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: February 26, 2015

Sylvester Stallone’s Robert “Rocky” Balboa is an iconic character who has faced and overcome all kinds of odds, like frozen meat, mountainous stairs, learning to skip and mastering the art of running on beach sand. Oh and of course there’s the murderer’s row of boxers – some of them powered by Russian science and others by the blood of sucker …

Sure, some films have massive body counts. But those are deaths from various good-looking actors as they move a plot forward with an axe to the face. But what about those killers in Hollywood who rack up double and triple-digit body counts? Where’s their article highlighting their gruesome records? Right here in fact, as we count down the top ten …

It has taken a great deal of time to get here but finally South Africans are able to watch director James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything, a movie adapted by Anthony McCarten from the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking. Of course by now most know that Eddie Redmayne, who plays Stephen Hawking, picked …

If I learned anything from Steven Spielberg’s Jaws it’s that you should never trust the beach holiday advice of a small town mayor, and you can never have a big enough boat. Also, self-contained thrillers where our heroes set out to hunt a vicious killer animal but end up being hunted themselves makes for some gripping viewing. Whether that’s the …

Life is like a hurricane, here in, Duckberg! Race cars lasers aeroplanes! It’s a, duck blur! If you could read the first line of this story and know exactly what I’m talking about, then chances are that you were also raised on a steady diet of Disney cartoons. Much like the famed animator had a renaissance of talent that resulted …

I’ll just come straight out and say it: I really like Alien 3. I know that it’s seriously flawed, and its final act is a mess (probably due to the film’s almost legendary production woes which saw a young first time director David Fincher being bullied by just about everybody into making the movie they wanted) but there are still …

Have you checked out that incredible Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers“deboot” we posted yesterday? Chances are you initially tried to and failed, and that’s because the short film is already being pulled off certain video services. The bootleg short film Power/Rangers is the brainchild of producer Adi Shankar – the same man behind the amazing Punisher – Laundry Day short with …