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 20, 2014

This year’s Oscars take place on Sunday night (early Monday morning, South African time). So, naturally, local film distributors are getting in on the action, with the release of two of the biggest names of the 2013 awards season. It’s also, incidentally, a notable week for true stories hitting the silver screen. Last Updated: February 28, 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: January 7, 2014

The bigger a film gets, the riper it becomes for parody. The Dark Knight trilogy is no exception to that rule, with most efforts focusing on the fact that Christian Bale must have gargled with hot tar and Vin Diesel in order to achive his growly Batman voice. So how did Bale come up with the voice for the caped …

If you had told twenty years ago that the goofy bartender from Cheers would be playing a seriously intimidating bad guy, opposite not only the little kid from Empire of the Sun who grew up to become arguably the best Batman ever, but also the new Batman’s younger brother, I would probably have given you a serious taste of the side eye. But these are …

Any movie that has a trailer featuring Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times Bad Times” already has a leg up on the competition, if you ask me. The fact that that movie also happens to boast a cast possessing as much talent as their characters possess hair products and polyester clothing just seems unfair then, but that’s exactly what’s cooking in David …

Director David O. Russell has developed a reputation over the years of not exactly being the nicest person on a movie set. He’s a superb filmmaker though, so he often attracts some of the most talented actors around. They just need to be prepared to undergo some stressful experiences. That doesn’t seem to be the case on his latest film, …

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: October 9, 2013