I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: The Box Office Number of the Beast

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 his zigzagging journey through the Criterion Collection, Matt arrived at release #1319: Martin Ritt’s Hud, a bleak revisionist Western starring Paul Newman in one of his darkest parts. Well worth watching – but the film couldn’t be further from a certain other Western featuring Newman.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: See Venice and die. Or kill.

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.

Getting into a series, a franchise, a fictional world: it requires time – and, yes, even energy. And sometimes it’s better to decide early on that it’s not worth it, as Mege writes in this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees. Though sometimes, just sometimes, we have the choice between a long series of book and a series of film’s that isn’t quite as long.

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