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 2, 2014

The word “epic” gets thrown around a lot these days – I’ve personally done my fair share of slinging – and thus it has lost it’s efficacy a tad. But I’ll be damned if this final trailer for the last installment in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy hasn’t just returned the word to it’s former glory. I was bit pretty tough …

Toilet humour. Poop jokes. Usually these are not terms that go hand-in-hand with great movie reviews, unless you happen to be reading a Leon Schuster fansite. But that’s exactly what you seem to find when you look up the rather amazing reviews for The Mule, a new Australian black-comedy that is sure to put a knot in your guts. And …

There’s very little we’ve been able to confirm about Star Wars: Episode VII, but two things have been sort of clear: the original trilogy leads of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford) would be involved in some small, supporting way and that this new trilogy would be led by the next generation of youngsters, …

At its essence, acting is about becoming somebody else, becoming several somebody elses. And sorry, Steven Segal’s entire career, but just changing your on-screen name and profession isn’t good enough. Luckily there are actors who take this a lot more seriously, who disappear into their chosen roles so convincingly, that you don’t even know who they were originally. Last Updated: …

Not so long ago Top Gear proved that overweight, out of shape middle-aged men can reach the North Pole. But their achievement is not nearly as impressive when you consider that in 1994 three queens crossed the Australian outback – and were totally fabulous while doing it. Along the way it changed cinema history. There is no doubt that one …

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 22, 2013

And so it begins… An epic 18-month, 9 hour cinematic adventure as audiences return to JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth, with Lord of the Rings filmmaker Peter Jackson once again leading us through this vast fantasy world. The Hobbit Part 1 of 3 is a journey definitely worth taking on the big screen but it’s also not without flaws – the chief …