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.
Submitted for your approval: this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees post saw the return of Mege, with a post on The Twilight Zone – or, more accurately, the Mystery of the Vanishing Box Set. Which calls not for a trailer but for this.
And while we’re on the topic of videos that aren’t trailers, in this trailer post of all places: on Saturday, Matt wrote about revisiting Before Sunrise, the film that introduced us to Julie Delpy’s Céline and Ethan Hawke’s Jesse – so here are Hawke, Delpy and writer-director Richard Linklater talking about the trilogy.
And for those of you still hoping to find actual, honest-to-god trailers in this trailer post: here goes.
Matt: A satire about a US military base simulating an Iraqi war zone, with the supposed Iraqi people played by actors? There’s definitely potential there, and between Wag the Dog and now, there definitely haven’t been enough good, sharp satires on war and the military. Not sure the trailer does the film many favours, but the cast being led by Alia Shawkat and also featuring the likes of Tim Blake Nelson and Chloë Sevigny could be a good sign. Fingers crossed.
Matt: The trailer for H is for Hawk doesn’t appeal to me: there’s something heavy-handed about its sombre earnestness. But Claire Foy has shown repeatedly that she’s an interesting performer worth looking out for, and the supporting cast features the likes of Lindsay Duncan, Brendan Gleeson – and Denise Gough, who was fantastic in Andor. I suspect I’ll be checking this out at the latest once it turns up on Film Four.
Matt: It’s been a while since our cinema screens were graced with a Quentin Tarantino film. I’m not sure we’ll be getting Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair in movie theatres here in Switzerland, but I definitely hope so: I’m curious to find out how the story and its individual episodes work if they’re all part of a single neat, if bloody, package.
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