Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: October 1, 2014

Get out your diaries – The Movies writers round up the releases to watch out for between October and the new year. Last Updated: October 1, 2014

I am not sure how many hours, nay, days of my life I have spent playing Tetris; a game so addictive it was invented to distract the Americans from the Russians during the Cold War (confirmation still pending on that last bit). But even with my love of the game, it’s still surprising that Hollywood seemingly thinks that we all want …

Old men die hard, it would seem. Hell, it’s an idea that has kickstarted a brand new genre in films. Namely retired secret agents/black op specialists/assassins coming back for one more night of ye olde ultra-violence and showing those damn kids that they’re still the kind of people that you don’t mess with. And in John Wick, Keanu Reeves is …

Welcome to Filmmaking Business School. Today’s lesson: How to make money off of not making money. Confused? Let Kevin Smith show you how.  The fan favourite filmmaker was springboarded onto the scene years ago with such cult classics as Clerks, Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, but in the last few years he’s been in a bit a rut, churning out …

Welcome to October, the month of scary movies! I’ve decided that, seeing as I’ve been given free reign over the Midweek Movie Mouth-Off (muahahaha!), we’re going to have a month of discussing all things Halloween. To start off, let’s talk about the first scary movie you ever saw. Now, depending on how old you were, the first scary movie you …

I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let …

David Fincher’s latest, Gone Girl, is just over a week away from release but its already cranking out some stellar buzz. As a Fincher fanboy, this is great to hear, as – with the exception of the first two episodes of Netflix’s House of Cards – we’ve had to wait 3 years since his last offering behind the camera. Don’t …