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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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Pop Culture Pastor dives headfirst into the fog. Dave and Cody rewind Frank Darabont’s soul-crusher The Mist (2007): why the human breakdown still hits, why Marcia Gay Harden steals the whole movie, and how that ending becomes a parable about quitting one step too soon. They riff on what holds up and what doesn’t, then play the show’s greatest hits: Muppet-ize the Movie, Which Character Would You Be? and the Winner & Loser of the movie (sorry, Stephen King… Darabont’s ending wins).
Plus: a spicy news bit on the “least attractive hobbies for men” list (video games, figurines, crypto, trolling, gambling) and why maybe the problem isn’t hobbies—it’s imbalance.
Come for the monsters, stay for the meaning.
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