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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#58 - Poltergeist (2015)Is A Ghost Story Without Any Soul
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What are we even doing here? In watching the 2015 remake of Poltergeist, I was expecting that I would get at least a taste of an understanding of why this franchise has endured. Surely if someone was going to take the time, care, and energy to overhaul such a revered piece of horror cinema, they must have something important to say on the subject. So I talked to Pam-Marie Guzzo, film reviewer for Interrobang and Poltergeist fan, to see just what the point was of this whole project. As it turns out, from the shift to male protagonists to the stripping of familial affection, there is not much of a point at all.
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What are we even doing here? In watching the 2015 remake of Poltergeist, I was expecting that I would get at least a taste of an understanding of why this franchise has endured. Surely if someone was going to take the time, care, and energy to overhaul such a revered piece of horror cinema, they must have something important to say on the subject. So I talked to Pam-Marie Guzzo, film reviewer for Interrobang and Poltergeist fan, to see just what the point was of this whole project. As it turns out, from the shift to male protagonists to the stripping of familial affection, there is not much of a point at all.
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