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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Galactus ate my baby!

Apr 20, 2025Apr 20, 2025MattLeave 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 risked the wrath from villagers and… older powers in order to bring us a Six Damn Fine Degrees post about folk horror, touching on recent movies Starve Acre, Fréwaka and I Saw the TV Glow.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Domo arigato, Mr Roboto

Apr 13, 2025MattLeave a comment

This week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees was the kind of post that wouldn’t even need a byline: it’s immediately clear that this post about Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights is one of Julie’s.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Hello, Mr Anderson

Mar 30, 2025MattLeave a comment

This week saw the first post of new contributor Alastair Bickley: in last Friday’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, he wrote about the first three minutes of the Sherlock Holmes mystery “The Priory School”, as adapted for ITV, starring Jeremy Brett. Once again, there’s no trailer – but the entire episode is on YouTube, so here’s that particular treat for all the Sherlock-heads out there!

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: The ship sails ever, ever on

Mar 23, 2025Mar 23, 2025MattLeave a comment

What comes to your mind when you hear The Lord of the Rings and the name “Ian Holm”? For most, it’ll probably be Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy – but for Alan, it’s the BBC radio adaptation from 1981. Sadly, there are generally no trailers for radio shows, definitely not for ones that are 44 years old, so let’s instead do one better – and link to the actual episode. Enjoy!

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Girls and Boys Come Out to Play

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

What do people think about when they hear Switzerland? Cheese? Watches? Lax bank laws? Or is it Heidi? Though, as Sam wrote in this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, it’s by no means the case that Heidi is purely Swiss – in some ways, she’s the whole world’s Swiss girl.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Domo arigato, Swiss Miss

Mar 9, 2025MattLeave a comment

What’s the kids’ TV we grew up with? For Matt, who grew up in Switzerland, it was a surprising number of TV series based on European children’s books but made in Japan. (Okay, this is not a trailer so much as it is the title sequence of Heidi, Girl of the Alps in the Japanese original, I know, but what can you do.)

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: What’s in the envelope?

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

For a franchise that has had eleven films so far, you’d think the movies would be good, wouldn’t you? Well, Alan’s gone and watched the entire Pink Panther series of films, and he’s not a fan. Check out his good reasons to be grateful that he took this particular hit for the team!

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Do the monkey!

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

Whether you’re a martial arts fan or not, don’t miss this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, in which Julie writes about the Hong Kong extravaganza Iron Monkey, starring Donnie Yen.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here!

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

This is not your ordinary Journey to the West: for this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, which fittingly coincided with Valentine’s Day, Melanie introduced us to A Korean Odyssey (or, in the original, Hwayugi), a Korean adaptation of the classic Chinese novel from the 16^th century – set in the present day, and turning the story into a… modern-day fantasy rom-com?