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: January 22, 2014
Over the last few weeks I’ve said a lot about The Raid 2: Berandal, my most highly anticipated movie for 2014. Hell, I even spoke about it just a few hours ago. But now it’s time for me to shut up, and have some other people talk about it. People who were lucky enough to experience it this morning, when writer-director …
There are like, tiny things in the universe. Things which we cannot see with the naked eye, like bacteria and Kervyn’s remaining hair that isn’t grey. To see such massive things, we need to build even bigger bits of machine, which is weird when you think about it. And one of the biggest science machines built in recent times, has …
It’s barely been a week since we heard that Quentin Tarantino had plans (to paraphrase the Pet Shop Boys) to go west again with The Hateful Eight, but now in a surprising turn of events, the Oscar winning director has decided to shelve the highly anticipated western completely. And all because some people in Hollywood can’t be trusted. Last Updated: January …
Boxers or briefs? That’s a question that director Rob “Monsters vs Aliens” Letterman has probably been asking since 2011, as he tried to get an adaptation of the hit children’s book Captain Underpants out of development hell and into production. Well it looks like the project just took another step forward, because Captain Underpants has his voice cast. Last Updated: …
The Sundance film festival is usually a great showcase of dramas and other films with emotions and stuff. That’s your cream of the crop right there, as comedies and action flicks rarely get the film critic nod. But every now and then, one other genre comes along and sweeps audiences off their feet. This year, that horror film happens to …
This year’s Sundance Festival has already produced a large number of critical darlings, with these fest faves being mostly touching comedies and dramas. And today there’s going to be whole lot of “touching” once again, only this time it will be fists, feet, knees, elbows and whatever makeshift weapons come to hand brutally touching some poor sods’ face, as Gareth …
At times it almost seems like the quest to adapt The Dark Tower to the screen has becoming even more of a sprawling epic than Stephen King’s fantasy opus itself. But it looks like the development Gears are still turning as a certain Breaking Bad star has apparently been in meetings about it. Ka-tet, bitch! Last Updated: January 22, 2014
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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