In the 2013 Battle of the Movies About Terrorists Taking Over the White House, we had Antoine Fuqua’s Gerard Butler led Olympus Has Fallen going toe-to-blown-off-toe with Roland Emmerich’s Channing Tatum/Jamie Foxx vehicle White House Down. While both films are not exactly modern movie classics and received their fair share of critic tongue lashings, they both had their perks that appealed to audiences. …
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: August 19, 2014
Cinema? TV? Please! The real future of entertainment lies in your video game system! With Xbox going big with a Ridley Scott produced Halo series, PlayStation has also joined in on the fun lately, with their first upcoming show being Powers. Based on the Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming comic book series, Powers stars cops who investigate super-crime, …
As everybody knows, Australia is a dangerous enough place as is. All the plant and animal life who are hellbent on killing humans over there in the most horrible way possible certainly don’t need any help in maintaining their scary street rep. And definitely not any help from made-up monsters from children’s stories. But that’s apparently just what has happened …
It is a very strange career choice to be a henchman. Last Updated: August 19, 2014
The Expendables 3 may be tanking harder than a battle between Arnold Schwarzeneggers sagging pectorals and gravity, but that doesn’t mean that director Patrick Hughes doesn’t have any work lined up. In fact, he’ll be helming a remake of The Raid, which will have Frank “The Purge: Anarchy” Grillo as a lead. Grillo won’t be alone however, with a cast …
There’s an idea that every single superhero movie released has to first set up the origin story. In some cases, that makes for some dandy viewing, but in today’s connected world, it has begun to feel unnecessary. Way back in 1989, Tim Burton’s Batman created a hero flick where the vigilante was already in action, while the more recent Guardians …
Hands up, all the guys that have watched videos of Sasha Grey on the internet (I’m afraid I’m going to need both hands up for this one; no idea what you’re doing beneath the table). I’m guessing that’s a lot of you. So can you really blame Elijah Wood when he takes things a little too far in spying on …
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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