I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Are you watching them, or are they watching you?

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 not for the faint of heart, as Julie writes in this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees entry, but Nicholas Windig Refn’s Bronson is worth a revisit.

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Who’s afraid of MI6: Black Bag (2025)

Six couples – three men, three women, engaged in various sexual and romantic relationships – are seated around the dinner table. All of them work for British intelligence. One of them has been tasked with finding out which one of the other five is engaged in traitorous deeds. The food, while delicious, is spiked with a truth serum. What else is on the menu? Fun and games – that will end up with a steak knife being used for something quite different than its intended function. The words that are exchanged are just as sharp. And this is just the beginning.

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