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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: That is the question

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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’s Six Damn Fine Degrees was dedicated to one of Hollywood’s legendary foulmouths: Carole Lombard, the “Profane Angel”. Join Alan in remembering Lombard and her broad range of talents!

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Cinema is the true Wayback Machine

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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’s Six Damn Fine Degrees (by our fabulous film historian Julie) looks at one of the iconic stars of the 1960s and 1970s especially: Faye Dunaway, seen through the lens of the HBO documentary Faye by Laurent Bouzereau.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Buggin’ out

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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.

Criterion does have some pretty fine looking films on offer, don’t they? This week, Matt hung out with some Japanese ghosts and goblins in Kwaidan. Hold on to your ears!

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Itsy bitsy spider women and giant policemen

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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.

Vengeance is a dish best served over many episodes: in this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, Melanie writes about the rather dark familial goings-on in the Chinese historical drama The Glory.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: (template)

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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 1982, while England was whipped into a frenzy of nationalism by a wedding that, in hindsight, didn’t seem to benefit any of the parties involved, our Alan was taken to see Richard Attenborough’s Academy Award-winning Gandhi and got a glimpse of the ways that the British Empire wasn’t perhaps all it was cracked up to be.

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

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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.

To what extent are our film and TV tastes determined by our parents and by what we watch growing up? In this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, Matt remembers the films and series he watched due to his mother: from Zulu via M*A*S*H to Bambi.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Life, death, and everything in between

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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.

Our Six Damn Fine Degrees feature has taken us to so many places – and some of these have been Peter Sellers-adjacent. The closest we’ve come was with Alan’s look at the Pink Panther franchise. This week, though, Sam dedicated his Six Degrees instalment to Sellers and his marriage to Britt Ekland, a story that’s a far cry from Seller’s often funny films.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Spreading happiness, one preview at a time

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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.

When life gives you lemons, yadda yadda yadda. What, though, when your movie calls for Lemmon – but he’s not available? In this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, Alan writes about the result: Billy Wilder’s Kiss Me, Stupid.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: From the wrong side of the tracks

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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.

Straight from Little Rock, this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees has Julie talk about what she had instead of Disney princesses: Marilyn Monroe’s Lorelei and Jane Russell’s Dorothy.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Ae you trying to seduce me?

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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.

How do the films we watch as children affect our taste as adults? And what if we don’t really watch children’s films when we’re growing up, but instead our parents take us to see Amadeus or The Last Emperor? Matt has a thought or two on these questions.

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