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: June 3, 2014

When the cast for Star Wars: Episode VII was finally announced last month, among all the ooh’s and aah’s were some stern criticisms with its lack of gender and racial diversity. In response, Disney/Lucasfilm did their best TV informercial presenter impersonation and gave us a loud “BUT WAIT! THERE”S MORE!”. And that “more” has just arrived in the form of recent Oscar …

By now, you’re used to The Walking Dead and its habit of bumping off characters whenever the plot demands it be done. Nobody is safe from death, with a grisly demise at the rotting hands of a walker not too far off. So it should be no surprise that someone else is going to die soon in the next season …

When I walked out of my first 3D screening of James Cameron’s Avatar, there were two things on my mind: 1) Oh my god, James Cameron just had consensual sexual relations with my visual cortex, and 2) Seriously, how the hell did nobody think to tell him that he was writing a Space-Pocahontas ripoff? While that first thought inevitably passed, the …

Have mercy on any man, nationality or gender that gives Liam Neeson a hard time. Deadlier than Spanish Flu, the former Darkman has already wiped out the slave trade, an entire species of wolves and the entire arm of the East-European mafia. And for his next trick, he’ll be killing his own guilt as he plays detective. Last Updated: June …

From the get-go, the American edition of Akira was doomed. Whether it was the massive fan backlash at adapting the cult classic manga and anime into a more Western product, a leaked script that diluted the core premise of the film or just the sheer unnecessary need for the movie, it was going just never going to work out. Akira …

While I can’t say that crow is my favourite delicacy, I’m not averse to eating some when necessary. And while I’m not placing an order for some corvidae quite yet, I am busy getting out the Spur 1000-Island sauce* so long, just in case. You see I’ve had my doubts about Arrow spinoff, The Flash, from the casting of Grant Gustin in the …

There’s no funny quip or snarky remark that I can type that does a better job of encapsulating how I feel about this trailer for upcoming Rapture-thriller Left Behind, than Nicolas Cage’s face on this movie’s poster. Just look at it. Clearly, only two seconds before that picture was taken, it finally dawned on him just how poor the movie he was …