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.
Isn’t it typical? A good new animated series is cancelled after only one season. At least in the case of Scavengers Reign (which Alan wrote about in this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees) the series was picked up by Netflix… even though they’re only showing it in select countries. Isn’t it typical?
This week also saw the release of our June espresso podcast, one of the rare episodes where two of us sit in the same room at the same time to record. In this case, Alan and Matt got together to talk about Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, among other things.
From asking who the metaphorical monster is (if you’ve seen Kore-eda’s latest, you know what we’re talking about) to what may be actual monsters, in the next trailer:
Mege: There is something to be said for age-old stories about ancient places that are not done with the ghosts they harbour, setting them loose on current inhabitants. I like stuff like Hereditary and this one because two very different worlds clash and must come to terms with each other.
Matt: You’d think that a film about a murderous giant shark menacing the City of Lights and triathlons in the Seine would be deeply stupid. Perhaps that’s exactly what Under Paris is – but, surprisingly, it seems that critics liked this one a fair bit. I may well check it out some hot summer evening, with a pizza and a glass of cheap but nice red wine. I rate my chances quite highly, since, after all, I’m one of the four or five people who actually enjoyed Deep Blue Sea. (Even if you think it’s trash, you have to admit that it has a fantastic surprise death scene.) P.S.: There are those who say that our very own Alan was the first to make the “shark de triomphe” joke.
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