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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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A few names come to mind when you think of great cinema - Hitchcock, Scorsese, Durst.
We attempted our first quarantine episode and it could be our last. This week we watched 2019's The Fanatic starring an elderly Joe Exotic lookalike, John Travolta. We spar over mental handicaps, Scientology related deaths, and the classic rock band - Limp Bizkit.
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