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: January 21, 2013
Tom Cruise has been a busy man this year. Unfortunately his current tour at the silver screen is not doing fantastically, with Jack Reacher getting mostly positive reviews but few butts on seats. His new film, Oblivion, seems to be a bit more of a blockbuster crowd pleaser and I have to admit that I am intrigued. Hell, maybe I’m …
We’re still firmly in the old school badass comeback, and while it looks Arnie may have fumbled the ball a bit on his first real attempt back (at least commercially not critically, but more on that later) the man who got the ball rolling, Sylvester Stallone is soon looking to score one again. And now I’ve run out of ways to keep …
X-Men: Days of future past seems to be a reunion film of sorts. Director Bryan Singer, who handled the first two instalments of the popular X-Men franchise and set off a chain reaction in superhero movies, is once again helming. Previous X-Men actors such as Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are also back in the wheelchair and bucket helmet respectively, …
Technically this is TV news, but I’ll be damned if Band of Brothers and The Pacific isn’t one of the most cinematic portrayals of the epic Axis vs Allies slugfest that was split into a dozen episodic parts on each side. Band of Brothers was the first shot fired in that TV wartime drama, followed a few years later by …
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: January 18, 2013
Here’s one animated film that I’m looking forward to in 2013: Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2. And this isn’t because I have a massive Anna Farris crush that transcends time, space and restraining orders. The original cast is coming back, this time to take a look at the aftermath of what inventor Flint Lockwood’s food creator has done. …
So what’s next for the Terminator franchise? After being sent back in time, the T-McG director bot attacked the franchise with 2009’s Terminator: Salvation, which had some great ideas mixed in with some terrible set-pieces and story-beats. Still, you can’t keep a good killer robot franchise down and sooner or later, a new Terminator film will be constructed. And to …
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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