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 a well-deserved break from its recent Werner Herzog fixation in order to reminisce about the Swiss chapter of A Damn Fine Cup’s film quiz successes over the years. (And we were so close with the title of the tenth Fast & Furious film, we just got the wrong one of the two available adjectives…)
Saturday saw the release of our latest podcast episode, in which Sam and Matt gave two musicals – one from the 1980s and steeped in leotards, one from 2000 starring an Icelandic singer playing an Eastern European factory worker – a second chance.
And what else is there in this week’s trailer stocking?
Mege: I remember Maika Monroe fondly from It Follows, and I‘ve had a crush on Alicia Witt since Twin Peaks, so Longlegs may just be the horror flick I have been waiting for. Oh, and Nicholas Cage? Does he go all out like in Mandy?
Matt: Guy Ritchie’s early films were all produced by Matthew Vaughn – who later went on to become a director of his own, starting with Layer Cake, the film that purportedly got Daniel Craig the James Bond gig. There was already a touch of Guy Ritchie to that film, but looking at Vaughn’s more recent filmography, especially his Kingsman series, and then the trailer to Ritchie’s latest, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, it’s difficult to shake the impression that Ritchie and Vaughn are really the same person. Seriously: has anyone ever seen the two in the same room at the same time?
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