Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (the only female director to ever do so) may have started her career with cult favourite actioners like Point Break and Strange Days, but she has built up quite a reputation over her last few movies in making deep, intense military thrillers with a sharp political message through The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty. It’s …

When it comes to the public perception of movie/TV awards shows, the Screen Actors Guild Awards sometimes gets lost in the shuffle, sandwiched as it is between the Golden Globes and the Oscars. But the SAG’s, held this past Saturday night, is still a big number on the Hollywood award season dance card, and this year it was even more …

Welcome to our Weekly Round-Up for the The Extras! A collection of the 15 most popular movie related clips, posters, pics and just plain cool stuff posted on our Twitter profile and Facebook page using the hashtag #TheMoviesExtras in the last week. Remember, these are only the contributions that received the most likes and views since last Thursday, so if …

You would think that after the news that Joseph Fiennes will play Michael Jackson in a fun dramedy set around the events of 9/11 that this week couldn’t get any more WTF?! And you would be wrong. Because somehow, what you might think is a prank, or some super long unfunny SNL sketch is actually real: Kevin Spacey – yes, …

  When Kervyn first told me to write up something about Trolls I wasn’t sure the world was ready to find out about the inner workings of themovies and its writing team, but as it turns out they’re actually making a movie based on the iconic recognisable toys with the colourful silly hair – Troll dolls. I’m sure they have a …

Star Wars is pretty easy to explain, right? After all, it involves space wizards duelling with glow-swords while walking carpets and wise-cracking pilots lend support. Not quite, actually. There’s a massive continuity behind Star Wars, an entire galaxy of characters, storylines and events that make films such as Star Wars: The Force Awakens the mere tip of the iceberg when …

2015 was not the best of years for animated films. Inside Out was very good and a money maker, but most of the animated movies failed to live up to hype with only Minions also really being a financial success. That’s largely because most of these films are all competing for the same market and with more strong players in …

Not too much has been revealed about the next Jurassic World, but what we do know so far is that it will star dinosaurs and that the dinosaurs will be dangerous. And that is essentially all they need to make a new Jurassic movie. But we also know that Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard will reprise their roles as …