Adele is reportedly in early talks to play Nancy in an upcoming remake of the smash hit musical Oliver!. The film would be the first major acting role for the Tottenham-born singer. Sir Cameron Mackintosh (Les Miserables) is set to be working on the remake along with Working Title Films. The original story, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, was published as a serial between 1837 and 1839, and follo...
While the last attempt to reinvigorate the Terminator franchise failed to generate strong reviews or great box office results ($440m worldwide is far from a disaster but still failed to meet expectations), the franchise seems to be far from being put on permanent hiatus.
The first trailer for Tomb Raider has dropped and it doesn’t disappoint, some of it actually feels like the video game… no Angelina Jolie here, Alicia Vikander is Croft this time around you would have seen her in her Oscar winning role in “The Danish Girl” the cast also includes Walton Goggins, Mathias Vogel, Hannah John-Kamen, Dominic West, Daniel Wu and Nick Frost. Lara C...
Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Now a young woman of 21 without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of trendy East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent, and takes college courses, rarely making it to class. Determined to forge her own path, she refuses to take the reins of he...
In the Netflix original documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two, Lady Gaga offers a vulnerable look of her life during one of the most pivotal periods in her career yet. Directed by Emmy®-nominated filmmaker Chris Moukarbel (Banksy Does New York, Me at the Zoo), the film is shot in the style of cinema verité, giving viewers unfiltered, behind-the-scenes access as Gaga spends time with close friends and fa...
AccessReel editor Darran was a cinema manager in a former life and knows what he likes when it comes to facilities for the cinema-going public, so he was happy to be invited to view the Whitford CIty Event Cinema set up. We all like shiny new toys and in my case a new cinema is one. Today I went up to the brand new Event Cinema at Westfield Whitford City for a look-see before it opens to the publ...
The trailer for ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD has landed with a completely unrecognizable Kevin Spacey in the role of J. Paul Getty, the story looks crazy and is inspired by a true story (obviously some fictionalized) but with director Ridley Scott behind the camera and a cast also including Michelle Williams, Mark Wahlberg, Romain Duris and Charlie Plummer I’m totally in. Rome, 1973. Masked m...
Rome, 1973. Masked men kidnap a teenage boy named Paul. His grandfather, J. Paul Getty, is the richest man in the world, a billionaire oil magnate, but he’s notoriously miserly. His favorite grandson’s abduction is not reason enough for him to part with any of his fortune. All the Money in the World follows Gail, Paul’s devoted, strong-willed mother, who unlike Getty, has consistently chosen her c...
Last night, AccessReel was at the Luna Cinemas in Leederville, for a pre-season screening of a new film directed by Ben Elton You know Ben Elton. As our friend Wikky Pedia might remind you–he is an English comedian, author, playwright, actor and director. He has written notable television series such as The Young Ones and Blackadder. He started out doing left-wing political satire, but now has a d...
In every generation, a torch passes from father to son. And that timeless dynamic is the beating heart of Tommy’s Honor – an intimate, powerfully moving tale of the real-life founders of the modern game of golf.
Over the past seven years, Accessreel.com has done approximately 200 interviews. They come to us in a variety of ways, some are given to us by the film studios, others come from our friends at Supanova Comic Con & Gaming. Recently, we’ve been looking at our backlog and wondering what to do with all this great material. We didn’t want to let it disappear into the ether and so The A...
Jamie Lee Curtis has returned to play the Laurie Strode character in the “Halloween” franchise. This news was announced in all corners of the civilised world today and accompanied with the rather nice photographic image you see with this story. John Carpenter, who along with Moustapha Akkad, originated the horror franchise in 1978, has been on board the Halloween redevelopment since May 2016. He ...
