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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Steals 11 BAFTA Noms
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is hitting cinemas today but has recently pulled in 11 Nominations at the 2012 British Academy Film Awards! You can check out Leith’s review here, press release is as follows. Critically acclaimed British espionage thriller TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY receives 11 Nominations for the 2012 Orange British Academy Film Awards including all key categories. The British Acad...
Hack/Slash Director
For those who’ve not heard of it before, Hack/Slash is a comic series now published by Image Comics, and is centred on the character Cassie Hack who takes it upon herself to fight back at all the monsters of the world whom she refers to as ‘slashers’. Cassie is that classic lone survivor of almost any horror film out there, whom has decided to take on all the ‘Freddy&r...
Perth Festival Reviews – Le Havre
When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home. Marcel Marx (Wilms) is the down on his luck shoeshine man. He lives a small life; there is his work, his favourite bar and his wife Arletty (Outinen). She doesn’t appear to be living the life she wants, but she tends to all of Marcel’s nee...
AccessReel Reviews – The Darkest Hour
3D sci-fi thriller about a group of young Americans visiting Russia when aliens invade earth.Produced by Russian filmmaker TimurBrekmambetov (Night Watch, Wanted), the film ‘The Darkest Hour’ promises to differentiate itself from other alien invasion movies by showing the attacks and response from a Russian perspective. Directed by Chris Gorak, ‘The Darkest Hour’ bring...
World’s Easiest Film Festival
Deadline approaches for possibly the world’s easiest film-making competition. Got five minutes? Then you can enter! Who would have thought a simple five minute flick shot with your web cam or mobile phone could win you a scholarship to study with the New York Film Academy? Unbelievable but true: Fancy equipment is out and cheap innovation is in for this year’s Cinemagic International F...
AccessReel Reviews – Young Adult
Young Adult is a comedy-drama about a woman returning home in order to relive her high school glory years. Mavis is a cynical, successful writer of teenage fiction who returns to her small home town to win back her high school crush: Buddy, now happily married and with kids. Buddy isn’t particularly willing though, and having been roundly despised at school, Mavis doesn&#...
AccessReel Reviews – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
In the early 1970’s during the cold war, the head of british intelligence, Control resigns after an operation in Budapest, Hungary goes badly wrong. It transpires that Control believed one of four senior figures in the service was in fact a Russian agent – a mole. A retired agent is asked by a senior Government figure to investigate a story told to him implying that a mole exists, and ...
AccessReel Reviews – Arrietty
Beneath the floorboards of an enormous mansion, set in a overgrown garden in the suburbs of Tokyo, tiny 14-year-old Arrietty lives with her equally tiny parents. The house is occupied by two elderly ladies, unaware of the existence of their miniature tenants. Arrietty’s parents have always warned her: “Never let humans see you, as once seen, little people always have to move on&r...
Star Wars Episode 1 – New Posters
Fox and Lucasfilm has released five very nice posters for the upcoming 3D Release of Star Wars Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace which is to be released in cinemas on the 9th Feb. Most Star Wars fans dub Episode 1 the worst of the whole series but as you will notice by these posters someone is clearly absent? Maybe the complete lack of Jar Jar Binks will make people think Lucas as Digitally rem...
Supanova 2012
With the start of a new year comes a new round of conventions to look forward to and one of the foundations of the Australian pop culture convention scene is no doubt the various Supanova tours that occur throughout the year. 2012 is going to be a massive year for Supanova with no less than three separate tours taking place throughout the year. To kick things off we are looking at some of the gues...
Star Wars TV Live Action Update and Speculation!
So this isn’t technically film related, however it’s Star Wars so we make exceptions. While the prequel trilogy had the last theatrical release several years ago, and there’s no discussion of any future film releases in the franchise, Star Wars is certainly alive and well across a number of other mediums. The current ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ series began in 2008 an...
AccessReel Reviews – The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first film in Columbia Pictures’ three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s literary blockbuster The Millennium Trilogy. Directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, the film is based on the first novel in the trilogy, which altogether have sold 50 million copies in 46 countries and become a worldwide phenomenon. The scree...