Welcome to the Weekly Round-Up for the The Extras! As you may know, we recently changed the format of our daily Extras!, instead posting the normal movie related clips, posters, pics and just plain cool stuff on our Twitter profile and Facebook page using the hashtag #TheMoviesExtras. Since we’ve been doing about 8 posts per day, gathering an entire week’s …
The new mutants, they are a-comin’! With X-Men Apocalypse featuring an all-new cast of children of the atom, plenty of new faces are popping up so far for Bryan Singer’s follow-up to X-Men: Days Of Future Past. And add one Olivia Munn to that cast, as she’ll be wielding a psychic knife as the improbably-named Psylocke in that sequel. Which …
Johnny Deep is no stranger to strange, having appeared in some of the weirdest movies around. This time around though instead of white face paint he dons a moustache because, well, moustache. Depp is leading a cast of rather famous names in Mortdecai, a spy-like thriller that reminds me of Johnny English, only with less English and more American. Directed by David Koepp (Premium Rush) Mortdecai piles …
There are many people who find that The Newsroom is just a mouthpiece for writer/creator Aaron Sorkin’s political views, and that also he just uses the show’s format of retroactively dealing with real world news as a means of sticking a honking big “WHY DIDN’T YOU DO IT LIKE THIS?!” in professional journalists’ faces. Quite frankly, I couldn’t give a …
If you’re on the East Coast for the next 9 days you have dozens of movies to choose from as part of the Durban International Film Festival, South Africa’s biggest film fest. For everyone else around the country, there are four new releases from which to take your pick. Deliver Us from Evil: Crime and horror collide in this supposed …
Contrary to that oft spoken bit of illogical mathematics, one plus one doesn’t always equal three. Thus is the case for Deliver Us From Evil, the latest bit of scary celluloid from Sinister (that’s a title not an adjective) writer-director Scott Derrickson, which attempts to mash together the exorcism horror and police procedural genres but gets tripped up by the aforementioned arithmetic. …
I was once caught for crimes by the church police. It was a tough case, as the bishop in charge had to pray all day and night in order to get God to point out where I was hiding with his massive divine finger. Still, it was a fair cop and I was read my sacraments in a timely and …
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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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