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Soul: An Animated Film About a Mid-Life Crisis

https://shows.acast.com/low-key/episodes/what-is-the-soul-of-soul Soul intriguingly disguises an existential crisis for adults as kids' entertainment. It's like many Pixar projects that came before, posing…

3 years ago
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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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Lovers Rock Captures the Silly Games and Complex Politics of a House Party

https://shows.acast.com/low-key/episodes/lovers-rock Lovers Rock, the second film in the Small Axe anthology from Steve McQueen, seems as simple, on its surface,…

3 years ago
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Before The Boys Season 2 Finale, Listen to This (Podcast)

This week on the Low Key podcast we dive into Season 2 of The Boys, one of the most shocking,…

4 years ago
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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We Have Mucho Mucho Amor for Walter Mercado, Despite Some Reservations (Podcast)

Walter Mercado, the TV astrologer at the center of Mucho Mucho Amor, is asked about 40 minutes into the documentary why he…

4 years ago
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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
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Let’s Talk About Just Mercy and Just Policing (Podcast)

Just Mercy, starring Michael B. Jordan as a lawyer who defends a wrongly accused death-row inmate played by Jamie Foxx,…

4 years ago
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Movie News: Keke Palmer and the National Guard; Good Robot; Justice League Deconstructed

In today's Movie News rundown: A conversation between Keke Palmer and National Guardsmen becomes a defining moment in the demonstrations;…

4 years ago
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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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Let’s Discuss High Fidelity: Zoë Kravitz Updates a John Cusack Movie That Featured Her Mom, Lisa Bonet (Podcast)

Zoë Kravitz might be the single best person on earth to star in Hulu's High Fidelity, an update of the…

4 years ago