Jun 19

Geek Actually Ep136 – Hackerpalooza

Hosted by: David McVay & Josh Philpott

This week on Geek Actually, David and Josh take a look at the week in geek including rival hacker groups, eyeball laser beams, Steve Wozniak’s opinions on the NBN, Apple tells Samsung to shove it and turd burgers. All this plus Josh’s opinions on living with the Galaxy Tab and David’s opinion’s on Duke Nukem Forever one week later. Pop in those earbuds, your hosts await you.

Geek Actually is the fusion of the old Tech Actually and Geek Actually After Show podcasts into an all new show. 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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Jun 16

“The Avengers” Promotional Poster Revealed

A promotional poster for next year’s “The Avengers”, from Marvel Productions, has surfaced at the Licensing International Expo. This is by no means the final poster for the film but a promotional tool to get people excited about the project. Even though it is not the final poster it is cool to look at to see the changes to Captain America and Iron Man’s costumes. We also get a clear look at Hawkeye and let’s face it, any chance to look at Black Widow is cool :-)

“The Avengers” opens in 2012 and is written and directed by Joss Whedon. It stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård, Tom Hiddleston and Clark Gregg.

See the image below:

Thanks to /Film for making this image available.

Jun 15

Game Review: Duke Nukem Forever

Some legends never die, as the saying goes. And some legends you just wish would die. Then there’s those legends that keep promising they’ll come, and then they don’t, then a couple of years later they show you a trailer and get you all excited again, then they don’t come out and then, just when you’re convinced they are dead, or you just lose interest all together, BAM, they finally come out. Okay, so that last one has only happened once but maybe it’ll give you some insight to how long I’ve been waiting for Duke Nukem Forever!

Since it’s finally here, let’s get all the shit jokes over and done with. “this is taking Forever”, “DNF stands for Duke Nukem Forever? No, Did Not Finish”, “Fail to the king” blah blah blah. So to all you nay-sayers and all your nay-saying, we finally have the sequel to one of the most influential 1st person shooters of the mid-nineties. 15 years of development and legal disasters are over and I’m sure that hell has frozen over and the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse are saddling up. But is it any good?

There’s a reason I waited a while to put out this review. Because I saw so many reviews for DNF really blast the crap out of it but most gamers that bought it have, at the least, enjoyed the experience. So I wanted to completely finish the game before writing anything on it and here we are…. Continue reading

Jun 13

Film Actually Ep043 (135) – Super 8

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Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott and Katrina Smith (with Nicholas McVay)

This week David and Josh are joined by Katrina Smith for a review of “Super 8”. They also take in some film news and deliver a brand new Lists of Five: Five Great Films From The Super 8 Era. If that wasn’t enough, Nicholas “The Little Geek” McVay puts in an end of show appearance for the kids take on “Super 8”. Katrina is in the house, so it is a long one, enjoy. Film Actually is the official movie podcast of geekactually.com.

If you are an iTunes user, please leave a review. Your comments (good or bad) help us improve the show. This show carries an explicit tag due to infrequent coarse language.

Make sure you check out our other fine podcast Geek Actually for all your tech and geek culture needs.

*Update 31/07/2012 – Film Actually was a split off from the main Geek Actually show and originally maintained numbering continuity with that show. That logic no longer works as the shows have become two unique entities, so we have gone back and re-numbered the Film Actually shows to reflect their true episode number. This show is now officially episode 43 but when you listen to the show you will hear it referred to as episode 135, this is why. Sorry about any confusion or inconvenience.

Film Actually is recorded live every Saturday. Go to geekactually.com/live for the schedule and to watch it

Your show notes:

Feature Film Review

‘Super 8’ written & directed by J.J. Abrams. It stars Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills, Riley Griffiths, Gabriel Basso, Kyle Chandler, Ron Eldard and Noah Emmerich.

In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth – something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined. – Source: The Official Site

Our Verdict: Josh and David loved and wholly recommend this film. It might just be their film of the year. Katrina liked the film but felt it had a few issues.

Note: There is a five minute spoiler section at the end of the review.

Watch the trailer here: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/super8/

Entertainment Buzz

The “Fright Night” remake gets a second trailer, this time with a little Tennant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIYXDvp4IYE&feature=player_embedded

This week an amazingly candid interview with Spielberg was published on AICN. This is fantastically insightful.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/49921

Plot details on the “Asteroids” adaptation and maybe a director too.
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/06/roland_emmerich_has_been_offer.html

Werner Herzog once again proves he is as mad as a snake.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/388586/june-06-2011/werner-herzog

Dwayne Johnson could be joining the G.I. Joe sequel.
http://www.showblitz.com/2011/06/duane-the-rock-johnson-to-star-in-gi-joe.html

Sacha Baron Cohen is “The Dictator”
http://www.slashfilm.com/sacha-baron-cohen-the-dictator/

and finally this crap is almost over, “Breaking Dawn Part 1” gets a teaser.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIpeBi6SG4A&feature=player_embedded

Lists of Five

This week our Lists of Five: Five Great Films From The “Super 8” Era. To celebrate the release of Super 8, we deliver these lists of great films from the era (1977-1986) that inspired “Super 8”.

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.

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Send feedback for this show to feedback@filmactually.com or leave us a voice mail message to play on the show at (Sydney number) 02 8011 3167 or Skype ID: geekactually (you can also send us an mp3 file if you’d prefer).

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Friends of the Show

Listen to Reel Junkies podcast by going to weekendronin.com

Charlie and Brad (formerly of the Movie Fan House) are back, check them out at ReboundRadio.com

Rachelle is over at The Funky Film Show, Thursdays on Radio Freemantle 107.9 FM or radiofreemantle.com

Find out more about Josh’s other show, DLC Live, and Movember go to rawDLC.com

The “Super 8” score isn’t out until the 28th, so we are finishing the show today with the end titles track from John Williams’ masterpiece of film music “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial”. I thought it was in tune with the week’s theme.

Jun 12

REPLAY – Geek Actually Live Video Shows for June 11th, 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 take a look at the two major events of the week, Apple’s WWDC keynote and the latest from E3. David looks at the latest from Apple and Josh delivers his 3rd annual E3 round up. They also give their opinions on the new game “Duke Nukem Forever”, was it worth the wait? All this plus some weird geek news and cows that produce human milk.

This week David and Josh are joined by Katrina Smith for a review of “Super 8”. They also take in some film news and deliver a brand new Lists of Five: Five Great Films From The Super 8 Era. If that wasn’t enough, Nicholas “The Little Geek” McVay puts in an end of show appearance for the kids take on “Super 8”.

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

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Jun 12

Geek Actually Ep135 – All Out Of Gum

Hosted by: David McVay & Josh Philpott

This week on Geek Actually David and Josh take a look at the two major events of the week, Apple’s WWDC keynote and the latest from E3. David looks at the latest from Apple and Josh delivers his 3rd annual E3 round up. They also give their opinions on the new game “Duke Nukem Forever”, was it worth the wait? All this plus some weird geek news and cows that produce human milk. Its a long one so get comfortable and enjoy.

Geek Actually is the fusion of the old Tech Actually and Geek Actually After Show podcasts into an all new show. 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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