A couple of new releases arrived this week, eager to take on the caped crusader and claim top honours at the box office. Unfortunately for director Lens Wiseman, the Total Recall reboot failed to dethrone the current, brooding champ, as it’s attempt to capture ticket sales glory fizzled out before the weekend was over. Here’s a look at who made what in …
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 25, 2012
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 18, 2012
If you’ve already made plans to not go see Len Wiseman’s Total Recall reboot and would rather just thumb your nose at creatively dead Hollywood, then this news may excite you. Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 classic is not only getting a new “Mind-Bending” edition of the film, which will be released on Blu Ray on July 31st, but it’s also headed back to …
The Total Recall reboot is getting made no matter how much us fans of Paul Verhoeven’s original bitch about it, so the best we hope for now that this new one is actually good. Casting great actors and going back to the source material of Phillip K. Dick’s book instead of ripping off Verhoeven verbatim was always a good place to …
Back at the beginning of the year we profiled the 25 most interesting and eagerly anticipated movie releases from the first 6 months of 2012. Now it’s time to consider the treats in store for cinemagoers in the second half of the year. The Dictator: The latest no holds barred, politically incorrect comedy from Borat and Ali G star Sacha …
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 21, 2012
I’m not a fan of Len Wiseman, whose work I feel is the directorial equivalent of an empty Tupperware bowl: it comes in pretty colours but totally vacuous and plastic. I’m even less of a fan of reboots, especially when they’re rebooting a true genre classic. And yet, there is something about the new Total Recall that is somehow appealing …
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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