US comedy superstar Shawn Wayans is best known and loved by Aussie audiences for his decade-long movie career and stand-out roles in Little Man, White Chicks, Scary Movie and Emmy-award winning cult comedy series In Living Colour. After a huge sold out tour wiht his brother Marlon in 2013, Shawn is ready to hit Aussie shores solo for the first time with what promises to be a festival highlight. ...
Recent rumors suggest Quentin Tarantino is looking at making a Star Trek film for Paramount. Who would have predicted that?
Phil Jeng Kane has written for AccessReel for more than six years. Before that he was involved in helping people make films through the Film and Television Institute in Fremantle and long, long before that, beginning in the 1980s, he made short films with his school friend Renny Gosatti. After twenty-five years working in teaching and construction respectively, Phil and Renny have started film-mak...
20th Century Fox has fired director Bryan Singer from the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. Filming was suspended on December 1st, reportedly due to a “personal health matter concerning Singer and his family.” However, it’s now been reported that filming was suspended after Singer repeatedly failed to show up to the set. Producers of the film, Fox, New Regency and Graham King stated that they suspen...
Jessica Chastain star’s as Molly Bloom alongside Idris Elba and Kevin Costner with a story written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, take a look inside the world built by Molly.. the film opens in Australia January 25. MOLLY’S GAME is based on the true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world’s most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested i...
Based on Tim Winton’s award-winning novel of the same name, Simon Baker’s feature film directorial debut Breath follows two teenage boys, Pikelet (Samson Coulter) and Loonie (Ben Spence), growing up in a remote corner of the Western Australian coast. Hungry for discovery, the pair form an unlikely friendship with Sando (Simon Baker), a mysterious older surfer and adventurer, who pushes the boys to...
Fox has halted production on Bohemian Rhapsody, the upcoming biopic of Freddie Mercury, due to a “personal health matter concerning [director-producer Bryan Singer] and his family.” Bohemian Rhapsody, scripted by Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything), will follow Mercury and band members Brian May and Roger Taylor, who are serving as producers on the film, from the band’s formation in the 19...
Things are hotting up for the new Australian movie comedy THE BBQ, starring Shane Jacobson, Magda Szubanski, Julia Zemiro and Manu Feildel. The producers have announced a World Premiere Screening and BBQ After-Party Street Festival in Albury-Wodonga to take place Sunday, January 14, 2018. Albury’s heritage-listed and state-of-the-art Regent Cinemas will roll out the red carpet for stars Shane Jaco...
In LADY BIRD, Greta Gerwig reveals herself to be a bold new cinematic voice with her directorial debut, excavating both the humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter. Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) fights against but is exactly like her wildly loving, deeply opinionated and strong-willed mom (Laurie Metcalf), a nurse working tirelessly to ke...
Australian actor Alex Russell was born in Brisbane, although these days he lives in Los Angeles. You might have seen him first in the features ALMOST KINGS or WASTED ON THE YOUNG, both made in 2010. Possibly you came across his work in the 2012 sci-fi thriller CHRONICLE or the 2013 remake of CARRIE. He can currently be seen in the intense action-drama ONLY THE BRAVE about the firefighters of Presc...
It’s official, there’s a new interpretation of Alan Moore’s graphic novel ‘Watchmen’, in the works with HBO ordering a pilot for a TV series. For anyone who doesn’t know, Watchmen is the comic series written by Alan Moore with art by Dave Gibbons which was released over 1986 and 1987.
Good Morning America premiered it and now its here in all its glory for us to see… when Infinity War is released it will be 10 years and 18 films since Iron Man hit the big screen back in 2008. This time around its everyone together including “deep breath” Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, Josh Brolin as Thanos, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Chris Evens as ...
