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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: This’ll blow your mind

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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 the blink of an eye, Halloween has been and gone… leaving behind a bunch of carved pumpkins that will look more and more ghoulish over time, and so many blog posts, including this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees post, written by Alan, Julie and Sam, which focused on all things scary from a range of different perspectives.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Shivering with antici…

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… pation. Made you wait, huh?

Anyway, what’s been going on chez A Damn Fine Cup of Culture this week? Our schedule was a bit wobbly, due to a post that wasn’t scheduled properly, which means we had two posts going up on Saturday, starting with Matt’s Six Damn Fine Degrees about adaptations into different media, and the ways that film and TV adaptations don’t necessarily restrict our imagination. Case in point: the BBC’s Wolf Hall.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Oh, okay, pass if you like

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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 saw Alan continue his own Lord of the Rings trilogy, which started in May, this time writing about the choices made in creating the 1981 BBC radio adaptation. Alan’s a big fan of this version of Tolkien’s epic tale, and his post may just convince you to seek out the BBC’s take on The Lord of the Rings. But as there are no trailers for ’80s radio series, or at least none we could find, here’s a trailer for Ralph Bakshi’s animated Lord of the Rings instead.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: You wanna shoot a president?

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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.

Kings, knights, ladies in lakes – and a very particular sword: in this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, Julie revisited John Boorman’s messy but epic Excalibur.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Movies and monsters and more, oh my!

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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.

Remember Star Trek: The Next Generation? Matt once wrote a novel featuring the TNG crew – or was it fanfic? Read his Six Damn Fine Degrees post to find out more.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: One Preview After Another

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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.

For this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, Melane swerves towards the East, introducing us to two Chinese series she’s been enjoying – The Untamed and The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty – and their fan translations, showing us once again that there’s a wealth of stories many of us aren’t even aware of.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Love, Sex, Religion, Trailers

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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.

If there’s Hitchcock talk to be had, Sam can’t be far away – and that’s also true of this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, in which Sam wrote about Hitch’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith (no, not the Brangelina vehicle from 2005, but the one starring Carole Lombard).

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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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