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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Horror Makes Us Happy - Jonathan Janz (The Dismembered, Children of the Dark, Marla)
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Living next to a graveyard, birthday in October, and his mom was a horror fan? Jon may have been fated to love horror, but there's more to his story than that...
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