Extras! 24 October 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: October 24, 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: October 24, 2014
Into The Woods is the upcoming musical based on the hit Broadway show tying the classic Grimm fairytales such as Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Rapunzel and Jack and the Beanstalk together with an original story of a baker and his wife who wish to start a family, but are cursed by a witch. The first images were shown here and …
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 15, 2014
Johnny Depp is a conundrum. Despite being an obviously talented actor, the last few years have seen him develop a tendency to just disappear into a sea of blandness on-screen unless he’s playing some ludicrous caricature of a character with a penchant for exorbitant amounts of makeup and funny headgear. But when he plays these crazy characters, he takes them …
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but clearly a nearly two-minute long trailer is even better (and actually worth about 26664000 words, if my frame-rate maths* is correct). Following on from Friday’s reveal of 7 new pics, Disney have unveiled the first trailer for their feature film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Into the Woods, which sees …
I must say everywhere I look these days is something Disney. From epic earth battles to battles in the stars they are sweeping up genres like an ill-treated stepdaughter. Their last movie dealing with fairy tales was the rather good Maleficent that sought for a far darker re-telling of the ever popular Sleeping Beauty. This time round though it looks like they’ll …
It’s a bit of a quieter week at the movies with just four new releases hitting cinemas in addition to local Marikana-centred documentary Miners Shot Down. Transcendence: This sci-fi drama is the directorial debut of Oscar-winning cinematographer – and frequent Christopher Nolan collaborator – Wally Pfister. Johnny Depp plays a controversial artificial intelligence researcher who finds his consciousness separated from …
Back in 1998, Dougray Scott was busy playing the baddie in Mission: Impossible 2, when the production ran behind schedule, forcing Scott to pull out of this other little project he was working on and giving up his role to a relatively unknown Australian stage actor and soap star. The movie was X-Men, the actor was Hugh Jackman, and the rest is history. …
Traci Braxton husband was Kevin Surratt Sr., a longtime partner who stood by her …
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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