Extras – 3 March 2014
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: March 3, 2014
New red-band, very NSFW trailer for ENEMY
Hey it’s déjà vu time. Again. As I’ve pointed out before, it’s very easy to draw comparisons between Jake Gyllenhaal’s Enemy and Jesse Eisenberg’s The Double. They both have shy and timid protagonists meeting unexpected doppelgangers with polar opposite personalities, and to confuse matters between the two even more, it turns out that Enemy is loosely based on a novel …
You have to go after what you want in the new trailer for THE DOUBLE
The first full length trailer for The Double didn’t reveal much. Besides for the voice-over revealing the plot in metaphor, all we saw were quick scenes from the movie that made it look like a psychological thriller, and not the comedy that it supposedly is. Last Updated: March 3, 2014
Cinophile – Short Circuit
Meet Johnny 5, the robot that briefly stole the heart of the Eighties… Great ideas rose and fell like the tide in the Eighties. Gremlins got as far as two films, so did Conan, Ghostbusters and most would probably prefer to pretend there were only two Ninja Turtle movies. Thanks to E.T. and Star Wars, mega-movie box-office bait could wash …
Here's your first look at Grant Gustin in costume as THE FLASH
If there’s one thing that I’ve learnt as an amateur vigilante, besides the fact that no amount of training can prepare you for a taser attack, it’s that clothes do make the man. And in the case of a superhero, doubly so. The fastest man alive is running out of Arrow and into his own series soon. Here’s an official …
And your Razzie 2014 winners are…
The Academy Awards? Ha! Don’t make me laugh! Who needs to see Jennifer Lawrence trip when you can see entire films miss a step and stumble forward into a whole new level of terrible! Last Updated: March 3, 2014
Monday Box Office Report – Non-Stop action disassembles Lego
When Isaac Newton got hit on the head with an Apple, he had an epiphany that resulted in his theory on Gravity, a constant force in the universe that warps time and keeps your ass planted on terra firma. But what Newton didn’t account for, was the opposing force of gravity itself, Liam Neeson. And once again, the Neeson …
Rumour: The Wachowskis are making a new Matrix trilogy
There’s a rumour that has surfaced this weekend that will have you running up walls in excitement if it turns out to be true. Its seems that we may be jacking back in to the Matrix in a couple years time, as a brand new trilogy is apparently being planned. In the immortal words of Keanu Reeves: Whoa! Last Updated: …
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