Welcome to the inaugural 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 …
Mad Max: Fury Road is a modern action movie masterpiece. Breathlessly frenetic, meticulously realized, it’s deceptively spartan story wrapped around the best mind-boggling vehicular action ever captured on-screen, George Miller’s long gestating fourquel is the type of fearless filmmaking that we usually just don’t see in the Hollywood studio system any more. So of course we want more of it. …
What a day! Oh what a lovely day! This weekend past saw a movie released that has been nearly two decades in the making. As any unfortunate soul who has waited a relative eternity on the sequel of a popular product can tell you — Oh, wait. They actually can’t tell you anything, because they’re still crying over how terrible …
Look, no offense to Pitch Perfect 2, but there’s really only one new movie you should be seeing this weekend: Mad Max: Fury Road. 15 years in the making, writer-director George Miller’s fourth film featuring the post-apocalyptic world of Max Rockatansky is finally here, and it is stupendous! Also, totally freaking bonkers. The movie officially debuted yesterday at Cannes to …
It’s not quite clear what Mad Max: Fury Road is. It could be a sequel to writer/director George Miller’s seminal 1979 Mel Gibson starring original, as it references events in that movie. But it also slightly changes those events (Max has now lost a daughter to bandits, instead of a son), so is this then a remake? Well, not quite …
Just a few hours after you read this, I’ll be on my way to watch Mad Max: Fury Road. Don’t worry, I’ll give you a moment to hate me… There, feel better now? Oh, you didn’t actually hate me for getting to watch one of the most anticipated movies of the year before you? Well, then allow me to stoke …
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In 1950’s Stalinist Russia, life is bleak, politics are muddled and what’s promised by the powers that be very rarely match up with grim reality. Unfortunately the same is true of Child 44, director Daniel Espinosa’s (Safe House) take on Tom Rob Smith’s bestseller novel, which on paper and trailer looked to be an astronomically cast pot-boiler thriller, but ends …
Cash once ruled Colorado commerce. From Denver’s neighborhood diners to mountain-town gift shops, physical …
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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