I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Robots like us

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.

In 1935, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bestowed the Best Picture award on Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. Does the film hold up 91 years later, and did Alan like it?

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto

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.

1933 has arrived – at least in Alan’s series One Best Picture After Another, which is dedicated to all the winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture in chronological order. What did our time-traveller think of Cavalcade? (And if you want to form your own opinion: here, in the absence of a trailer, is the full movie.)

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