The Suicide Squad has wrapped: according to James Gunn’s IG. The movie arrives on August 6, 2021. I ain’t giving money I earned to Birds Of Prey; I’ma Netflix that hard. Wonder Woman 1984 maybe but not opening weekend dollars for true. So I’d come back to DC Films with…this movie? A weird full circle….
My weekly collection of new and notable books for your pop culture pleasure and edification: #ReadMoreTweetLess.
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews director Andy Palmer whose latest horror movie is Camp Cold Brook.
My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan talks with director Audrey Cummings whose genre movie is She Never Died (sister sequel to He Never Died).
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.
Indeed today is my birth day. Let’s celebrate with some beloved pop culture.
Sammy Younan
Girth Radio Presents…
One of the more puzzling aspects of a film festival—most film festivals—is that the present project is what gets celebrated. The present is the focus. Kevin Smith got Clerks into Sundance which is a great accomplishment. However the present only creates potential. It is the follow up…that matters: the relationship with the festival and now the relationship with the audience grows out of that potential. In music one hit wonders are fine and fun they do not in any way shape or form suggest a career or a body of work.
My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan talks with director Alexandre Philippe about his documentary Memory: The Origins of Alien based on the 79 movie.
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews Iris Kim the director & lead editor Tiana Chin from The Night the Kids Found Out.
My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan interviews Katie Douglas one of the actors in Level 16 a dystopian thriller film now streaming on Showtime.
