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...
Five people, who have become trapped in an elevator in an office building, become increasingly aware of an evil presence as tensions rise. Directed by John Erick Dowdle with the story and concept created by M. Night Shyamalan. Devil is an inclusion in the ‘Night Chronicles’ a collection of thriller and horror films conceived and produced by Shyamalan. Running only eighty minutes, Devil...
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...
I have noticed a trend of late… and it comes in the form of weedy, mousy looking nerds. Gone are the cheesy over the top Freddie Prince Juniors of the teenage movie realm. It seems that nerds are the new black, and they have been producing movies left, right and centre. I must admit that I actually thought that the guy from ‘The Social Network’, and the guy from ‘Scot...
We’ve been keeping an eye on the development of the Uncharted film here at accessreel over the past few months and things are starting to build some momentum. Last we heard was confirmation that ‘Three King’s’ and ‘Fighter’ director David O. Russell is attached to direct the film, now on the casting side of things it has been announced that Mark Wahlberg w...
Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical photo-journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border. This area has been off-limits since alien spores returned to Earth on a space probe. Many aliens live in the infected zone, from mushroom-like plant life through to giant, tentacled jellyfish creatures. The ne...
Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) is an expectant first-time father whose wife’s due date is a mere five days away. As Peter hurries to catch a flight home from Atlanta to be at her side for the birth, his best intentions go completely awry when a chance encounter with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis) forces Peter to hitch a ride with Ethan-on what turns out to be a cross-co...
People have been whispering about a possible reboot of the Buffy franchise, tip toeing around what they think would be the best way to go about it, but now Warner Brothers have shouted from their mountain top that it’s happening people so get ready! Warner Brothers have confirmed Atlas’ Steve Alexander and Charles Roven along with Roy Lee and Doug Davidson from Vertigo Entertainment wi...
After the next instalment of the Mission Impossible franchise was announced last year there were speculations that someone within the film would be taking over for Tom Cruise and rebooting the franchise thereafter. Cruise is currently filming Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol, Directed by Brad Bird and also starring Jeremy Renner, who apparently is being groomed to take over the franchise. When...
