There’s no shortage of great comic book movies on the market today. But the challenge in adapting these characters, is to do so with enough reverence to the source material, while reaching as wide an audience as possible. Sometimes it works, such as in the cases of Batman, Mystery Men and Hellboy. And sometimes it fails, much like with films …
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: January 7, 2013
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: December 19, 2012
Damn, marketing people over at Disney. You really are making sure that we don’t forget about Oz the Great and Powerful. This week has already seen the release of several images, three posters (which came together like some kind of artsy Voltron) and now we’re getting a second trailer to director Sam Raimi’s Wizard of Oz prequel, which fills in plenty of …
It seems like now that the world has finally received its first glimpse of the Evil Dead remake, and in fact did not end in a cataclysm of fan rage, Sam Raimi can now concentrate on that other follow-up to a beloved classic that he’s working on. We’ve had couple of new posters recently for his Wizard of Oz prequel yarn, Oz the …
You’d swear that Naas Botha was running Hollywood at the moment, with all the reboots we’re seeing. The credits have barely stopped rolling on a movie, before it gets announced that a new, younger and edgier version is in the pipeline. Usually followed immediately by the incandescent rage of thousands of fanboys melting the internet to slag. So what do …
This week at South African cinemas, new entries in hit movie franchises are evenly matched with art house fare. Take your pick… The Bourne Legacy: Matt Damon is out and Jeremy Renner is in for this fourth film in the action-espionage Bourne film series, stemming from Robert Ludlum’s spy thriller books. A rogue black ops agent – who isn’t Jason …
While good ol’ James Bond may be hogging some of the lime-light lately with his cars and his girls, there is another espionage franchise that’s about to be (pardon the pun) reborn. Picking up the badassery from where Matt Damon left off, Jeremy Renner’s Aaron Cross is another Treadstone agent on the run from shadowy government agencies. And now thanks …
Have you ever double-checked your doors at night because something just didn’t feel secure? …
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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