Extras! 19 February 2015
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 19, 2015
Takashi Miike to direct live action TERRA FORMARS adaptation
I don’t watch much anime. I have nothing against Japanese animation, other than it is a soft pillow for someone to pretend they actually care about animation or its associated art forms. It’s a little like meeting someone who proclaims their love for music, but all they listen to are boy bands. So, nothing against the game – it’s the …
Hatred exists as a contrast to games that are “too colorful and polite”
Genocide simulator to some, fun twin-stick shooter to others, Hatred elicits all kinds of reactions. But it's being made for a reason.
Movie Fu: Who is Your Greatest Super Spy?
Kingsman is the first hit of the year for those who like their movies dishes with a big dose of high octane, but the dapper spies from this action epic are only the latest in a long tradition of super spies on the movie screen. But is Colin Firth and co. the best at the job? Last Updated: February 19, …
Shut your mouth! New Line wants to make a new SHAFT movie
Shaft! He’s a bad motherlover! Shut yo mouth! Created back in the 1970s, there’s something about Shaft that has remained timeless and cool, ever since Richard Roundtree put on his Sunday best leather jacket as private detective who solved problems the good ol’ fashioned way: With his fists. Shaft continued on in tow more sequels and a rather short TV …
Top List Thursday – Top 10 Highest Movie Body Counts
There are only two certainties in life: Death and taxes. And today, we don’t want anything to do with your IRP5’s. Through the wonder of movie magic, people have been getting killed on-screen ever since there even was an “on-screen”. But whereas a poignant death here and there is par for the course for many movies, some take the death-dealing …
I AM GROOT! Meet the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY animated series voice cast
Guardians of the Galaxy is way more fun than The Avengers, there, I said it, bite me! Well before we knew this would be the case a cartoon version of the Marvell blockbuster was in the works to come after the first movie and now we have confirmed voice actors. Sadly Vin Diesel will not be one of them. Taking firm hold of …
Check the trailer for VICTORIA, a film shot entirely in a single take
One of the film’s in the running for Best Picture at the Oscars this weekend is Birdman. One of the many amazing things about the movie is that entire manic film appears to have been shot in a single continuous shot. Please note: Appears to. While there are several long takes in the film, director Alejandro Gonzales Inaritu and cinematographer …
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