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AccessReel Trailers – Drive Angry 3D
Nic Cage is back in another preposterous action flick. For some of his fans, his over the top action roles show Cage at his best. Personally I think it would be hard to top his Cameron Poe in CON AIR, but it looks like the makers of DRIVE ANGRY 3D are giving it a red hot go. The feature was shot in 3D rather than post=converted. Despite the number of 3D films on our screens now, many of the live a...
AccessReel Reviews – The Way Back
“In 1941 a mixed group of desperate prisoners broke out of a remote Siberian gulag and made a gruelling overland journey of four thousand miles south to India. This is their story.” One of the best things about the cinematic experience is being shown something you haven’t seen before. It doesn’t have to be jaw-dropping; not every movie has to take us to Pandora. Sometimes i...
Ben C. Lucas – Wasted On The Young
Last Friday I had the opportunity to interview the Director to the upcoming film WASTED ON THE YOUNG shot locally in Perth. This sort of experience is all new to me, I’ve done a few phone interviews in the past but sitting opposite is definitely something I really enjoyed and I do hope to do more. Since this was Ben’s first feature film, I could see he was still quite excited, even tho...
Powers Adaptation
In the wake of the huge success of the Walking Dead television series, spawned from the popular comic book by Robert Kirkman, another comic entity has been given the greenlight; Powers. Powers, created by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, follows a unit of homicide detectives who focus on cases involving super-heroes. Powers, originally acquisitioned by Sony Pictures to be a feature fi...
Profile – Jacki Weaver
As we gear up for the 2011 Oscars, Australians will be hoping that Nicole Kidman takes home a second Oscar for her powerful role in the movie RABBIT HOLE. The sentimental favourite is Jacki Weaver, nominated in the best supporting actress category. The veteran actress has been an important figure in Australian film and theatre for more than 40 years, however, Weaver didn’t have an internatio...
AccessReel Trailers – Bad Teacher Red Band
BAD TEACHER has pretty much crept up on me and this trailer is pretty damn hilarious! BAD TEACHER stars Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel and Justin Timberlake who is still trying to explain to the studio people that hes not an asshole. We don’t have an australian release date as yet but will tell you guys as soon as I find out. Some teachers just don’t give an F. For example, there’s El...
WA Feature Premieres
Last night the WA feature film WASTED ON THE YOUNG had its hometown premiere at the Luna Cinema in Leederville; cast, crew, local pollies and perthonalities strode the red carpet on Oxford Street. There had been considerable Internet buzz about the movie and the packed house was eager to see how accurate the international reviews had been. The film has already done an impressive circuit of f...
‘The Bodyguard’ Remake
It has been announced that Warner Brothers will be remaking the 1992 mega cash cow ‘The bodyguard’. Hiring Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer to pen the script and Dan Lin to produce, Warner Brothers will be updating the story for a contemporary audience. ‘The Body Guard’, starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, shot Houston to international pop super stardom with ...
Director Set for Preacher?
Preacher the comic book series written by Garth Ennis with artwork by Steve Dillon has been the subject of discussion around a film adaptation for some time now. Various rumours have cropped up over recent years of a potential film or TV series to come from the series which ran for 66 regular issues published by Vertigo and ended in 2000. The most recent news has surfaced via a twitter announcemen...
AccessReel Reviews – I Am Number Four
Three are dead. Who is Number Four? D.J. Caruso helms an action-packed thriller about an extraordinary teen, John Smith (Alex Pettyfer), who is a fugitive on the run from ruthless enemies sent to destroy him. Changing his identity, moving from town to town with his guardian Henri (Timothy Olyphant), John is always the new kid with no ties to his past. In the small Ohio town he now calls home, John...
Paramount Secures Scorsese’s Hugo Cabret
In a press release that just hit my inbox, Paramount Pictures announced it will distribute Martin Scorsese’s next film HUGO CABRET starring Asa Butterfield, Chloe Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley and Jude Law. HUGO CABRET will also be Scorsese’s first 3D feature! Coming off films such as ‘Shutter Island’ this one sounds brilliant! Check out the press release below, n...
AccessReel Reviews – Conviction
Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother’s (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction. Conviction stars two time Academy Award Winner Hilary Swank as Betty Ann Waters, a fiercely devoted woman whose life is changed when her brother...