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AccessReel Reviews – The Next Three Days
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son Luke and teaching at community college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides ther...
AccessReel Reviews: Sanctum
While trying to explore a cave system never before seen by humans, a group of scientists and adventurers become trapped and entwined in a life threatening attempt to escape. Starring Richard Roxburgh and Ioan Gruffudd, Sanctum is a claustrophobic underwater adventure into human sacrifice and ambition. The first few scenes of Sanctum ran by pretty quickly, being that the entire movie is in 3D when ...
Henry Cavill is Superman: The Man of Steel
The internet is abuzz with news that Zack Snyder has cast his leading man for the role of Superman/Clark Kent in his upcoming film Superman: The Man of Steel. Henry Cavill, 27, is a relatively new face on the big screen. He joins the list of actors who have played the role made famous by Christopher Reeve, George Reeves, Tom Welling, Brandon Routh and (ahem) Dean Cain. For those that were hoping t...
Heavy Rain Film Adaptation
In the latest of video game to film adaptation news, it is being reported that the play station 3 exclusive ‘Heavy Rain’ is gathering momentum with David Milch being announced to script the film, his previous works centre mostly around various TV series including ‘Deadwood’ and ‘NYPD Blue’. The video game developed by ‘Quantic Dream’ tells the story ...
AccessReel Trailers – Soul Surfer
Back in 2003, Bethany Hamilton became known worldwide… Unfortunately it was because of an horrific incident involving a shark attack that took her arm. The story of Bethany and her love of Surfing has been made into a movie which is coming out this year. SOUL SURFER directed and co-written by Sean McNamara, AnnaSophia Robb from such films as ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ an...
AccessReel Reviews – Another Year
A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness. ANOTHER YEAR is the latest movie from veteran British filmmaker Mike Leigh. He is known for making serious dramas often of great emotional intensity. H...
Slasher Films to bring us Steve Niles’ Wake The Dead
Slash, former lead guitarist for Guns’N’Roses has set up his own production company ironically called Slasher Films. A lifelong fan of the genre, Slash has 4 new movies on the production slate including an adaptation of Steve Niles’ WAKE THE DEAD. The story focuses on four college students that, like Frankenstein, try to play god by reanimating the dead. Slated to direct is Jay R...
Scre4m Reshoots – Good or Bad thing?
With principal photography wrapping up at the end of the US summer season, Ghostface and Co. are heading back in front of the cameras for a little “tweaking”. The film has been shown to test audiences already and hopefully this isn’t a sign of a lack of confidence in the film. Also released this week is a HD version of the Scre4m trailer that was posted last week. Hit the link be...
7 Stills from Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch
Was checking out some publicity websites this morning and saw these and decided to put them online! SUCKER PUNCH is Zack Snyders next film which hits Cinemas the 24th March starring Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Vanessa Hudgens, Jena Malone, Carla Gugino and Jon Hamm. This film looks impressive all of the accessreel team have put there hands up to review this one! Check out the photos below and a...
Oscar Nominations Announced
The nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards were announced today. AccessReelers in an Australia Day mood will be gratified to see the inclusion of actress Jacki Weaver, nommed for her supporting role in David Michôd’s ANIMAL KINGDOM. The crime drama was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed Australian films of 2010. Also of interest to Australian audiences is the nomination ...
West Australian Museum to hold exhibit for Ledger
The West Australian Museum will be dedicating an exhibit to the late Heath Ledger. Showcasing an array of memorabilia and personal items, the exhibit will pay respect to the young actor who was born and grew up in WA and died much too soon. This is the official press release and information. “The Academy Award won by the late Perth-born actor Heath Ledger will be the centerpiece of an exhibi...
New still for Dredd film
Not only am I incredibly excited about seeing this movie from a film geek’s standpoint I am also enthusiastically curious as a comic fan how Peter Travis’ vision of Dredd will correspond with the classic John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerras’ comic. A new still has emerged that depicts a little more than previous news reports but still not enough to give too much away. Karl Urban, who...