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.
Sadly, there are no trailers for animated shorts – so instead, here is the opening and closing of the Looney Tunes film “Hollywood Steps Out”, which Alan wrote about for this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees.
To make up for this, here is an entire bunch of trailers for three films based on Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels, which Sam and Matt talked about in our most recent espresso episode.
But Tom Ripley isn’t the only con man or murderer hiding among this week’s trailers!
Mege: I don’t know if a political spy thriller is the right vessel for Robert Downey Jr. to play five or six different roles, but a bit of humour may liven up a difficult mole story that especially no one in the US of A would want to know about. A little bit of sugar and all that. But it looks entertaining and well made, and after all those saccharine Christmas movies, let’s get back to earth.
Matt: I can’t say that this trailer appeals exactly: Freud’s Last Session looks well acted, but it also looks like generic midbrow prestige drama. I do get a giggle out of Anthony Hopkins playing Sigmund Freud opposite Matthew Goode’s C.S. Lewis (the film is an adaptation of a stage play telling of a fictional meeting between Freud and Lewis), seeing how 30 years ago Hopkins played C.S. Lewis himself, in the Richard Attenborough-directed Shadowlands – itself an adaptation of a stage play. The Hollywood Ouroboros biting its own tail once again.
A Damn Fine Cup of Culture 