i’m still here

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 saw the first post of new contributor Alastair Bickley: in last Friday’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, he wrote about the first three minutes of the Sherlock Holmes mystery “The Priory School”, as adapted for ITV, starring Jeremy Brett. Once again, there’s no trailer – but the entire episode is on YouTube, so here’s that particular treat for all the Sherlock-heads out there!

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They’re a beautiful family, the Paivas: father Rubens, mother Eunice, and their five children. They live in a nice house, they have nice friends, they obviously love each other. They enjoy days at the beach. Looking at their lives, you would almost not notice that they live in a military dictatorship – almost. They comfort each other when, after the kidnapping of the Swiss ambassador to Brazil, the country becomes more threatening – though the oldest daughter, Vera, is sent to London along with friends of the family. Just because you’re safe doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take precautions.

And then Rubens is arrested. And that is the last they’ll ever see of him.