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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Ep 323 - Race for the Yankee Zephyr
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For the third movie of our Pleasencing Season we discuss the bizarre New Zealand romp, Race for the Yankee Zephyr AKA Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr, which is full of mad hats, weird stunts, silly accents and bonkers plot decisions where a drunken Donald Pleasence goes head to head with an outrageously camp George Peppard.
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For the third movie of our Pleasencing Season we discuss the bizarre New Zealand romp, Race for the Yankee Zephyr AKA Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr, which is full of mad hats, weird stunts, silly accents and bonkers plot decisions where a drunken Donald Pleasence goes head to head with an outrageously camp George Peppard.
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