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A Damn Fine Espresso: March 2024

Mar 9, 2024Mar 10, 2024The Barista Collective1 Comment

It’s the weekend before the Big Mama, the White Whale, the movie awards to end all movie awards: the Oscars. Who will win the Academy Awards 2024? Will Christopher Nolan And Cillian Murphy explode with the metaphorical force of a thousand suns? Will Barbie get what it can, in spite of the snubs for its director and star? What about Poor Things, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, The Holdovers – or the European dark horses Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest? Join Sam and Matt as they discuss their own Oscar thoughts: who was snubbed? Who was nominated but shouldn’t have been? And which films should win which awards?

For more discussion of some of the 2024 Oscar favourites and underdogs, make sure to check out these posts:

A Damn Fine Espresso: August 2023 (in which Alan and Matt talk Barbenheimer)
A Damn Fine Espresso: November 2023 (in which Sam and Matt discuss Killers of the Flower Moon)
Girl, you’ll be a woman soon: Poor Things (Matt’s post on Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest film)

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: These dead are made for walkin’

Feb 25, 2024MattLeave a comment

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.

Over the last few weeks, our Six Damn Fine Degrees took us from Herzog to Kinski – but we may not have ended up with the Kinski you’d expect, in Sam’s most recent post!