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AccessReel Reviews – Monsters
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...
AccessReel Reviews – DUE DATE
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...
The Buffy Reboot
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...
Jeremy Renner to take over Mission Impossible franchise
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...
Disney’s Tangled – Pub Thugs and Gothel.
Disney gives us a bit of a look at a couple of ‘Villians’ from there upcoming animated feature TANGLED based off the story of Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm. Voice talent is provided by Zachary Levi from TV’s CHUCK and Mandy Moore who we don’t really see to much these days! I’ve been looking forward to this one ever since the first trailer hit the net, sometimes its r...
AccessReel Reviews – Red Hill
It’s Constable Shane Cooper’s first day of work in the small Australian town of Red Hill. He has his hands full dealing with a storm warning, an escaped convict and a tough egotistical boss. The advertising tagline for RED HILL is Revenge Just Rode Into Town. As much as director, writer, producer and editor (!) Patrick Hughes intended his tale to be an Australian take on th...
Underworld 4 Title Revealed
Recently we heard that directing duo Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein will be directing the fourth film in the Underworld franchise. The duo have previously collaborated on the 2010 film ‘Shelter’ which stars Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, as well as the Swedish TV series ‘Spung’. In addition to the directors, IGN has provided an update reporting that the title has al...
Paranormal Activity 3
Due to the success of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 at the box office this past October, plans are in motion to gear up for another trip down spooky lane with PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3. Oren Peli (Director of PA 1 and Producer of PA 2), is set to return as a part of the production team, but as to who’s Directing, it hasn’t been announced yet. The third film will most likely follow the 2nd film as ...
Lincoln – Spielberg’s Long Awaited Biopic Set for 2012
Dreamworks have announced that the long awaited biopic LINCOLN is at long last going to get made. STEVEN SPIELBERG has tried hard in the last 15 years, since before the release of Schindler’s List, to get this project off the ground and it looks like all the stars are aligning for him with principle photgraphy in 2011 and a release in 2012. Long associated with the part was LIAM NEESON. He, ...
AccessReel Reviews – The Last Exorcism
The Last Exorcism brings audiences as close to a real exorcism as they would ever want to get. When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage daugh...
Lindsay Lohan replaced by Malin Akerman
It appears that Lindsay Lohan has had yet another set back in her career. Previously announced as depicting the lead in ‘inferno’ a biopic of Porn actress Linda Lovelace, Lindsay has recently been removed from the production and replaced with Malin Akerman Several reports on the incident assure the public that the decision was purely based on concerns for Lindsay’s health and wel...
AccessReel Reviews – Fair Game
A suspense-filled glimpse into the dark corridors of political power, FAIR GAME is a riveting action-thriller based on the autobiography of real-life undercover CIA operative VALERIE PLAME (Naomi Watts), whose career was destroyed and marriage strained to its limits when her covert identity was exposed by a politically motivated press leak. As a covert officer in the CIA’s Counter-Proliferat...