With global warming increasing temperatures around the globe and our rather warm winter so far (I had mosquitoes in my bedroom last night!) it’s difficult to find an excuse to get under covers with a loved one to cuddle up. So with input from the team here at Themovies.co.za and the vast experience of LOVE we clearly don’t have we put …

Secrets. When it comes to the new Star Wars movie, there sure was a lot of them. Yes, was. Past tense. While Star Wars: The Force Awakens director/co-writer JJ Abrams kept details of the production locked down tighter than the Coca Cola recipe for the longest time, eventually some had to get out. Unexpectedly, a large portion of them were …

I would have liked to start this post by saying that you probably noticed that there was no edition of Extras! yesterday, but unfortunately I know that most of you actually didn’t notice, which is strangely enough why we’re here today. I’ve been doing Extras nearly for as long as this site has been around. It began as me just …

Every one of us has a movie that we felt should have done a lot better, but instead crashed face-first into the ground. But luckily box office results and critical approval are not necessary to discover a classic… Last Updated: May 28, 2015

The other day, I was engaged in a Facebook conversation about bad movies when somebody mentioned Independence Day. If I could have slapped them through TCP/IP I would have. I have an incredible love for director Roland Emmerich and writer Dean Devlin’s 1996 alien disaster flick and not just because it made a proper superstar out of a young Will …

We’ve all done stupid things as kids. Because as kids, we were all incredibly stupid to begin with. Take me for instance: I got into trouble for driving an armoured attack car around the army base where my mother worked. Totally worth it though, because the sergeant who crapped me out in front of his troops wasn’t Kevin Bacon at …

I start to wonder whether there is a wind-down period in an actor’s career. That point when making inane movies is the topping on a legacy that has spanned decades. Watching this trailer with acting legends Robert Redford, Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson has me thinking just that. I suppose there is space for a ‘Bucket List‘ type movie, I …

I’m not going to lie to you: Watching Spider-Man take on Russian Sabretooth with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance as political grandmasters plot behind the scenes, makes for a film that actually has me interested in seeing it. A film about chess, of all things. Check out the first trailer below: In a gripping true …