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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It's Oscar Prediction Time! Plus the new Jennifer Lawrence movie "Red Sparrow"
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It's that time of year when everyone around you asks you to take place in an Oscar office pool. Well, don't worry. We've gathered together our predictions and now you can confidently bet the farm...well, maybe not, but we're pretty good at figuring out what Oscar voters are thinking. We even know a few. It's a wide open year and that could make things interesting. Some categories are absolute headscratchers. And will they make a major screw up like last year? How will Jimmy Kimmel do? Oh, and there's "Red Sparrow" - a new spy/action movie directed by her former "Hunger Games" director Francis Lawrence. Is it a worthy movie to release on Oscar weekend? We've got what Jennifer Lawrence has to say about the movie, so listen in!
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It's that time of year when everyone around you asks you to take place in an Oscar office pool. Well, don't worry. We've gathered together our predictions and now you can confidently bet the farm...well, maybe not, but we're pretty good at figuring out what Oscar voters are thinking. We even know a few. It's a wide open year and that could make things interesting. Some categories are absolute headscratchers. And will they make a major screw up like last year? How will Jimmy Kimmel do? Oh, and there's "Red Sparrow" - a new spy/action movie directed by her former "Hunger Games" director Francis Lawrence. Is it a worthy movie to release on Oscar weekend? We've got what Jennifer Lawrence has to say about the movie, so listen in!
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