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.
To what extent are our film and TV tastes determined by our parents and by what we watch growing up? In this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, Matt remembers the films and series he watched due to his mother: from Zulu via M*A*S*H to Bambi.
Elsewhere, our trip through the Criterion backlog continued, with Richard Lester’s The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers.
And one more trailer, because you deserve it.
Matt: Ben Wheatley is a weird ‘un. He’s directed folk horror, black comedies and chilling J.G. Ballard adaptations, and also Meg 2, in which Jason Statham probably defeats a gigantic prehistoric shark by punching it to death. He’s made films that seem designed for the smallest audience possible, but he’s also directed episodes of Doctor Who and a Netflix-released adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca that absolutely no one seemed to like. Bulk looks like Wheatley is outright daring anyone to distribute this film – but then it also looks like it was filmed for a budget collected entirely during an afternoon of busking… and it’s definitely not just more of the same. Not that there is such a thing as ‘more of the same’ if you’re Ben Wheatley, it would seem.
A Damn Fine Cup of Culture 