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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: The Quick and the Undead

Jan 14, 2024Matt1 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.

Sam wouldn’t be Sam without his deep, abiding love for all things James Bond – so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that his first Six Damn Fine Degrees entry of 2024 would focus on the special agent with a license to kill, and Roald Dahl’s connection to Bond.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Out with the old, in with the new

Jan 7, 2024The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

Remember just a week ago when we were still in 2023? In the last couple of weeks we’ve skipped the trailer posts, but now we’re catching up on some of the films we wrote about, such as Miyazaki’s likely swan song The Boy and the Heron, Paul King’s non-Paddington confection Wonka and some of the movies Matt liked best last year.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: The Beginning is the End is the Beginning

Dec 17, 2023The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

Sadly, there are no trailers for animated shorts – so instead, here is the opening and closing of the Looney Tunes film “Hollywood Steps Out”, which Alan wrote about for this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees.

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

Dec 10, 2023The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

Can a week go wrong if it starts with a slice of Fellini? Probably not – though Matt wasn’t entirely taken with Il Bidone, which is probably a better film than Fellini’s pre-I Vitelloni films, but it also lacks a certain… Fellini touch, perhaps?

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Tell me about the rabbit

Dec 3, 2023The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

Is it possible that it’s really taken more than 15 years for us to finally write something about Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Well, Julie definitely made up for this in this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees instalment.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: No horse would say ‘neigh’ to these!

Nov 26, 2023The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

This week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees took us deep into the heart of Hollywood cringe, with Mege’s post on BoJack Horseman.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Underwater, on the road

Nov 19, 2023The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

While the chronological approach that Criterion took in their Essential Fellini box set meant that the start was less than smooth, Matt’s definitely finding that the films improve a lot over time – and after I Vitelloni, La Strada is a worthy addition to any film collection, not least because of Giulietta Masina’s wonderful performance as Gelsomina.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: The common denominator of filmmaking is not harmony

Nov 12, 2023The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

This week, Matt wrote about less-than-ideal actor/director relationships – mentioning along the way one of the most iconic fraught relationships in cinema, so let’s give the word to Messrs Kinski and Herzog.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: This one begins and ends with Japan

Nov 5, 2023The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

Sometimes it’s hard to top our first experience with an actor, a director, a writer, isn’t it? Matt’s first Kore-eda film was After Life, and he’ll gladly admit that he will use any opportunity to talk about the director’s beautiful take on what happens after we die. Watching the Criterion release of After Life let him indulge in two of his loves.