Awards season craziness is almost over! With the release of American Sniper and Whiplash, six of the eight nominees for Best Picture have now come to South African cinema. Unfortunately you’ll still have to wait a bit for The Theory of Everything and The Grand Budapest Hotel – but they will be out in the next month so I’m sure …
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 11, 2015
2015 is a year of big, spectacular movies that will undoubtedly boast several character showdowns to shake the heavens. So it says an awful lot that all the Ultrons, Mad Maxes, Jurassic killers and Jedi Knights of this year will have their work cut out for them to even compete with much less beat the titanic edge-of-your-seat final act duel witnessed …
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 5, 2015
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 20, 2015
This is it. The big one. The grandaddy of them all. Yes, the nominations for the 87th Annual Academy Awards, aka the Oscars 2015, are finally here. Held at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills, California last night, the nominations for all 24 categories were made available altogether (a first for the event), presented by actor Chris Pine, directors …
Get out your diaries – The Movies writers round up the releases to watch out for between October and the new year. Last Updated: October 1, 2014
Useless fact about me: I started learning to play the drums not too long ago. I’m decent-ish at it by now, and enjoy the hell out of it. I have a lesson every Friday, during which my instructor, a stupidly talented Venezuelan guy, often has me flailing around on my kit until I’m drenched in sweat. But what I go …
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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