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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S09.E12: Rave Reviews
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After a couple of years of doing rounds about recent movies when ‘recent movies’ weren’t really a thing, we finally have a recent movies round where our players were more than up to the challenge! Kari, J-Mo, and JK (a veritable Venn diagram of middle-of-the-alphabet letters) tackle a classic before-and-after challenge of recent movies before being asked to recall critically panned comedies. ‘Cause we’re nice. And as per uzhe, it all comes down to the Lightning Round. This episode description brought to you by Taylor, while he was watching the opening car scene of The Client (1994). Take from that what you will.
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🎞️ J-Mo is on Letterboxd
🥳 Kari can be heard on Hey, Remember the 80s
📻 And on Charlie’s 80s Attic
🤔 Submit your At-Home Riddle or Harmonic Mean answer
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⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
🎞️ J-Mo is on Letterboxd
🥳 Kari can be heard on Hey, Remember the 80s
📻 And on Charlie’s 80s Attic
🤔 Submit your At-Home Riddle or Harmonic Mean answer
228 episodes
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After a couple of years of doing rounds about recent movies when ‘recent movies’ weren’t really a thing, we finally have a recent movies round where our players were more than up to the challenge! Kari, J-Mo, and JK (a veritable Venn diagram of middle-of-the-alphabet letters) tackle a classic before-and-after challenge of recent movies before being asked to recall critically panned comedies. ‘Cause we’re nice. And as per uzhe, it all comes down to the Lightning Round. This episode description brought to you by Taylor, while he was watching the opening car scene of The Client (1994). Take from that what you will.
NOTES
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
🎞️ J-Mo is on Letterboxd
🥳 Kari can be heard on Hey, Remember the 80s
📻 And on Charlie’s 80s Attic
🤔 Submit your At-Home Riddle or Harmonic Mean answer
NOTES
⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.
🎞️ J-Mo is on Letterboxd
🥳 Kari can be heard on Hey, Remember the 80s
📻 And on Charlie’s 80s Attic
🤔 Submit your At-Home Riddle or Harmonic Mean answer
228 episodes
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