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.
When life gives you lemons, yadda yadda yadda. What, though, when your movie calls for Lemmon – but he’s not available? In this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, Alan writes about the result: Billy Wilder’s Kiss Me, Stupid.
From the ridiculous to the rebellious: Matt took a look at the two seasons of Andor and what the series did for Star Wars.
What else do we have for you this week?
Matt: For those of us who still go to the cinema religiously, it’s great to see films re-released that either we saw on the big screen decades ago or never saw them at the movie theatre to begin with. Amadeus is definitely one of those; I’ve only seen Apollo 13 once, in the late 1990s, and I don’t remember much about it other than liking it, but if it makes it to cinemas around here, perhaps that’d be a good way of rewatching it. Especially if there’s a young Tom Hanks in it that doesn’t even have to be digitally de-aged!
Matt: Talking of age: obviously the Spinal Tap sequel has to lean into these idiots having grown old, but the trailer makes it look like it could be more than just “Remember when?” IP masturbation. Did the world clamour for more Spinal Tap? No. Could the world do with more Spinal Tap? Perhaps… but I already dread a new generation of guys who will quote the original compulsively. You can only hear “This one goes to 11.” so often before you want to give them the full Spinal Tap drummer experience.
Matt: And finally: Breaking Bad‘s Vince Gilligan is back, and he’s bringing the great Rhea Seehorn (who was wonderful in Better Call Saul) with him. What’s Pluribus about? Saving the world from happiness, apparently… which is a choice, in this day and age. But Gilligan and Seehorn have shown more than enough that they’re worth watching out for.
A Damn Fine Cup of Culture 