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Those Who Wish Me Dead and the Pros and Cons of MacGuffins
May 22, 2021Those Who Wish Me Dead is a smokejumper vs. assassins thriller that finds Angelina Jolie trying...
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Invincible Is the Most Brutal and Excellent Superhero Cartoon We’ve Ever Seen
May 22, 2021With Invincible, Amazon Prime may have managed to produce a superhero story even more brutal than...
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Let's Discuss Concrete Cowboy, With Idris Elba as a Philly Horseman
April 9, 2021Concrete Cowboy is a coming-of-age film about teenager Cole who comes across a love for the...
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Sound of Metal Takes Us to the Brink of Despair — and Back
December 17, 2020The Sound of Metal begins with an interesting premise that may seem impossible to pull off...
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His House and Refugee Horror: a Haunting No One Can Escape
October 31, 2020There’s an old joke in the Black community that a haunted house film with a Black...
Movie News
Lovecraft Country Is a Guidebook of American Monsters
October 26, 2020Horror. Science fiction. Non-fiction. Fantasy. Adventure. Coming of Age. War. A lot of shows have a...
Movie News
Residue, Gentrification, and Trying to Go Home Again (Podcast)
September 25, 2020A young Black filmmaker named Jay tries to go home again in Residue, the new debut...
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In Woke, a Cartoonist Is Transformed by Police Brutality (Podcast)
September 18, 2020The new Hulu series Woke lives up to its name, but perhaps not in the way the...
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1BR Has Interesting Things to Say About How People Justify Violence (Podcast)
September 14, 2020The new horror film 1BR scored the number one spot on Netflix’s movies chart with little...
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‘He’s in the Red Sand With the Ancestors’: a Thank You to Chadwick Boseman (Podcast)
September 4, 2020On Sunday, my wife and I spoke to our toddler about what happened to the actor...
Movie News
Does Project Power Do Too Much Universe-Building? (Podcast)
August 27, 2020Project Power, like many recent Netflix action hits, doesn’t just feel like a movie: It feels...
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Let’s Talk About the Domestic Horror of Shirley (Low Key Podcast)
August 21, 2020The latest Low Key podcast covers Shirley, a film about the brilliant American Gothic author Shirley...
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Does Batman Have to Be Buff? (Podcast)
August 14, 2020Leads for superhero films have to be in phenomenal shape, capable of terrifying criminals with their...
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Beyonce and the Proud Pan-African Tapestry of Black Is King (Podcast)
August 7, 2020Our latest episode of the Low Key podcast covers the Beyonce visual album Black Is King,...
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How Well Does The Business of Drugs Make the Case for Drug Legalization? (Low Key Podcast)
July 30, 2020Humans have used substances to induce soberless states since the beginning of time, but Netflix’s The...
Movie News
The Old Guard Is Like The X-Men, If All the X-Men Were Wolverine (Podcast)
July 18, 2020Our latest Low Key podcast covers Netflix’s new action film The Old Guard, starring Charlize Theron. Based...
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We Watched Do the Right Thing Again (Podcast)
July 2, 2020Do the Right Thing still feels sharply relevant after 31 years: Every group feels aggrieved, lashing...
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We’re in Texas, Tennessee and Massachusetts. Here’s Why We Would — and Wouldn’t — Go to a Movie Theater Now (Podcast)
June 26, 2020I live in Tennessee. Keith Dennie, one of my Low Key Podcast co-hosts, lives in Texas....
Directing
Da 5 Bloods and Cross-Generational Trauma (Low Key Podcast)
June 18, 2020Today’s episode of the Low Key podcast covers the Spike Lee film Da 5 Bloods, which follows...
Movie News
What We Want From the Justice League Snyder Cut (Podcast)
June 1, 2020The nerd nightmare is over: the badgering has paid off, and the Snyder Cut of the...
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Let’s Talk About Murder to Mercy and the Trials of Cyntoia Brown
May 27, 2020Netflix does not shy away from distributing stories that give voices to the voiceless — and...
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How Well Does Uncorked Capture Memphis?
April 18, 2020How well does Uncorked capture the feel of Memphis? On this week’s Low Key podcast, two...
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The Harley Quinn Cartoon Is #^$!% Delightful
March 24, 2020Birds of Prey is available on demand today, and if it sends you down a Harley...
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Let’s Discuss Fall From Grace, the Movie Tyler Perry Shot in 5 Days
February 14, 2020Tyler Perry shot A Fall From Grace, his first film for Netflix, in just five days....
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