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!

Gina Carano, who happens to be more than just a pretty face attached to a body that is trained to effortlessly kill you with supreme skill, has been having a success as of late with a venture into acting. After kicking several shades of excrement out of Michael “Magneto” Fassbender in Haywire, the actress will star in her next role, the John …

Everybody has a fetish, some more pronounced and weirder than others. (For the record, those pics of me and that tea cosy were photoshopped). For director Brian Taylor, that fetish is apparently people whose heads are on fire. He co-directed the upcoming Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and will now also be helming a film adaptation of popular video game, …

The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a blast when it came out so many years ago. I still remember going to the drive-in theatre to go watch it, while my father shook his head and decided that more booze was necessary to understand the film. For both of us. A year later, a sequel arrived, and while it wasn’t …

When I first saw the trailer for robot boxing movie Real Steel, I rolled my eyes so hard that I could see down the back of my throat. It looked cheesier than a mouse buffet. And then I actually watched the film and discovered a charming father-son story with tons of heart. It also happened to be a special fx extravaganza with …

Bad Santa was a crude, lewd and rude film that also happens to be a guilty pleasure of mine. Telling the tale of an alcoholic, grumpy, mall Santa that regularly robs the shopping centres that he works at alongside his foul-mouthed Elf sidekick, Bad Santa was like watching a negative universe version of It’s a wonderful life. And it also …

I don’t know about you guys, but there are far too few horror films on the market today that deal with flesh-eating virus outbreaks. Cabin Fever was one of those movies that explored the topic and scratched that necrotic itch, but after a lacklustre sequel, the franchise rotted away. Well now, it seems that the face-rotting idea is getting a …

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!

After raking in a fortune at the box office and proving to be a generally favourable hit with critics, it shouldn’t be any surprise that the intrepid young explorer and his faithful canine will be returning to the big screen. Only this time, it’s not Steven Spielberg that will be directing, but rather fellow collaborator Peter Jackson instead.

Just why exactly is everybody so obsessed with Abraham Lincoln? He may have been the great emancipator, but in fiction, he’s been everything from a cyborg fighting tyrannical robots to the best friend of a retarded child. But the latest piece of media to feature the 16th President of the United States has really thrown the stove-pipe hat into the …

I feel sorry for Brandon Routh. Out of all the things that can be blamed for Superman Returns’ flaccid-caped mediocrity, Routh was not one of them. In fact, his underwear-on-the-outside performance was probably the film’s highlight. Since that film’s crash ‘n burn though, he hasn’t exactly been prolific in Hollywood, playing just an odd super powered vegan here and unfortunately named …

If ever there was a film franchise that was sorely in need of a sequel in an age where computer graphics have advanced to ridiculous levels of realism, it would have to be Ghostbusters. The original spectre exterminators have been noticeably absent from the silver screen, while their escapades live on in toys, games, comics, cartoons and uncomfortable fan fiction. Dan Akroyd …