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.
In this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees post, Julie wrote about the photographer Peter Lindbergh and what his work meant to her. So, instead of a trailer, here’s a tribute video that was made when he died in 2019.
Matt, meanwhile, wrote about his memories of the 1980 adaptation of James Clavell’s Shogun and his experience of watching the recent FX version. Spoiler: it’s a good series and well worth watching.
But what if you came here to be scared? Well, we’ve got two more trailers for you…
Mege: This movie had me at Hugh Grant saying he had to check on the blueberry pie. That he builds miniature houses is an added plus and an A24 staple and hallmark of quality since Hereditary. Is the similar title also intended? This is on my list for the next bout of insomnia.
Matt: We started our podcast series Summer of Remakes almost a month ago, so here’s a trailer that fits with the series in more than one way. Not only is Robert Eggers’ upcoming film (slated for a Christmas release, which I get an impish kick out of) a remake of Nosferatu (the original Murnau or the Werner Herzog remake? from the looks of it, both!), that old vampyr is something of a remake of Dracula himself, with all the serial numbers just barely scraped off. But I trust Eggers to deliver something interesting – after all, his previous film, The Northman, was essentially a remake-of-sorts of that famous Danish-prince-seeks-to-kill-murderous-uncle story Hamlet.
A Damn Fine Cup of Culture 