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AccessReel Reviews – Sleeping Beauty
Death-haunted, quietly reckless, Lucy is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty. In the Sleeping Beauty chamber old men seek an erotic experience that requires Lucy’s absolute submission. The unsettling task starts to bleed into Lucy’s daily life and she develops an increasing need to know what happens to her when she is asleep. Its a rarity I find when the cin...
AccessReel Trailers – One Day
The story concerns Emma (Anne Hathaway) and Dexter (Jim Sturgess) two students at university in Edinburgh in 1988. The film is about the next 20 years of their friendship. The romantic drama will be directed by Lone Scherfig. The Danish director is best known internationally for her 2009 film AN EDUCATION. And yes, Hathaway does an (English) accent. And so does American actress Patricia Clarkson. ...
Bay Reveals Spielberg Fired Fox
The May 2010 firing of actress Megan Fox from the TRANSFORMERS movie series is one of the more infamous showbiz sackings of recent times. The exact events of this tale have been obscured by the usual game of claim and counter-claim that has taken place in the entertainment media. TRANSFORMERS director Michael Bay claimed he fired Fox. Fox claimed she left the franchise to pursue other projects. Ho...
Sydney Supanova 2011
Supanova Sydney has come and gone for 2011 and it proved to be a popular and entertaining show. I managed to attend and check out the exhibition floor along with some of the panels and autograph booths, which were in full swing for most of the weekend. Saturday turned out to be a day with huge crowds for the morning and most of the afternoon, the convention floor was filled with various booths mak...
Starz Takes Noir
Starz has green lit a live action adaptation of the Japanese animation show “noir”. I am not a huge fan of animae, however, a show about undercover female assassins kicking all kinds of ass in a covert mission to find out about their past and the connection to another shady organization, sounds pretty awesome. Do you want to know what is more awesome? Sam (Evil Dead, Spiderman, ...
AccessReel Reviews: Cars 2
Star racecar Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage. Starring the voice talents of Larry the cable guy, Owen Wilson, Michael Caine and Eddie Izzard. Cars 2 was a lot of fun. I could easily spot the voices, especial...
Australian Grand Prix to host Australian Premiere of Senna
Feature documentaries on sporting figures are not common, especially considereing the money and attention generated through professional sport. Documentaries on Soccer, basketball, baseball, boxing are out there, but motorsport seems under represented. The 2003 MotoGP film FASTER is often cited as the best recent documentary in this category. Now it’s joined by a feature examining the career...
Michael John Henry – BLAME
A few days ago I posted up my interview with two of the cast of the Aussie Film BLAME, Damien de Montemas and Ashley Zukerman well now I have my interview with the Director Michael John Henry. This is Michael’s feature film debut. We only had a short 6 minute chat, but it was great to see how enthusiastic he is about his film and the reception it has had in many film festivals world wide. Mi...
AccessReel Trailers – Attack of the Block
It’s not often a Trailer hits the net and I email it straight out to my mates, well this is just one of those! From the producers of ‘Shaun of the Dead’ comes there latest movie “ATTACK OF THE BLOCK” starring pretty much all unknown’s except for the obvious Nick Frost (Paul), Jodie Whittaker (St Trinians) and Luke Treadway (Clash of the Titans). The movie for st...
AccessReel Reviews – BLAME
Seeking retribution for a past crime, a group of young friends invade a man’s home and set out to fake his suicide. When their plan is bungled secrets and lies are exposed that force the group to question each other’s motives. Over the years I haven’t really rated Aussie films too highly, but this year I have been extremely impressed with what’s been hitting our screens. BL...
Grease Sing-A-Long Event
So, classic’s often come back to the big screen but not really like this! Ever wanted to kick back put Grease on and sing to your heart’s content, well you might just have that chance. Event Cinema’s on the 27th July along with Paramount Pictures is bringing Grease Sing-A-Long to to cinemas for one special screening Australia wide. Check out the details after the jump. &nbs...
Fast and the Furious 6 Confirmed?
With the two previous Fast and the Furious films achieving such financial success (‘Fast Five’ generated approximately $584 million worldwide gross with ‘Fast and Furious’ generating approximately $363 million worldwide gross) it’s pretty obvious that the studio would be keen to push on with another instalment in the franchise, director Justin Lin also clearly has ide...