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.
In 1935, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bestowed the Best Picture award on Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. Does the film hold up 91 years later, and did Alan like it?
And Matt was not happy with the Chantal Akerman romcom A Couch in New York at all. Oh no.
And what else do we have on offer for the end of the week?
Matt: Hirokazu Koreeda’s Sheep in the Box didn’t get great reviews when it first showed in Cannes, and based on the trailer I could imagine that it might veer a bit too much towards the sentimental. I’m certainly looking forward to giving it a chance, though. Meanwhile, Blade Runner 2099 may lean too much into the images we know from the original film and from Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 (which friend and frequent guest of A Damn Fine Cup, Dan Thron, worked on!), without establishing its own identity as yet. Though, of course, Michelle Yeoh is geek catnip. But it certainly seems like artificial life is a trope that will be with us big time in the years to come.
Matt: I hope that Avengers: Doomsday will be better than I expect. I hope it’ll be more than a desperate Hail Mary by Marvel, throwing all these familiar characters and actors at us in the hope that we will care again. The trailer doesn’t do much to convince me of this, mind you – and I find that the trailers for both Clayface and Lanterns, both in the DC universe, look more interesting, Clayface with its Darkman-style horror inflections and Lanterns with a cast of characters that is potentially interesting whether they’re of the Cape persuasion or not.
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