Happy New Year all, we’ve turned the corner into 2018 and no doubt film fan thoughts have shifted toward what’s to come this year with Black Panther, Solo: A Star Wars Story, and more Avengers on the way. But to follow up on Darran, Phil, and Alison’s recent best films of 2017, here are my own top picks for what the last 12 months gave us in the world of movies. Those who have seen my ...
The New Year has shimmied into our fair city bringing with it warm days and balmy evenings. And if you’re a Perthian film-lover (and why else would you be here?), then you know that an excellent way to spend your nights is watching the fine cinematic offerings outdoor at Luna Cinemas. Are you near Mosman Park, between the river and the ocean? Then why not get down to Lochee Street and suss out the...
Bill Weier, father of infamous Anissa Weier has claimed Sony Pictures’ upcoming film starring horror character Slender Man is “extremely distasteful.” In 2014, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, who were twelve at the time, lured classmate Payton Leutner into the woods in Waukesha, Milwaukee. Leutner was stabbed 19 times by Geyser, while Weier stood by and encouraged her. The girls then abandoned Leu...
Here’s the first trailer for the horror flick SLENDER MAN, I don’t think the trailer is really that creepy at all.. and well it should be, for those who have no idea about what Slender Man is here’s a brief history. The Slender Man is a fictional supernatural character that originated online back in 2009. It is depicted as a thin, unnaturally tall man with a featureless head and ...
Following in Darran and Phil’s footsteps, it’s time for me to look back with nostalgia and bitterness at 2017, the year that was. Changing it up a little (new year, new me), I’ve decided to recap the 5 best and worst films (and television, including Netflix originals) I reviewed at AccessReel this year. My first year at AccessReel has been incredible, and I’m so grateful to have been given the opp...
Hello, AccessReelers and a Happy New Year to you and yours. Our Head Honcho, Darran has done it, so now it’s time for me to drop my own Top Ten List of 2017. It was an interesting year where the super hero franchise movies continued to dominate international box office figures; the next chunk of the Star Wars franchise arrived to be greeted by much fan sound and fury; and increasingly, the o...
In SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO, the series begins a new chapter. In the drug war, there are no rules – and as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border, federal agent Matt Graver calls on the mysterious Alejandro, whose family was murdered by a cartel kingpin, to escalate the war in nefarious ways. Alejandro kidnaps the kingpin’s daughter to inflame the conflict – but when...
A team of CIA agents and special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.
In August 2015, an ISIS terrorist boarded train #9364 from Brussels to Paris. Armed with an AK-47 and enough ammo to kill more than 500 people, the terrorist might have succeeded except for three American friends who refused to give in to fear. Stone was a martial arts enthusiast and airman first class in the U.S. Air Force, Skarlatos was a member of the Oregon National Guard, and all three pals p...
DEN OF THIEVES is a gritty Los Angeles crime saga which follows the intersecting and often personally connected lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff’s Dept. and the state’s most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank of downtown Los Angeles.
After surviving a near fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef Wade Wilson struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry’s hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste. Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade must battle ninjas, the yakuza, and a pack of sexually aggressive canines, as he journeys around the world to di...
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is an upcoming American-British-Swedish romantic comedy musical film directed and written by Ol Parker. It is a sequel to the 2008 film Mamma Mia!, which is based on the musical of the same name. The film stars Amanda Seyfried, Lily James, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Dominic Cooper, Andy Garcia, Cher, and Meryl Stre...
