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Takashi Miike’s 13 ASSASSINS will be released on Australian screens next month. It tells the tale of a group of assassins who are brought together on a suicide mission to kill an evil lord. The action sequences in this film are bloody and brilliantly staged. For lovers of no holds-barred screen fighting and swordplay. If you’ve been waiting for a decent samurai flick, this is the one. ...

The Danger Girl comics series was originally released under the ‘Cliffhanger’ label along with other series premieres ‘Battlechasers’ and ‘Crimson’. Created by J. Scott Campbell and Andy Hartnell ‘Danger Girl’ was an action-adventure series featuring a team of all girl super spies travelling the world and completing missions against a variety of vill...

Horrible Bosses is due to hit cinemas this coming Thursday – So I have edited together a bit of footage provided to accessreel.com by the guys at Roadshow Films. In the Featurette we see interview clips with Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Aniston and Jamie Foxx. For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind the...

Details of the next Pixar movie MONSTER UNIVERSITY were recently revealed at the D23 expo, but word has it there are another few exciting prospects for all us animation fans. Although still in the very early stages of development, Pixar have released two new and fairly bizzare concepts. THE UNTITLED PIXAR MOVIE ABOUT DINOSAURS, is obviously not going to be the final title, but at least provides us...

Leonardo DiCaprio has touched down in Sydney today to start the four months filming on Baz Luhrmann’s 3D adaptation ‘The Great Gatsby”. As reported he had a quiet exit via the airport wearing a blue hoodie and with his eyes glued to his phone. This is the first time DiCaprio has worked with Luhrmann since the 1996 film ‘Romeo and Juliet’ the $150 million dollar produc...

ONE DAY is Anne Hathaways next film coming out 1st September, last week I posted the trailer and today Universal Pictures has been kind enough to give us a featurette that gives us a bit more of a look at the story and the cast, it looks like quite the cute film set over a 20 year period.   Twenty years…two people. Directed by Lone Scherfig (director of “An Education,” Acade...

Daniel Radcliffe returns to the screen in his first adult, non-Harry Potter feature film role. He plays young lawyer Arthur Kipps who leaves his son in London to settle the legal affairs of the recently deceased Alice Drablow. He discovers a series of inexplicable accidents and suicides have forced the parents of her village to barricade their children indoors, as if protecting them from an unseen...

It has been a great few weeks for going to the cinemas, with various comic book adaptations , remimaginings like Rise of the planet of the apes and Conan and comedies like Horrible Bosses all lining up to empty eager consumer’s pockets, it is always suprising however which movies are the ones that are actually being recieved well.  Although Conan has just opened with all it’s hack...

Much to my excitment the first trailer to the upcoming film UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING has hit the net via Yahoo! Movies today. I sort of boycotted the last film as there was no Kate Beckinsale so I am extremely happy she is back and by the looks of the trailer it looks fantastic! The vampire warrioress Selene, escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence o...

‘Blade Runner’ is a film which needs no introduction, but I’ll give it a brief one anyhow in case anybody has been living in a cave for 30 years. Released in 1982 ‘Blade Runner’ directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford was a film adaptation of the Phillip K Dick novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ Simply put the film depicts a dystopian...

Released in 2005 the film ‘Sin City’ was directed by Robert Rodriguez with guest directors Frank Miller and Quentin Tarantino. Adapting three main story arcs from the Frank Miller written comic series, ‘Sin City’ was a sound financial success achieving a word wide gross of approximately $158 million with a production budget of $40 million. The film was generally well receiv...

George Lucas is believed to have started developing this film back in 1988 so its taken him pretty much 20 years to get to this point, the first trailer premiered a month or so ago and now we get a second Look! Thanks to the guys over at MTV. The story is based on the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American combat pilots during World War II. World War II rages and the fate of the free world h...