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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Sam leaps back to 1964, and almost immediately, things go awry. He falls and hits his head, the handyman falls off a ladder and dies in his backyard, then the town gossip is killed by a poisonous snake in the kitchen. And that is all in the first 15 minutes. Sam has leaped into a horror writer's body and it is certainly a scary one. He thinks he is there to save the writer's future wife, but then it gets really crazy. Just listen!
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