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 23, 2013
Robert Rodriguez is just barely done killing with Machete and he’s already up to his greyscale eyeballs in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, his and Frank Miller’s sequel to their 2005 adaptation of Miller’s acclaimed comic. The prequel/sequel/parallelquel will be drawing on a number of storylines from said comic, that take place before, after and during the original …
Michael Shannon could turn just about anybody into a walking pee stain with just one intimidating look. Slap a moustache on his face though, and have him play the real life killer of over 100 people, and his intimidation factor shoots up to over 9000! And that’s exactly what he’s doing in The Iceman, the new trailer for which got …
In his 2000 directorial debut he choppe(re)d up Eric Bana and then in 2007 had a cowardly Casey Affleck assassinate Brad Pitt, and now writer/director Andrew Dominik is back 5 years later with his third feature film, Killing Them Softly, teaming up with Pitt once again. I’ve been keenly interested in the film ever since I first heard of it, and the first …
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 3, 2012
Michael Shannon is an incredible actor with amazing screen presence. He can pretty much do anything, but boy oh boy, if there’s one thing he does really well, it’s playing slightly unhinged nutjobs. He’s a master at characters that have a quiet menace about them, that always seems to be bubbling just under the facade of normalcy. You know, until …
This weekend you totally have to watch…. The Avengers. Again. Yup, it’s a bit of a dud week at South African cinemas with only 3 new films opening locally. And none of them are exactly major drawcards. So, treat the next 7 days as a chance for an older release catch-up, or an opportunity to regain your breath before the seasonal …
Despite the fact that I think that the original Coogan’s Trade was a far better title than it’s current decidedly neutral moniker, Killing Them Softly is still quite high up on my (apparently football field long) list of anticipated movies for 2012. We’ve never really seen Brad Pitt in a straight up action role, which is something that kind of beggars belief. Despite his …
Film classification in the UK is designed to help audiences understand what content is …
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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