"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." adamnfinecup.com/2025/11/08/a...

"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."

You're travelling through another dimension, a dimension not of sight and sound... because of a Twilight Zone box set vanishing without a trace. adamnfinecup.com/2025/11/07/s...

“How does the xenomorph survive its transfer onto a new host: the streaming services?” adamnfinecup.com/2025/11/01/a...

Could these three dapper elderly gentlemen ever scare the heck out of you? Feat. @punkyfins.bsky.social and @movietrubs.bsky.social adamnfinecup.com/2025/10/31/s...

"All these media and forms of expression make some things concrete and leave others open to interpretation: the difference between the media lies in where the blanks are that we, the audience, get to fill in."

A rare Criterion Corner triple bill. adamnfinecup.com/2025/10/25/c...

A teensy bit late (sorry about that!), but here is this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees. adamnfinecup.com/2025/10/25/s...

“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.” @thirith.bsky.social @punkyfins.bsky.social adamnfinecup.com/2025/10/18/a...

"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."

Since November 2020, the Damn Fine crew have been working on bringing you a Weekly Six Damn Fine Degrees for the Friday deadline. This pinned thread is going to slowly work its way back through the archive in one appropriately connected form!

“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.” adamnfinecup.com/2025/10/11/t...

"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"

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

Trailers to end the week on - or begin the new week. adamnfinecup.com/2025/10/05/i...

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.

Check out our October podcast: the definite article in horror. Literally. adamnfinecup.com/2025/10/04/a...

“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.” adamnfinecup.com/2025/10/03/s...

What's a weekend without trailers? adamnfinecup.com/2025/09/28/i...

"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." adamnfinecup.com/2025/09/27/c...

"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." adamnfinecup.com/2025/09/26/s...

It's the end of the week as we know it, and we bring trailers. adamnfinecup.com/2025/09/21/i...

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. adamnfinecup.com/2025/09/20/a...

"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."

Some trailers to end the week on. adamnfinecup.com/2025/09/14/i...

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

“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.” adamnfinecup.com/2025/09/13/m...

"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."

"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. adamnfinecup.com/2025/09/06/a...

Weekend read by yours truly.

"We’re getting a great deal of common sense, very little self-dramatization, and some genuine mythbusting, even if the myth is her. "

Autumn isn't too far away, so why not start our weekly trailer post with some good old-fashioned ghosts? adamnfinecup.com/2025/08/31/i...

Sam considers the film "Mommie Dearest" and the impact it had on the reputations of Joan Crawford and Faye Dunaway.

"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."

"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." adamnfinecup.com/2025/08/28/c...

"But is this all these worlds can be: places where we either kill or die, over and over?" adamnfinecup.com/2025/08/23/i...

"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.

“You have a David Lynch film that, more than all his other work, very much is marked by the decade it was made.” adamnfinecup.com/2025/08/16/a...

"In July 1981, my school went a bit mad."

"In July 1981, my school went a bit mad." adamnfinecup.com/2025/08/15/s...

From Michael Caine to Ben Wheatley, via cartoon animals and goofy French swordsmen. adamnfinecup.com/2025/08/10/i...

"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." adamnfinecup.com/2025/08/09/c...

"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"

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. adamnfinecup.com/2025/08/02/a...

"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. "

Our latest Six Damn Fine Degrees instalment is out. adamnfinecup.com/2025/08/01/s...