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The first two Batman movies (Batman Begins and The Dark Knight), cleverly took ideas and themes from various Batman books namely, The Dark Knight Returns, Year One and The Long Halloween.   According to Aint It Cool News, the story for the new Batman film, “The Dark Knight Rises” will feature the character Hugo Strange. The new films plot will reportedly crib storylines straight o...

The trailer for the film adaptation of the Green Lantern was recently released, we’ve now had some time to digest the footage and have a think about how things are shaping up so far. I’m excited about the film coming out, being a long time Green Lantern reader I’ve followed Hal Jordan on many of his stories from the destruction of Coast City in the death of Superman story line, o...

With everything happening with MGM over the past twelve months we thought we would never see another ‘Bond’ film but lucky for us a Manhattan Judge has just approved MGM to file for bankruptcy, looks like a massive company re-structure and new financial backers has helped push all this through. Even the remake of Robocop was unlikely but by reports today theres a good chance that could...

With our ALIENS screening just days away on Wednesday December 8th, AccessReel has decided to countdown the 5 reasons we love the James Cameron movie. The Number 3 reason is a brawling bunch of warriors – the colonial marines of the U.S.S. Sulaco. Something has happened to the colony on the planet LV-426. It’s the same place where Ellen Ripley and the now-deceased crew of the Nostromo,...

San Diego Comic-Con International is one of if not the largest convention in the US celebrating the popular arts. The con had its start in San Diego during the 1970’s where it has continued to reside growing into the huge event that it is today. At its core this convention has primarily been centred on the comics-industry however in recent years it has received greater interest from the movi...

With our ALIENS screening mere days away on Wednesday December 8th, AccessReel has decided to countdown the 5 reasons we love the James Cameron movie. Number 5 was actor Paul Rudd. Number 4 is the original Ridley Scott film that started the whole franchise off.  Director Ridely Scott made two solid gold contributions to the sci-fi movie genre. One was BLADERUNNER (1982) and the other was his ...

In interesting news today The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced via Press release the hosts of the 83rd Academy Awards on the 27th February 2011. In previous years we usually see comedians and in the past 15 years or so hosts are usually comprising between Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Steve Martin, Jon Stewart and even Hugh Jackman was thrown in there for the 2009 awards. I...

It is a sad day today, Leslie Nielsen, one of the funniest men in the past three generations, has passed away today following a battle with pneumonia. Surrounded by his family and friends when he died at approximately 5:34am at Fort Lauderdale hospital in Florida where he was admitted twelve days earlier. Leslie will be survived by his two daughters Maura Nielsen Kaplan and Thea Nielsen Disney. Bo...

As of last week, Universal Studios in the U.S. had removed the prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing to an undertermined date. Universal has given the date of October 14 2011 as the date that sees the new film bow in US cinemas. Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty.  It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mis...

Paramount Pictures hands us the new trailer to the upcoming film COWBOYS & ALIENS starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell. Jon Favreau is behind the camera after directing the last two ‘Iron Man’ films and the script is written by the guys who penned the Transformers films Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. This film ticks a stack of boxes for me, story, ca...