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 there such a thing as a definitive version of a story, a book, a play? Matt doesn’t think so – except when he does.
This week also saw the release of our latest espresso podcast, in which Matt and Julie welcomed a guest – Marcy Goldberg, lecturer, film historian and media consultant – and talked to her about Anna Bogutskaya’s book Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate, and about the different types and examples of unlikeable (or are they?) women in film and TV. Which, quite honestly, is another great opportunity to post a trailer for the wonderful All About Eve, wouldn’t you say?
And this brings us to our other trailers for this week, starting with a slice of horror remade in the English language. (Because, for English speakers, the real horror is that there’s a whole world out there that speaks languages other than English.)
Mege: Someone once said that terror starts at home. Maybe terror travels really well if some seemingly intact homes go on a faraway vacation together. This movie‘s main attraction lies in its prime rate cast.
Matt: The first Joker was a weird beast: derivative and self-important, but undoubtedly very well crafted in many respects once you got over the Martin Scorsese cosplay. I haven’t been holding my breath for a sequel, but I’d be lying if I said that this sequel wasn’t trying to be its own thing. I won’t race to see it at the cinema, but in the end, I’d rather have them trying something that may well fail but that nonetheless tries to be more than yet another superhero film than another flaccid, pointless DC film that doesn’t know what it wants to be nor does it care.
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