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.
We look back at the week that straddles two years, which for us here at A Damn Fine Cup of Culture began with Matt’s retrospective of 2024, bookended by Hirokazu Kore-eda’s wonderful Monster and the wondrous Flow.
Melanie then began the year in style, with her Six Damn Fine Degrees on revenge stories and on the Korean series Marry My Husband.
Saturday saw the release of our first podcast episode of the year, in which we brought together Alan, Julie, Matt and Sam (for the first time in the history of our podcast!) to talk about a century of culture and film, spanning the years from 1925 to 2025. (Sadly, no trailer could be found for the 1925 film Zander the Great, but it can be watched in its entirety on YouTube – albeit in shaky quality and without music.)
Well, that’s already been a nice bunch of trailers – but let’s finish with a film that in many places is coming out only now, at the start of the new year:
Mege: Heh. Him and his monkey. It‘s either absolutely silly or a stroke of genius. Probably both. It depends how fast you are able to get used to the fact that the protagonist is, in fact, not really in there. It‘s a made-up true story.
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