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: July 18, 2014

When it comes to The Walking Dead TV series, I seem to be stuck in one of those abusive relationships you’re always hearing about. As a big fan of Robert Kirkman’s comics, I came into that Frank Darabont run first season with high hopes, and the show definitely delivered. But then from the show’s second season on, a cycle of abuse …

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! That was the rallying cry for every kid growing up on Saturday mornings. You had the TMNT series, which was a hit,toys,movies and costumes. Fast forward a decade or two, and it’s time for a new incarnation of the sewer ninjas. They may look different, but these are still the same turtles under all that CGI …

  If there’s one thing that was missing from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, it was a villain who could rival Darth Vader in terms of presence, power and intimidation. Sure, Count Dooku was there, but he was about as interesting as nerf herding, while Darth Maul barely got a season of action before the show was axed. In Star …

Growing up, I was a voracious reader of Goosebumps books. They were perfect gateway novels into more dangerous horror, with cheesy plots and decent twists. It wasn’t Twin Peaks cerebral material exactly, but for its time, it was great. A film is on the way now, with Jack Black as a fictional version of author R.L Stine. Check him out! …

If you’re on the East Coast for the next 9 days you have dozens of movies to choose from as part of the Durban International Film Festival, South Africa’s biggest film fest. For everyone else around the country, there are four new releases from which to take your pick. Deliver Us from Evil: Crime and horror collide in this supposed …

Much like how it’s really not a good thing for an actor to be typecast, so too directors should always vary their work. Do the same thing over and over again, and you could end up like Michael Bay, hated on critics while his movies make more money than most countries’ GDP– and you know what? Bad example. The point …

*Oprah voice* YOU GET A SHARED UNIVERSE! YOU GET A SHARED UNIVERSE! EVERYBODY GETS A SHARED UNIVERSE!!! Ever since Iron Man, Captain America and friends started showing up in each other’s movies to great success, Hollywood has found itself gripped by a shared universe fever. After several false starts and fumbles, DC\Warner Bros are getting their own foot in the …