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Films, games, books, disillusionment. Not always in that order.
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"In this month’s podcast, Sam and Alan get together to revisit two historical pieces, though they couldn’t be much more different – one has decadence, deviance and Nazism, the other offers Hollywood mystery, Communists and dancing sailors."
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #103: Second Chances – Hail the Damned!
Another year, another Second Chances episode: in this month’s podcast, Sam and Alan get together to revisit two historical pieces, though they couldn’t be much more different – on…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/04/04/a-damn-fine-cup-of-culture-podcast-103-second-chances-hail-the-damned/
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"Seeing how both my parents had left the countries where they were born before they were thirty, I suspect that watching movies and TV series set in those countries... was a way of reconnecting, if not with their places of birth then with an idea of those places."
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #280: Running in the family
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/04/03/six-damn-fine-degrees-280-running-in-the-family/
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/03/29/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-oh-the-shark-has-pretty-teeth-dear/
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9 days ago
"I was utterly taken in by that deep-seated mixture of cultures and influences all over the city and how a walk along the city’s river Miljacka is a literal walk down its historical timeline."
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #279: Sarajevo, my love
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/03/27/six-damn-fine-degrees-279-sarajevo-my-love/
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"... don’t watch The Testament of Ann Lee for its plot, but for its glimpse of a strange spiritual world that is compelling and confounding in equal measure."
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Shortcuts: March 2026
As the year marches on inexorably, we already find ourselves at the end of March – which means it’s time for Shortcuts!
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: The History Boys
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https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/03/22/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-the-history-boys/
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15 days ago
Join us for a Wuthering Brides double date: Cathy and Heathcliff, meet Frank and the Bride!
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A Damn Fine Espresso: March 2026
It’s the Return of the Wuthering Brides! For this month’s espresso, Alan and Sam got together to discuss two recent cinematic riffs on classics of 19th-century literature, with both boo…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/03/21/a-damn-fine-espresso-march-2026/
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add a skeleton here at some point
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21 days ago
“There is an underlying sense of tension from the first that grows stronger with every minute, a pent-up violence waiting to happen.”
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Still raining: Sátántangó (1994)
How do you begin with a film like Sátántangó? If you commit to its seven hours and 19 minutes, how much can you trust your own impressions at the end, and how much is the combination of Stockholm S…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/03/14/still-raining-satantango-1994/
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23 days ago
"The more you explore this, the more it becomes clear just how arbitrary most national identities are. Go back far enough, change just a couple of things, and you’d probably have a very different atlas today."
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #277: The Gates Of Europe… and other Origin Stories
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/03/13/six-damn-fine-degrees-277-the-gates-of-europe-and-other-origin-stories/
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One for you, if you haven't already seen it.
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High and Low (A Coen Brothers Supercut)
A Year of Supercuts #3: Poseidon
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Murder Death 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 str…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/03/08/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-murder-death-kill/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
29 days ago
“Why do these stories have lasting appeal? How do Christie’s plots survive the adaptation into a different medium? And why exactly do they let Kenneth Branagh do those ghastly modern adaptations?”
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #102: Three Christies
It’s been hinted at once or twice on A Damn Fine Cup of Culture: we do like a good whodunnit, and we especially like a good cosy – or sometimes less cosy – crime. So it’s hi…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/03/07/a-damn-fine-cup-of-culture-podcast-102-three-christies/
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30 days ago
"I thought of the world as a puzzle back then, something to be cracked and conquered, and I was going hard at it."
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #276: I read, therefore I am
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/03/06/six-damn-fine-degrees-276-i-read-therefore-i-am/
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: The Hole Truth
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/03/01/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-the-hole-truth/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
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“But then: some of Miéville’s premises are so damn good that it finally doesn’t matter so much if he doesn’t quite know how to end the stories in a satisfying way.”
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #275: Two visions of one city
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/02/27/six-damn-fine-degrees-275-two-visions-of-one-city/
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From pred action to prog rock: our February Shortcuts are out.
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Shortcuts: February 2026
And already a month has passed and it’s time for our second Shortcuts, in which the Damn Fine gang shares their impressions on what they have watched, read, played, listened to recently.
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Every time a bell rings…
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…
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"What makes theatre tick differently from film? What translates well from one format to the other, and what is lost in the process? Where could a lot of cinema perhaps learn from the stage?"
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A Damn Fine Espresso: February 2026
The show must go on: our recent podcast episode on Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead got Sam and Matt thinking. While there’s a long-standing link between the stage a…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/02/21/a-damn-fine-espresso-february-2026/
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"At first glance, Berlin hasn’t quite been as cinematic a city as, let’s say, romantic Paris, foggy London, cosmopolitan New York or sunny L.A."
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #274: Berlin on film
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/02/20/six-damn-fine-degrees-274-berlin-on-film/
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Running in circles
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/02/15/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-running-in-circles/
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about 2 months ago
"What I did ask myself, rewatching the film in 2026: is Brazil‘s dystopic satire still relevant? The fascism of the present day doesn’t use bureaucracy as a Trojan horse: it isn’t cruel by accident and neglect so much as by design."
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Criterion Corner: Brazil (#51)
Here’s how you make a Brazil: You start with George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the iconic dystopian novel about totalitarianism and mass surveillance. You mix this with the monument…
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"Lola Rennt is a very charming, very kinetic actioner. It is short, it is clever: it is effective. It has Moritz Bleibtreu and Franka Potente, both enormously compelling actors. But it’s also smart enough to not spell everything out for us. "
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #273: Lola Rennt (1998)
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/02/13/six-damn-fine-degrees-273-lola-rennt-1998/
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Trailers!
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: The smaller they come
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/02/08/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-the-smaller-they-come/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
about 2 months ago
"How does Rosencrantz and Guildenstern land only a couple of months after Stoppard’s death on 29 November 2025? How does this quintessential piece of metatheatre translate onto the screen? Is it better to be alive or dead in a box?"
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #101: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Heads. Heads. Heads. If you have a moment, why not join us as we flip coins and somehow always end up with the same result? In our February podcast, Julie, Sam and Matt remember the late, great Tom…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/02/07/a-damn-fine-cup-of-culture-podcast-101-rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead/
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“It’s this power fantasy that lends a time loop its sense of fun: even if you die, repeately, in more and more outlandish ways, you don’t really die.”
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #272: Live, Die, Repeat
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/02/06/six-damn-fine-degrees-272-live-die-repeat/
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: V for Vigilante
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/02/01/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-v-for-vigilante/
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2 months ago
"Something about the idea of getting a do-over again and again and again, and adjusting your responses until you get the result you want, completely tickled my brain."
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #271: Boom ⇒ Snooze ⇒ Boom
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/01/30/six-damn-fine-degrees-271-boom-%e2%87%92-snooze-%e2%87%92-boom/
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2 months ago
We’re trying a new monthly format: on the last Wednesday of each month, we will release a few shortcuts: quick impressions of films, series, books, albums, games, or any other damn fine cups of culture that we’ve enjoyed this month, whether they are new or we only just got around to them now.
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Shortcuts: January 2026
Considering how much we watch, read, listen to and play in any given month, it’s almost a bit sad that we only write about a fraction of these. So, starting this month, we’re trying a n…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/01/28/shortcuts-january-2026/
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“And, frankly: when I realised the extent to which my backlog would survive me? I felt an unsettling sense of vertigo.”
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The Five Stages of Backlog Anxiety
There was a point in my mid-40s where I realised: I have so many games purchased on Steam, I will not live to play all of them, at least not unless I start going through them one by one… and …
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2 months ago
"And then the movie veered off and concentrated on that political duel between Oppenheimer and his former mentor Strauss, and I utterly lost the plot. Or the plot lost me."
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #270: Oppenheimer
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/01/23/six-damn-fine-degrees-270-oppenheimer/
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3 months ago
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: All singing, all dancing
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/01/18/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-all-singing-all-dancing/
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3 months ago
Three podcasters walk into a cinema bar - and record our January espresso podcast live.
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A Damn Fine Espresso: January 2026
In our main podcast for the month, we celebrated our one-hundredth episode with Matt, Julie and original co-podcaster Mege, talking about the beginnings of A Damn Fine Cup of Culture. For this mont…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/01/17/a-damn-fine-espresso-january-2026/
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"When Nick and Charlie touch, little squiggly cartoon flashes of electricity appear around them and you can literally feel the sparkles going off between them in the air."
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #269: Heartstopper!
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/01/16/six-damn-fine-degrees-269-heartstopper/
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3 months ago
Ending the week on a buncha trailers, as is customary.
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: I’ve been through the 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 str…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/01/11/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-ive-been-through-the-desert/
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3 months ago
"And yet: in both Hollow Knight and Silksong, I feel like this is a real world, these are real, albeit insectile, characters. There is a sense of history and weight to Pharloom, the doomed realm in which Silksong is set, and those that inhabit it."
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They create worlds: the melodies of Silksong
One of the things that video games can do magnificently is create worlds. These posts are an occasional exploration of games that I love because of where they take me. In 2017, a small Australian s…
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@audacityofdespair.bsky.social
I just listened to your conversation with Ira Glass, where you mentioned what you’d hoped to do with the ending of Treme. Is there a post, article or interview somewhere where you go into details on those Westworld-foiled plans?
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"I feel comfortable in asserting that, when making the show, nobody thought that they’d get many viewers from the hardcore Harkness Comics Crowd."
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #268: Agatha All Along
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/01/09/six-damn-fine-degrees-268-agatha-all-along/
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3 months ago
And suddenly, to our surprise, we find that we have reason to celebrate: not just the beginning of a new year, but our one-hundredth episode!
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #100: A Hundred Podcasts
And suddenly, to our surprise, we find that we have reason to celebrate: not just the beginning of a new year, but our one-hundredth episode! After our small-scale beginnings back in 2017, a little…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/01/03/a-damn-fine-cup-of-culture-podcast-100-a-hundred-podcasts/
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“Yuletide has come and gone. You have survived holiday family dinners – well done, you – and if you have a certain kind of family, you might be feeling, how do I put it, a little frayed around the edges.”
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #267: Family and other horrors
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2026/01/02/six-damn-fine-degrees-267-family-and-other-horrors/
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“Whenever I hear or read someone going on about how culture, originality, cinema and TV are dead, I can’t help but roll my eyes – because there is so much out there that is pretty damn good: fresh, engaging, challenging, riveting.”
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That was the year that was: 2025
Let’s be honest: it’s no big secret that 2025 was a shitty year in many ways, so much so that at times, as if we’d woken up in an episode of Black Mirror, it felt like reality its…
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Welcome to the future
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/12/28/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-welcome-to-the-future/
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“But the modern Christmas ghost stories made in 1977 and 1978 are like little else you’ll see on television – treading a fine line between scary and silly. Between a beguiling piece of storytelling, and a frustrating one.”
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #266: The ITV Ghost Story For Christmas
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/12/26/six-damn-fine-degrees-266-the-itv-ghost-story-for-christmas/
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3 months ago
Season’s greetings from everyone at A Damn Fine Cup of Culture!
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast Christmas Special 2025
It’s that time of the year again: when film geeks around the world argue about whether Die Hard and Batman Returns are Christmas films or not. The gang at A Damn Fine Cup of Culture has put t…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/12/24/a-damn-fine-cup-of-culture-podcast-christmas-special-2025/
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Honey, Spielberg’s at it again!
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…
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“What would be a good, fair, healthy way of dealing with such creators? Should we banish them from our shelves, once they have revealed themselves to be monsters, less for ourselves than for the people they have hurt?”
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #265: Poisoned pages
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…
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“But perhaps that is the problem: I find it easier to imagine the kind of film Jay Kelly could have been – something sharper, more perceptive, more satirical, something that isn’t designed to make us feel the sadness of a tremendously privileged person...”
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The Loneliness of the Hollywood Superstar: Jay Kelly (2025)
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Hollywood, the Dream Factory – it is actually quite silly, and none are more silly than Hollywood superstars. Drop them in the real world on their own,…
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Not a bird, not a plane
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/12/14/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-not-a-bird-not-a-plane/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
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“Follow us down the Yellow Brick Road for this concluding conversation in our final espresso of the year.”
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A Damn Fine Espresso: December 2025
We weren’t originally going to do an espresso podcast in December, but then the timing and theme of our main episode for the month almost made it obligatory for us to replan: since our recent…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/12/13/a-damn-fine-espresso-december-2025/
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"It’s a far cry from Christie’s famous detective stories featuring Poirot or Miss Marple, but it’s still a story ripe with class envy, deceit — and murder."
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #264: Agatha Christie’s Endless Night
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…
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