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, Alan’s series of posts about all the winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture since the very beginning continued with The Broadway Melody (1929). No trailer, once again, but here’s the actual film in its full length – enjoy!
We also released our latest Shortcuts post, with quick takes on things we’ve watched, read, played or listened to recently.
But that’s not enough: there was also this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees by Matt, about how his favourite actors are often not enough of a reason for him to watch something…
… and, finally, we also released the May podcast episode, in which Matt and Alan talked about three of the WW2-era films by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. (Also no trailers, but the entirely of 49th Parallel, which isn’t half bad either.)
And we’ve got some more trailer goodies for you this week!
Mege: Leviticus is surprisingly open – you can watch it as a horror movie, but you can also watch it as a movie that deals with being gay and in love in a small-minded religious community that won‘t let you be gay and free. Movies like this, so far away from any slasher crap, give horror movies the good name they deserve.
Matt: I can’t remember where I read it, but someone wrote that Star City, the For All Mankind spinoff set in that series’ alternate-history Soviet Union, is basically the love child of For All Mankind and The Lives of Others. Watching the most recent trailer, I can definitely see that. I was a bit doubtful at first, but I can see how this parallel story set behind the Iron Curtain could be an intriguing take on the Space Race remix of the original series – even if For All Mankind has since turned into too much of a trashy space soap after its very promising beginnings.
A Damn Fine Cup of Culture 