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 15, 2013
When the fhe first trailer for the trailer for writer-director Gavin Hood’s adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game was released it was prefaced by an intro from a rather bored looking pair of stars, namely Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford, who looked like they were providing commentary on the World Grass Growing championships. Now the first full trailer is here, …
On the rather lengthy List of Things That Kervyn Hates, somewhere between “lawyers who are pedophiles” and “telemarketers who chew with their mouths open”, you’ll find “trailers for movie trailers”. They, along with the mystifying popularity of the Kardashians, are possibly the biggest pieces of evidence that we are indeed living in the end times. Unfortunately, they (the trailers not …
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 2, 2013
As a fellow local boytjie, Gavin Hood certainly put my patriotism to the test when he made X-Men Origins: Wolverine. It was a beserker rage of badness, quite the opposite of Hood’s previous award winning drama Tstotsi. But Hood has certainly not chosen the easy road to his redemption, choosing to adapt Orson Scott Card’s classic sci-fi novel Ender’s Game. And …
Kids, I hate to break it to you, but the Sorting Hat is like sooooo 2012. These days, it’s all about the super prestigious military academies that train youngsters to take down the lethal insectoid alien forces known as the Formics. And like any good hostel stocked with Marie biscuits, there are houses for students to join and be a …
With all the Star Wars brouhaha, I seemed to have forgotten all about another eagerly anticipated sci-fi film being released next year. Written and directed by local boytjie Gavin Hood, the adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game has been rather silent of late, with the last substantial bit of news coming all the way back in April. But now a …
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 15, 2012
Have you ever double-checked your doors at night because something just didn’t feel secure? …
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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