. We 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.

Feb 26

New Trailer – The Karate Kid

Here is the second The Karate Kid Trailer and it is pretty much the same as the first, just a little longer. I just can’t get that interested in this film. Nothing about the trailers are telling me to get excited. We’ll discuss this trailer in the next Geek Actually Podcast episode (ep73).

Feb 26

New Trailer – A Nightmare on Elm Street

Here is the second, and in my opinion, much better trailer for the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. It may be too early to call but Platinum Dunes may have got one right. The trailer works for me so far and Jackie Earle Haley is a big draw card. I have high hopes that they won’t screw this one up. We’ll be discussing this trailer in the next episode of The Geek Actually Podcast (ep73).

Feb 25

Geek Actually Tech Episode 003 – Opt-In or Else

Hosts: David McVay and Josh Philpott

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, Privacy in the Connected World.

Follow Up on Last Weeks Show:

Listener feedback – Ryland offers his take on the Australian Internet Censorship Filter.

And Google seems to have backed down over the China issue.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/23/1346227/Google-To-Restart-Talks-With-China

Tech News:

When is hacking just not hacking?

http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/23/157200/Newspaper-Hacks-Into-Aussie-Govt-Website-By-Guessing-URL

Take this Michael Atkinson, a survey in the US and UK shows that the average social gamer is 43 and female!

http://www.news.com.au/technology/move-over-boys-the-average-social-gamer-is-a-43-year-old-woman-in-us-and-uk/story-e6frfro0-1225832040373

Apple censoring the App store

http://www.news.com.au/technology/apple-removing-risque-iphone-apps/story-e6frfro0-1225832860004

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10456436-17.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10457460-37.html

New Wii game that requires no skill whatsoever (Highlight from Loaded with Natali Del Conte) (vid)

http://news.cnet.com/1606-2_3-50083770.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Photoshop turns 20.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000080-264.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Photoshop 1.0 recreated for the iPhone, neat.

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/02/21/0156210/Photoshop-10-Recreated-On-iPhone?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

The Apple Store wedding, gives new meaning to the term ‘Church of Apple’ :-) (vid)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10457046-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

This Weeks Topic: Privacy in the Connected World

1. A US high school student sues school over privacy complaints. Says that the school used a picture taken from his laptop remotely while he was in his bedroom as evidence to him doing something naughty. Turns out all the student laptops issued from the school have remote software installed that allows them to use the camera and microphone. The school claims that it is to help locate the laptop if it is stolen. So why was it on in this kids room watching him allegedly doing something wrong?

http://www.news.com.au/technology/school-accused-of-spying-on-students-at-home/story-e6frfro0-1225832172208

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/schools-spied-on-webcam-kids/story-e6freuy9-1225832750501

2. Google’s introduces Buzz and exposes you to the world, they fix it and offer a disable feature that now deletes your profile.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/google-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-buzz/story-e6frfro0-1225832075680

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/google-buzz-tweaked-after-privacy-complaints-20100214-nzcj.html

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000076-264.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/google-buzz-exposure-stings-users-20100222-ortt.html

and to top it off http://searchengineland.com/how-google-buzz-hijacks-your-google-profile-36693

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