Movies out Today: 17 January 2020
It's the time of the year that the Oscar hopefuls start hitting cinemas. Leading the charge this week is 1917, a strong contender for Best Picture with rave reviews all round.
Extras! Man of Steel's origin story, Loki is a muppet of a man, Obi Wan is a jerk, Jack Huston joins a scam, and you'll probably want to punch Woody Allen after today! 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 27, 2013
And the Oscar (no, not that one) goes to…
Stop reading right now if you’re planning on watching a delayed broadcast of this year’s Oscars on TV this evening. The 85th Academy Awards ceremony – this year presented by Seth “Family Guy” MacFarlane – has just wrapped in Los Angeles, capping off another season of black-tie awards events, envelope openings and overblown acceptance speeches. Last Updated: February 25, 2013
LES MISERABLES arrives on Blu-Ray and DVD March 22
It’s not like they could be any more miserable, AMIRITE? Ha! I slay myself! One of the highlight movies of last year despite the fact that it had choppier editing than Chop chop 4: The choppening as scored by Chopin. Still, Tom Hooper looks set to receive a few Oscars for his musical masterpiece, which will be hitting retail shelves …
Monday Box Office Report
Thanks to a little American tradition known as the Superbowl weekend, cinemas were relatively quiet while teams of brightly dressed men rammed into each other in order to retrieve a pig-skin. Thus, while fans sat in bars and lounges dining on fine gourmet meals such as barbecue chicken wings and beer in a can, movies were neglected. Still, there were …
Extras! Arnold's a screamer, Bobby Moresco heads to The Harbor, Superman checks into hospital, Del Toro's Pinocchio has its strings cut, Indy 5 still going ahead and Oh snap, son! You just got served by Siskel and Ebert! 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: January 31, 2013
Midweek Mouth-off: Music(als) to our ears
Given the number of superhero, sci-fi and skop, skiet en donder films that receive news coverage (and fanboy love) at TheMovies.co.za, I think it’s a safe to say that musicals aren’t a popular genre in these here parts. Or are they…? With Les Miserables currently filling seats in local cinemas, today we want to hear about your feelings towards song-and-dance …
Here's all your Screen Actor's Guild Awards 2013 winners
The Screen Actors Guild Awards – which, if the name wasn’t a dead giveaway, ditches all the technical stuff and focuses on the performances of actors/actresses, as voted for by their acting peers – took place last night. As one of the last major awards show before the big daddy of them all, the Oscars, the SAG’s are always a …
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