The Hate U Give (Part 1)

Popcorn Book Club comes to you with sad news this week in that this will be our final episode. We spend it talking about the books we covered, the books we wish we'd covered, and some of our favorite adaptations. Thank you for listening and please follow us as we continue making ... Show More

After covering books one through three of Alan Moore and David Lloyd's graphic novel V For Vendetta, we are getting into the 2005 film adaptation, directed by James McTeigue, written (and perhaps shadow-directed) by the Wachowski Sisters, and starring Natalie Portman and Hugo Wea ... Show More

It still being November, just a little bit, we are still talking V For Vendetta. We have made it to Book Three, the final part of the graphic novel, and this week, we'll hash out our issues with the ending and discuss the allowances and issues with art-as-manifesto.Follow us on T ... Show More

From hashtag activism to action offline, Black Twitter has been a vehicle for real change. Host Roy Wood Jr. chats with author of the book, Black AF: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America, Michael Harriot and Professor of Media Studies at Northeastern University, Meredith D. Clark ... Show More

Angie Thomas talks about getting her literary break on Twitter, how she responded to "The Hate U Give" being banned in schools and her book "On the Come Up." Originally aired February 2019. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio. ... Show More

This weekend, guest host Taylor Nicole Rogers talks to Ukrainian filmmaker Iryna Tsylik, director of the documentary The Earth is Blue as an Orange. It won a major directing award at Sundance in 2020 and has now become one of the films being used to explain the current war in Ukr ... Show More

July 7th is Blackout Day 2020, an initiative meant to protest police brutality and racial injustice. Here’s the complicated story behind the original Black Out Day created by Mars Sebastian. In an interview that’s both hilarious and heartbreaking, Mars talks about her fight to be ... Show More

<p>This weekend, guest host Taylor Nicole Rogers talks to Ukrainian filmmaker Iryna Tsylik, director of the documentary <em>The Earth is Blue as an Orange</em><strong>.</strong> It won a major directing award at Sundance in 2020 and has now become one of the films being used to e ... Show More

From hashtag activism to action offline, Black Twitter has been a vehicle for real change. Host Roy Wood Jr. chats with author of the book, Black AF: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America, Michael Harriot and Professor of Media Studies at Northeastern University, Meredith D. Clark ... Show More

<p>I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth Vs. Michelle Carter is a 2019 two-part documentary film, directed by Erin Lee Carr, and produced by Andrew Rossi. In July 2014, 18-year-old Conrad Roy died by suicide in his car at a parking lot in Fairhaven, Mass. Police soon discovered a ... Show More

<p>“We all have vices. We all have flaws. We all have things we know we want to change. What happens? Nothing happens. This is true for everyone, even Martin Luther King. ‘One day,’ King said that we tell ourselves, ‘I’m going to rise up and drive this evil out. I know it is wron ... Show More

<p>Director Nicola Marsh discusses the four-part docuseries The 12th Victim. The Showtime series sheds new light on the infamous 1958 Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate murder case, in which the teenage couple was charged and convicted of brutally killing 11 victims at ran ... Show More

<p>The Master of Horror unleashes everything you were ever afraid of. Was the tagline for the 1990 IT Miniseries inaccurate that it may be. To coincide with IT Chapter 2 we're hitting up Part One this week and Part Two next week. Please enjoy our review of this not very good movi ... Show More