Sammy Younan
Girth Radio Presents…
More like a Sneak Peek than a proper “Coming Soon” trailer…
Trial by Trailer: Including…Space Sweepers
Is this good? Will this be good? Only one way to find out…is that really true?
Category: Trial By Trailer
Trailer Alert: Zack Snyder’s Justice League
Trial By Trailer: You Don’t Nomi
“Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls was met by critics and audiences with near universal derision. You Don’t Nomi traces the film’s redemptive journey from notorious flop to cult classic, and maybe even masterpiece.”
Trial By Trailer: The Booksellers
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan shares the trailer for D.W. Young’s The Booksellers: “a behind-the-scenes documentary set in the New York rare book world.”
Trailer Alert: The Booksellers
Sammy Younan
Girth Radio Presents…
You’d expect a documentary about New York City booksellers to be about chasing down a…I dunno say a first edition Charles Dickens or perhaps a Hoop Dreams style doc about wanting to become a rare book dealer. It’s neither. Instead what director D.W. Young offers is a sci-fi tangent via Henry Wessells whose book is A Conversation Larger Than the Universe: Readings in Science Fiction and the Fantastic (whew!) as well as a motivated search for early hip hop documents and magazines.
Trial By Trailer: Including…Uncut Gems
Is this good?
Will this be good?
Every movie trailer answers or challenges those 2 questions. The ham-fisted rebuttal comes swiftly, however: no you don’t need to always see a movie to know it’s tank.
Do you really need to sit through a Michael Bay Transformers movie to know for sure? Tank is Tank. And Fresh…well Fresh is always Fresh. I’m down like I’m Brown for that.
Trial By Trailer: Arabian Alien
So…are we gonna talk about Arabian Alien?!! “Saad, a Muslim married man, gets over his depression after a space Alien is introduced into his life.” What?! Yeah it’s a sci-fi film (I think) from…Saudi Arabia. For all the years I’ve been a nerd I’ve never said that before. Check out this extremely odd trailer… They’ve got…
Trial by Trailer: Including…Atypical
Is this good?
Will this be good?
Every movie trailer answers or challenges those 2 questions. The ham-fisted rebuttal comes swiftly, however: no you don’t need to always see a movie to know it’s tank.
Do you really need to sit through a Michael Bay Transformers movie to know for sure? Tank is Tank. And Fresh…well Fresh is always Fresh. I’m down like I’m Brown for that.
Trial by Trailer: Including…Birds of Prey
Trial by Trailer: Including…Mindhunter
Trail By Trailer is judging a book by its cover or in this case…a movie by its trailer. Are you 100% IN or is it a Hard Pass?