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AccessReel Reviews: Soul Surfer
The true story of Bethany Hamilton, a young surfing enthusiast who, during a casual surf tragically lost her arm in a shark attack. This is the story of her courageous strength in returning to her dream of being a professional surfer. This movie was not what I expected. I was not fully prepared for the religious nature of the film and that was a surprise, but it only slightly took away from the mo...
AccessReel Reviews – Get Low
Based in the 1930s, Get Low is a folk tale/ legend of a surly hermit who famously threw a party for his own funeral while he was still alive. Starring Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray and Lucas Black. Once in a while you go see a movie that you know absolutely nothing about. I was pleased that I didn’t know anything about Get Low before entering the cinema because I always like my ci...
Snowtown Interview
The feature film SNOWTOWN opened this week in Australia to much critical acclaim. The movie dramatises the events of the infamous “Bodies in Barrels” murders in South Australia in the 1990s. It has played the Adelaide festival and in Critics Week at Cannes. There was a bidding war between distributors for UK rights and it has also sold to a French distributor. So we were lucky to...
Batman 3 begins filming
Fans of the current Batman films have reason to be excited with the recent announcement that the next film in the franchise has begun principal photography. This news comes via press release, which also includes the statement that location shooting will take place across three different continents. The next film marks the end of the current story arc for the Batman films, by all accounts it seems ...
AccessReel Reviews – Snowtown
When sixteen-year old Jamie Vlassakis is introduced to a charismatic man, a friendship begins.As the relationship grows so do Jamie’s suspicions, until he finds his world threatened by both his loyalty for, and fear of, his newfound father-figure John Bunting, Australia’s most notorious serial killer. SNOWTOWN is based on the true story of the notorious South Australian “Bodies i...
50 Cents For Odd Thomas
Stephen Sommer’s film adaptation of Dean Koontz’s novel “Odd Thomas” is trudging along. Set in a Californian Dessert town where Thomas, short order cook with clairvoyant abilities, encounters a man with a link to dark and malicious forces. There isn’t much known about the production as yet, filming has started in Mexico, with a vague release date set in 2012, that it ...
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Trailer
Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he’s not sure if it’s love — or if she’s a ruthless con artist who’s using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the Queen Anne’s Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard, Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn’t know who ...
Tim Burton begins shooting Dark Shadows
Filming begins this week on DARK SHADOWS, which brings the cult classic television series to the big screen under the direction of Tim Burton. The film’s all-star ensemble cast includes Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Bella Heathcote, Chloe Moretz, and newcomer Gulliver McGrath. The original DARK SHADOWS was a gothic soap...
AccessReel Trailers – The Adventures of Tin Tin
The trailer for THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN:THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN has hit the ‘net hard in the last 24 hours. Herge’s famous cartoon hero is set to appear in a movie directed by Steven Spielberg. The cast includes BILLY ELLIOT’s Jamie Bell as the intrepid young journalist and the current Bond – Daniel Craig – will star as Red Rackham the pirate. The trailer sho...
Resident Evil 5 Title?
Things appear to be firming up for another film in the Resident Evil franchise with a few comments direct from series star Milla Jovovich herself via her twitter account. The actress made reference to one of the shooting locations for Resident Evil 5 as well as a possible title for the film. The film is currently scheduled for release during September 2012 which is just under two years following t...
WA short to hit the Big Screen
So what’s a short film? There are plenty of theories about what the ideal length of a short is. Some say under thirty minutes, others say under fifteen. Short basically means “shorter” than a feature length film. Shorts exist to train up filmmakers and sometimes we, the audience, get to see them in our edgier, artier cinemas. West Australian filmmaker Stuart Bender has a reputati...
Monsters Sequel Announced
The indie low-budget sci-fi hit of 2010 was Gareth Edwards’ MONSTERS. The film is set in near future Mexico on the edge of a massive infected zone that reaches all the way to the US border. The Zone is home to strange forms of alien life that arrived six years previously on a crashed NASA probe. The story concerns a cynical photographer escorting an American industrialist’s daughter th...