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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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Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith, the co-writer of The House Bunny, Legally Blonde, 10 Things I Hate About You, and much more LOVES Postcards from the Edge, and you should too.
After She-Devil and Death Becomes Her, Meryl Streep makes her third appearance in a Criterinot film. She plays a fictionalized version of Carrie Fisher in the adaptation of Fisher's eponymous novel about a fictionalized version of Fisher's relationship with her mother, Debbie Reynolds, played by Shirley MacLaine. It's an onion of a movie and we peel back the layers as well as we can.
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