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

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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 2d

Toshiro Mifune in Italy for the Venice Film Festival (1961).

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 5d

Trailers to end the week on - or begin the new week.

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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 str…

Six Damn Fine Degrees #254: Fanfic? Me?

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Al @movietrubs.bsky.social · 6d

Being on holiday delayed catching up with all of "Alien:Earth" but now I've finished the season I think I can say I really enjoyed it. It really worked for me and made me realise that what I love about Alien is not so much the xenomorph as the horror of an unknown lifecycle.

Wendy and Hermit in the final episode of "Alien: Earth"

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 6d

Matt takes a trip down memory lane to his own dalliance with fan fiction.

Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…

Six Damn Fine Degrees #253: The Untamed and the joy of fan translations

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 6d

Melanie shares a couple of recommendations from the world of Chinese fiction.

Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…

Six Damn Fine Degrees #252: Lombard & Hitchcock’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 6d

Sam takes a look at Hitchcock's "Mr and Mrs Smith"

Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…

Six Damn Fine Degrees #251: Carole Lombard, The Profane Angel

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 6d

Al celebrates Carole Lombard, yet laments how little survives of The Profane Angel's x-rated verbosity.

Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…

A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #97: The Horror

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 6d

Check out our October podcast: the definite article in horror. Literally.

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It’s that time of year: the days are getting shorter, the shadows are getting darker, and the ghouls and ghosts are eager to come out and play. As is customary, we’re dedicating our Oct…

Six Damn Fine Degrees #254: Fanfic? Me?

A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 7d

“The thing is, at the time I wasn’t aware that I was writing fanfic. In fact, I’m not sure I even knew what fanfic was.”

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Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…

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

A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 12d

What's a weekend without 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 str…

Criterion Corner: Good Morning (#84)

A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 14d

"Don’t let the flatulent schoolboys fool you: while Good Morning is a affectionate if not a little mischievous portrait of a Japanese childhood in suburban Tokyo a decade after the war, it is also, and mostly, a satirical ribbing of postwar middle-class society."

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Do you remember a time when you were a child, and there was something you really, really wanted? So much so that nothing else mattered? How far did you go to get it?

Six Damn Fine Degrees #253: The Untamed and the joy of fan translations

A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 15d

"A lot of these don’t get published in English, they’re just available in more or less good fan translations on the internet. And that’s part of the appeal."

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Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…

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

A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 19d

It's the end of the week as we know it, and we bring 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 str…

A Damn Fine Espresso: September 2025

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 20d

Our Sam hadn't seen more than a couple of episodes of Twin Peaks - so what better opportunity to remedy this? Check out our September espresso podcast at A Damn Fine Cup of Culture.

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Wow, Bob, wow: Twin Peaks forms part of the DNA of A Damn Fine Cup of Culture – if our name and logo didn’t already make that obvious. And yet, some of us have come very late to David L…

Six Damn Fine Degrees #252: Lombard & Hitchcock’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith

A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 21d

"As a pure marital romp, Mr. and Mrs. Smith is to some extent a great exception in Hitch’s filmography, but elements of screwball and slapstick, macabre and dark humour, as well as marriage comedy always found a place in his films."

Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…

I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: That is the question

A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 26d

Some trailers to end the week on.

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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 str…

Six Damn Fine Degrees #251: Carole Lombard, The Profane Angel

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Punkyfins @punkyfins.bsky.social · 29d

On the divine Carole Lombard, by @movietrubs.bsky.social.

A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 29d

"Swearing, like any use of language, can be an art – and one in which Lombard seemed to have excelled. But there’s virtually nothing out there of her artistry with hard-edged vocabulary."

Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…

Mother knows best: The Handmaid’s Tale (2017 – 2025)

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 27d

“As The Handmaid’s Tale moved into its later seasons, empowering women meant empowering June first and foremost, and making Moss and her performance the absolute centre around which everything else must circle.”

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Remember those last few seasons of Game of Thrones, and especially the finale? How a series that started strong took a dive once it moved past the plot written by its original author, George R. R. …

Six Damn Fine Degrees #251: Carole Lombard, The Profane Angel

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · 29d

"Swearing, like any use of language, can be an art – and one in which Lombard seemed to have excelled. But there’s virtually nothing out there of her artistry with hard-edged vocabulary."

Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…

Six Damn Fine Degrees #250: Faye

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture @damnfinecupculture.bsky.social · Sep 11

Julie celebrates the recent "Faye" documentary - and the talents of the very famous woman at the heart of it.

Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…