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: August 28, 2013
Three new movies hit South African cinemas today. Plus, on Sunday, you can catch instant 1996 classic Trainspotting again on the big screen for free at select Nu Metro theatres. If you haven’t already done so, request your 2 tickets here. Moving on though to the normal weekly release schedule… Last Updated: August 23, 2013
With action comedy The Heat opening this Friday in South Africa – which stars Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy as mismatched law enforcement officers – today we want to know who your favourite buddy cop pairings are in the long American cinematic tradition? Riggs and Murtaugh? Burnett and Lowrey? Angel and Butterman? Let us know below. Last Updated: August 21, …
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: July 26, 2013
There is a scene in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men, a taut, nail-biting, attack on a car, filmed in an almost impossible single take where the camera swoops above, through and around the assaulted vehicle as the action unfolds. When I first watched it, I had to pause the DVD so that I could wrap my brain around the technicalities of …
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: June 27, 2013
Oh what a difference a poster makes… While I certainly enjoyed Bridesmaids, I immediately found myself all Melissa McCarthy’d out. As such, I wasn’t really looking forward to The Heat, the odd couple action comedy that would see McCarthy reteam with director Paul Feig as well as playing bad cop to Sandra Bullock’s straight laced special agent. Trailers for the …
Among all the highly anticipated movies about billionaires in fancy tin cans, sungods in blue pyjamas, hairy Canadians with cutlery in their fists and massive monsters and mechs punching each other in the face, there was one movie for 2013 that was still sitting pretty much at the top of my “must-see” list. And it all it featured were …
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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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