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 …
Ah studio tampering. If it weren’t for the people bankrolling the industry, movies would be non-existent. That being said, backing a film can be risky. And when you’re rolling millions of dollars into a production, you’re going to want to see where the money is going. Some studios however, want more. They want to be hands on, a decision that …
In what can only be a bid to jump onto the massively lucrative ‘Videogame to Big screen’ bandwagon… no wait. What? Video games made for the big screen bring in as much action as Trevor in a cheerleading camp? Oh, I see. We all know that games adapted into movies are creations that even Dr. Frankenstein wouldn’t want to bring to …
It’s something I’ve been curious about for a while now and it’s (almost) here: the BBC docudrama The Gamechangers. The film tells the tale of the development of the best-selling video game franchise ‘Grand Theft Auto’ by British brothers Sam and Dean Houser. It stars Daniel Radcliffe and Ian Keir Attard as the aforementioned brothers, and Bill Paxton as the …
It has often been said that death-metal is the best metal, and therefore the best music genre around. And anyone who disagrees with that is probably a fan of other musical persons who shall not be named. And when it comes to accurately capturing the power of METAL, I think Deathgasm may be onto something here. Because demons and stuff. METAL! Metal-thrashing …
You would think that after John Wick, people would know better than to knock on Keanu Reeves’ door at night, especially after he was holding a cute dog just before that. Clearly Lorenza Izzo and Ana de Armas didn’t get the memo as director Eli “Hostel” Roth’s latest flick, Knock Knock, sees the lady duo looking to do some bad …
In between the action of bald super-agents and unnecessary franchise continuations, we also have some drama from aging rock stars, two comedies from New Yorkers and Joburg, and Jake Gyllenhaal getting punched in the face. A lot. Agent 47 HITMAN: AGENT 47 centers on an elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and …
I dig Cliffcentral – and no, I’m not a fan of Gareth Cliff. I never listened to the guy much, but like every South African I had some opinion about him. Last Updated: September 4, 2015
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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