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Oscar Winning Short Hits Perth
Perth folk had reason to cheer on Monday when a particular short animation went home with Oscar. And now we have the opportunity to see why the Academy voters were so impressed. The Flickerfest brings to Perth the Academy Award winner for Best Animated Short, THE LOST THING, by Perth’s own Shaun Tan, and Melbourne’s Andrew Ruhemann, screening as part of the Best of Australian...
Tarantino’s Next Flick – A Western?
Capatilising on the success of this year’s Oscar winning Best Picture – The King’s Speech, Harvey Weinstein has reportedly been talking up a couple of new projects. It appears that The Weinstein Company are in talks with Quentin Tarantino about his new film, a western, that he has written and will present to the Weinsteins within a few months. If you’ve seen Inglourious Bas...
SCRE4M – New Poster
Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey (David Arquette) and Gale (Courteney Cox), who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill (Emma Roberts) and her Aunt Kate (Mary McDonnell). Unfortunately Sidney’s appearance also brings about the return of Ghostface, putti...
AccessReel Reviews – Hall Pass
Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis) are best friends who have a lot in common, including the fact that they have each been married for many years. But when the two men begin to show signs of restlessness at home, their wives (Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate) take a bold approach to revitalizing their individual marriages: granting them a “hall pass,” one week of freedom to ...
AccessReel Reviews – Wasted On The Young
When a high school party goes dangerously off the rails, one teenager finds that revenge is just a computer click away. Darren (Ackland) is the stepbrother of Zack (Russell) Both attend an elite co-ed high school. The stepbrothers have little in common. Darren is an inventive computer geek who is somewhat socially inept. Zack is an A-type personality who lives to dominate others. He is captain of ...
AccessReel Reviews – The Adjustment Bureau
On the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate, ambitious politician David Norris meets beautiful contemporary ballet dancer Elise Sellas —a woman like none he’s ever known. But just as he realizes he’s falling for her, mysterious men conspire to keep the two apart. Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? David learns he is up against the agents of Fate i...
31st Annual ‘Razzie’ Awards
As the 83rd Annual Academy Awards (or ‘Oscars’) is airing in Australia, we watch the delicately dressed talents of Hollywood collect their well-deserved praise for their efforts in cinema. We pay homage to all the great films of the year. We remember those that astounded us, shocked us, moved us and made us laugh, but what about those who made us cringe, laugh at the wrong times, made ...
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...