Five Easy Pieces
① Fliks’ Giles Hardie on movie piracy: People download movies illegally because they want to. Boom.
② This guy tormented his girlfriend with… Lord of the Rings quotes.
③ We saw Whiplash this week (one of the year’s very best, opens Oct 23), here’s a great interview.
④ This week’s big news: Ghostbusters. Here director Paul Feig talks: total reboot, all female cast.
⑤ Shakespeare smashed: Not to be.
Five Easy Trailers
① SXSW documentary winner The Great Invisible.
② Teaser for Disney’s Tomorrow, with George Clooney.
③ Documentary on filmmaker Richard Linklater, 21 Years.
④ Second look at the biopic of astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, with Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything.
⑤ A man comes between platonic lesbian/straight besties in Life Partners.