Matt Kimmich
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Films, games, books, disillusionment. Not always in that order.
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4 days ago
"For me, at the age of 50, Before Sunrise had a truth that I didn’t see before, but it wasn’t the truth about love or romance or life, even if that’s exactly what young Céline and Jesse think they’re navigating during their night in Vienna."
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A night to remember: revisiting Before Sunrise (1995)
I may have mentioned it before: I love rewatching films. Obviously not all films, but on the whole I get a huge enjoyment out of revisiting films. Doesn’t matter that I know the plot and all …
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/11/08/a-night-to-remember-revisiting-before-sunrise-1995/
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"And of course we were always prepared for the uncanny, the strange and bizarre and frightening, by the ever-smoking Rod Serling with his trademark snarling voice, telling us what was in store for us with that half-smirk."
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #259: The Twilight Zone
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/2025/11/07/six-damn-fine-degrees-259-the-twilight-zone/
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You're travelling through another dimension, a dimension not of sight and sound... because of a Twilight Zone box set vanishing without a trace.
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #259: The Twilight Zone
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/2025/11/07/six-damn-fine-degrees-259-the-twilight-zone/
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: This’ll blow your mind
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/2025/11/02/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-thisll-blow-your-mind/
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11 days ago
“How does the xenomorph survive its transfer onto a new host: the streaming services?”
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #98: Alien: Earth
When Alien came out in cinemas back in 1979, did anyone think at the time that this would turn into a franchise that is alive and kicking 46 years later, much like that Chestburster in Spaceballs? …
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/11/01/a-damn-fine-cup-of-culture-podcast-98-alien-earth/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
12 days ago
Could these three dapper elderly gentlemen ever scare the heck out of you? Feat.
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #258: Halloween Trio
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/2025/10/31/six-damn-fine-degrees-258-halloween-trio/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
17 days ago
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Shivering with antici…
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/2025/10/26/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-shivering-with-antici/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
18 days ago
A rare Criterion Corner triple bill.
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Criterion Corner: Japan Edition
Readers may have noticed a certain pattern over the last couple of Criterion Corner instalments, including the recent not-quite-Criterion Corner post: Japanese ghosts and ghouls in search of reveng…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/10/25/criterion-corner-japan-edition/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
18 days ago
A teensy bit late (sorry about that!), but here is this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees.
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #257: The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen
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/2025/10/25/six-damn-fine-degrees-257-the-eye-of-man-hath-not-heard-the-ear-of-man-hath-not-seen/
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24 days ago
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Oh, okay, pass if you like
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/2025/10/19/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-oh-okay-pass-if-you-like/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
24 days ago
“Surrealist film doesn’t begin and end with Lynch, so we’re dedicating the October espresso podcast to one of the greats of experimental filmmaking: Maya Deren.”
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A Damn Fine Espresso: October 2025
We’ve spent a lot of this year talking about the sadly departed David Lynch – but surrealist film doesn’t begin and end with Lynch, so we’re dedicating the October espresso …
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/10/18/a-damn-fine-espresso-october-2025/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
26 days ago
"The adage “the pictures are better on radio” really applies in this instance. It’s a tour de force for the imagination. As a kid I remember listening to it in the evening with all the lights turned off and my eyes closed and really feeling like I was there in Middle Earth."
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #256: The BBC Radio Lord Of The Rings Part Two: The Two Adaptors
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/2025/10/17/six-damn-fine-degrees-256-the-bbc-radio-lord-of-the-rings-part-two-the-two-adaptors/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
about 1 month ago
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: You wanna shoot a president?
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/2025/10/12/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-you-wanna-shoot-a-president/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
about 1 month ago
“To be honest, the more I think about Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s follow-up to the award-winning Drive My Car (2021), the less I can shake the impression that it is a horror film.”
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(This is not a) Criterion Corner: Evil Does Not Exist (2023)
It would be futile to assign a genre to Evil Does Not Exist, beyond the most generic catch-all there is. Yes, the film is a drama, but what does that mean? To be honest, the more I think about Ryus…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/10/11/this-is-not-a-criterion-corner-evil-does-not-exist-2023/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
about 1 month ago
"Visually it is an absolutely stunning film, made moreso by the realisation that all of what you see on screen is quite real. No CGI, no greenscreens, and as much natural light as they could capture"
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #255: Excalibur (1981)
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/2025/10/10/six-damn-fine-degrees-255-excalibur-1981/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
about 1 month ago
Trailers to end the week on - or begin the new week.
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Movies and monsters and more, oh my!
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/2025/10/05/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-movies-and-monsters-and-more-oh-my/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
about 1 month ago
Check out our October podcast: the definite article in horror. Literally.
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #97: The Horror
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/10/04/a-damn-fine-cup-of-culture-podcast-97-the-horror/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
about 1 month ago
“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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Six Damn Fine Degrees #254: Fanfic? Me?
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/2025/10/03/six-damn-fine-degrees-254-fanfic-me/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
about 1 month ago
What's a weekend without trailers?
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: One Preview After Another
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/2025/09/28/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-one-preview-after-another/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
about 2 months ago
"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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Criterion Corner: Good Morning (#84)
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?
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/09/27/criterion-corner-good-morning-84/
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about 2 months ago
"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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Six Damn Fine Degrees #253: The Untamed and the joy of fan translations
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/2025/09/26/six-damn-fine-degrees-253-the-untamed-and-the-joy-of-fan-translations/
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about 2 months ago
It's the end of the week as we know it, and we bring trailers.
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Love, Sex, Religion, Trailers
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/2025/09/21/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-love-sex-religion-trailers/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
about 2 months ago
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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A Damn Fine Espresso: September 2025
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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/09/20/a-damn-fine-espresso-september-2025/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
about 2 months ago
"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."
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #252: Lombard & 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…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/09/19/six-damn-fine-degrees-252-lombard-hitchcocks-mr-and-mrs-smith/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
about 2 months ago
Some trailers to end the week on.
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: That is the question
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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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
2 months ago
“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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Mother knows best: The Handmaid’s Tale (2017 – 2025)
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. …
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/09/13/mother-knows-best-the-handmaids-tale-2017-2025/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
2 months ago
"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."
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #251: Carole Lombard, The Profane Angel
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/2025/09/12/six-damn-fine-degrees-251-carole-lombard-the-profane-angel-draft/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
2 months ago
"Why can it feel like a deeper genuine loss when one of the actors we like dies?" The conclusion of this year's summer podcast series, our Lost Summer.
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #96: Lost Summer – Gone too soon
We’re concluding our summer series, Lost Summer, with an episode dedicated to the actors that died not in old age, looking back at a long, storied career, but that were gone too soon. From tr…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/09/06/a-damn-fine-cup-of-culture-podcast-96-lost-summer-gone-too-soon/
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2 months ago
"We’re getting a great deal of common sense, very little self-dramatization, and some genuine mythbusting, even if the myth is her. "
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #250: Faye
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/2025/09/05/six-damn-fine-degrees-250-faye/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
2 months ago
Autumn isn't too far away, so why not start our weekly trailer post with some good old-fashioned ghosts?
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Buggin’ out
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/2025/08/31/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-buggin-out/
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3 months ago
"Even more, snippets from the film have spread far and wide across the internet, and these days especially social media. Lines from the film have been taken out of context and eternalised by the best drag queens of several generations."
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #249: Mommie Dearest!
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/2025/08/29/six-damn-fine-degrees-249-mommie-dearest/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
3 months ago
"There is no trace of naturalism in Kobayashi’s film – and that’s where its great strengths lie: in its aesthetic, its use of colours and sound."
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Criterion Corner: Kwaidan (#90)
Ghosts, demons, spirits: who doesn’t like them and the ways they make life more interesting? Kwaidan is full of them, in various shapes: supernaturally-propelled hair taking revenge on a bad …
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/08/28/criterion-corner-kwaidan-90/
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3 months ago
"But is this all these worlds can be: places where we either kill or die, over and over?"
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Is this the real life? Knit’s Island (2023)
So many video games are about escapism – but this doesn’t mean that the worlds we escape into when we play are necessarily better worlds than the one we inhabit. No, when we pick up tha…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/08/23/is-this-the-real-life-knits-island-2023/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
3 months ago
"The Glory" is a Chinese historical drama series from 2025 (not to be mistaken with the K-Drama school revenge story of the same name) whose descriptions are so innocuous they are completely misleading.
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #248: Terrible fathers, vengeful daughters
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/2025/08/22/six-damn-fine-degrees-248-terrible-fathers-vengeful-daughters/
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3 months ago
“You have a David Lynch film that, more than all his other work, very much is marked by the decade it was made.”
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A Damn Fine August: July 2025
Our Lost Summer continues, quite fittingly, with another David Lynch film: in our August espresso, Alan and Sam talk about Lynch’s most ’90s nightmare, Lost Highway, in which murder, mo…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/08/16/a-damn-fine-august-july-2025/
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3 months ago
"In July 1981, my school went a bit mad."
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #247: Gandhi (1982)
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/2025/08/15/six-damn-fine-degrees-247-gandhi-1982/
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3 months ago
From Michael Caine to Ben Wheatley, via cartoon animals and goofy French swordsmen.
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Oh deer!
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/2025/08/10/ill-be-in-my-trailer-watching-trailers-oh-deer/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
3 months ago
"What I didn’t expect: that the Musketeers would basically turn out to be The Beatles from A Hard Day’s Night… in dashing 17th century outfits, getting into swashbuckling adventures, rescuing damsels and foiling the wicked plans of scheming authority figures."
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Criterion Corner: The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers (#1263)
Every now and then I’m amazed at how pop culture doesn’t actually require you to have seen, read, heard or played something for you to have, or at least think you have, a fairly clear i…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/08/09/criterion-corner-the-three-musketeers-the-four-musketeers-1263/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
3 months ago
"At the time, it seemed to me that half of those films starred the English actor Kenneth More, who seemed to be present at each of the theatres of war, fighting the Germans on land, water and in the air"
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #246: Michael Caine, Alan Alda, my mum and me
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/2025/08/08/six-damn-fine-degrees-246-michael-caine-alan-alda-my-mum-and-me/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
3 months ago
Should some films be rightfully lost forever? A Damn Fine Cup of Culture looks at two feature films from Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda so you don't have to.
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #95: Lost Summer – Films from the Poison Cabinet
Some things are sadly lost: rolls of film crumble, TV programmes are never recorded in the first place, studios choose not to distribute a film in the first place. And then there are the cultural a…
https://adamnfinecup.com/2025/08/02/a-damn-fine-cup-of-culture-podcast-95-lost-summer-films-from-the-poison-cabinet/
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3 months ago
"Having seen a photograph of an actress in a newspaper recently and finding out they were staying at the same hotel, Sellers simply sent his valet to her hotel room and a couple of days later, they were getting married. "
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #245: The Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland Story
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/2025/08/01/six-damn-fine-degrees-245-the-peter-sellers-and-britt-ekland-story/
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture
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Our latest Six Damn Fine Degrees instalment is out.
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #245: The Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland Story
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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A long time ago is now: Andor (2022-2025)
If anyone had told me a few years ago that not only would a Star Wars story open itself up to comparisons with the likes of Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers and Jean-Pierre Melville&#…
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Check out this week's Six Damn Fine Degrees by
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on what happens if you cast the wrong actor for a role that's tricky to begin with.
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #244: The Jack Lemmon-shaped hole in Billy Wilder’s Kiss Me Stupid
“One of Jack Lemmon’s most impressive skills as an actor is his ability to take the role of a slightly schlubby loser, a character prone to selfish and petty acts, and still make him likeable…
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From Monroe to Kafka, from Lynch to Guadagnino: this week's trailer post.
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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: From the wrong side of the tracks
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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Sailors, killers, bad mothers and good witches: our July espresso podcast is all about David Lynch's Wild at Heart. Feat.
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A Damn Fine Espresso: July 2025
Our Lost Summer started with an episode in honour of David Lynch, the artist and director who’s been an inspiration to us here at A Damn Fine Cup of Culture. After last month’s espresso…
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"Despite its attempts at making this sex comedy’s plot as prim and proper as possible in a heteronormative sense, in many other ways the film is queer as all get-out."
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #243: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
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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"There is something a bit sad that one of the best instalments in the adventures of Indiana Jones isn’t a big-screen movie but a video game – but cinema’s loss is gaming’s gain."
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They create worlds: This game belongs in a museum!
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. There are a number of films t…
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"As a kid you can perhaps identify with the Goonies; as an adult, you just want them to go away..."
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #242: So this is what ‘adult movies’ are?
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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