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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It's been a long, tough week, so we're just chillin', shooting the breeze and talking about the MYRIAD things we've watched over the past week and a half. Plus, we talk about a Scream movie without yelling at each other!
Highlights:
[0:00] Mark and CoRri shoot the breeze about getting older, getting drunk, and getting that good sleep
[21:40] What we watched! (Midnight Run, Milk & Serial, Jaws 2, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, Rituals, The Boston Strangler, The Funhouse, The Dark Half, Sweet Smell of Success, Scream 2, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Robot Jox, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Cuckoo, Arcadian, Captain America: Civil War, Ant-Man)
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