There is a lot to be said about ambition. And in Hollywood over the last decade or so, quite often it was being said by Andy and Lana Wachowski, the writer-director siblings of The Matrix, Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas fame. Irrespective of whether their films were comprehensively successful or not, they were always still willing to push the envelope, to go for those big ideas. …
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 4, 2015
This is it. The big one. The grandaddy of them all. Yes, the nominations for the 87th Annual Academy Awards, aka the Oscars 2015, are finally here. Held at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills, California last night, the nominations for all 24 categories were made available altogether (a first for the event), presented by actor Chris Pine, directors …
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 6, 2015
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: December 1, 2014
What with it having been Phuza Thursday last night, I know this might be difficult and/or painful, but think back a few months to June, when we were just getting ready for a one-two punch of big budget space opera goodness. While the “two” portion of that sci-fi attack spectacle, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, delivered beyond reckoning, there was no …
I first read Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” many, many years ago (probably learning more science in the process than I did in my entire schooling career). It had not been the first time I had heard of the man, one of the greatest scientific minds that has ever lived, but it was only after reading the book …
With the whole rather silly “Michael B. Jordan is Johnny Storm” row still… er, burning up the narrow minded corners of the internets, some of the other casting for director Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four reboot has been overshadowed a bit. We know who our four heroes are going to be, but with filming starting in just a few weeks, we still don’t …
Nashville is a city powered by raw emotion, relentless ambition, and the constant hum …
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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