Aaron Lanton

  • Podcasts

How Creed Became the Champion of Franchise Revivals

The successful re-invention of the Rocky franchise via the Creed films is fairly unprecedented in cinematic history: Creed III is…

1 year ago
  • Podcasts

Everyone Watching Loki Agrees the Time Keepers Are Bogus, Right?

Sometime last week, everyone watching Loki agreed at about the same time that the Time Keepers – the lizard-looking beings…

3 years ago
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Those Who Wish Me Dead and the Pros and Cons of MacGuffins

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…

3 years ago
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Invincible Is the Most Brutal and Excellent Superhero Cartoon We’ve Ever Seen

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…

3 years ago
  • Podcasts

Let's Discuss Concrete Cowboy, With Idris Elba as a Philly Horseman

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…

3 years ago
  • Podcasts

Sound of Metal Takes Us to the Brink of Despair — and Back

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:…

3 years ago
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His House and Refugee Horror: a Haunting No One Can Escape

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…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Lovecraft Country Is a Guidebook of American Monsters

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…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Residue, Gentrification, and Trying to Go Home Again (Podcast)

A young Black filmmaker named Jay tries to go home again in Residue, the new debut film from Merawi Gerima. But…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

In Woke, a Cartoonist Is Transformed by Police Brutality (Podcast)

The new Hulu series Woke lives up to its name, but perhaps not in the way the creators intended. It's the…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

1BR Has Interesting Things to Say About How People Justify Violence (Podcast)

The new horror film 1BR scored the number one spot on Netflix's movies chart with little budget or promotion. But…

4 years ago
  • Podcasts

‘He’s in the Red Sand With the Ancestors’: a Thank You to Chadwick Boseman (Podcast)

On Sunday, my wife and I spoke to our toddler about what happened to the actor who plays the hero…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Does Project Power Do Too Much Universe-Building? (Podcast)

Project Power, like many recent Netflix action hits, doesn't just feel like a movie: It feels like the setup for…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Let’s Talk About the Domestic Horror of Shirley (Low Key Podcast)

The latest Low Key podcast covers Shirley, a film about the brilliant American Gothic author Shirley Jackson whose mid-20th century…

4 years ago
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Does Batman Have to Be Buff? (Podcast)

Leads for superhero films have to be in phenomenal shape, capable of terrifying criminals with their imposing physical presence —…

4 years ago
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Beyonce and the Proud Pan-African Tapestry of Black Is King (Podcast)

Our latest episode of the Low Key podcast covers the Beyonce visual album Black Is King, a re-envisioning of the…

4 years ago
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How Well Does The Business of Drugs Make the Case for Drug Legalization? (Low Key Podcast)

Humans have used substances to induce soberless states since the beginning of time, but Netflix’s The Business of Drugs breaks…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

The Old Guard Is Like The X-Men, If All the X-Men Were Wolverine (Podcast)

Our latest Low Key podcast covers Netflix’s new action film The Old Guard, starring Charlize Theron. Based on a comic book…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

We Watched Do the Right Thing Again (Podcast)

Do the Right Thing still feels sharply relevant after 31 years: Every group feels aggrieved, lashing out with both words…

4 years ago
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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)

I live in Tennessee. Keith Dennie, one of my Low Key Podcast co-hosts, lives in Texas. And another, Tim Molloy,…

4 years ago
  • Directing

Da 5 Bloods and Cross-Generational Trauma (Low Key Podcast)

Today’s episode of the Low Key podcast covers the Spike Lee film Da 5 Bloods, which follows four black GIs returning…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

What We Want From the Justice League Snyder Cut (Podcast)

The nerd nightmare is over: the badgering has paid off, and the Snyder Cut of the DC Extended Universe’s Justice…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Let’s Talk About Murder to Mercy and the Trials of Cyntoia Brown

Netflix does not shy away from distributing stories that give voices to the voiceless — and the recently released documentary…

4 years ago
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How Well Does Uncorked Capture Memphis?

How well does Uncorked capture the feel of Memphis? On this week's Low Key podcast, two guys from Memphis help…

4 years ago