The Accessreel.com Interviews

Leigh Whannell is an Australian filmmaker and actor. He has written multiple films that were directed by his friend James Wan, including Saw (2004), Dead Silence (2007), Insidious (2010), and Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013). Whannell made his directorial debut with Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015), and has since directed two more films, Upgrade (2018) and The Invisible Man (2020). Whannell and Wan are the...

We talk to Melissa Barrera and Alisha Weir about the film ABIGAIL After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with...

Freya Allan is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Princess Cirilla of Cintra in the Netflix series The Witcher. She also appears as young Sam in the 2021 film Gunpowder Milkshake, as the younger version of The Widow in the AMC series Into the Badlands, and as Mae in the upcoming film Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. This time around Freya is playing Iris in the movie Baghead a...

With two Australia ladies taking the leads in the brand new EVIL DEAD RISE we had the opportunity to chat to both of them a little while ago. Alyssa you may know from playing the role Queen Aslaug in Vikings and Lily's feature film debut was in the 2012 film Mental with many big and small screen roles since. This time around they play sisters Beth and Ellie and have to deal with the demon inside o...

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is just about to land in cinemas and we chat to Salma Hayek (Kitty Softpaws) and Director Joel Crawford together then Harvey Guillen who's a new character to the franchise and you will know from TV's What We Do In The Shadows. Enjoy!

John Leguizamo is an American actor, comedian, and film producer. He rose to fame with a co-starring role in Super Mario Bros. (1993) as Luigi, and a supporting role in the crime drama Carlito's Way (1993). He later notably starred in the film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has since appea...

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Sharlto Copley is a South African actor. His acting credits include roles in the Academy Award-nominated science fiction film District 9, the 2010 adaptation of The A-Team, the science fiction film Elysium, the science fiction horror film Europa Report and the dark fantasy adventure film Maleficent. He also played the title character in the science fiction film Chappie, Jimmy in Hardcore Henry, an...

Sir Mark Rylance is an English actor, playwright and theatre director. He is known for his roles on stage and screen having received numerous awards including an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, and three Tony Awards. Rylance's film appearances include Prospero's Books (1991), Angels and Insects (1995), Institute Benjamenta (1996), Intimacy (2001), and The Other Bole...

Elvis is about to explode onto our cinema screens and we had the change to speak to Olivia Dejonge who plays Priscilla & Producer/Costume Designer/Production Designer extraordinaire Catherine Martin - two separate interviews which we put together for this Elvis Special! Take a listen and enjoy!

Short Interview - Colin Trevorrow made his feature directorial debut with the science fiction comedy Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) to critical and commercial success. Trevorrow achieved mainstream recognition for his work on the Jurassic World entries of the Jurassic Park franchise, which began when he co-wrote and directed the first installment in 2015, Jurassic World, as part of a new trilogy. Af...

AMBULANCE opens in cinemas April 7 and we were lucky enough to have a chat with Michael Bay who most of you will know from behind the camera on films such as The Rock, Armageddon, The Island, 13 Hours in Benghazi, The Transformers franchise and many many more! Obviously we chatted about the film but we also dived into some of the history with his previous films with anecdote’s from working with Se...

Emile Hirsch is best known for portraying Chris McCandless in Into the Wild (2007). He has starred in other notable films such as The Girl Next Door (2004), Lords of Dogtown (2005), Speed Racer (2008), Milk (2008), Lone Survivor (2013) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). This time around hes playing the Dad in the small budget film FREAKS opposite Bruce Dern, Amanda Crew and newcomer and rea...

Myles Pollard who everyone will know from films such as Drift & The Gateway and via the small screen on McLeod’s Daughters is returning the big screen in Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan playing Flight Lieutenant Frank Riley – its a small role but a pivotal one to the story which Myles explains in the interview – he also steals the film with one of the best one-liners that got a great response...

A few weeks back I had the opportunity to chat to David Kross who plays Bert Trautmann in true story The Keeper – you may know him from films such as The Reader (2008) opposite Kate Winslet or Spielberg’s War Horse (2011). We all love a good true story and this one is definitely worth your time. Take a listen below Based on an incredible true story, THE KEEPER follows Bert Trautmann, a German pris...

LOUD KRAZY LOVE, a new documentary that details the harrowing journey of KoRn co-founder Brian Welch will be released exclusively in Australia at Event Cinemas May 15, 2019. The sound Brian “Head” Welch helped pioneer with KoRn in the early ‘90s provided identity to a generation of misfits and made him a global rock star. Famous, wealthy, and worshipped in the spotlight, an adolescent self-loathin...

Trevor Jamieson is soon becoming one of Australia’s best actors, coming mainly from a theatre background Trevor has be on the small screen on such shows as Cleverman, Lockie Leonard and most recently Black Comedy.. this time around hes playing the role of Fingerbone Bill in the newly released film STORM BOY which was made famous by David Gulpilil in the original 1976 classic. The film is available...

Christian Rivers is a New Zealand storyboard artist, visual effects supervisor, special effects technician and director. He first met Peter Jackson as a 17-year-old and storyboarded all of Jackson’s films since Braindead. He made his directing debut for the film adaptation of Mortal Engines after working on the Splinter Unit directing on the Hobbit Trilogy and he won an Academy Award for Best Visu...

Julius Avery is an West Australian director who wrote and directed his first feature named Son of a Gun starring Ewan McGregor, Alicia Vikander and Brenton Thwaites back in 2014. Since then he has been tapped by J.J. Abrams company bad Robot to direct the Film Overlord which is just about to hit cinemas.. Avery is now working on his next film with J.J. titled Heavy and has also recently been annou...

Tim Minchin is a composer, musician, actor, writer and director. He was raised in Perth Western Australia he is known for his live musical comedy act, writing the music and lyrics for Matilda the musical and for playing rockstar Atticus Fetch in the David Duchovny series Californication. Tim is set to tour Australia in 2019 and star in the TV series Upright.. in the new Robin Hood movie he plays t...

W had the opportunity to interview Hollywood royalty Jamie Lee Curtis, she needs little introduction from her film debut in the original Halloween movie back in 1978 to 40 years later Jamie reprises the role of Laurie Strode the interview may be short but I found it to be easily one of the top ten chats I have had in the near 10 years accessreel.com has been around.

Stephen McCallum has recently directed his debut feature film. 1% is an intense drama about an outlaw motorcycle gang called the Copperheads. McCallum has been working towards this goal for a number of years. He graduated from the Australian Film Television and Radio School in 2011. He has directed TV commercials, as well as the popular online Marriage Equality ad – It’s Time. He was second unit d...

Stephen McCallum has recently directed his debut feature film. 1% is an intense drama about an outlaw motorcycle gang called the Copperheads. McCallum has been working towards this goal for a number of years. He graduated from the Australian Film Television and Radio School in 2011. He has directed TV commercials, as well as the popular online Marriage Equality ad – It’s Time. He was second unit d...

Continuing our Cinefest Oz Coverage we also got to speak to the Director and one of the stars of The Merger which was up for the film prize.. its about to come out in cinemas. Mark Grentell was last behind the camera for Backyard Ashes in 2014 this time around hes with The Merger that tells the story of former professional football player Troy Carrington who has returned home to the fictional town...

CinefestOz 2018 was this past week and we had the opportunity to interview three of the members of the Film Jury who had the incredibly hard decision to award the $100,000 film Prize, Take a listen below to our chat with Sigrid Thornton, Michael Caton and Tasma Walton at Studio Bistro just before the Jury Lunch.