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AccessReel Reviews – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
As the synopsis suggests, the highly anticipated next chapter in the Twilight Saga is about to hit big screens all over the world but this time around walking out of the cinema it clearly dawned on me that Twilight failed to sparkle. Let it be known that I actually liked Eclipse I gave it a 4 out of 5 (mainly because it was in Digital and we saw it on IMAX) but without those I still would have giv...
Fassbender for Robocop?
Not sure if I have mentioned that there will be a remake ( or “remaining) of the 1987 cult favourite Robocop, but there will be, Darren Aronofsky was once involved in the project but backed away and now they have José Padilha ( Elite Squad) on board. So now that we are up to scratch on the goss we can move onto the more interesting aspects. Padilha has slipped that if he had his way, ...
SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN heading to the movies?
The SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN was a TV series that ran through the mid to late 1970’s following a series of direct to television movies that were aired in 1973. Lee Majors played the central role in the franchise which later spawned a spin off TV series called The Bionic Woman. This spinoff series was also remade in recent years only to be quickly cancelled due to low ratings. Back to the SIX M...
The Hunger Games Full-Length Trailer Debuts
Lionsgate has premiered the Full-Length Trailer of THE HUNGER GAMES via Apple Trailers, we only had a very short teaser that came out a while ago so fans of the series have been really hanging out for this! I personally don’t know much about THE HUNGER GAMES but with a pretty impressive young cast, including Australian Liam Hemsworth I’m quite looking forward to it. Every year in...
New role for Tom Hanks?
Tom Hanks returned to the role of Woody in 2010’s ‘Toy Story 3’ which turned out to be a critical and financial success after a long period of time had passed since the previous instalment for the franchise, in 2010 Hanks also worked on the TV series ‘The Pacific’, and in 2011 has appeared alongside Julia Roberts in ‘Larry Crowne’, a film which he also dir...
Jonathan Teplitzky – Burning Man
I sit down with Director Jonathan Teplitzky to chat about his upcoming Australian Film BURNING MAN starring Matthew Goode, Bojana Novakovic, Essie Davis and Kerry Fox. BURNING MAN recently premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and has been extremely well received. Teplitzky was also behind the camera for films such as Better Than Sex (00) and Gettin’ Square (03) plus can also be credited for dire...
Shane Jacobsen – Santa’s Apprentice
With the silly season about to descend upon us, we’re due to get hit with a flurry of Christmas-themed films over the next couple of months, with one of the more interesting being the animated feature Santa’s Apprentice. A French/Australian co-production, the film’s plot is all in the title: Santa shows orphan boy Nicholas the ropes. However, what sets it apart from the usual hol...
AccessReel Reviews – Moneyball
The story of Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget. It’s 2002 and he has to rebuild a formerly powerful team without sufficient financial resources to do so. He employs computer-generated analysis to draft his players. The story of MONEYBALL is known to American baseball fans, but for the rest of the world this tale might se...
AccessReel Reviews – Immortals
Eons after the Gods won their mythic struggle against the Titans, a new evil threatens the land. Mad with power, King Hyperion has declared war against humanity. Amassing a bloodthirsty army of soldiers disfigured by his own hand, Hyperion has scorched Greece in search of the legendary Epirus Bow, a weapon of unimaginable power forged in the heavens by Ares. Only he who possesses this bow can unle...
Snow White and the Huntsman Trailer Debuts
Universal has released the trailer to the highly anticipated film SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN starring Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron who plays the Evil Queen. The trailer has a bit of everything but it will be good to see a bit more dialog and maybe even some dwarves but at the moment for a first trailer it looks pretty damn impressive. Kristen Stewart who we all know from t...
Mission Impossible 4 Behind the Scenes at Burj Khalifa
Gearing up to the release of Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol on the 15th December Paramount Pictures have released a Behind the Scenes Video of the shoot at Burj Khalifa the tallest building in the world in Dubai. Burj Khalifa is 2,723 ft tall and took 5 years to build and a little bit more trivia theres also 24,348 windows! Last week Paramount Pictures was nice enough to show some ...
AccessReel Reviews – The Debt
The espionage thriller begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Helen Mirren) and Stefan (Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Ciarán Hinds). All three have been venerated for decades by their country because of the mission that they undertook back in 1966, when the trio (portrayed, respectively, by Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, and Sam ...