trailers – A Damn Fine Cup of Culture

I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: So Long, Marjane

Jun 7, 2026MattLeave 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.

Two days ago, we learnt of the tragic death of Marjane Satrapi, French-Iranian writer and filmmaker, perhaps most famous for her graphic novel Persepolis and its later adaptation into a film, also by Satrapi. If you haven’t yet seen (or read) Persepolis, make sure to seek it out – it is a story that is timely not only because of its author’s untimely death.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Shaken, not stirred

May 31, 2026The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

This week, Alan arrived in 1931 in his journey from the earliest Best Picture winner at the Academy Awards to the present day, with Cimarron.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: In brightest day, in blackest night

May 24, 2026MattLeave a comment

How do you remember your teenage years? Matt remembers them being heavily pixelated – which gave him an ideal in into the time capsule that is Perfect Tides.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: There’s no discharge in the war

May 17, 2026The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

This week, Alan’s series dedicated to the winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture continued, arriving at 1930 and All Quiet on the Western Front.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: There’s no place like home

May 10, 2026MattLeave a comment

Casting is a tricky business – and sometimes you get exactly the right person… a few decades too late, as Alan argued in this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, using Christopher Lee’s Saruman and Jack Nicholson’s Joker as examples.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Give My Regards to Broadway

May 3, 2026May 8, 2026MattLeave a comment

This week, Alan’s series of posts about all the winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture since the very beginning continued with The Broadway Melody (1929). No trailer, once again, but here’s the actual film in its full length – enjoy!

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Everybody’s heard about the bird

Apr 26, 2026Apr 26, 2026The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

This week was Julie’s turn at the Six Damn Fine Degrees, and she linked literature, cinema and television in her post on Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White – which was adapted for the screen various times, as she writes, for instance in a somewhat botched 1948 film version…

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: This is the end, my only friend

Apr 19, 2026Apr 19, 2026The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

This week saw the start of a new series called One Best Picture After Another: Alan’s revisiting every single Best Picture Academy Award winner! Yes, you’ve read that right: over the coming months and even years, he will be watching, and writing about, each film that won the Oscar for Best Picture, and on Monday he started with the 1927 winner Wings. Sadly, this trailer isn’t the original – were there even trailers back then? -, but it’ll give a good idea of what Wings is all about.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Space, Above and Beyond

Apr 12, 2026The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

This week, Matt came back from outer space, briefly, to report on his Virtual Reality adventures in No Man’s Sky, a game that boasts a universe with (checks notes) 18 quintillion possible planetary systems?! No wonder some people say that video games have become too big.