Damn it, this week really sucked. First Monday brought the news that David Bowie passed away, and now we’ve lost Alan Rickman as well. F**k cancer, am I right? Oh well, let’s see what’s on circuit this week to take our minds off of things. The Big Short When four outsiders saw what the big banks, media and government refused …

Before entering the cinema to watch Suffragette, I must admit that I had very little knowledge on the movie and even less on the suffrage movement itself. What an enlightening couple of hours were lying ahead for me. For those of you that don’t know, “suffrage” is the legal right to vote, which embattled women had to fight for bitterly …

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 …

Firstly, no, not this Flash. Or that one. Secondly, the teaming up of the Oscar-winning director of Silence of the Lambs with the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Juno with Meryl Streep who wins ALL DA OSCARZ! is certainly one that is sure to grab some attention. Especially since Ricki and the Flash will not only see Streep using that incredible singing voice she …

This is it. The big one. The grandaddy of them all. Yes, the nominations for the 87th Annual Academy Awards, aka the Oscars 2015, are finally here. Held at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills, California last night, the nominations for all 24 categories were made available altogether (a first for the event), presented by actor Chris Pine, directors …

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Once upon a time (1987 to be exact), in a magical land far, far away (Hey, Broadway is quite the distance from Cape Town, and there are lots of people on fairy dust!) there was a very successful stage play by Stephen Sondheim that threw all the famous and not-s0-famous characters from your favourite fairy tales all into one singing …

Twenty years. That’s how long Jeff Bridges has been trying to bring an adaptation of Lois Lowry’s acclaimed 1993 novel “The Giver” to the screen. He purchased the film rights two decades ago with the original intention of his father Lloyd playing the film’s titular Giver, but alas, his father passed away just a few years later while the film was …