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Episode 34: BlackKklansman w/guests Daniel Harper & Jack Graham of I Don’t Speak German

We welcome Daniel Harper and Jack Graham, co-hosts of the excellent anti-fascist podcast I Don't Speak German. We watched Spike Lee's incendiary 2018 thriller BlackKklansman. We discuss the history of the Ku Klux Klan, Hollywood's complicity in its rise, and Spike's reckoning with making a quasi pro-police film. Discussion also includes: David Duke's bizarre die and exercise regiment; the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Virginia and Daniel and Jack give us an update on the rally's most notorious nazi dorks; the harrowing sound editing of Jonathan Glazer's THE ZONE OF INTEREST; and can there be a movie about cops that isn't copaganda?

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Episode 33: Earth Mama (2023)

Hal & Craig watched EARTH MAMA, the debut feature from writer-director Savanah Leaf. Discussions include: the United States’ history of using Child Protective Services to police low-income and black Americans; the OSCARS (we talk OPPENHEIMER, Lily Gladstone vs. Emma Stone, and Jonathan Glazer); we celebrate Hal's birthday by discussing their favorite directors; and our favorite films from A24.

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Episode 3: Bamboozled

Hal and Craig discuss Spike Lee’s 2000 joint BAMBOOZLED, a satire that takes aim at the way the media uses black art, culture, and pain for profit. Other topics include our Top 3 Spike Lee films, the long running Spike vs. Tarantino beef, the right-wingers who encouraged the violence at Club Q, and MC Serch’s illustrious, bizarre career.

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