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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We’re four episodes into Blood Origin and…we’re finished? Yes, hard as it is to believe, we’ve reached the finale of the Witcher spinoff series and all we can say is that it’s a good thing we paired it with a strong whiskey—the 112-proof Seven Spheres Rye by The Obscure, to be specific. While there are moments here and there that we enjoyed (most of them featuring Meldof), the show’s fiery villain goes up in smoke, our proto-witcher proves to be a proto-dud and the legendary Conjunction of the Spheres leaves us all less than starry-eyed. And don’t even get us going on that final Jaskier song!
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We’re four episodes into Blood Origin and…we’re finished? Yes, hard as it is to believe, we’ve reached the finale of the Witcher spinoff series and all we can say is that it’s a good thing we paired it with a strong whiskey—the 112-proof Seven Spheres Rye by The Obscure, to be specific. While there are moments here and there that we enjoyed (most of them featuring Meldof), the show’s fiery villain goes up in smoke, our proto-witcher proves to be a proto-dud and the legendary Conjunction of the Spheres leaves us all less than starry-eyed. And don’t even get us going on that final Jaskier song!
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