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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture

A Damn Fine Cup of Culture

Join us every month for a cup of freshly brewed culture! Matt, Julie and friends talk about films, TV series, books or games that have grabbed their attention.

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A Damn Fine Espresso: February 2024

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2024/02/17

Much as with Pringles, the problem with musicals is this: once you’ve enjoyed one or two, you can’t just stop. Earlier this month, Sam and Matt gave two movie musicals a second chance: A Chorus Line and Dancer in the… Continue reading →

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59:40

A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #77: Second...

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2024/02/03

Another year, another opportunity to give some films we didn’t particularly like another opportunity. Was it the films? Was it us? Was it just the wrong time to watch these? For this year’s movie revisit, Sam and Matt talk about… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Espresso: January 2024

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2024/01/20

For our first espresso podcast episode in 2024, Julie and Sam sit down together over a virtual coffee to talk about the Austrian director G.W. Pabst (1885 – 1967). Taking Pabst’s silent film classic Pandora’s Box (1929, adapted from Frank Wedekind’s… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #76: Buster Keaton

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2024/01/06

Welcome to 2024! We at A Damn Fine Cup of Culture are beginning the year with a discussion of one of the greats of early Hollywood cinema: Buster Keaton, the Great Stone Face himself. Join Alan, Julie and Sam as… Continue reading →

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38:35

A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast Christmas Special...

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2023/12/24

As the sheer Ho-ho-honess of the season descends on us, here’s a little something for under your tree: our 2023 Christmas Special. This year we’re taking the opportunity to put a Damn Fine fingerprint on the media meme of the… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Espresso: December 2023

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2023/12/16

In a little over a week it’s Christmas – and what goes together better than Christmas and forging signatures, telling lies, impersonating practically anybody… and a little murder? Matt’s recently had an opportunity to check out the film adaptations of… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #75: Hollywood on...

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2023/12/02

It’s not exactly a secret that Hollywood can be a tad self-centred: it loves making films about itself, sometimes lovingly so (such as in Singing in the Rain), sometimes bitingly caustic (take Sunset Boulevard, for instance). And this has pretty… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Espresso: November 2023

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2023/11/18

It’s the film that everyone’s had an opinion on, not least the devout Marvel fans and people who want an opportunity to go to the restroom during films of epic length: Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Join Sam… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #74: The Exorcist

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2023/11/04

This year’s Halloween has been and gone – but we’re continuing our recent run of horror-themed podcasts (with three Draculas and many more vampires) by dedicating our November episode to the late, great William Friedkin’s seminal film about demonic possession:… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Espresso: October 2023

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2023/10/21

Do vampires get jealous that Dracula tends to hog all the attention? In this month’s espresso episode, Matt and Julie try to make up for this; after the most recent podcast featured not only one but three Draculas (in some… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #73: Three Draculas

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2023/10/07

Aside from Frankenstein’s creature perhaps, is there another movie monster as iconic as that most famous of vampires: Dracula? At the same time, has familiarity turned Dracula into something less than a monster? Is the famous count with the two… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Espresso: September 2023

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2023/09/23

Travels with our Sam: our resident James Bond expert/soundtrack fiend went back to La La Land itself for his summer holidays. Want to find out what Sam did on his hols? Join him and Julie as they talk about Sam’s… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #72: Summer of...

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2023/09/02

Our summer of collaborations is coming to a close with one of the most iconic creative partnerships of Hollywood, going back almost 50 years: the collaboration between director Steven Spielberg and composer John Williams, which began in 1974 with Sugarland… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Espresso: August 2023

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2023/08/19

What’s giddy, grim, and black and white and pink all over? You’ve guessed it: just when the discourse has died down, A Damn Fine Cup of Culture goes all Barbenheimer on y’all. Join Alan and Matt as they talk about… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #71: Summer of...

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2023/08/05

Our summer of collaborations continues with an iconic duo from Minnesota: the Coen Brothers are probably among the filmmakers of recent decades most associated with the (flawed) notion of the auteur – but at the same time, they’re among the… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Espresso: July 2023

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2023/07/15

As promised, one month after our espresso episode on the Indiana Jones series prior to the release of Dial of Destiny, we’re returning with another podcast that belongs in a museum! Join Sam, Alan and Matt as they talk about… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #70: Summer of...

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2023/07/01

After the inaugural episode of our Summer of Collaborations (starting with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn), we’ve arrived at the second instalment of our summer series, this time focusing on a collaboration that gave us iconic performances and classic films… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Espresso: June 2023

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2023/06/17

It’s June, and one of the year’s biggest blockbusters is just weeks away: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny will be released on 30/6/2023. Will Harrison Ford, complete with hat and whip and iconic half-grin, deliver once again, as… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #69: Summer of...

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2023/06/03

Last year we dedicated the summer to some damn fine directors, from Jane Campion, Dario Argento (who was also the topic of our most recent espresso) and Ida Lupino to Robert Altman and Martin Scorsese. This year, we decided to… Continue reading →

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A Damn Fine Espresso: May 2023

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2023/05/27

For our May espresso we’ve got a crimson-coloured, deeply unsettling treat for our listeners. Italian horror-thriller maestro Dario Argento (Suspiria, Deep Red, Phenomena) already featured prominently in our Summer of Directors a year ago, but a spine-tingling encounter of the… Continue reading →

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