I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: With fiends like these

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.

Once you’re caught in the Herzog Maelstrom, it’s very difficult to get away from it – just ask Julie, who dedicated this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees to one of the most famous pairs of frenemies in cinema.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: The common denominator of filmmaking is not harmony

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, Matt wrote about less-than-ideal actor/director relationships – mentioning along the way one of the most iconic fraught relationships in cinema, so let’s give the word to Messrs Kinski and Herzog.

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