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.
It can feel strange, and sort of lonely, to find yourself bouncing off a film that many others love. Matt didn’t dislike Powell and Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going!, but other than in several other films by the director-producer duo, he found it difficult to buy into the central romance.
Meanwhile, Mege found the lows and the highs in dubbed movies in his most recent addition to our Six Damn Fine Degrees.
And what other highs and lows do we have for you this week?
Mege: We all know that Mia Goth is frighteningly unafraid to tackle uncanny roles in edgy movies. Sometimes it‘s unadulterated crap like A Cure For Wellness, but there are uncut gems like Suspiria, where she shines. MaXXXine is a risk, but Ti West sees something in her that some of us have not yet glimpsed. Here is another chance.
Matt: There’s something I dislike about the new, “official” teaser for Netflix’ adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude. The whole thing looks too damn much like it wants, indeed it needs, to be prestige TV. Certainly, it’s based on one of the most celebrated novels of the 20th century – but there’s a self-conscious seriousness to the teaser that feels too heavy to me. When Márquez wrote his novel, he didn’t do so in the knowledge that this was going to make the splash it did, he didn’t infuse it with a foretold sense of importance based on its later success. The trailer – sorry, teaser -, on the other hand, very much has that sense of “Look at me, I’m important.” Here’s hoping that the series itself will know when to use a lighter touch.
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