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AccessReel Reviews – Martha Marcy May Marlene
Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult. MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE is an unusual movie experience; the term ‘experience’ is usually a pretentiously vague tag for a movie, but somehow it seems to fit this film. The story isn’t a tightly structured tale of cause and effect. Events u...
AccessReel Reviews – Safe House
A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge. Reviewing for AccessReel is obviously a life of glamorous parties, alcohol on tap and free merch’. You knew this. However, you were probably unaware that we receive our instructions about what to review, Mission Impossible-style. A couri...
Matthew Vaughn returns to class
Last year’s ‘X-Men: First Class’ was generally well received featuring fantastic performances from James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender. The film managed a difficult balance with a large number of characters and a script bloated with events and subplots crammed into 130 minutes, and while the film isn’t without its problems it is an achievement that the final result isn&rsqu...
AccessReel Review – The Vow
Inspired by true events, The Vow tells of married couple Paige and Leo whose relationship is thrown into doubt after a car accident from which Paige suffers memory loss. Her devoted husband is faced with the challenge of making his wife fall in love with him again. It’s every woman’s dream isn’t it: To have your husband or long standing partner go back to the hopeless romantic he...
The Amazing Spider-Man – Full Length Trailer Debut
The brand new Full length trailer for the upcoming ‘Reboot’ of The Amazing Spider-Man has just hit the internet worldwide after ‘The Untold Story’ sneak peak screenings around the world in the last 24hours. It looks pretty damn impressive and maybe it is as they say it ‘the untold story’ maybe I thought I knew all there was to know about Spiderman bu...
Marvel’s The Avengers Super Bowl Trailer
Anticipation for this film is just getting crazy and for this little Marvel Fanboy I’m starting to burst at the seams it’s always great how they pull together a sensational trailer and the second one for THE AVENGERS doesn’t disappoint. Considering spots during the Superbowl are worth $3.4million for 30seconds I think Marvel edited it together quite nicely, those last coup...
From Stage to Screen – AccessReel’s Top 10 Adaptations
Film may be a more popular art-form then theatre, but screenwriters often use stage productions as source material. It wasn’t an easy task, but Access Reel’s Sian Dhu reveals her top 10 films adapted from the stage. 10th Place Driving Miss Daisy (1989). Director: Bruce Beresford Just squeezing into the top 10 is this loveable story starring an even more ...
Riddick 3 Starts Filming
The sci-fi action franchise which kicked off with the small budget film ‘Pitch Black’ in 2000 will continue with its leading man Vin Diesel returning for the second sequel. The long in development sequel was never a sure thing after the first sequel titled ‘The Chronicles of Riddick’ failed to receive favourable reviews generally and failed to deliver financial success with...
AccessReel Reviews – Chronicle
For three high school classmates who suddenly gain superpowers from a mysterious substance, the chronicle of their ordinary lives is about to take on extraordinary turn. Initially they use their powers to play innocent pranks on each other and people around them, but soon they gain confidence and learn to control their powers better to take on more difficult tasks. Their newfound sense of immortal...
General Aladeen Announces Website Launch
His Excellency Admiral General Aladeen has just tweeted to announce the launch of his website “My website just launched – it’s already bigger than Facebook! Visit it! (unless you’re in Wadiya, where for some reason there’s no internet. I didn’t ban it. Honest)” You can toggle between English & Wadiyan to learn more about His Excellency Admiral General ...
AccessReel Reviews – Man on a Ledge
An ex-cop and now wanted fugitive (Sam Worthington) stands on the ledge of a high-rise building while a hard-living New York Police Department negotiatior (Elizabeth Banks) tries to talk him down. The longer they are on the ledge, the more she realizes that he might have an ulterior objective. Don’t let the title of the film deceive you, MAN ON A LEDGE is so much more than the namesake and a...
AccessReel’s Top Hollywood MILFs and DILFs
Lets face it, age has almost no effect on those glamorous inhabitants of tinsel town. With this in mind the Access Reel team eyes off Hollywood’s sexiest Mum and Dads, presenting for your viewing pleasure our Top MILFS and DILFS. It was a tricky undertaking, each Access Reel writer considering the smorgasbord of delicious 30+ year olds that grace our silver screens to find our ultimate picks...