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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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This is a real classic Movie Podcast Now! episode, from all the way back in 2019. This was part of a series we did on the entire Rocky and Creed series. This one finds Rocky Balboa as an over-the-hill broke boxer living back in the old neighborhood in Philly. And then he gets a second chance (a third chance? Fourth?) at the Big Time.
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