With the possible exception of the Beatles and bad dental hygiene, there are few British exports as iconic as James Bond. The MI-6 super spy has spent the better part of the last 5 decades saving the world from the nefarious machinations of many a cat-stroking, moustache-twirling villain, and as result of his fictional exploits, he’s picked up many a …

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And I thought that I could get through this day without typing reboot, oh well… The 1987 Carl Reiner comedy, Summer School, which starred a pre-NCIS Mark Harmon as an easygoing teacher whose flippant attitude actually inspired his class of dunces to actually succeed has been stuck in development hell since 2005, passing through various directors and scripts. But the …

You would think that with all the marketing Marvel is doing for the Avengers that there would actually not be a single unseen scene left in the movie. On closer inspection though, you realize that they have actually been cleverly avoiding any real story elements in all the promos. One aspect of that story that has remained clouded in mystery …

Famed director Quentin Tarantino has been busy with his latest film, Django Unchained for several weeks now, and considering the amount of attention his projects usually garner, it’s a wonder that no set pictures have leaked, until now that is. Starring Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx, as dentist turned bounty hunter King Schultz, alongside the freed slave Django, as the …

Just what does director Roland Emmerich have against the White House anyway? The oval office HQ has been destroyed by the director twice already, first in that iconic sequence in Independence day, and again in his other disaster film, 2012. And now Emmerich is going for a hat trick, as he gets ready to direct the action drama film White …

Please note we are not affiliated with CINE PRESTIGE. Click the banner below to book your movie Last night we were invited to the opening of a brand new cinema in the Ster-Kinekor complex at The Zone in Rosebank, however this was no normal cinema but rather the first (for Ster-Kinekor) of a new range of upmarket cinema’s called Cine …

It’s safe to say that musical films are here to stay, with recent films such as Mamma Mia, Hairspray and all those horrid High School Musicals proving that there is indeed a market for them. We’ve seen very few musicals with a rock ‘n roll core to it however, at least until Rock of Ages came along. Starring Tom Cruise, …

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!

With The Hunger Games dominating movie headlines right now, with its premise of kids versus kids in a barbaric free for all of violence and death, you’d be forgiven for considering the film and it’s source material to be an original take on arenas and gladiators, retooled for a more age. And for the most part, it is, I won’t …

Well, kind of. While at the press junket for The Lucky One (another dose of Nicholas Sparks penned literary ipecac), screenwriter Will Fetters spoke to CraveOnline about veteran actor turned director Clint Eastwood’s remake and revealed that deceased grunge rock legend, Kurt Cobain, was actually the inspiration for lead character, Norman Maine.

While Amanda Peet is wowing audiences in her new romantic comedy series Bent, that doesn’t mean that she isn’t up for some more exposure on the silver screen. The actress has just been cast alongside Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy for the upcoming Identity Theft, which will be a follow-up to last years Horrible Bosses.