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 3, 2014

As the great Sledge Hammer once said: “I’m waiting for the movie version.” Often people will counter that the book is better than the movie, but this is not always the case. Here are a few films that not only did their books justice, but sometimes turned out even better. Last Updated: July 3, 2014

  It’s a new era for Studio Ghibli. The Japanese powerhouse animation bid farewell to one of its founders, Hayao Miyazaki with his final film The Wind Rises. That departure has left a gap that some new talent will fill up, and the first contender out of the gate is Hiromasa” Arrietty” Yonebayashi with his animated flick, When Marnie Was There. …

Holy looming deadlines Kervyn! Can it be? A show that redefined @so bad it’s actually good@, finally remastered and released on Blu-Ray DVD? Well old chum, steady yourself and grab some Nick-repellent, because the classic Batman series from the groovy and pointless decade of the the 1960s is headed your way. Last Updated: July 3, 2014

We don’t often discuss music here on The Movies, but when an upcoming film has a certain selection of rocking tunes, we don our ripped denim jeans and tuck our T-shirts in as we get ready to party. Guardians Of The Galaxy is such a film that has us regressing back to the better decades of music. And I got …

Even though this place is called “The Movies”, we’ll often feature trailers/articles for TV series. However, this may be the first time I’ve done a trailer for TV series that has already aired and is in fact finished. But the thing is that somehow Klondike just slipped under the radar. And yet, when you see who’s involved in it, it’s kind …

When true-life wrestling drama Foxcatcher played at the Sundance Film Festival earlier in the year, film journos in attendance were suplexing each other for the chance to be the first to tell the world just how good it was, in particularly a scary good turn from Steve Carell that puts him in almost certain Oscar contention. But Foxcatcher is more than just a …

In case you haven’t heard, Oscar winning filmmaker and 3D pioneer James Cameron has said that he will no longer be making any feature films unless they have the word “Avatar” in the title and feature giant cat/Smurf hybrids. So what does the director behind the two biggest box office successes of all time do when he’s not busy making …