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AccessReel Reviews – The Grey
Your classic Man vs Nature as Liam Neeson and friends struggle to survive in wild Alaska after their plane crashes. On top of the freezing conditions and complete isolation, the plane happens to land in the middle of a wolf pack’s hunting territory. Thus the battle begins as the wolves hunt down the humans threatening their turf. Continuing in his new vein of ‘aging sentimental action ...
Bayformers to continue…
Following the wildly financially successful release of ‘Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon’ during 2011, speculation has never ended about the future of the Transformers film franchise. Would a new instalment happen? Would it involve Michael Bay? Will the cast return? There was speculation of Jason Statham coming onboard for a new Transformers project as it seemed increasingly unlikely t...
Accessreel Reviews – This Means War
Two of the world’s top secret agents are best friends who never let anything come between them — until they inadvertently fall for the same woman. It’s all-out war between them, as the two spies battle each other with high-tech surveillance, advanced tactics, and an arsenal capable of bringing down a small country. At the same time, she struggles with the difficult task of choosi...
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Trailer Debuts
20th Century Fox has just released the first trailer to the upcoming Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter based on the 2010 novel by Seth Grahame-Smith who also penned the screenplay. The film is directed by Timur Bekmambetov and is produced by Bekmambetov and Tim Burton. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter explores the secret life of our greatest President, and the untold story that shaped our natio...
Full Winners List for the BAFTA’s
Well the BAFTA’s were held Sunday just gone and with the lead up to the Oscars it sometimes dictates who comes out a winner at the Feb 26th Event. Overall I’m really happy with the Christopher Plummer was brilliant in Beginners and same with Jean Dujardin from the Artist he recently did a cameo on Saturday Night LIVE and pretty much stole the show for me and lastly The Skin I live In w...
Phantom Menace takings keep climbing
The highest box office grossing instalment in the Star Wars franchise, ‘Episode 1: The Phantom Menace’ has just re-entered cinemas around the world with the first of the 3D re-releases for the saga. The film had previously reached some staggering heights with a worldwide box office taking of over $920 million, all from a production budget of approximately $115 million, so despite its m...
Project X – Makes Superbad look like a teaparty?
Project X is an upcoming comedy produced by The Hangover director Todd Phillips. The film stars Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper and Jonathan Daniel Brown, and centers around a group of teenagers who document a house party which suddenly goes wrong. The film is shot in a home video sort of style which lately there has been a stack of these films most recently with the film ‘Chronicle’. Proje...
AccessReel Review – Killer Elite
Inspired by true events, Killer Elite is an action/adventure/spy film following Danny (Statham), one of the world’s best special-ops agents, who is lured from his self-imposed exile to rescue his former mentor Hunter (De Niro). Traversing the globe from Australia to Mexico, to Paris and Oman, Danny takes on a rogue group of SAS soldiers led by a beastly Clive Owen to win Hunter’s freed...
Perth Festival Reviews – Goodbye First Love
GOODBYE FIRST LOVE chronicles the romance between Camille and Sullivan, which begins during their adolescence. Perthians, if you’re looking for something a little more thoughtful than your standard popcorn flick, tonight, then perhaps GOODBYE, FIRST LOVE (Un Amour De Jeunesse) will be your cup of chai. This is the final evening of its Somerville run (8:00PM, Sunday Feb 8). This Franco-...
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...