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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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Ken and Kendra watch Four Weddings and a Funeral, the 1994 Oscar nominee that Ken had never seen before. We discuss the friend group, Hugh Grant's hair, and the sad funeral.
And our one degree connection from Peri Gilpin! John Hannah played the wonderful widowed, Scottish man in Four Weddings and a Funeral and was in the Frasier episode Farewell, Nervosa in 2003.
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