Jul 13

Scheduled Maintenance

Hi All,

Just a quick note to say that Geek Actually will be closed for a few days over this week end for scheduled maintenance. The side effect of the closure is that all the podcast feeds also close down temporarily. I want to apologise in advance for the shut down but it is necessary so we can finally get the redesign up and Geek Actually can finally feel you and new again. So if you haven’t downloaded the latest podcasts from last week you should do that now so you can listen to them over the weekend.

Also, because we will be busy rebuilding the site, there are no shows being recorded this weekend, Film Actually, Film Actually News and Behind The Panels will be back next week.

The site will be offline from around 9pm Saturday night (Australian Eastern Standard Time on the 14th of July 2012) to Tuesday Evening (July 17th). I haven’t got a time yet but you will be sure to see the new site when you wake up on Wednesday morning.

Just wanted to make sure you all knew what was going on and we will see you all here on Wednesday.

Regards,

David
Owner and Head Geek
GeekActually.com

Jul 10

Film Actually Ep093 – The Amazing Spider-Man

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This week David, Josh & Richard take a look at the latest reboot out of Hollywood, “The Amazing Spider-Man”. Plus What We’ve Been Watching, Josh’s Bargain Basement and a brand new Lists of Five – Five of Our Favourite Villains. Film Actually is the official movie podcast of geekactually.com.

Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott, Richard Gray & Nicholas McVay

The news section is now officially it’s own show called Film Actually News. Look for it on the feed because it is loud, fast and under thirty minutes… or your money back.

If you are an iTunes user, please leave a review. Your comments help us improve the show.

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

Listen or download it here or subscribe to it on iTunes

Your Show Notes:

What We’ve Been Watching

A collection of other things we’ve been watching during the week. In “Josh’s Bargain Basement” he talks about The House of the Devil.

Feature Film Review

‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ directed by Marc Webb. It is written by James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sergent and Steve Kloves based on the Marvel comic book character created by Stan Lee & Steve Ditko. It stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen, Sally Field, Campbell Scott, Embeth Davidtz, Chris Zylka and Irrfan Khan.

The Amazing Spider-Man is the story of Peter Parker, an outcast high schooler who was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents’ disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors, his father’s former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors’ alter-ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero. Source: Sony

Our Verdict: A fun and entertaining superhero film with some huge gaping plot holes and an overall sense of DejaVu. However, Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone are fantastic and share a great chemistry on screen.

Spoiler Section: 00:44:11 – 00:59:11 – Fast forward this bit if you don’t want to hear spoilers.

Watch the trailer here: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/theamazingspiderman/

Make sure you stay at the end of the show for Nicholas “The Little Geek” McVay’s opinions on “The Amazing Spider-Man” & “Brave”.

Lists of Five

This week our Lists of Five: Five of Our Favourite Villains. What is a hero without a great villain? Here are five of our favourites.
Just a reminder, because we never like to just make things easy on ourselves, our lists are not necessarily top five lists, they are more or a less a list of film recommendations within the theme of the list.

The Rest…

Join us on our Facebook Fan Page: facebook.com/GeekActually or follow Geek Actually on Twitter @geekactually

The Reel Junkies podcast can be found at weekendronin.com

Find out more about Josh’s other stuff by visiting HipHopNetOnline.com or listen to his other show “DLC Live” go to RawDLC.com or follow him on Twitter @DoGM3At

Find more by Richard Gray by visiting theReelBits.com or follow him on Twitter @DVDbits

We opened the show with a clip from Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man”.

Go see more movies, you don’t see enough movies and all of life’s questions are answered in the movies.

Jul 09

Behind The Panels Issue 34 – Fire

In this issue,  it’s Marvel NOW! and we pay later. DC back on top and Dinosaurs Vs. Aliens. THEN Spidey gets a trilogy, Marvel delays Cinematic Universe and Hellboy goes to hospital. All our latest reads PLUS our kick-ass pick of the week: Fire by Brian Michael Bendis.

Our next reading assignment: Batman: Knightfall.

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Hosted By: Richard Gray & David McVay

Behind the Panels is a continual work in progress, help us craft this show (via email and feedback) into the finest comic book podcast on the market. Make sure you subscribe to Behind the Panels on the link below.

Your Show Notes: Continue reading

Jul 04

Film Actually Ep092 – Brave

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This week David, Josh & Richard take a look at the latest film from Pixar, Brave. Plus a quick talk about Seth MacFarlane’s first feature film Ted, What We’ve Been Watching, Josh’s Bargain Basement and a brand new Lists of Five – Five of the Best of the Year… So Far. Film Actually is the official movie podcast of geekactually.com.

Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott & Richard Gray

The news section is now officially it’s own show called Film Actually News. Look for it on the feed because it is loud, fast and under thirty minutes… or your money back.

If you are an iTunes user, please leave a review. Your comments help us improve the show.

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

Listen or download it here or subscribe to it on iTunes

Your Show Notes Follow:

What We’ve Been Watching:

A collection of other things we’ve been watching during the week. David and Richard talk about Ted and in Josh’s Bargain Basement he talks about Rising Sun.

Feature Film Review

‘Brave’ directed by Brenda Chapman, Mark Andrews & Steve Purcell. It is written by Brenda Chapman, Mark Andrews, Steve Purcell & Irene Mecchi. It stars the voice talent of Billy Connolly, Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Robbie Coltrane, Kevin McKidd & Craig Furguson.

Set in Scotland in a rugged and mythical time, “Brave” features Merida, an aspiring archer and impetuous daughter of royalty. Merida makes a reckless choice that unleashes unintended peril and forces her to spring into action to set things right. Source: Walt Disney Pictures

Our Verdict: A beautiful looking film (does Pixar know how to make an ugly film?) that falls short of the greatness that Pixar films used to be. Fun and whimsical but ultimately disappointing.

Watch the trailer here: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/disney/brave/

 Lists of Five

This week our Lists of Five: Five of the Best of the Year… So Far. Here we are at the half way point for the year, so what have we liked so far?
Just a reminder, because we never like to just make things easy on ourselves, our lists are not necessarily top five lists, they are more or a less a list of film recommendations within the theme of the list.

The Rest…

Join us on our Facebook Fan Page: facebook.com/GeekActually or follow Geek Actually on Twitter @geekactually

The Reel Junkies podcast can be found at weekendronin.com

Find out more about Josh’s other stuff by visiting HipHopNetOnline.com or listen to his other show “DLC Live” go to RawDLC.com or follow him on Twitter @DoGM3At

Find more by Richard Gray by visiting theReelBits.com or follow him on Twitter @DVDbits

We opened the show with a clip from “Toy Story”.

We close the show with a track from the original score for “Brave” by Patrick Doyle.

Go see more movies, you don’t see enough movies and all of life’s questions are answered in the movies.

Jul 04

Behind The Panels Issue 33 – The Death of Gwen Stacy

In this issue, Marvel declares war and the San Diego Comic Con panels are announced! Alan Moore’s very particular skills. THEN Guardians of the Galaxy for 2014? Ant-Man test footage…and the Human Fly? All our latest reads PLUS our kick-ass pick of the week: The Death of Gwen Stacy (or The Amazing Spider-Man issues 96-98 & 121-122).

Our next reading assignment: Fire by Brian Michael Bendis.

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Hosted By: Richard Gray & David McVay

Behind the Panels is continual work in progress, help us craft this show (via email and feedback) into the finest comic book podcast on the market. Make sure you subscribe to Behind the Panels on the link below.

Your Show Notes: Continue reading

Jul 04

Film Actually News 01-07-2012

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Welcome to the brand new Film Actually News for July 1st, 2012. This week: The Starship Troopers remake, The Game of Thrones Bush Scandal, new Aussie thriller Mystery Road, RZA is putting the F-U in Kung Fu, Disney develops Big Hero 6, Lego Superheroes and the new trailer for Looper. All this and much more!

Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott & Richard Gray

What used to be a boring, stuffy film section of the Film Actually podcast has been spun off into it’s own, we hope, more entertaining show. We don’t make the news, we just have fun with it. Film Actually News – Loud, Fast and Under Thirty Minutes… or your money back.

If you are an iTunes user, please leave a review. Your comments help us improve the show.

This show carries an explicit tag due to coarse language.

Listen or download it here or subscribe to it on iTunes

In case you want the full stories, Here are your show links:

George W. Bush no longer in Game of Thrones.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/celebritology/post/game-of-thrones-prop-george-bush-head-now-nondescript-as-possible-photo/2012/06/25/gJQAJw1x1V_blog.html

Disney developing Big Hero 6 with Marvel.
http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/disney-developing-marvel-animated-movie/

Sigourney Weaver confirms Avatar 2, 3 & 4… didn’t she die in part 1?
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/weaver-confirms-three-avatar-sequels-20120627-211q9.html

Hugo Weaving joins Aussie thriller-Western Mystery Road.
http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/hugo-weaving-takes-the-mystery-road-in-aussie-outback-thriller/

New Lego movie to feature Batman and Superman! That’s right, you heard me!
http://www.slashfilm.com/batman-superman-lego-piece-resistance-chris-pratt-nabs-lead/

Jackie Chan lines up for English language action comedy.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/jackie-chan-movie-english-342658

Yay! Starship Troopers remake to be more faithful to the book!
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=34394

RZA’s new trailer for The Man with the Iron Fists.
http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/06/28/the-man-with-the-iron-fists-red-band-trailer-debut

And finally, on a sad note, Nora Ephron passes at 71.
http://online.wsj.com/article/AP47085fa275bd4c10a0b2495485e867f1.html

We finish the show this week with the hot new trailer to Rian Johnson’s Looper.
http://movies.yahoo.com/video/ymovies-6393699/looper-trailer-2-29825246.html

The Rest…

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Find out more about Josh’s other stuff by visiting HipHopNetOnline.com or listen to his other show “DLC Live” go to RawDLC.com or follow him on Twitter @DoGM3At

Find more by Richard Gray by visiting theReelBits.com or follow him on Twitter @DVDbits

Shameless Plug Time – Make sure you check out our new comic book podcast “Behind the Panels” hosted by David McVay & Richard Gray. Every week we bring you news from the world of comic books and comic book related movies and TV. We also go into deep analysis on our favourite comic books in our Book Club style Comic Pick of the Week. Find it here on Geek Actually or subscribe for free on iTunes. Also like the Facebook page here.