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In the 1980s, there were only 63 Black films by, for, or about Black Americans. But in the 1990s, that number quadrupled, with 220 Black films making their way to cinema screens nationwide. What sparked this “Black New Wave?” Who blazed this path for contemporaries like Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons and Jordan Peele? And how did these films transform American culture as a whole? Presenting The Class of 1989, a new limited-run series from pop culture critics Len Webb and Vincent Williams, hosts ...
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In the not too distant future, a ragtag group of movie fans awaken from a nuclear nightmare, only to discover that the world they once knew has become a barren, movie-less wasteland. Broadcasting from the last surviving video store on the planet, listen to host David Snider and his cinephile friends as they take it upon themselves to educate the inhabitants of this post-apocalyptic hellscape and bring the lost art of cinema back to the Wasteland. Welcome…to Apocalypse Video!
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