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: July 31, 2014

It’s an unfortunate quirk of our existence, but not all movies can be good. Sure, there are some movies that are so bad they become good again. But then you get those po-faced stinkers that leave you feeling like you need a good scrub in the shower, or even worse, leave you feeling absolutely nothing at all. They’re just so… …

It seems almost everyone is going the way of the trilogy and director Shawn Levy”s Night At The Museum is by no means different. The third and final film, subtitled Secret of the Tomb, sees the action transplanted to London, the British Museum to be exact.  Although Ben Kingsley has now joined the cast as a Pharaoh called Ahkmenrah, over the …

You know what’s a classic cartoon? Scooby Doo. It’s a classic load of kak, when you think about it, as an ineffective leader was joined by an airhead, a genius who was wasting her time and a beatnik with an insatiable appetite, solving weekly mysteries. And not once, did any of the various monsters get punched in the face. Expect to …

It wouldn’t be a Thursday afternoon at this office without the gang re-enacting scenes from the greatest movie of 1997, Con Air. Usually, that results in terrible accents, an intern being mangled in our impromptu aircraft and Nick being set alight while Kervyn threatens stuffed toys. It’s the kind of film that is just perfect as a done-in-one experience. But …

Well, there we go. After what was either artistic outrage or great marketing, Quintin Tarantino has recovered from the leaked script fiasco of his latest project, The Hateful Eight. The director announced at San Diego Comic-Con that the revenge-themed Western will be his next project. A few days later the poster for the project surfaced, setting a 2015 release date and …

There used to be a certain level of ambition within humanity. To reach high, to go forward and uncover bold new territory. These days though, people are more obsessed with grabbing fame by any selfie shot necessary. And that’s going to have an impact on all of us. And in a nutshell, that attempt to go beyond what is thought …

  With the recent glut of YA film adaptations popping up quicker than Darryn at a cake buffet, it’s easy for the few really good looking ones to get overlooked. But one such film I’ve been keeping a very steady eye on in is The Maze Runner. It has no awkward (sometimes cross-species) love triangles, no gloomy teenage girls trying to discover …