The successful re-invention of the Rocky franchise via the Creed films is fairly unprecedented in cinematic history: Creed III is…
Sometime last week, everyone watching Loki agreed at about the same time that the Time Keepers – the lizard-looking beings…
https://shows.acast.com/low-key/episodes/those-who-wish-me-dead-and-who-like-macguffins Those Who Wish Me Dead is a smokejumper vs. assassins thriller that finds Angelina Jolie trying to rescue a…
https://shows.acast.com/low-key/episodes/invincible-is-the-superhero-game-of-thrones With Invincible, Amazon Prime may have managed to produce a superhero story even more brutal than its live-action series The…
https://shows.acast.com/low-key/episodes/concrete-cowboy Concrete Cowboy is a coming-of-age film about teenager Cole who comes across a love for the cowboy way of…
https://shows.acast.com/low-key/episodes/the-sound-of-metal-is-low-key-horrifying The Sound of Metal begins with an interesting premise that may seem impossible to pull off in a film:…
https://shows.acast.com/low-key/episodes/his-house-an-immigration-horror-story There's an old joke in the Black community that a haunted house film with a Black cast would only…
https://shows.acast.com/low-key/episodes/lovecraft-country-is-a-guidebook-of-americas-monsters Horror. Science fiction. Non-fiction. Fantasy. Adventure. Coming of Age. War. A lot of shows have a hard time executing…
A young Black filmmaker named Jay tries to go home again in Residue, the new debut film from Merawi Gerima. But…
The new Hulu series Woke lives up to its name, but perhaps not in the way the creators intended. It's the…
The new horror film 1BR scored the number one spot on Netflix's movies chart with little budget or promotion. But…
On Sunday, my wife and I spoke to our toddler about what happened to the actor who plays the hero…
Project Power, like many recent Netflix action hits, doesn't just feel like a movie: It feels like the setup for…
The latest Low Key podcast covers Shirley, a film about the brilliant American Gothic author Shirley Jackson whose mid-20th century…
Leads for superhero films have to be in phenomenal shape, capable of terrifying criminals with their imposing physical presence —…
Our latest episode of the Low Key podcast covers the Beyonce visual album Black Is King, a re-envisioning of the…
Humans have used substances to induce soberless states since the beginning of time, but Netflix’s The Business of Drugs breaks…
Our latest Low Key podcast covers Netflix’s new action film The Old Guard, starring Charlize Theron. Based on a comic book…
Do the Right Thing still feels sharply relevant after 31 years: Every group feels aggrieved, lashing out with both words…
I live in Tennessee. Keith Dennie, one of my Low Key Podcast co-hosts, lives in Texas. And another, Tim Molloy,…
Today’s episode of the Low Key podcast covers the Spike Lee film Da 5 Bloods, which follows four black GIs returning…
The nerd nightmare is over: the badgering has paid off, and the Snyder Cut of the DC Extended Universe’s Justice…
Netflix does not shy away from distributing stories that give voices to the voiceless — and the recently released documentary…
How well does Uncorked capture the feel of Memphis? On this week's Low Key podcast, two guys from Memphis help…