Oct 17

Film Actually Ep060 – The Thing & Red State

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Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott & Richard Gray

This week David, Josh and Richard review another pair of new releases, first the new prequel “The Thing” and then Kevin Smith’s controversial “Red State”. Plus a the new trailer for “The Avengers” and a brand new Lists of Five – Five Great Films With Religion As a Core Element. Film Actually is the official movie podcast of geekactually.com.

Just a reminder that we continue the re-numbering of the episodes. This show is officially episode 59 but if you have been a long time listener you might know it better as episode 151. In a couple of weeks all past episodes of Film actually will be re-numbered from 1 onwards, sorry about any confusion or inconvenience.

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We are going to be skipping a formal news section again for the second week because of the double review but we couldn’t let this slide by, The new trailer for The Avengers came out and here it is. https://geekactually.com/2011/10/12/new-trailer-the-avengers/

What We’ve Been Watching

A collection of other things we’ve been watching this week. Josh has been busy gaming but continues to make his way through the TV shows “Monster” and “American Gothic”, he also watched the film “Franklin”. Richard got deep and meaningful with “We Need to Talk About Kevin” & “The Skin I Live In” and then rounded his week off with “Howard The Duck”! David Loved “Burning Man” and “Batman Year One” but was not so impressed with “Shark Night”, the week was rounded off with Billy Zane in “The Phantom”!

Feature Film Review 1

‘The Thing’ directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. It is written by Eric Heisserer and based on the short story “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell Jr. It stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen and Eric Christian Olsen.

Paleontologist Kate Lloyd has travels to Antarctica to join a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, they discover an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up. Kate must join with American pilot, Carter, to try and keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish. The Thing serves as a prequel to John Carpenter’s classic 1982 film of the same name. Source: modified and shortened from Universal Pictures

Our Verdict: An admirable prequel that isn’t as good as the 1982 John Carpenter film but makes a nice companion piece to that film.

Watch the trailer here: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/universal/thething/

Feature Film Review 2

‘Red State’ written and directed by Kevin Smith. It stars Michael Parks, Melissa Leo, John Goodman, Michael Angarano, Nicholas Braun, Kyle Gallner and Kerry Bishé.

Red State unfolds in a small town dominated by a fundamentalist preacher, Abin Cooper. It tells the story of three high school boys who, on their way to an internet arranged meeting with a woman, end up crossing paths with Cooper. The encounter sets into motion a series of events that causes all hell to break loose. Source: SModcast Pictures.

Our Verdict: Completely split on this one, listen to the episode to hear arguments from both camps.

Watch the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ1v6oFHefc

Lists of Five

This week our Lists of Five: Five Great Films With Religion As a Core Element. After our mutual feelings of disgust over “The Passion of the Christ” it got us thinking, what are some of the great religious films, or films that use religion as a core element? Here are our five.

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.

Feedback

Damon wrote to lets us know about the woman who is suing the “Drive” producers because of a false advertising.
http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/movies/misleading-trailer-leads-to-law-suit-20111011-1lj2z.html

The Rest…

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The opening clip is from “Red State”.

The closing music is Ennio Morricone’s haunting score to the 1982 “The Thing”.

Oct 17

Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor’s Hammer

The build up to “The Avengers” continues with this second great Marvel One-Shot (so named because that is what Marvel Comics calls their one off-comics). We played the first One Shot, “The Consultant”, a few weeks ago on the podcast and it can also be seen on the “Thor” Blu-Ray disc. They basically follow Agent Coulson on little mini episodes.

“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor’s Hammer” is what happened directly before the little post credit sequence at the end of “Iron Man 2” and finally shows us what Agent Coulson is capable of and it is bad ass!

Thanks go out to Said Malikov for sharing this fantastic little video and you will be able to see this in hi-def on the “Captain America: The First Avenger” Blu-Ray, available in October in the US (see the link below) and December here in Australia. Continue reading

Oct 16

Geek Actually Ep148 – My 17 Inch Used to Vibrate

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Hosted by: David McVay, Josh Philpott & Richard Gray

This week on Geek Actually David, Josh and Richard play with iOS 5 and discuss the features and offer their opinions on Apple’s new mobile operating system. Richard and Josh also got to play with Siri and discuss their first impressions. This plus weird food, picks of the week and listener feedback. Enjoy.

Geek Actually is the fusion of the old Tech Actually and Geek Actually After Show podcasts. All the tech and geek goodness that you have come to expect from the old shows wrapped up and made easier to swallow as one simple, little, tasty podcast. DeltaKnight (AKA DAvid Murray) continues to supply us with some of the geekiest stories on the web.

Geek Actually is recorded live on Saturdays around 12pm (AEDST UTC+11). Go to geekactually.com/live to watch it live or you can also now watch the live show on Facebook – Click here to watch. Your show links follow: Continue reading

Oct 12

NEW TRAILER: The Avengers

Avengers Assemble! Here it is my fellow geeks, the first full trailer for Marvel’s “The Avengers”. For those that saw “Captain America: The First Avenger” and stayed till the end of the credits you know that they showed a quick teaser for “The Avengers” as a bonus at the end of the film…. what, you didn’t stay until the end of the credits?!? By now you should know that Marvel always has a bonus scene at the end of all of their films.

Anyway, if you saw that teaser or not, fear not because here is the full trailer in all of its glory. Roll on summer 2012, I want to grab my hammer and shield, put on my armour and hop in a Quinjet, I am so excited!

“The Avengers” is the final part in the epic puzzle that Marvel pictures has been building that started with “Iron Man” moved on to “The Incredible Hulk”, “Iron Man 2”, “Thor” and most recently “Captain America: The First Avenger”. With all of the pieces now in place, let’s get some big time superhero action started! Continue reading

Oct 11

INTERVIEW: Footloose Director Craig Brewer

Footloose mania continues and Paramount Pictures Australia has just made this great interview with director Craig Brewer available. In the interview he talks about how he got the job, the relevance of “Footloose” today and the casting of his hot new cast. It is a good watch.

“Footloose” is playing in Australian cinemas now.

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Oct 11

NEW TRAILER: The Adventures of Tintin

Yay, a new “The Adventures of Tintin” trailer! Now if you follow this site you know that I am a huge Tintin fan and I am really looking forward to this film. Paramount Pictures Australia has now made this brand new Australian trailer available to us and it is looking good. Come on Boxing Day, you can’t come soon enough.

“The Adventures of Tintin” has some serious pedigree behind it, it is directed by Steven Spielberg (“E.T. The Extra Terrestrial” and many others) and produced by Peter Jackson (“The Lord of the Rings” trilogy). It is written by Steven Moffat (the new “Doctor Who” series), Edgar Wright (“Shaun of the Dead” & “Scott Pilgrim vs The World”) and Joe Cornish (“Attack the Block”) based on the comic series by Herge. It stars Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell, Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Nick Frost, Cary Elwes, Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones. It opens in Australia on Boxing Day.