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 27, 2014

CGI may be unnecessary in some movies, but when certain films do require that extra level of visual pizzazz, there’s plenty of talent out there in Hollywood. And then all that hard work gets buggered in the end. Just ask the guys behind Life of Pi, Rhythm and Hues, who won an Oscar for their work. After they were forced …

The old adage of something being too good to be true often turns out to be, well, true. Just look at Milli Vanilli (Note to self: Update pop culture references) as well as just about every incarnation of “paradise” found in literature and film. And thus it is in The Sacrament, a new horror-thriller from writer-director Ti West (The House of …

To say that jOBS was a disappointment is an understatement. Love him or hate him, late Apple head honcho Steve Jobs is an incredibly interesting personality (and he did amazing things for the polo neck sweater market), which made it quite surprising that a movie about his life was anything but. In contrast, the story of one of Jobs’ contemporaries, Mark …

By the power of Grayskull, can none lift the sword of power and helm a new He-Man movie? I’ve always held a soft spot for the legendary 1987 He-Man movie that saw Dolph Lundgren actually become a cartoon character thanks to his ridiculous amount of muscles, and a remake has been on the cards for years now. John “GI-Joe: Retaliation” …

In case you somehow didn’t know, we love our videogames around here. And we’ve been loving them for a very long time [insert Vietnamese prostitute’s voice here], which is why we really took to Patrick Jean’s retro-inspired short film Pixels. A lot of Hollywood bigwigs felt the same way, and it’s now being turned into a feature film. And according …

When it comes to movies, I’ll easily admit that Marvel and Disney whips all kinds of ass over their nearest competitor, DC and Warner Bros. But when it comes to TV, that’s an entirely different matter. DC has always hada  strong presence on the smaller screen, thanks to excellent animation and live-action shows such as Arrow and upcoming projects Constantine, …

When it comes to confirmed stories, Star Wars: Episode VII can be found on the tail end of a scale from 1 to Loch Ness Monster. Director/co-writer JJ Abrams is being even more secretive than normal (and that’s saying a lot) but we may just have got our very first bit of verifiable casting news, as it looks like a …