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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Your hosts Sara (@SaraSorrentino), Ale (@Sick__66), and Shak (@ShakExcellence) celebrate one year of their podcast and welcome guest Thomas (@NotTheWhosTommy) to discuss the sequel to the DTV sequel the Seequels gang covered on Episode 8; it’s Cult of Chucky! They talk doll innards, the complicated canon of the Child’s Play saga, and of course the hotness of a girl possessed by the doll voiced by her real-life father.
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