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Tag: Trailer Alert

Trailer Alert: Abstract: The Art of Design

Posted on February 1, 2017March 21, 2024 By Sammy Younan
Trailer Alert: Abstract: The Art of Design

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

Tinker Hatfield is featured in Abstract: The Art of Design a Netflix mini-series premiering on February 10. Yo: Tinker Hatfield, son…it’s time for tea. Oh and yes…Jordan is in it as well. Time for tea for true.

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Trailer Alert: Becoming Warren Buffett

Posted on January 25, 2017 By Sammy Younan

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

This is weird but not really. Big Sean’s well penned verse in Detroit Vs. Everybody reminds me of Warren Buffett. Oh you know saying that out…I guess that is weird. So Be It.

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Trailer Alert: Beware the Slenderman

Posted on January 18, 2017 By Sammy Younan
Trailer Alert: Beware the Slenderman

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

Fake news is not an issue.

National Enquirer has been around since 1926 serving its loyal readership stories on Elvis sightings, earth’s women serving as Eves by having alien babies, dating impending apocalypses and as times and tastes evolved standard celebrity scandals. All useful for prompting X-Files plot points; not overly impactful in real life.

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Trailer Alert: ARQ

Posted on September 14, 2016 By Sammy Younan
Trailer Alert: ARQ

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

Currently playing at TIFF ARQ is a sci-fi Netflix original movie that’ll debut on the platform on September 16.

You know pretty much everybody who is in it…The Flash’s Robbie Amell and Jessica Jones’ Rachael Taylor and Orphan Black screenwriter Tony Elliott makes his feature directorial debut. See all your friends…it’s like when one or two bands you like get together and form a side project super group!

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Trailer Alert: All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

Posted on September 7, 2016 By Sammy Younan
Trailer Alert: All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

“We live in a revolutionary moment. The disastrous economic and political experiment that attempted to organize human behavior around the dictates of the global marketplace has failed. The promised prosperity that was to have raised the living standards of works through trickle-down economics has been exposed as lie.”

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#CouchWorthy: Hip-Hop Evolution

Posted on August 31, 2016January 1, 2024 By Sammy Younan
#CouchWorthy: Hip-Hop Evolution

Hip Hop’s origins are explored in a 4 part dynamic television docu-series on HBO…like the Genesis beginning or rap (actually not even rap…it wasn’t anything when it first started). Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash beginnings. Not to fret though (OUR golden era…Tribe, De La etc. appear in the third episode. Yes!). Hip-Hop Evolution…

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Trailer Alert: Kicks

Posted on July 20, 2016 By Sammy Younan
Trailer Alert: Kicks

Sammy Younan Girth Radio Presents… On May 14, 1990 Sports Illustrated didn’t feature an athlete on the cover; instead there was a bold headline: YOUR SNEAKERS OR YOUR LIFE. The ensuing article entitled Senseless documented the beginnings of an ugly phenomena known as Sneaker Pimps (think of em as a fence for Nikes). (The British band Sneaker…

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Trailer Alert: O.J.: Made in America

Posted on June 8, 2016 By Sammy Younan
Trailer Alert: O.J.: Made in America

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

“The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that transition is what helped me bridge the gap, because that’s what my success has really been about: bridging the gap between the black community and the white community.”

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#TrailerAlert: All Things Must Pass

Posted on February 12, 2016June 20, 2023 By Sammy Younan No Comments on #TrailerAlert: All Things Must Pass
#TrailerAlert: All Things Must Pass

All Things Must Pass (a documentary on the rise and fall of Tower Records) is a cautionary documentary with 2 key takeaways: ~~ Takeaway #1:What has more possibilities…the present or the future? In 1999, Tower Records made $1 billion.In 2006, the company filed for bankruptcy. Surreal. In any business you typically work for today or…

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Trial By Trailer: Michael Jackson’s Journey From Motown To Off The Wall

Posted on February 3, 2016December 2, 2023 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Trial By Trailer: Michael Jackson’s Journey From Motown To Off The Wall
Trial By Trailer: Michael Jackson’s Journey From Motown To Off The Wall

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
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    by Sammy Younan
    Tis the season to spend with the Life of John McClane and the Life of Chuck. Season's Greetings from #SetTheVCR.
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    This time of year TV is all ICK with corny Christmas. But don't have a Breakdown or a Fallout with TV. I offer lots of non-Christmas TV recommendations for this week's #SetTheVCR.
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    I'm not an Influencer with TV Recommendations, though I have most excellent #SetTheVCR suggestions that'll make you say Boo-Yah!
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    by Sammy Younan
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