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.
Is it possible that it’s really taken more than 15 years for us to finally write something about Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Well, Julie definitely made up for this in this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees instalment.
And then, on Saturday, we released our main December podcast, in which Julie, Sam and Alan looked at some of the movies in which Hollywood tells stories about its own history and mythology. Make sure to check it out!
What else is there this week, trailer-wise? Oh yes, there was this little trailer thing called…
Mege: Oh my sweet tender babes, they finally made a sister movie to one of the greatest action thrillers to come out in the last ten years. I am not too sure if Anya Taylor-Joy can bring the underdog-to-heroine vibe to the film, but there is an otherworldliness to her that makes her inhabit the post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max so easily. You’ll see me line up on release day for this one.
Matt: I finally managed to watch a Nuri Bilge Ceylan film at the cinema: About Dry Grasses. The English title sounds, well, dry, but the film has a poetry and an energy – and, yes, a sense of humour – that the title doesn’t capture. It’s not necessarily enjoyable to spend more than three hours in the company of as bitter and resentful a character as Samet (Deniz Celiloglu), a frustrated teacher who projects his many issues onto the people closest to him, but this is outweighed by the ample beauty in the film’s cinematography, its nuanced observations, and its female lead, Merve Dizdar, a deserved Best Actress winner at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
A Damn Fine Cup of Culture 