trailer sunday – Page 13 – A Damn Fine Cup of Culture

I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: You remind me of the babe

20/05/2024The 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.

Remember those instances when you first became aware of an actor? Matt definitely remember the first time he became aware of Jennifer Connelly – and seeing Labyrinth as a kid may also have made him uncomfortably aware of just how tight those tights were that David Bowie wore.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Running away to join the clone club

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Our Fellini series continued this week with Matt’s post on 8 1/2: a film that is likely to evoke strong reactions, both for the filmmaking and for the way in which it does arguably indulge its man-child Fellini stand-in protagonist, even when it’s mocking him.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Disney… Why’d it have to be Disney?

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Does anyone still watch the Disney films of the ’60s and ’70s? Not the animated ones, many of which are considered classics, but the likes of Flubber, or That Darn Cat!, or The Moon-Spinners, which Julie wrote about in this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees.

Since it’s difficult to find trailers for this film, though, here’s something… better? At least it’s something interesting: the introduction that film critic Leonard Maltin did for Turner Classic Movies.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Bedknobs and broomsticks, lamas and firearms

28/04/2024The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

When it comes to magic knobs, Alan’s the man for you – as his latest entry in our Six Damn Fine Degrees series amply proves.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Only when I laugh

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Is there such a thing as a definitive version of a story, a book, a play? Matt doesn’t think so – except when he does.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Waiter, there’s a worm in my desert!

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Can one not be on a boat? Is England just a conspiracy of cartographers? And what’s the use of a short, blunt human pyramid? Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead may not answer any of these questions, but it’s definitely worth visiting and then revisiting – as Julie can assure our readers.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Stop. Go. Kill. Die.

31/03/2024The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

What kind of trailer fits with a post about Euro coins? Well, if the face on the coin is that of Nikola Tesla, it’s not that difficult. Courtesy of the man who put Ethan Hawke in the aisles a Blockbuster and let him deliver the “To be or not to be” soliloquy, here’s…

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: I call the xenomorph ‘Bitey’!

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Remember that time when most of us were excited for Game of Thrones? When we’d look at the new cast members for the upcoming season and get even more excited? Sam’s interest in Game of Thrones began and, sadly, peaked with him bumping Jonathan Pryce in Dubrovnik, where he (Pryce, that is, not Sam) was filming for season 5 for what was at one point the hottest series on TV. Check out Sam’s Six Damn Fine Degrees for more on this encounter!

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

17/03/2024The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

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.