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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Sometimes they come back

Nov 24, 2024MattLeave 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.

Last week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees took us into the (under)world of vampires, and this week’s instalment stayed there, focusing on a particularly attractive pair of bloodsuckers.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: I call this one Bitey!

Nov 17, 2024Nov 17, 2024MattLeave a comment

This week saw the first Six Damn Fine Degrees post by a new contributor: Doctor John Smith (now why does that name ring a bell?) wrote about movie vampires and their ties to the aristocracy and to capitalism. After all, they do like to bleed us dry, don’t they?

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: It’s the end of the world as we know it

Nov 10, 2024MattLeave a comment

We spent much of this week on A Damn Fine Cup of Culture looking back by many, many decades, starting with Alan’s ruminations on Howard Hawks’ screwball comedy Ball of Fire and the ways its cast of characters would lend itself to spin-offs.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: You know how to whistle, don’t you?

Nov 3, 2024MattLeave a comment

We all love a good Agatha Christie yarn here at A Damn Fine Cup – but they’re not all cosy and twee. There’s plenty of Christie beyond Death on the Nile and Murder, She Said, and in this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, Matt writes about the darker sides of cosy crime.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: We have everything, from witnesses to werewolfs!

Oct 27, 2024The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

Every now and then our weekly Six Damn Fine Degrees series starts circling a certain topic for several weeks, and right now the focus is on Agatha Christie, her stories and the ways these were adapted. This week, Julie wrote one of her usual wonderful deep dives, this time on Billy Wilder’s film version of Witness for the Prosecution. Make sure to check it out!

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: The First Law of Robotics

Oct 20, 2024MattLeave a comment

Sometimes our Six Damn Fine Degrees posts get caught on a certain topic: a few months ago, we had several posts in a row focusing on the films of Werner Herzog, and recently they’ve entered an Agatha Christie phase. This week, Sam remembered the great Maggie Smith, writing about two of her appearances in adaptations of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot stories: Death on the Nile and Evil under the Sun, both of which Smith featured in, albeit in different parts.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Got milk?

Oct 13, 2024Oct 13, 2024The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

Many of Criterion’s releases are the classics of Hollywood and world cinema that all film geeks have heard of: Fellini, Bergman, Varda. Or then it’s cult classics such as the original Godzilla films. Some of their releases are less known, though, such as Diamonds of the Night, which Matt discovered recently.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Dead, dead, dead

Oct 6, 2024The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

For this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, Matt took us to the scene of the crime – or, in German, Tatort, one of the longest-running series on German television. Though here’s a trailer for an Austrian episode, because everything’s more charming with an Austrian accent.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: If you go down to the prom tonight, you’re sure of a big surprise

Sep 29, 2024Oct 19, 2024The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

For this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, Julie turned the conversation to the iconic Once Upon a Time in the West by the equally iconic Sergio Leone.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Floating in space

Sep 22, 2024The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

It seems we’ve been doing our weekly feature Six Damn Fine Degrees for a while: this week saw the release of the 200^th instalment – which prompted Alan to take a time-out from the usual free association and look back on some of his favourite posts and associations. Follow him down this particular rabbit hole here.