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 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...
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...
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-...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 ...
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...
