There is no valid reason to sit through an awards ceremony. Well, actually there are three: you are nominated, you paid for the whole thing or you work as a caterer. Nobody else has any need to attend to these things. Nobody even has reason to pay attention. If you could bottle pointless self-importance and spill it on a red …
Did you enjoy the cheesy 80’s machismo of The Expendables as much as I did, and also cannot wait for more raw, undiluted manliness in Expendables 2 ? Well, it looks like the manly movie gods are looking down on us mortals with favour, as they lounge on their celestial couches; remote in one hand, divine mead in the other.Cheap …
The director of the underwhelming reboot of Conan The Barbarian, is set to helm a feature based on the cult comic, which has been stuck in development hell for several years now.
A recently released promo photo of Noomi Rapace in much anticipated sci fi extravaganza, Prometheus, seemed like pretty standard fare at first glance. But just as we recently discussed, these promo pieces all seem to be more than what first meets the eye. This is the originally released pic: Pretty normal, right? But look closely, and you’ll notice two ominous …
Freshly announced, the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards took place last night (early this morning, South African time) at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Generally regarded as a pretty good indicator of the Academy Awards results every year, the Golden Globes are chosen by the approximately 90 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. As an awards ceremony …
Note to EON Productions: This is not how you get people excited in your upcoming movie. Understandably, it is one of the most recognized franchises on the planet, so you don’t have to do much, but just a modicum more effort than this would be appreciated. Maybe I’m expecting too much, or maybe they’re just trying to tap into that …
I spent the weekend catching up on some old movies thanks to DSTV’s blockbuster service and one of those was Transformers: Dark side of the moon. I settled down for a 2 hour action fest and unfortunately was thoroughly let down by the atrocious editing and over emphasis on the wonderful yet non integral Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. So I still have …
Welcome to The Weekend Extras! A dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! So, just like the normal Extras, just much bigger!
Collider scored an exclusive interview with actress Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica), who – as we posted in a recent edition of Extras – has been cast to play the female lead opposite Vin Diesel in writer/director David Twohy’s much anticipated 3rd Riddick film. Apparently Diesel and Twohy’s audition process is a bit unconventional, to say the least: I did audition for it. …
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 today! Entertainment Weekly has a new Dark Knight Rises image as their cover, showing us a clear and detailed look of the Batsuit. They also have a new trio of previously unreleased DKR images Now …
Just to prove it’s not just superheroes, sci-fi and Spielberg around here, here’s a bit of news on male stripper movie Magic Mike – one of several very different projects director Steven Soderbergh plans to churn out before his supposed sabbatical from film-making. Comedy drama Magic Mike was profiled earlier this week as one of the Top 25 Movies of …
Ethan Hawke is set to star in Vigilandia, a film that is surprisingly not about a super-hero themed amusement park.
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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