It’s that time of the year when many of our favourite shows are wrapping up their seasons and going on a well-deserved break, which means we’re only a few weeks away from the premieres of new shows. And one of those new shows is Showtime’s Roadies – the Cameron Crowe-created comedy-drama that follows a group of roadies touring the US …
Ah, America in the 60’s – when greatness abounded and walls were only a dream! Dear Eleanor is an upcoming comedy / drama / adventure about two teenage girls, Max the Wax (Isabelle Fuhrman) and Ellie Potter (Liana Liberato), taking a non-parent-approved road trip in order to meet the former US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. It’s directed by Kevin Connolly, best …
Welcome to our Weekly Round-Up for the The Extras! A collection of the 15 most popular movie related clips, posters, pics and just plain cool stuff posted on our Twitter profile and Facebook page using the hashtag #TheMoviesExtras in the last week. Remember, these are only the contributions that received the most likes and views since last Thursday, so if …
Roadies is the upcoming comedy-drama series set to air on premium cable channel Showtime from writer-director Cameron Crowe – the man behind such hits as Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire – that follows the road crew of a touring rock band. Crowe has a wealth of experience when it comes to the behind-the-scenes happenings of famous bands as, in addition …
The old adage goes that where there’s a will there’s a way, but in recent years, a more accurate version would be that where there’s a Will (Smith) there’s a bad movie. Fortunately though, after a string of box office and critical bombs, the getting-slightly-stale Prince of Bel Air righted the ship considerably with slick con-man drama Focus. Now Smith …
I usually have the same levels of anticipation for a new Adam Sandler movie as what I reserve for invasive dental surgery, but I must admit that I I have a perverse curiosity about Ridiculous 6. The first movie produced as part of Sandler’s Netflix deal, the comedy-western made headlines earlier in the year due to controversial racist jokes that …
Believe it or not, but sports such as American football are rather dangerous. After all, when you have a field of two dozen men who weigh about as much as VW Beetle on steroids, decked in armour and regularly causing flesh collisions every time they play a game, somebody is bound to get hurt. And by hurt, I mean suffer …
What you’re about to witness is possibly the most expensive piece of fan fiction since Fifty Shades of Grey turned Edward and Bella from Twilight into sex-fiends. This first trailer for Playing It Cool (formerly titled A Many Splintered Thing) claims to be poking fun at really generic, paint by numbers rom-coms and then turns out to be exactly that. The difference though is that this …
Every archive has that one photograph that stops you mid-scroll: a crowded market square …
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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