Daniel Day-Lewis is in my opinion, the greatest actor currently walking around on this blue-green space marble we call Earth. There simply isn’t a role he can’t play, a claim that will definitely be put to the test in his next acting gig. He’s always been known as one of the greatest scenery chewers to ever grace the screen, and …
It was quite the shocker (not like that, you perverts) when Ang Lee’s name was drawn from the envelope for Best Director at the Oscars a few weeks back. Life of Pi was certainly a well directed movie, but many folks, myself included, thought that after after dropping the Mega-Snub Bomb on Ben Affleck, that the Academy would go with Steven Spielberg …
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Daniel Day Lewis walked out of the Academy Awards with a well deserved grin on his face, as Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln biopic netted him another award and further proof that he may just be one of the greatest actors alive today. I tried to watch the film on a flight back home last month, but any Oscar-worthy moments were drowned …
Legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick may be dead, but his legacy lives on. And not just in a traumatised Shelley Duvall either. Badumtish! Before he left for the director’s guild in the sky, Kubrick had been working on a new take on the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, a project that he started work on back in the 1970s, before he scrapped …
While Hollywood loves to draw on other media for their film ideas, they often times have this habit of then taking said source material and going out of their way to change whatever it was that made it popular in the first place. Did I say “change”? I meant “take a violent crap all over”. But occasionally, even after throwing …
Stop reading right now if you’re planning on watching a delayed broadcast of this year’s Oscars on TV this evening. The 85th Academy Awards ceremony – this year presented by Seth “Family Guy” MacFarlane – has just wrapped in Los Angeles, capping off another season of black-tie awards events, envelope openings and overblown acceptance speeches. Last Updated: February 25, 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: February 22, 2013
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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