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Our friends at Grolsch Film Works have a website where you can find out what they’ve been up to and read/watch interesting stuff about films. Every week we'll be plucking the highlights. This is that.

WATCH WES ANDERSON'S NEW SHORT FILM STARRING JASON SCHWARTZMAN

Wes Anderson's latest short film for Prada (here's his last), Castello Cavalcanti, is a typically playful eight-minute wonder.

Set during the Molte Miglia rally in Italy in September of 1955, the short stars Jason Schwartzman as a motor car racer who gets into a pickle in a small village when he crashes his car. It's colourful, witty and completely in keeping with the director's well-noted trademark visuals (symmetrical shot set-ups, a vibrant colour palette, etc).

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TOP TEN DUMBEST THINGS TO EVER HAPPEN IN OUTER SPACE

So by now we've all had a chance to see Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity on the big screen for ourselves, and hopefully we can all vaguely agree it was awesome (look, if you didn't just do me a favour and play along for now). However, it seems for every three people raving about its genius, there's one person who insists on reminding us of that one astrophysicist guy who thought it was a bit inaccurate.

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WATCH THE TRAILER FOR DARREN ARONOFSKY'S 'NOAH'

There's been rumours of floods on set, an over-inflated budget, battles with the powers that be over a final cut – all the essential ingredients of a legendary epic (flop or otherwise).

Following his darkly surreal Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky's star-stuffed $125 million biblical epic Noah is drifting in our direction. Based on the well-known tale of Noah and the Ark, Russell Crowe plays our bearded hero alongside an impressive ensemble cast featuring Jennifer Connelly (Requiem for a Dream), Emma Watson, Anthony Hopkins, Logan Lerman and 'ard man Ray Winstone.

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DAVID OYELOWO TALKS 'THE BUTLER' AND PLAYING FOREST WHITAKER'S SON

Having previously starred in Lee Daniels' The Paperboy, 37-year-old actor David Oyelowo has re-teamed with the director and cranked things up a couple of notches. Playing Forest Whitaker's headstrong activist son, Oyelowo delivers a powerhouse performance in The Butler, a historical drama based on a real-life butler (played by Whitaker in the film) who served in the White House under eight presidents from 1952 to 1986, experiencing the Civil Rights Movement from deep within the presidential walls.

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THIS WEEK IN GIFS
The Week's Weirdest Conspiracy Award Goes to…

So there was a very brief period this week where everyone thought that Andy Kaufman may have faked his death and is still living happily married and with a daughter. Just your average Thursday, then. Before his death in 1984 from cancer, Kaufamn had often discussed faking his death to give him the chance to step away from the spotlight, meaning Elvis Presley-style "still alive and well rumours" had sprung up ever since. But things took a turn for the severely bizarre when Kaufman's brother Michael, at the annual Andy Kaufman awards, introduced to stage a woman who claimed to Kaufman's daughter and who stated that the legendary comedian was indeed alive and well. Turns out in the end she was just a hired actress and the whole thing was a prank. It might sound disturbed, but it's likely exactly what Kaufman would have wanted and so is actually a weirdly wonderful tribute to the man.

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