Extras! 16 October 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: October 16, 2014
We review GONE GIRL – A slick, stylish and serpentine thriller
As a slick high-power lawyer Tyler Perry is really good in Gone Girl. That may be a weird line to open up with for a review of Gone Girl, the latest film from director David Fincher which actually stars Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, but it’s the truth. More specifically, it’s the surprising truth – and surprises is something you …
Movies out today: AI, cowboys, railway men and good Christian girls
It’s a bit of a quieter week at the movies with just four new releases hitting cinemas in addition to local Marikana-centred documentary Miners Shot Down. Transcendence: This sci-fi drama is the directorial debut of Oscar-winning cinematographer – and frequent Christopher Nolan collaborator – Wally Pfister. Johnny Depp plays a controversial artificial intelligence researcher who finds his consciousness separated from …
We review A Million Ways to Die in the West – A million ways to cringe
There are those movies out there that cross lines for certain reasons. Tarantino crosses the blood line in an effort to recapture gore of days past, Bay enjoys recapturing the first few instances of the universe in most of his movies. With A Million Ways to Die in the West Seth MacFarlane seems to want to recapture the elements that make …
Movies out today: Oscar nominees return, as do meatballs
Only three new movies hit cinema today, although to cash in on their Oscar buzz, both Gravity (our review) and Captain Phillips (our review) are returning to the big screen at select Ster Kinekor cinemas. You can catch the former in 3D and, in a coup of Durban moviegoers, 3D IMAX. Last Updated: January 31, 2014
This red band trailer for A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST goes south so fast!
While the genre has received a bit of jump lately with movies like Django Unchained and True Grit, I still feel that we see far too little westerns these days. Especially westerns where people constantly die in excessively violent – but utterly hilarious – ways. Luckily, this is where writer-director-actor Seth MacFarlane’s damn funny looking A Million Ways to Die in the West comes …
There are black sheep and lady ticklers in these 8 character posters for A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST
Funny man Seth MacFarlane has tackled a diverse set of characters in his career, from a genius, megalomaniacal baby, to a talking, anthropomorphic dog, to the most foul mouthed teddy bear the world has ever seen/heard. And for his next project, MacFarlane will be taking on the Wild West as he writes, directs and stars in action-comedy western A Million Ways …
Extras! Robert Zemeckis will be a man on a wire, Agents of SHIELD gets (had?) Deathlok, Ghandi walks like an Egyptian, and Quentin Tarantino could go to prison?! Plus much more!
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