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: August 16, 2013
I’m grateful that I’ve got a set of parents who are still together. That’s something that a ton of kids will never know about, thanks to marriage being a revolving door towards divorce these days. And that leaves a lot of kids stuck between two competing sets of parents. You know what it also does? Make a great premise for …
I’ve mentioned this before, but we live in a very exciting time for horror. Fans are flocking back to a genre that has long since been neglected by more serious filmmakers and, in my opinion, there are only a handful of directors we have to thank for horror getting the rejuvenation treatment – among them Sam “Evil Dead” Raimi. Last …
It’s not easy keeping a movie plot under wraps these days. Heck, I doubt that George Lucas could have kept The Empire Strikes Back plot twist secret if he had filmed the scene in this age of Twitter accounts and cell phone snooping. Jurassic Park 4 has just as many rumours floating around about what that film could be about. …
Reshoots. Merely mentioning that word immediately conjures up images of a film in trouble that is desperately in need of some story restructuring. It’s something that happened to GI Joe: Retaliation, a move which delayed the film by nine months and did little to improve it. Thor: The Dark World is having reshoots right now. But contrary to that example …
It’s a something-for-everyone weekend at South African cinemas, with today’s new releases straddling a wide assortment of genres. Last Updated: August 16, 2013
Though you may not know it to look at him now, muscleman Vin Diesel was quite the geek when he was younger (a Dungeons & Dragons geek, to be precise). So it should come as no surprise that he has a thing for sci-fi movies. As we just recently heard, he’s going to play an extraterrestrial tree in Guardians of the …
Thinking back on Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s rise, especially with his HitRecordJoe project, it made perfect sense that he would write and direct his own movie. And you know what makes even more sense if you’re going to write and direct your own movie where you’re the star? Making your character a sex-addict with Scarlett Johansson as your girlfriend. Oh, JGL, you …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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