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Joe Wright Directs Thriller

Director Joe Wright is known for his films THE SOLOIST (2009), PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2007) and ATONEMENT (2005). So a certain type of serious drama is what audiences have come to expect from the British director. However, his new film HANNA is a change of pace. Australians Eric bana and Cate Blanchett star. The title role of Hanna is played by Saoirse Ronan the young actor who wowed audiences in AT...

AccessReel Reviews – Here I Am

Fresh out of prison, Karen (Shai Pittman), a beautiful, young Aboriginal woman, finds herself stuck on the streets. She finds sanctuary at a shelter for Aboriginal women where she begins the painful journey of reconnecting with her estranged mother and her young daughter. HERE I AM is a story of struggle. Karen has been in prison and now she has to pull together some kind of life on the outside. W...

No Bigger Boat for Jaws

Jaws will always be one of my favorite movies. I’m sure people owned it on VHs and then switched to DVD and now are hoping to own it on Blu Ray as well. Depending on what you love about the film, you want to enjoy it the way it was intended, with no tampering and no additions to the perfect film that you love.  Well Jaws fans rejoice as Speilberg has announced that he will NOT be digita...

Hobbit Titles and Release Dates Announced

New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures and MGM have announced the titles and release dates for filmmaker Peter Jackson’s two-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit. The first film, titled “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” will be released on December 26, 2012 in Australia and December 14, 2012 ...

AccessReel Reviews – Bridesmaids

Annie (Kristen Wiig), is a maid of honor whose life unravels as she  leads her best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), and a group of colorful  bridesmaids (Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey and  Ellie Kemper) on a wild ride down the road to matrimony. Annie’s life is  a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she  simply must ...

AccessReel Reviews – Cane Toads: The Conquest

CANE TOADS: THE CONQUEST is a comic yet provocative account of Australia’s most notorious environmental blunder from filmmaker Mark Lewis. Shot against the harsh and beautiful landscape of northern Australia, this offbeat documentary tracks the unstoppable journey of the toad across the continent. The latest feature from documentarian Mark Lewis is something of a sequel to his popular award-...

Stars hit the Red Carpet for WA feature film BLAME

The WA film industry is gearing up for the Local Premiere of BLAME filmed here in Perth Australia back in 2010, after a great response from numerous film festivals world wide BLAME is finally coming home and two of the stars of the film are here to Celebrate! Accessreel.com will also be interviewing the guys prior to the Premiere to get the low down of everything BLAME and how hard it was to film ...

AccessReel Reviews – Oranges and Sunshine

ORANGES AND SUNSHINE tells the story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom. She discovered a secret that the British government had kept hidden for years: one hundred and thirty thousand children in care had been sent abroad to commonwealth countries...

AccessReel Reviews – Super 8

In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth – something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined. Usually when I s...

David Fincher’s new project?

As many would know David Fincher’s most recent project ‘The Social Network’ is extremely well regarded. it is now rumoured that his next project may be an adaptation of the novel ‘Panic Attack’ written by Jason Starr. Published in late 2009, the novel ‘Panic Attack’ is a suspenseful thriller following the emotional struggles of a family after a home invasi...

The Dark Tower – Will it happen?

When the news broke that Ron Howard and Brian Grazer were going to bring the Stephen King series The Dark Tower to the big and small screen, there were a lot of people betting against it. The general consensus was that, as the series was being split over 3 Movies and 2 TV seasons, the whole story wouldn’t be cohesive or told in the way that most fans want. Rumours of names were bandied about...

AccessReel Reviews X-Men: First Class

Charting the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were the closest of friends, working together, with other mutants to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between them opened, which...