Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: your favourite female character
Seeing as yesterday was all about celebrating women, I thought we’d dedicate this week’s Midweek Movie Mouth-off to our favourite heroines of the big and small screen.
Extras! Weekly Round-Up! 01/04/16 – 07/01/16
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 …
Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: What’s the dumbest complaint you’ve ever heard about a movie?
After Spidey’s big reveal in the latest trailer for Captain America: Civil War, of course pedants have come out of the woodwork to complain about, well, everything to do with him. His costume is too cartoony, his eye lenses are too small, his logo is too fat, the works. Some people have even said they will go so far as …
Time for some fun – the MTV Movie Award nominations have been announced
We’ve just experienced the conclusion of the Oscars for this year and seen all the years most critically recognized films get awarded and now its time for an awards ceremony that’s a little bit more fun – with the MTV Movie Awards whose nominations were announced yesterday evening. The MTV Awards typically focus on popularity rather than technical merit, but …
And the winners of the 2016 Oscars are…
To quote one of this year’s biggest contenders: “Oh, what a day?! Oh, what a lovely day?!”. Yes, the biggest night in the movie awards calendar went down last night, as the 88th Annual Academy Awards for Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (or just the 2016 Oscars, if you don’t prefer that mouthful) was held at the Dolby Theatre in …
OSCARS 2016: Who will take home the awards?
So it’s the Oscars this Sunday, which to most of us probably doesn’t mean much. They don’t exactly have a solid record of always picking the best movies or performances for the year past – but nonetheless it’s still the most coveted prize in the business and fun to try and determine who will walk away with what Oscar. This …
Charlize Theron in talks to star as villian in next FAST AND FURIOUS(A) film
Every good action movie needs a chief antagonist or villain to make it really worthwhile. There is no point having all the good guys working to fight a cause when there isn’t someone you are supposed to be rooting against (or in my sadistic way, I often end up rooting for) on the other side. And who better to play …
Extras! Weekly Round-Up! 22/01/16 – 28/01/16
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 …
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