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: October 8, 2014

One of my all-time favourite games was the classic Myst, designed and directed by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller and developed by Cyan Worlds way back in 1993. Well hold onto your pants because Legendary TV and Digital Media have made a deal to turn the fantasy adventure into a frigging television series! Not only that, but much like Defiance …

My gripes are pretty well documented on this site when it comes to DC Comics and their approach to adapting their properties to TV where one hand doesn’t just seem to not know what the other hand is doing, but sometimes appears oblivious to the fact that there even is another hand. Or that its not a stinky foot, ready …

Much like the scarlet speedster who headlines the show, The Flash zipped in quicker than the naked eye could see last night. But get ready for a colder second lap, because a certain captain of zero chill degrees will be making his presence felt in that new show. Last Updated: October 8, 2014

Times change, tastes differ and what was once excellent becomes merely good and then slowly terrible. Which describes The Simpsons quite well I think. After 25 years and diminishing laughter returns on various seasons, The Simpsons has pretty much tapped the TV well completely dry. But the show has managed to excel in other mediums, especially with its first movie. …

Continuing with our scary movie theme for October, let’s talk about the movies that utterly failed to scare you. Maybe they tried too hard, maybe the premise was just too ridiculous to follow, or maybe they were just a hot mess. For me, this was definitely House of Wax. Seriously, what the heck was going on with that? Besides for …

Mark this date in your calendar, folks! Hashtag it even like all the cool kids! For today is the day that I, Kervyn Cloete, tell you about a Kristen Stewart movie that I’m actually looking forward to. Yes, everybody’s favourite necrophiliac mouth-breather has made a movie which instead of leaving me baffled as to how she got the role, has …

Seeing as how I count Darryn and Nick among my colleagues, you can be sure that my brain gets accosted on a regular basis by some rather silly things, to the point where I have built up a rather sizeable resistance to – and I believe this is the proper technical term – dumbass crap. But even so, I still …