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 also saw the release of our November podcast – in which we finally got around to talk about Guillermo del Toro’s gothic ghost story set in the Spanish Civil War, a film we’d long wanted to do a podcast episode about, as well as del Toro’s Hellboy 2 and Pan’s Labyrinth.
And what else do we have for you to end the weekend on?
Mege: There is something very tempting about an alternative life, isn‘t there? Forgiveness. Acceptance. Improvement. You could really grow towards the ideal person you always wanted to be. So a cult, or a similar grouping, can actively offer you such a loophole. Do you do the swap? But what about the people, the relationships you leave behind? Isn‘t that a kind of ghosting?
Matt: I’ve often found Mike Leigh’s films to be a bit hit and miss for me: I’ve greatly enjoyed some while bouncing off of others. His latest, and possibly last, film, Tender Loving Care has one big additional thing in its favour, though: it stars Kate O’Flynn, who was one of the main reasons I enjoyed Apple’s weird and wonderful Widow’s Bay so much.
Matt: Watching this trailer for the upcoming BFI re-release of Ingmar Bergman’s Persona reminded me of all the things the film has to offer. Some of Bergman’s films very much do feel of their time, whether that’s (in most cases) the 1960s or the 1970s – but there is something startlingly fresh and radical to Persona, and the re-release trailer highlights this quality very well. This summer I was lucky to see a stage adaptation of Persona (combined with Electra) starring Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss, and the two of them were very good – but no one beats Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann in Persona.
