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An 80s competitive gaming show is getting a remake

By Kyle Wolmarans
January 12, 2017
in :  Gaming
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You might not have known about it, but in the 80s esports got its very first televised show. STARCADE! is returning with a retro-reboot featuring modern day esports.

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It's back to the 80's in this red band trailer for Richard Linklater's R-rated comedy EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!

By Trevor Davies
March 15, 2016
in :  Entertainment
3

Everybody Wants Some!! (yes, it officially has two exclamation points) is the upcoming R-rated comedy from writer/director Richard Linklater (Boyhood), which he’s described as a spiritual sequel to his 70’s-set 1993 classic Dazed and Confused. The official plot synopsis is: A group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood. Which doesn’t tell …

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Extras! 18 February 2015

By Kervyn Cloete
February 18, 2015
in :  Entertainment
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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 18, 2015

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I wish I'd grown up with this Dark Souls II cartoon

By Zoe Hawkins
February 28, 2014
in :  Gaming
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This take on Dark Souls II as an 80s cartoon made me laugh, and then made me consider all the other things I want to see.

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We chat with Evan Greenwood about BROFORCE, destruction and Terry Crews playing with his muscles

By Darryn Bonthuys
September 13, 2012
in :  Gaming
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We chat with the man behind the Free Lives studio, Evan Greenwood, and their upcoming retro-inspired action game, BROFORCE.

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Movies out today: Despots, rock stars, cults and dysfunctional parents

By Noelle Adams
July 6, 2012
in :  Entertainment
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Hooray! After a dud few weeks we’re back to being spoiled for choice when it comes to high profile new cinema releases. Last Updated: July 6, 2012

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Extras! Dark Knight Rises gets a fourth TV spot, Lindsay Lohan finds her Dick, People read Star Wars, Movie characters get awkward,Viggo Mortensen gets airport security alarmed with his Pipi and The Longest Blooper Reel Ever, Well… At Least In Muppet History, We Think! Plus much more!

By Kervyn Cloete
May 30, 2012
in :  Entertainment
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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: May 30, 2012

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Arnold Schwarzennegger, Danny DeVito and Eddie Murphy are making a "Twins" sequel called "Triplets"

By Kervyn Cloete
March 30, 2012
in :  Entertainment
4

There’s been talk for a while already that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito were looking to do so a sequel to their 1988 comedy, Twins, which saw the mismatched pair as genetically engineered brothers travelling across the country, reuniting with their birth mother, finding true love and destroying t-shirts with bowling ball sized biceps.  With the Governator’s “acting” career burgeoning again, …

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