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.
Remember that time when two films about volcanos came out practically at the same time? No, not those two films – we’re talking about the two documentaries made about the volcanologist couple Katia and Maurice Krafft that came out in 2022, Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love and Werner Herzog’s The Fire Within.
This weekend also saw the release of the January espresso podcast episode, in which Julie and Sam talked about the Weimar-era director GW Pabst and his film Pandora’s Box.
And what else does the week have in store?
Mege: Jodie Comer and Gina McKee in the same movie? They could read and enact the phone book and I would be there to watch them. There is a diamond-hard determination to Comer and an intelligent care to McKee that I immediately respond to.
Matt: We don’t often feature trailers for video games, but hey, this might be of interest both to filmgoers and gamers. I’ve played a fair few Indiana Jones video games, from big-pixel point-and-click adventures (that, sadly, Sam bounced off of) to Tomb Raider wannabes (which is ironic, seeing how Lara Croft’s adventures are very much inspired by Indy’s adventures). This looks like your average Indiana Jones story: Nazis, treasures, traps, and all that. And video games in 2024 look a lot closer to the films than they did back in the late 1980s, when Lucasfilm Games released its Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade tie-in. But, honestly? The idea of playing the movie heroes of my childhood no longer appeals to me all that much, nor does the return to the Henry Jones Jr. well. We’ve been there too many times… and at my age, being Indy, if only for a dozen hours or so, is no longer the fantasy it might have been thirty years ago.
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