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The Great and Powerful Bruce
Sam Raimi as a director has a particular style, however often divided into two catagories. He’s either the over the top gory horror comedy maestro or the multimillion dollar comic adaptation puppeteer of spiderman, throughout all his movies he has managed to include at least one of his stamps, whether it be the trusty Oldsmobile, Perspective falling, stop motion or a certain charasmatic char...
AccessReel Reviews – The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Boundary-pushing Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock explores the world of product placement, marketing and advertising in POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, a film that was fully financed through product placement from various brands, all of which are integrated transparently into the film. Ever since Morgan Spurlock came out with the Oscar Nominated ‘Super Siz...
AccessReel Reviews – The Beaver
A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communicating. His mission is to heal himself and his family, but not everyone is a happy with this radical form of therapy. If you’ve seen the trailer to this you may still be at a loss as to whether to take THE BEAVER seriously or not. I thought; surely if the studio can’t sell me on the trailer –...
Russian Resurrection 2011
Russian film fans, rejoice! The eighth annual Australian festival of Russian films, Russian Resurrection, has announced its official line up of films for 2011. The program features 15 outstanding new Russian films, including many Australian and international premieres, along with a retrospective of five Russian classics including the 1980 Oscar Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film, MOSCOW D...
Taylor Lautner Abducted for Australian Tour
ABDUCTION is his first Lead Role that Lautner’s been cast in outside of the Twilight series and to be honest with you by looking at the trailer it looks pretty damn good, solid cast, decent plot and by the looks of it plenty of action. Roadshow has just passed through a press release telling us hes on his way to our shores to promote his upcoming movie ABDUCTION. Taylor Lautner (Twilight, Va...
First Official Photo of New Superman
Well with the amount of fake photos that has been flying around the internet in the past few months! Finally Warners have released an official picture of Henry Cavill as the Man Of Steel! And it looks damn sensational, I think fans of Superman should be quite happy with how he looks, he is still a different choice, I personally would have liked to have seen Brendon Routh wear the cape again…...
AccessReel Trailers – Twixt
This is a new and definitely intriguing one to hit the net – Francis Ford Coppola by far one of my favorite Directors/writers behind such films as ‘The Godfather’, ‘Rumble Fish’ and ‘Apocalypse Now’ has just released the trailer to his next film TWIXT. This is quite different to films he has done in the past and also casting Val Kilmer in the lead role is ...
The Man Of Steel Receives Its Editor
The buzz surrounding Zack Snyder’s venture into the Superman universe–”The Man of Steel”–is that they have cast the character of Perry White; the no nonsense, often-times harsh Daily Planet editor, Clark Kent employer and harbinger of Metropolis propaganda. The fact that this film is gaining momentum is pleasing, but this actor is a curious choice indeed – ...
AccessReel Reviews – Rise of the Planet of the Apes
An origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man’s own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy. RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES is a reboot of the film franchise that ran from 1968-1973. It is unconnected with Tim Burton’s 2001 “re-imagining”. The Burton film was a critical failure a...
Nelson Woss – Red Dog
Recorded the Day after the Perth Premiere of Red Dog, Accessreel.com sits down with Producer Nelson Woss to talk about the film. Red Dog is one of those stories that makes you smile but also makes you shed a tear, it’s a fantastic West Australian Story based on the book by Louis de Bernières released back in 2002 titled ‘Red Dog’, Bernières is best known for writing Captain Corel...
AccessReel Trailers – Knights of Badassdom
This looks fun. And it should only help to increase the power and profile of the excellent Peter Dinklage (GAME OF THRONES). The movie is director Joe Lynch’s second feature. The movie has not been officially released yet, but has been doing the festival circuit for several months. The KoB crew (Lynch, Dinklage, Kwanten, Glau) was recently at Comic-Con International spruiking their flick, wh...
Red Dog Review
Based on the legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community in the 1970s. No one is Red Dog’s master until he meets John, an American traveller. The movie adaptation of Louis de Bernières 2002 novel Red Dog is about to arrive in our cinemas. The novel fictionalises a real Red Cloud Kelpie who wandered the Pilbara region of Western Australia in the 1970s. Director Kriv ...