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.
This week was Julie’s turn at the Six Damn Fine Degrees, and she linked literature, cinema and television in her post on Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White – which was adapted for the screen various times, as she writes, for instance in a somewhat botched 1948 film version…
… or, indeed, in a 2018 BBC adaptation featuring, among others, Jessie Buckley. We’re sure that this talented young actor will be heard of again.
Matt, meanwhile, caught up on his Criterion backlog, writing about the Italian comedy Il sorpasso (though that description doesn’t quite do the film justice) and the French classic Children of Paradise.
And what else do we have for you this week?
Mege: What do you get if you cross the X-Files with the Thursday Murder Club? You get the Duffer Brothers latest offering called The Boroughs. A bunch of senior citizens dealing with something extraterrestrial. I prefer that to their prickly, unwieldy, but strangely alluring Something Very Bad Is About To Happen. Haven‘t seen Jennifer Jason Leigh in ages.
Matt: Sometimes good prevails – or, in Hollywood terms, sometimes a film that was completed and had fantastic pre-release buzz but was then shelved for tax reasons (you couldn’t make up this shit, but if you did, it would probably result in a Mel Brooks movie) is then successfully sold to another distributor, so that the work of hundreds of people can finally see the light of day. Will it be worth it? The trailer looks fun, though they’ll have to do something more than replicate the classic Looney Tunes characters to make the eternal struggle of Coyote against Big Novelty (and, indeed, against Road Runner) work in a feature-length format. In any case: I’m rooting for that darn canine, and I never liked that smug son of a bird.
A Damn Fine Cup of Culture 