Jan 17

Josh’s Bargain Basement – Pulse 2: Afterlife

Films are our life here at Geek actually, really, its in the word geek. Unlike other people we don’t just watch a film a week or go to the cinema for the big films. We live, breath and dream about our passions. Naturally, this means we watch a huge amount of films. Some are great, some are absolutely trash. This new section of the site explores the films we usually don’t report on. The worst of the worst. The films that you will see here probably never made cinema and often very nearly missed DVD altogether. Welcome to Josh’s Bargain Basement Movies.

Pulse 2: Afterlife

Did you ever have that friend that tried a little to hard? When everyone was into something popular, they were always the one that had the deluxe edition and all the add ons? Well, Pulse 2: Afterlife is kind of like that friend. With this film following on from a horror that was average to begin with, the most you would expect is some good deaths and possibly some interesting additions to the series mythology. However Pulse 2: Afterlife aims much higher than that, it wants to give you drama, tension, passion and horror. Failing at all of the above. Continue reading

Jan 16

Behind The Panels Issue 11 – Daredevil Visionaries: Frank Miller Vol 2

Hosted By: David McVay & Richard Gray

David and Richard discuss the latest in news from the world of comics. This week, it’s out with the old and in with the New, as DC’s New 52 gets reshuffled and becomes the New New 52. Also, what is the Omega Effect? Is it something that comes from Alpha Flight’s tailwind? And in Movie news, it’s Green Arrow! Fantastic Four! The Avengers! Thor 2 and… Deadpool? All of this plus our kick-ass Pick of the Week, this week we discuss Daredevil Visionaries: Frank Miller Vol 2.

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Our next reading assignment: Green Lantern/Green Arrow.

Behind the Panels is still in beta, this issue still carries temporary music and cover art and we continue to work out format issues. We hope you will continue to 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.

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We talk about a lot of stuff on the show, here are our sources.

Vintage clip of the week: Can you guess who is playing Johnny storm?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKUp3lP2jSc

Comic News

Six titles in, six titles out in the New 52 – Earth 2!
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/dc-new-52-new-titles-120112.html

…leading to Grant Morrison’s Multiversity
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/biggest-surprises-new-52-second-wave-110111-1.html

Paul Levitz talks Earth 2
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/paul-levitz-worlds-finest-earth-2-120113.html

Omega Effect for Marvel
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/marvel-next-big-thing-reveal-120112.html

Movie News

CW ready to order Green Arrow TV pilot
http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/01/12/green-arrow/

Chronicle’s Josh Trank Eyed for Fantastic Four reboot
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=85978

Josh Whedon say Cap is the focus of The Avengers
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/01/13/joss-whedon-reveals-character-is-perspective-in-the-avengers/2/ 

Robert Rodat rewriting Thor 2
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/robert-rodat-to-rewrite-thor-2/

Jaimie Alexander confirms Sif in Thor 2
http://splashpage.mtv.com/2012/01/11/jamie-alexander-thor-2-avengers/

Has Fox shot 8 minutes of R-rated Deadpool?
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/01/13/rob-liefeld-may-or-may-have-not-seen-eight-minutes-of-r-rated-xmen-movie

The Rest…

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The music this week is from the film “Daredevil”.

Jan 16

Film Actually Ep071 – The Muppets

Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott & Richard Gray

The boys are back for a brand new year’s worth of shows! This week David , Josh and Richard what could be called the feel good film of 2011, “The Muppets”. As well as introducing the new “Josh’s Bargain Basement Movies” section, this week sees the return of the “What We’ve Been Watching” and “Spoiler” sections. All this and a brand new Lists of Five – Five Great Movie Puppets. Film Actually is the official movie podcast of geekactually.com.

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

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Jan 10

CLIPS: Young Adult

Paramount Pictures australia have just made five new clips from the new Jason Reitman (“Up In The Air”) directed “Young Adult”. The new film is written by Diablo Cody who received great acclaim for her screenplay for “Juno” also directed by Reitman.

According to Paramount, “Charlize Theron plays Mavis Gary, a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt) who hasn’t quite gotten over high school, either.”

I am looking forward to this film as I am a fan of Reitman, “Up in the Air” was one of my favourite films of 2009, and Charlize Theron has been receiving huge praise (and a Golden Globe nomination) for her vaguely sociopathic performance.

“Young Adult” is opening across Australia on the 19th of January 2012.

Watch the clips below:

Adorable

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Jan 10

CLIPS: Hugo

Our good friends over at Paramount Pictures Australia have just made two new clips available for the magnificent new Martin Scorsese film “Hugo”. These clips really show off the fantastic visual style of the film and the first clip in particular really gives you a sense of the heart that this film has.

Throughout his extraordinary career, Academy Award-wining director Martin Scorsese has brought his unique vision and dazzling gifts to life in a series of unforgettable films. This holiday season the legendary storyteller invites you to join him on a thrilling journey to a magical world with his first-ever 3-D film, based on Brian Selznick’s award-winning, imaginative New York Times best-seller, “The Invention of Hugo Cabret.” Hugo is the astonishing adventure of a wily and resourceful boy whose quest to unlock a secret left to him by his father will transform Hugo and all those around him, and reveal a safe and loving place he can call home. (Source: Paramount)

“Hugo” stars Asa Butterfield, Chloe Moretz, Ben KIngsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ray Winstone and Christopher Lee. It opens across Australia on January 12th 2012.

Big Machine

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Jan 08

Behind The Panels (beta) Issue 10 – Kingdom Come

Hosted By: David McVay & Richard Gray

This week, David and Richard discuss the latest in news from the world of comics including Marvel back on top after four months of DC’s New 52 dominance, “Lego Batman 2” officially announced, Kevin Smith’s new TV show “Comic Book Men”, more news on the on again off again “Akira” movie and DC may be cutting some of the New 52 after issue 8. All of this plus our Pick of the Week, this week we discuss the epic mini-series Kingdom Come.

Our next reading assignment: Daredevil Visionaries: Frank Miller Volume 2 (AKA Daredevil issues 168-182).

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The “Comic Book Men” trailer and story can be found here:
http://www.newsarama.com/tv/hey-thats-my-cape-comic-book-men-120105.html

Behind the Panels is still in beta, this issue still carries temporary music and cover art and we continue to work out format issues. We hope you will continue to 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.

Have you got something to say? We want to hear from you, send email to comics@geekactually.com or drop us a voicemail at 02 8011 3167 (Skype ID: geek actually) and we’ll play it on the show.

If you are an iTunes user, subscribe for free here and please leave us feedback. The next two or three issues will also come out on the Geek Actually and Film Actually feeds to get things started.

Make sure you check out our other fine podcast Film Actually for the latest in cinema reviews and news.

The Rest…

Join us on our new Facebook Fan Page, follow Geek Actually on Twitter @geekactually and follow David on Twitter @davidmcvay Find more by Richard Gray by visiting theReelBits.com or follow him on Twitter @DVDbits

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The music this week is from the TV series “Justice League”.