Saili, an unassuming villager and taro farmer, lives happily with his wife Vaaiga and their teenage daughter Litia. Their existence, whilst happy and peaceful is unconventional. Vaaiga has been banished from her ancestral village for many years. Saili faces serious threats to his plantation as well as his family and has been denied his father’s chiefly title. It’s not uncommon while wa...
January 28th will play host to a free screening to launch the WA made community film Barragup Yarns by Simon Lyons. Access Reel’s Sian Dhu picks Lyon’s brains about not only his film, but tips for aspiring WA film-makers. Everyone is invited to celebrate the launch of the WA made film Barragup Yarns with a free screening to take place in Mandurah on Saturday January 28th. Barragup Yarn...
Matt King is a lawyer who lives in Hawaii, He tries to re-connect with his two daughters after his wife suffers a boating accident. George Clooney stars in this shambling story about family, parenting and fidelity. As is often the case with this actor, he plays a character at variance with his glossy, man-about-town image. That image sells “Nespresso”, but Clooney is more interested in...
Having just returned from a two year stint working in UK Cinema, Access Reel’s writer Sian Dhu takes a look at who has it better, Aussies or Poms? As a kid I hated being an Australian film goer. I always felt deprived. It seemed like every second film came out in the UK ages before we got it, and others we never even got on video let alone at the cinema. None of the big stars ever made the l...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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&#...
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 ...
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...
