trailer sunday – A Damn Fine Cup of Culture

I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Give My Regards to Broadway

May 3, 2026May 4, 2026MattLeave 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.

This week, Alan’s series of posts about all the winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture since the very beginning continued with The Broadway Melody (1929). No trailer, once again, but here’s the actual film in its full length – enjoy!

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Everybody’s heard about the bird

Apr 26, 2026Apr 26, 2026The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

This week was Julie’s turn at the Six Damn Fine Degrees, and she linked literature, cinema and television in her post on Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White – which was adapted for the screen various times, as she writes, for instance in a somewhat botched 1948 film version…

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: This is the end, my only friend

Apr 19, 2026Apr 19, 2026The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

This week saw the start of a new series called One Best Picture After Another: Alan’s revisiting every single Best Picture Academy Award winner! Yes, you’ve read that right: over the coming months and even years, he will be watching, and writing about, each film that won the Oscar for Best Picture, and on Monday he started with the 1927 winner Wings. Sadly, this trailer isn’t the original – were there even trailers back then? -, but it’ll give a good idea of what Wings is all about.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Space, Above and Beyond

Apr 12, 2026The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

This week, Matt came back from outer space, briefly, to report on his Virtual Reality adventures in No Man’s Sky, a game that boasts a universe with (checks notes) 18 quintillion possible planetary systems?! No wonder some people say that video games have become too big.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: The rooms where it happens

Apr 5, 2026Apr 5, 2026The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

It’s International Bunny Weekend, so grab your Easter nest and check out what we have for you in terms of trailers! To begin with: Matt once again revisited family memories and the impact these have had on his movie watching, in this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees. Getting a shoutout in the post is the 1960 war film Sink the Bismarck! – for which, surprisingly, there is an actual, original trailer on YouTube!

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear

Mar 29, 2026Mar 29, 2026The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

Another month is close to passing, which means: another Shortcuts. Including, among other things, a few thoughts on the strange, delirious The Testament of Ann Lee, Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, and last year’s Dust Bunny, which may deserve more attention than it got at its release.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: The History Boys

Mar 22, 2026Mar 22, 2026MattLeave a comment

In this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, Julie wrote about the kind of narratives that history lends itself to, for better and for worse. One of the books that gets a mention is Dan Jones’ The Hollow Crown – so here’s a trailer for BBC’s The Hollow Crown from a while back.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Shock and awe

Mar 15, 2026Mar 15, 2026The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

Origin stories are all over cinema – but what about the origin stories of nations? That is the topic that Alan wrote about in this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees. Which does make it a challenge to find a trailer to post, especially if we want to avoid the overly obvious D.W. Griffith reference for, oh, lots of reasons. So here’s a trailer about the origin story of modern Italy instead – and it has Alain Delon, Burt Lancaster and Claudia Cardinale too.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Murder Death Kill

Mar 8, 2026MattLeave a comment

What does our reading, and especially the way what we read changes over time, say about us? In this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, that’s exactly what Melanie writes about. And (thankfully (ed.)) she brings up Murderbot in the process, so here’s a nice little trailer for the Apple TV adaptation.