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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83 - Review of the Year 2017: Part 2
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We follow up our first Review of the Year 2017 episode with a look back at the last six months of film releases. This episode contains reviews of: - The Mummy (2017) - Transformers: The Last Knight - Despicable Me 3 - War for the Planet of the Apes - Death Note (2017) - It (2017) - The LEGO Ninjago Movie - Kingsman: The Golden Circle - Blade Runner 2049 - Cult of Chucky - Jigsaw - Thor: Ragnarok - Justice League - The Disaster Artist - Star Wars: The Last Jedi and - Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Allen also put a quiz together for this episode with questions focusing on each film, which is probably why this has ended up being our longest episode to date. Sorry about that or you're welcome depending on your views on long episodes. We didn't want to cut our Last Jedi argument too short, after all.
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We follow up our first Review of the Year 2017 episode with a look back at the last six months of film releases. This episode contains reviews of: - The Mummy (2017) - Transformers: The Last Knight - Despicable Me 3 - War for the Planet of the Apes - Death Note (2017) - It (2017) - The LEGO Ninjago Movie - Kingsman: The Golden Circle - Blade Runner 2049 - Cult of Chucky - Jigsaw - Thor: Ragnarok - Justice League - The Disaster Artist - Star Wars: The Last Jedi and - Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Allen also put a quiz together for this episode with questions focusing on each film, which is probably why this has ended up being our longest episode to date. Sorry about that or you're welcome depending on your views on long episodes. We didn't want to cut our Last Jedi argument too short, after all.
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