① Here’s an R2D2 budgie.
② RIP Mike Nichols, the endlessly talented director of classics such as The Graduate, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Catch-22.
③ 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.
