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.
It’s been a while, but Matt has been at the Criterion cabinet again – watching all 14 episodes of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz.
From the Weimar Republic and its dingy underbelly to 1990s SoCal and the creepies that crawl out from a certain Hellmouth: in this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, Matt wrote about weekly meetings with friends watching series in the university printer room – and about the one series that he almost missed out on due to his being a bit of a snob at the time.
Then, on Saturday, we poured another cup of espresso: following from our August episode on disaster movies, Sam and Julie return to the biggest disaster movie of the 1990s. Hint: There’s an iceberg in it.
And what other trailers did we pull out of the trailer bag this week?
Matt: No, the first Fall wasn’t a good film. It was silly and clichéd. And yet: that core premise taps into some primal fears of mine – and, if the fact that there’s a sequel now, is anything to go by, I’m not the only one. Fall 2: Deadpoint has plenty of room for improvement, but they clearly get the core allure of the first one.
A Damn Fine Cup of Culture 