Phil Jeng Kane
Phil has written for magazines, corporate videos, online ads, and even an app. He writes with one eye on the future, one eye on the past and a third eye on the Lotto numbers. His social bits are here.
Uncharted Waters – The Personal History of Wayne Lynch
Perth dwellers will have another opportunity to see UNCHARTED WATERS, the documentary feature about Australian surfing legend Wayne Lynch. Beginning his journey in Lorne, south-west Victoria, he made an impression on a board from the age of twelve, although he remembers an affinity for the ocean from even earlier. Those who saw him surf as a fifteen-year-old described him with terms like boy wond...
Her Review
In the San Francisco of the near future, a man called Theodore Twombly (Phoenix) struggles with his life post his divorce. Theodore has a job writing love letters for people who can’t. He is depressed and lonely and when not working, fills his hours playing computer games. He occasionally has contact with his friend Amy (Adams) but his life is in a holding pattern. Then he purchases a new generati...
Inside Llewyn Davis Review
It is 1961, Greenwich Village, New York City. Llewyn Davis is a musician struggling to make it in the folk scene. He has management and a record label. He performs regularly at folk hot spot The Gaslight Café. However he is discontented. The reality is his record has not got him the attention he wants, he is not particularly sought after as a performer and he is sleeping on a succession of friends...
American Hustle Review
Irving Rosenfeld (Bale) is a small time con artist who dreams of bigger things. He is searching for a soul mate and believes he has found one when he meets fellow con artist Sydney Prosser (Adams). Their relationship is passionate and fulfilling. The one flaw in this perfect scenario is that Irving is married to Rosalyn (Lawrence) and he feels an obligation to his adopted son. Irving is a con man ...
Philomena Review
PHILOMENA is based on the 2009 book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee written by Martin Sixsmith. The book is based on the true story of an unmarried teenage mother in Ireland in the 1950s. The attitude towards her and other young women who gave birth out of wedlock was harsh and unforgiving. Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea where she and other unmarried mothers had to work to pay o...
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Review
There are many who describe the movie ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY (2004) as one of the most quotable comedies ever made. These people then spend the rest of the evening disproving their theory by drinking heavily and doing increasingly slurred renditions of their favourite scenes, heavy with the phrases, “I love lamp,” “You stay classy San Diego” and “I’m kind of a big deal.” It’s happen...
Mystery Road
Ivan Sen’s BENEATH CLOUDS (2002) marked him as a talent to watch. His next films DREAMLAND (2009) and TOOMELAH (2011) confirmed his status as an artist and craftsman. His new feature MYSTERY ROAD is Sen’s first step towards genre movies. He has tackled a mystery, added a dash of Western and given the whole thing his own spin. Aaron Pedersen plays Jay Swan a police detective who has just returned t...
Diana
You’re a savvy AccessReeler. You’re obviously intercepting this on Google Glass or perhaps streaming the zeitgeist through your smartphone, so you’re already well aware that some UK critics have panned DIANA, the new biopic of Princess Diana, formerly HRH the Princess of Wales. But as yours truly is an AccessReel reviewer who has also seen the movie, (I am your eyes!), I can’t help but feel those ...
We’re the Millers Review
WE’RE THE MILLERS is the story of David Burke (Jason Sudeikis), a low-status weed dealer, who find himself owing money to his supplier (Ed Helms). Helms insists he smuggles a ‘smidge’ of marijuana back across the border with Mexico. David realizes that a single man driving a van appears suspicious, whereas a vacationing family in a motorhome will go right under the radar, as it were. So David pays...
Behind the Candelabra Review
Liberace was a one-off. He was piano prodigy who grew up to be one of the highest paid entertainers in the world. He was reviled by the critics for his musical choices and his allegedly sloppy playing. He was beloved by his mostly female audience for his glamour and sense of showmanship. He was regarded by many as a joke, a purveyor of easy-listening mush, the Andre Rieu of his era. If Liberace is...
Mud Review
Two teenage boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the bounty hunters on his trail and to reunite him with his true love. MUD focuses on the life of 14 year old Ellis (Sheridan) who lives on a houseboat with his parents. His father Senior (Ray McKinnon) fishes the river and Ellis helps to sell the catch to the people of the small town nearby. Ellis’s best friend is also 14, a ...
The Hangover Part 3 Review
THE HANGOVER (2009) was a world-wide phenom’ wherein director Todd Phillips took the crudity and fratboy energy of his films OLD SCHOOL and ROAD TRIP genetically modified the ingredients in a Thermomix, sprinkled pixie dust on the concoction and produced a new movie with box office approaching $500 million. People loved THE HANGOVER. Film hipsters who hate everything thought it was funny. Your unc...