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.
Criterion does have some pretty fine looking films on offer, don’t they? This week, Matt hung out with some Japanese ghosts and goblins in Kwaidan. Hold on to your ears!
Meanwhile, Sam visited with one of the worst parents in film history: Joan Crawford, as played by Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest.
And to end the week on, here are a few trailers for some of the most interesting films we can look forward to.
Matt: 100 Nights of Hero is an adaptation of a graphic novel, which itself is based on the legendary tales of The Arabian Nights – and it looks like nothing else out there in current cinema. Hamnet is an adaptation of a novel, starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal and directed by Chloé Zhao, in her first feature since the ill-fated Eternals (which seems like it came out an eternity ago, doesn’t it?). And finally: Bugonia, the latest film by Yorgos Lanthimos, again with his current favourite leading lady Emma Stone – and it’s a remake, of all things, of the South Korean film Save the Green Planet! All of them new takes on existing material, by interesting filmmakers, with interesting casts. Cinema may not always be in a good place these days, but there are things beyond franchises and sequels.
A Damn Fine Cup of Culture 