Join us every week for a trip into the weird and wonderful world of trailers. Whether it’s the first teaser for the latest instalment in your favourite franchise, an obscure preview for a strange indie darling, whether it’s good, bad, ugly or just plain weird – your favourite pop culture baristas are there to tell you what they think.
This week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees took us deep into the heart of Hollywood cringe, with Mege’s post on BoJack Horseman.
We also visited another afterlife courtesy of Criterion: Albert Brooks’ Defending Your Life. Matt wasn’t the hugest fan, but he did like Meryl Streep, so there’s that.
But enough about the great beyond: what’s there to see on this side?
Mege: Ah yes, horses again. And like BoJack Horseman, they are a bunch of sore losers, too, and if that weren’t enough, they get bullied by Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas. This is James Bond’s seedy underbelly. Read the books and then watch the series.
Matt: I was a kid in the ’80s, but I don’t get this craze for ’80s throwback movies. The new Ghostbusters looks well made, but it also comes across as po-faced, as if the original Ghostbusters was some sort of epic with the occasional laugh. The Garfield Movie? I mean, honestly, when Garfield works, it’s in a three-panel comic strip format – and even then it basically repeats the same joke week after week after bloody week. Why another film? I’m most puzzled by The Fall Guy, though: who are the fans you’re trying to entice? And then, if you’re going to change the (iffy) source material this much, why link it to some old, cheesy series to begin with?
A Damn Fine Cup of Culture 