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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#53 - Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
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Ben Stein (of "Bueller...? Bueller...?" fame) goes on a crusade against Darwinism in the godawful 2008 polemic EXPELLED: NO INTELLIGENCE ALLOWED. The boys discuss consider how the film's particular brand of dated Late Bush Era™ conservatism shows traces of today's right-wing Campus Free Speech™ talking-points. This is a bad one, folks! "Conservatism Against Democracy" by Luke Savage - https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/conservatism-against-democracy "Justin Trudeau is waging a phony war against inequality" by Luke Savage - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/03/justin-trudeau-phony-war-against-inequality "Revisiting Monty Python" by Will Sloan - https://willsloanesq.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/revisiting-monty-python/
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Ben Stein (of "Bueller...? Bueller...?" fame) goes on a crusade against Darwinism in the godawful 2008 polemic EXPELLED: NO INTELLIGENCE ALLOWED. The boys discuss consider how the film's particular brand of dated Late Bush Era™ conservatism shows traces of today's right-wing Campus Free Speech™ talking-points. This is a bad one, folks! "Conservatism Against Democracy" by Luke Savage - https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/conservatism-against-democracy "Justin Trudeau is waging a phony war against inequality" by Luke Savage - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/03/justin-trudeau-phony-war-against-inequality "Revisiting Monty Python" by Will Sloan - https://willsloanesq.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/revisiting-monty-python/
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