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: March 4, 2014

Another year, another Academy Awards slamma Jamma that saw plenty of actors, directors and other crew members from Hollywood walk away with all manner of naked gold men prizes. The thing is not everyone who wins an Oscar deserves to do so more than the fellow sitting near them. Sometimes the judges get it right but all too often they …

Not everyone is happy with the work being done on the Man of Steel sequel, Batman vs Superman. Some folks are hating on the casting decisions, some don’t want to see director Zack Snyder back to tear up Metropolis again and right now there’s most likely a reddit thread crticising the Batman costume which has yet to be revealed. Well …

I’ve yet to see it, but according to the buzz of Twitter around me, True Detective is some kind of essential viewing for any fan of shows that take a left-turn into weird and creepy territory. The mystery series was designed as a standalone single season, obviously wrapping several threads and loose ends by the time it reached its conclusion. …

Valar Morghulis. All Men Must Die. This is a fairly apt statement for Game of Thrones in general, and a catch-phrase that’s become more fitting for the show than Winter is Coming. Twenty new character posters have now been revealed for season four of George R. R. Martin’s fantasy epic, where no one you love, or love to hate, is …

And Watchmengate (I’m totally copyrighting that) continues! Last week we heard producer Joel Silver talk about and describe in detail director Terry Gilliam’s failed adaptation of Watchmen, Alan Moore’s critically acclaimed graphic novel, and how it would have been completely different and “a MUCH much better movie” than the version director Zack Snyder eventually brought to the screen. In news that …

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: March 3, 2014

Hey it’s déjà vu time. Again. As I’ve pointed out before, it’s very easy to draw comparisons between Jake Gyllenhaal’s Enemy and Jesse Eisenberg’s The Double. They both have shy and timid protagonists meeting unexpected doppelgangers with polar opposite personalities, and to confuse matters between the two even more, it turns out that Enemy is loosely based on a novel …