Extras! 15 December 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: December 15, 2014
Movies out today: Monsters, maniacs and mad, bad men
Just three new releases hit South African cinemas today, and they’re all of the escapist sort… Godzilla: Screening in 2D, 3D, and 3D IMAX is this American reboot of the Godzilla film franchise. The King of Monsters pops up to deal with the life-threatening results of our scientific meddling. The pesky humans trying to avoid carnage, meanwhile, include Aaron Taylor-Johnson, …
We review Godzilla 3D – The King is back… for a bit
If you’ve seen Gareth Edwards’ directorial debut – the no-budget, guerilla style sci-fi indie hit, Monsters – then you know that the director favours the slow build, holding back his monstrous reveals, and the new Godzilla is no exception. Treating the King of Monsters like the royalty he is, Edwards has Big G show up fashionably late so as to make an even …
Extras! 09 May 2014
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Extras! 25 March 2014
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This first trailer for the Japanese remake of Unforgiven with Ken Watanabe is here!
Among film-geek circles, the word “remake” often has the same effect as publicly sharing intimate details of somebody’s mother’s genitalia. But if there’s one (remake, that is, not set of genitals) that I’ve been looking forward to, it’s the Japanese language remake of Clint Eastwood’s classic Oscar winning western, Unforgiven. With that film (and Clint Eastwood’s entire career really) owing so much …
Extras! Ken Watanabe takes on Godzilla, Mary Jane has very little to do, Dolph Lundgren could be a Master of the Universe again, Men in Black writer tackles a colossus, and Hansel & Gretel will hunt more witches because people kept giving them money! Plus much more!
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 19, 2013
It's swords, scars and stares in these first images of the Japanese remake of UNFORGIVEN starring Ken Watanabe
It was back in August when news first dropped that Ken Watanabe would be leading a Japanese samurai remake of Clint Eastwood’s multiple Oscar winning Western, Unforgiven. Approximately 17 seconds after the news broke, just about every producer and director in Hollywood all simultaneously thought to themselves “Damn. Why didn’t I think of that?” If there has ever been a …
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