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: December 11, 2013
Sometime back in 2009, “jumping the shark” got upgraded from a figure of speech to a film genre, and now we find ourselves in a world where movies like Sharktopus and Sharknado don’t just exist, but actually get watched by millions of people. The movie that kicked off all these good-bad shark movies was of course mockbuster studio The Asylum’s Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus, and …
Going into 2014, one film that has my attention is Transcendence. The directorial debut from Wally Pfister, he’s the man who framed various Christopher Nolan films, and pretty much the visual reason for the success of the Dark Knight trilogy. Taking a page from Nolan however, his film has been shrouded in mystery for months now, with most of the …
As far as remakes go, Robocop may just be the one film that folks feel is completely unnecessary. Sure, it looks shiny and slick, but what’s the point of remaking a movie that still holds up so well, even to this day? Current Robocop Joel Kinnaman reckons that what makes his film so special, is that it forges its own …
Samuel L. Jackson is to Hollywood what Wolverine is to Marvel Comics. No, I don’t mean that Jackson is an angry Canadian with garden shears stuck to his knuckles, but he is arguably the most prolific actor in Tinsel Town right now, popping up in every second title you see. And next this busy actor will be teaming up with …
With most film franchises these days, the big plan is to always crank out three movies and close the book. Rarely though, do big name films exceed that release limit, with Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean being a few such examples. The Amazing Spider-Man on the other hand, is building up towards two more films with the sequel arriving …
For decades now, the king of kaiju has been stomping his way through Asian cities and coming back an hour later for seconds. Godzilla has been a staple part of that cinema landscape for so long now, we’ve kind of forgotten just how terrible a force of nature he really is. Years back, one such American produced film starring Matthew …
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: December 10, 2013
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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