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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Episode 313: All the Space Jams
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Back like what we left something, your new BFFs reassemble at the satellite branch to continue Mad March by Space Jamming their way through both the 1996 original and its 2021 sucessor. We also talk men’s ability to ruin literally everything, a couple DC notes and The Mandalorian continues to baffle us. Keep up between episodes, for now, at twitter.com/geekdownpod If you want to support what we do, you can buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/geekdownpod. Theme music by Rob Gasser (@robgassermusic), licensed under (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Back like what we left something, your new BFFs reassemble at the satellite branch to continue Mad March by Space Jamming their way through both the 1996 original and its 2021 sucessor. We also talk men’s ability to ruin literally everything, a couple DC notes and The Mandalorian continues to baffle us. Keep up between episodes, for now, at twitter.com/geekdownpod If you want to support what we do, you can buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/geekdownpod. Theme music by Rob Gasser (@robgassermusic), licensed under (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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