Jul 04

Trailer: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

All I can say is genius! This is how you make a trailer (watch it below).

I was a child when the mini series based on John Le Carré amazing spy novel came out in 1979. I remember Alec Guinness being brilliant as Smiley and I remember the incredibly dense storyline but I wasn’t old enough to fully appreciate the depth of the material. I saw it again many years later and realised that this was a masterpiece of television.

Now Tomas Alfredson, director of the brilliant “Let The Right One In”, has brought it to the big screen starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy and Mark Strong. Now looking at the quality of this trailer, to say I am excited is an understatement. Continue reading

Jul 04

Australian Trailer: Captain America The First Avenger

Now we’ve had the U.S. version of this trailer up for awhile but an Australian one has become available to us from our friends at Paramount Pictures Australia and considering our geographic location it seemed right to post this here. Considering that half of our audience is in the States I have left that other one up for you guys but the Australian readers can enjoy this one.


Captain America: The First Avenger Trailer F by Paramount_Australia

I find it interesting, but not surprising, that they have changed the wording in the trailer. Gone is the “Heroes Are Made In America” line from the American version. Continue reading

Jul 04

REPLAY – Geek Actually Live Video Shows for July 2nd, 2011

Here are this week’s live shows presented in the same order that we recorded them. We start with the all new Geek Actually and then move onto Film Actually. Because the show is live, you get it here with all the mistakes intact.

This week on Geek Actually, David and Josh are joined by Geek Actually newbie Richard Gray for a look at the week in geek including artificial armpits, Skype spying, Apple mark ups, VW auto pilot and the latest news about PS3 hacker GeoHot and the Samsung Vs. Apple Case. If this wasn’t enough we also give you an update on Hackerpalooza 2011 and our picks of the week.

This week David and Josh are joined by Richard Gray (theReelbits.com) for a review of “Transformers Dark of the Moon”. They also take in some entertainment news, including the new trailers for “Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol” and Pixar’s “Brave”. Plus they deliver a brand new Lists of Five: Five Investigative Films.

Check the individual audio show posts for the show notes. Watch the videos below.

The Geek Actually podcasts are recorded live every Saturday from 12pm (AEST) or UTC +10 at geekactually.com/live Continue reading

Jul 03

Geek Actually Ep138 – Artificial Armpits

 

Hosted by: David McVay & Josh Philpott with guest Richard Gray

This week on Geek Actually, David and Josh are joined by Geek Actually newbie Richard Gray for a look at the week in geek including artificial armpits, Skype spying, Apple mark ups, VW auto pilot and the latest news about PS3 hacker GeoHot and the Samsung Vs. Apple Case. If this wasn’t enough we also give you an update on Hackerpalooza 2011 and our picks of the week. Pop in the earbuds and 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 and Josh and David love to play with the tech news.

Geek Actually is recorded live on Saturdays around 12pm (AEST UTC+10). Go to geekactually.com/live to watch it live.

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Jul 01

Polishing The Turd That Is The Twilight Saga Part 1

Part 1 of the new Geek Actually multi part opinion piece about the films of “The Twilight Saga”

Polishing the turd that is the Twilight Saga Part 1

2008 was a bumper year for poo! The first Twilight film was released! And the “Mythbusters” team empirically proved that given sufficient motivation, pressure, time and effort, it is indeed possible to polish a turd. Source material is relatively important as is some way to quantify that gloss has been achieved. A device called a ‘Gloss Meter’ can measure accurately relative shininess and units above 70 equals high gloss. At the time of writing, the “Twilight Saga” books and films have earned in excess of 1.7 billion dollars. I think that will qualify as relative ‘shininess’.

And so, gentle reader, the lovely David has tasked me with reviewing these films, and thus I have decided, in an effort to be just and fair, to use the techniques used to make the turd shine, as the architecture for my reviews. There will be some spoilers so read this at your peril… well, as perilous as viewing the film is. Continue reading

Jun 30

Behind the Scenes: Transformers Dark of the Moon

Just in case you haven’t had enough of Michael Bay’s “Transformers Dark of the Moon”, here is a great little behind the scenes video about the WingSuit scene that has been made available from our friends at Paramount Pictures Australia. This is one of the more exciting scenes in the film and it is interesting to see how much was done live.


Transformers 3-Dark of the Moon Wingsuit… by Paramount_Australia