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

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.

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

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 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: Knowing is half the battle

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.

It can feel strange, and sort of lonely, to find yourself bouncing off a film that many others love. Matt didn’t dislike Powell and Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going!, but other than in several other films by the director-producer duo, he found it difficult to buy into the central romance.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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’!

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 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.

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.

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.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Everyone getting their Oscars on?

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This week, we saw Matt learning to forgive David Morse for something a character played by David Morse did. To be fair, he did say it was an irrational dislike.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Requin killer, qu’est-ce que c’est?

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 we handle knowing rather unsavoury things about the actors and filmmakers whose work we like? This week, Alan wrote about his approach, focusing on Charles Coburn, that most avuncular of bigoted racists, best remembered perhaps for his role in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

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