I used to be very impressed by how up to speed my teenage son was about the new movies (and games) that were going to be released. He and his pals would be talking about a new blockbuster months before it arrived on our screens.

Kids his age spent a great deal of time watching YouTube clips and so the big film studios, by means of teasers and trailers, target their advertising very effectively. I too, spend a fair bit of time on YT (now there’s a surprise!) but I never get shown trailers for Japanese anime films or low-key Danish tragi-comedies. I just get ads for booze and dating agencies that want to introduce me Russian ladies in search of romance.

How do you find out about new movies?

Friends of course are invaluable (not least on the AW). DuCool has tipped me off about lots of fine cinematic delights. But he is definitely the Godfather of Glum. Do you want black and white photography, an avant-garde, 60s Polish jazz soundtrack, a slow-moving plot full of despair, suicide and sporadic, angstful bonking? He’s the man.

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