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, Julie wrote one of those Six Damn Fine Degrees posts that only Julie can write: a deep dive into the life and career of Natalie Wood, or at least the early years. If you have any interest in the history of Hollywood, make sure to check out the post!
We also released our July espresso podcast, in which Sam and Matt visit with the talented – and multi-faced – Tom Ripley, in this case in his recent Netflix incarnation. It’s not the first time we’ve talked about Patricia Highsmith’s sociopathic protagonist – and at least Sam and Matt hope that it won’t be the last time either.
From a very early ’60s killer to the serial killers of later decades, with our regular trailers for the week.
Mege: Another hidden figure, Ann Burgess, who did so much for FBI profiling and never really got mentioned, much less honoured, for her methodical work. If you are into serial killer docs, this must be top-notch. There must be an untold number of docs about the killers, but it‘s high time we have a look at the people who did the grunt work of taking these killers down.
Matt: I get it: Alan Moore’s Watchmen is not only a seminal work in superhero comics, it’s also a great story. But if you’re going to adapt it again – as Warner Bros. is doing in an animated two-parter -, adapt it! What exactly is the point in doing a version that looks more or less like what you’d get if you asked a generative AI to turn the Moore/Gibbons classic from a graphic novel into an animated film? If an adaptation is done simply because there’s an audience for the same damn thing in a different medium, without putting a single thought into what the medium does for the story and how it’s told, why do it in the first place? (Narrator: The answer, as always, is money.)
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