trailer sunday – A Damn Fine Cup of Culture

I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Not a bird, not a plane

Dec 14, 2025Dec 14, 2025The Barista CollectiveLeave 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.

Everyone knows Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. How many who just know Agatha Christie from the film and TV versions have ever heard of Endless Night, the 1972 mystery featuring Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland and George Sanders? Perhaps this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees by Sam will point a few people in the direction of this forgotten Christie adaptation, not least because of its score by Bernard Herrmann!

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Here they come

Dec 7, 2025Dec 7, 2025MattLeave a comment

Our ongoing chain of associations, Six Damn Fine Degrees, arrives in 1989, with Julie’s entry on the BBC mystery series Campion, starring Peter Davison (who’s also played various kinds of doctors, and Doctors, throughout his career) and Brian Glover (who, among other performances, provided a particularly memorable death scene in Alien 3). And, unexpectedly, there’s even a trailer for it!

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Attica! Attica!

Nov 30, 2025Nov 30, 2025The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

It’s only rarely that we get to show off the fact that one of our baristas is a Doctor Who fan of many, and I mean many, years. This week offered one such opportunity, as Alan got to talk about season 23 of the original run of Doctor Who, also known as “The Trial of a Time Lord”.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: No animal, but definitely mineral and vegetable

Nov 23, 2025Nov 23, 2025The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

In this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, Sam stopped by to check out the storied, colourful career of Roger Corman: producer, director, writer, actor, and the man who boosted the careers of the likes of Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Joe Dante and James Cameron.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Mean, green, and from Outer Space

Nov 16, 2025Nov 16, 2025The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

In this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, Melanie found joy in introducing a group of teens to the Frank Oz-directed musical Little Shop of Horrors for Halloween. Definitely one to revisit as well!

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Picture, if you will, a movie preview

Nov 9, 2025Nov 9, 2025The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

Submitted for your approval: this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees post saw the return of Mege, with a post on The Twilight Zone – or, more accurately, the Mystery of the Vanishing Box Set. Which calls not for a trailer but for this.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: This’ll blow your mind

Nov 2, 2025Nov 2, 2025The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

In the blink of an eye, Halloween has been and gone… leaving behind a bunch of carved pumpkins that will look more and more ghoulish over time, and so many blog posts, including this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees post, written by Alan, Julie and Sam, which focused on all things scary from a range of different perspectives.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Shivering with antici…

Oct 26, 2025Oct 26, 2025The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

… pation. Made you wait, huh?

Anyway, what’s been going on chez A Damn Fine Cup of Culture this week? Our schedule was a bit wobbly, due to a post that wasn’t scheduled properly, which means we had two posts going up on Saturday, starting with Matt’s Six Damn Fine Degrees about adaptations into different media, and the ways that film and TV adaptations don’t necessarily restrict our imagination. Case in point: the BBC’s Wolf Hall.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Oh, okay, pass if you like

Oct 19, 2025Oct 26, 2025The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

This week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees saw Alan continue his own Lord of the Rings trilogy, which started in May, this time writing about the choices made in creating the 1981 BBC radio adaptation. Alan’s a big fan of this version of Tolkien’s epic tale, and his post may just convince you to seek out the BBC’s take on The Lord of the Rings. But as there are no trailers for ’80s radio series, or at least none we could find, here’s a trailer for Ralph Bakshi’s animated Lord of the Rings instead.