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.
Remember when the future was neon and everything was cyber? Matt has spent much of the last couple of months in Night City, the exhausting but fascinating virtual world in which Cyberpunk 2077 is set.
And what else do we have on offer this week?
Matt: La Bola Negra has made quite the splash among critics. The trailer looks fascinating, and not only when we get Glenn Close speaking Spanish. At a glance, the film looks like a mix of Pedro Almodóvar, Francis Ford Coppola (in its epic historical sweep) and Terence Davies (in its depiction of homosexual desire and longing) – yet entirely its own thing. I’m hoping to catch this at the cinema – and Netflix, which won the bidding war, is giving it a 47-day theatrical window. Every now and then, a streaming channel gets it right.
Matt: I’ve not seen all of Andrew Haigh’s films, but I liked All of Us Strangers and 45 Years a lot. A Long Winter looks nothing like those two films. It does look fascinating, though, and based on the trailer it appears to make fantastic use of the wintry remote landscape of Alberta, Canada. Seeing the familiar icon with the seven white dots on a blue background pop up in a trailer doesn’t exactly hurt either: the good people at Mubi have a good hand when it comes to financing interesting indie fare.
Mege: This is unacceptable. Mr Jeremy Saulnier does not like his movies hacked into 0.3-second bits for a trailer. If Mr Saulnier finds out who did this with his latest Slayground (2027), he will do the hacking. There will be pain and suffering. Mr Saulnier, if you care to remember his Green Room (2015) or even his Blue Ruin (2013), did not spare Sir Patrick Stewart, so why should he spare anyone else? Be warned.
