5 Easy Pieces (and 5 Easy Trailers)

① Here’s an R2D2 budgie.

 

RIP Mike Nichols, the endlessly talented director of classics such as The Graduate, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Catch-22.

 

Netflix is coming to Australia and New Zealand in March!.

 

④ A frustrating, clueless movie critic reviews Pulp Fiction: “It was just talking, if I wanted to watch a conversation I would have gone and sat in a coffee shop.”

 

⑤ “Bad” films do well. The Washington Post analyses movie crap-ness against box office results. Namely, Dumb and Dumber To, which got slapped by critics but hauled in $US36 million during its debut weekend.

 


Five Easy Trailers

① Cate Blanchett is the wicked step-mother and Lily James fills the crystal slippers in Disney’s live-action Cinderella.

 

② First full trailer for Peanuts Movie.

 

③ Sugar is bad for you documentary, That Sugar Film.

 

④ Behind the scenes of Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes’ Richard III stage production, in NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage.

 

⑤ Second trailer for found-footage time traveller Project Almanac.