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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...

A reboot of ‘The Crow’ franchise has been rumoured to be in development for some time, based on a comic book series by James O’Barr in the 1990’s the original film adaptation was produced in 1994 with Brandon Lee in the headlining role. Aside from film and comics ‘the Crow’ franchise was also adapted into a short lived television series in 1998. The reboot film ...

Friends with Benefits is due to hit Australian Cinemas on the 18th August starring Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake and Woody Harrelson. Accessreel has edited together a featurette with interviews from the cast and some behind the scenes footage. A young female head-hunter (Mila Kunis) in New York convinces a potential recruit (Justin Timberlake) to accept a job in the Big Apple. Despite an attractio...

SUBMARINE is the highly-acclaimed debut feature from Richard Ayoade (star of THE IT CROWD and NATHAN BARLEY), based on the hilarious, best-selling novel by Joe Dunthorne. In his head, 15-year-old Welsh schoolboy Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) is a cool literary genius. In reality, he’s socially inept and unpopular. Oliver has set himself two tasks for the summer: to lose his virginity (before i...

More casting news has been circling around as Milla Jovovich looks to be returning with some familiar faces for the next instalment in the Resident Evil franchise. Paul WS Anderson looks to be at the helm of directing duties once again in this instalment and it appears that Sienna Guillory will return in the role of Jill Valentine. Followers of the franchise would recall Jill Valentine appearing i...

Casting appears to be continuing for the sequel to the Stephen Sommer’s directed film ‘G.I. Joe’ with some rumours speculating that veteran actor Bruce Willis is in talks to join the project. Willis appeared on screens in 2010 in the comic book adaptation ‘Red’, and has a number of projects currently in the post-production and pre-production phases of development. It ...