After Portland slacker John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix) nearly loses his life in a car accident, the last thing he intends to do is give up drinking. But when he reluctantly enters treatment – with encouragement from his girlfriend (Rooney Mara) and a charismatic sponsor (Jonah Hill) – Callahan discovers a gift for drawing edgy, irreverent newspaper cartoons that develop a national following and gr...
Diane (Diane Keaton) is recently widowed after 40 years of marriage. Vivian (Jane Fonda) enjoys her men with no strings attached. Sharon (Candice Bergen) is still working through a decades-old divorce. Carol’s (Mary Steenburgen) marriage is in a slump after 35 years. Four lifelong friends’ lives are turned upside down to hilarious ends when their book club tackles the infamous Fifty Shades of Grey...
The brand new cinema opening is opening in the Perth CBD on September 18 with a $10 ticket deal for the first week! The new Palace Raine Square Cinemas will open on 18 September 2018, set to become the entertainment destination the CBD has been waiting for. To mark the return of the cinema experience to Perth City, a special $10 ticket offer will run across opening week, along with bottomless pop...
CinefestOz 2018 was this past week and we had the opportunity to interview three of the members of the Film Jury who had the incredibly hard decision to award the $100,000 film Prize, Take a listen below to our chat with Sigrid Thornton, Michael Caton and Tasma Walton at Studio Bistro just before the Jury Lunch. Sigrid Thornton’s television work includes Prisoner (1979–80), All the Rivers Ru...
In great news that landed online yesterday Aussie actor Damon Herriman has joined the cast of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood playing Charles Manson the role everyone was waiting to see who got cast. Herriman rounds out the impressive cast including Lena Dunham, Dakota Fanning, Damian Lewis, Luke Perry, James Marsden, Timothy Olyphant, Tim Roth, Burt Reynolds, Rumer Willis (playing actress Joanna Pe...
Sony continues to play in the Spiderman universe with their new film Venom coming out on Australian screens from 4th October, directed by Ruben Fleischer who previously gave us Zombieland.
This year was Accessreel.com’s first outing to CinefestOZ Festival down in the South West. Over the years, I have heard from many colleagues talk about the Festival’s growing industry influence; finally, schedules aligned and Team Accessreel headed down to Busselton. The Festival is held over five days. This year’s screening program offered over 150 films, including 11 world prem...
Jonathan and Josh Baker are twin directors from Australia but for the past 10 years they have been working in the United States directing some rather impressive commericals.. after the success of the short film BAG MAN which KIN is based off the guys decided to expand on that story int a feature film starring Myles Truitt as Eli with Jack Reynor, Zoe Kravitz, Dennis Quaid and James Franco. A pul...
Still recovering from the last 5 days at CinefestOZ Saturday night the Film prize was awarded to JIRGA with Producer John Maynard and Director Benjamin Gilmour in attendance. Made under extraordinary, and extremely dangerous, conditions, Jirga tells the emotional story of a former Australian soldier who travels to Afghanistan to seek forgiveness. Three years after an Australian army helicopter r...
Maude (Adelaide Clemens), a 25-year-old medical student living in Germany, is trying to pick up the pieces after her identical twin, Cleo (Adelaide Clemens), disappeared without a trace almost a year ago. When visions of Cleo’s violent abduction begin manifesting as hallucinations, Maude returns to her grieving family in Australia. Back at home, more and more details begin appearing in her n...
The impressive debut feature from writer-director Jason Raftopoulos, whose most recent short Kin screened at Cannes, was shot in Melbourne and tells the story of a father who has less than a day to pay back a debt to a loan-shark, while at the same time trying to look after his young son. The film received a five-minute standing ovation at its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival this year. ...
It is only a week away from its official release in Australia but Crazy Rich Asians has already topped the box office in America and Canada. So can it do the same here? Since its debut a week ago, Crazy Rich Asians took in over $34 million within the first five days, even more impressive that it has yet to be fully released internationally. Crazy Rich Asians also achieved what many other releases ...
