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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Welcome to How Have You Not Seen, a movie podcast where the moon really is what we think it is.
This week, Carson and Caroline celebrate St Patrick (Wilson)'s Day with Roland Emmerich's sci-fi disaster (both in genre and box office performance) movie Moonfall. Is this movie an overlooked genre gem or a bad movie that no one will ever watch again?
This week's important questions:
Is the moon a lesbian?
Why did Carson choose to discuss a movie that literally doesn't exist on this podcast?
What exactly are Roland Emmerich's feelings about the American government?
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Is this movie so bad, even Patrick Wilson can't save it?
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