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, Matt wrote about films and TV series that depict real-life people, the extent to which it matters if the actors look like the individuals they’re supposed to portray – and the ways in which they sometimes get it very, very wrong.
But we want to start this trailer post with the Real McCoy (or should that be the Real McCartney?), so here goes:
We also released the latest podcast episode in our Summer of Remakes this week, in which Matt, Sam and Alan talk about the multiple versions of Solaris. (Spoiler: At least some of us think that Soderbergh’s version is better than the trailer we found for this post – but then, that isn’t very difficult, is it?)
But that’s not it, as far as this week’s trailers are concerned.
Mege: There is something in Sean Baker‘s movies, in his characters, that makes me like them at first sight. His storytelling has a joyful, even exuberant element even if the stories themselves are darker and more dangerous than the sunny, vivid cityscape lets on. I really would like to know how he finds his cast; maybe he finds them and then gives them a story to act out.
Matt: Ever since The Leftovers, I’ve loved Carrie Coon, Russian Doll made me want to watch more with Natasha Lyonne, and while Elizabeth Olsen wasn’t always best served by the MCU, she’s definitely been good in interesting things. But the trailer for His Three Daughters looks almost aggressively generic: dysfunctional family film with an indie flavour 101. Here’s hoping that the critics quoted in the trailer are right, because it would be a shame for these three to be in a film that is forgotten in less time than it takes to watch it.
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