If you ever needed proof of how ridiculously stacked the 2016 movie release calendar is, think on this: Up until this new trailer for Disney’s big budget live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book dropped at yesterday’s Superbowl, I had nearly all but forgot that it was still coming out. And really I shouldn’t have forgot a damn thing about this …
From one big American pastime to another, we go from Superbowl to Independence Day as yesterday’s mammoth sporting event gave us a brand new look at Independence Day: Resurgence thanks to a new TV spot. And this new preview doubles down on both the US flag-waving patriotism and returning franchise director Roland Emmerich’s patented wide-screen big budget destruction porn and …
I have to admit, I didn’t hate the first (well, most recently first) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Sure Michelangelo looked like the illegitimate love child of Lou Ferrigno’s Hulk and Jacob Zuma, but there were some genuinely funny moments and some great martial arts fight choreography. Also – and this was the biggest plus for me – Shredder was …
Despite my overwhelming love for both X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past, I somehow haven’t got as excited as I probably should for X-Men: Apocalypse. Admittedly, this is mainly because I keep expecting Oscar Isaac’s take on the titular mutant villain to be closer to the one we got in the classic 90’s X-Men animated series, and …
Look, I could break out the thesaurus and come up stanzas and stanza of all sorts of flowery prose about this new Superbowl TV spot for Captain America: Civil War, but in this case I think some simplicity and brevity is called for: HOLY FREAKING SHIT!!! Check out the trailer below! I repeat: HOLY FREAKING SHIT!!! Captain America: Winter Soldiers‘ …
SUPERBOWL!!! To most of America, that meant watching a two groups of heavily padded roid-bruisers violently slamming into each over a little bit of pigskin yesterday. But for us film geeks though, its basically Movie Trailer Christmas as studios try to cash in on the fact that a large portion of the population is already glued to their screens. And …
Deadpool is an outrageously entertaining, genre-busting piece of gonzo cinema that somehow pulls off that criminally rare Hollywood achievement of actually being more than worth the wait.
Welcome to our Weekly Round-Up for the The Extras! A collection of the 15 most popular movie related clips, posters, pics and just plain cool stuff posted on our Twitter profile and Facebook page using the hashtag #TheMoviesExtras in the last week. Remember, these are only the contributions that received the most likes and views since last Thursday, so if …
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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