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Category: Trial By Trailer

Trial by Trailer: Including…Space Sweepers

Posted on January 8, 2021September 14, 2023 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Trial by Trailer: Including…Space Sweepers
Trial by Trailer: Including…Space Sweepers

Is this good? Will this be good? Only one way to find out…is that really true?

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Trailer Alert: Zack Snyder’s Justice League

Posted on June 19, 2020March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan
Trailer Alert: Zack Snyder’s Justice League

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

More like a Sneak Peek than a proper “Coming Soon” trailer…

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Trial By Trailer: You Don’t Nomi

Posted on May 20, 2020March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan
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.”

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Trial By Trailer: The Booksellers

Posted on April 27, 2020March 6, 2023 By Sammy Younan
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.”

Trial By Trailer

Trailer Alert: The Booksellers

Posted on April 27, 2020March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan
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.

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Trial By Trailer: Including…Uncut Gems

Posted on January 10, 2020September 14, 2023 By Sammy Younan
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.

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Trial By Trailer: Arabian Alien

Posted on January 4, 2020March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan
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…

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Trial by Trailer: Including…Atypical

Posted on October 18, 2019September 14, 2023 By Sammy Younan
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.

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Trial by Trailer: Including…Birds of Prey

Posted on October 4, 2019September 14, 2023 By Sammy Younan
Trial by Trailer: Including…Birds of Prey

Is this good? Will this be good? Only one way to find out…is that really true?

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Trial by Trailer: Including…Mindhunter

Posted on August 2, 2019September 14, 2023 By Sammy Younan
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?

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    by Sammy Younan
    Even with your Poker Face I can tell you’re seeking TV Recommendations for your Safe House. No worries with this week’s #SetTheVCR I got it in The Black Bag.
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    by Sammy Younan
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    by Sammy Younan
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    by Sammy Younan
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    by Sammy Younan
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