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 saw a first: a new Six Damn Fine Degrees post by our new contributor, Melanie. Taking last week’s lead on The Neverending Story, she wrote about fictions in which people run around mindscapes created by their own brains, focusing on the Chinese series The Spirealm. Make sure to check out Melanie’s inaugural contribution!
Matt also wrote about a first: fainting at the cinema. Which film managed to have that effect on him? Some gory horror film? Some hyper-realistic, ultra-brutal war flick? No, it was the Iranian political drama The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Go figure.
And what else is there in the world of trailers this week?
Matt: Both of these films are about survival. The Gorge looks like the infinitely sillier of the two, but it’s got Anya Taylor-Joy and Sigourney Weaver, and I’m okay with Miles Teller as well. Will this make for a good movie with some pizza and a glass or two of wine? I’m willing to find out. 28 Years Later, meanwhile, is as grim as you’d expect from a sequel to Danny Boyle’s modern classic of the zombie, ahem, infected genre, 28 Days Later. I quite liked back in 2002 that the film that started all of this basically didn’t end on all-out destruction but suggested that this was a surprisingly finite apocalypse, with the infected starving to death – but the 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later undid this. Nonetheless, I’m curious to see 28 Years Later – especially since it brings Danny Boyle and Alex Garland back as director and writer… and there are rumours that this is not all the film is bringing back from the original!
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