Exposure

Welcome back! In this episode, we're diving deep into the L.A. Rebellion—a groundbreaking movement that redefined Black independent cinema. This episode comes ahead of Foundations: The L.A. Rebellion and the Birth of a New Black Cinema, our Black History Month screening series at Ours in Richmond, Virginia, running throughout February. We’ll explore the origins of the movement, the visionary filmmakers who shaped it, the films that emerged from it, and why its legacy remains essential to both cinematic and Black history.

2024 has come to a close, and that means it's time to look back at the best films from this past year. We start with a quick recap of this past weekend's Golden Globes (1:16), followed by a discussion about the best cinema from the last 12 months (7:30).

In this belated episode, I talk about some of the most noteworthy releases from this past October and November (1:03). Plus, it’s time for our very first film festival dispatch! Join me as I spotlight some of the best films from the 2024 Virginia Film Festival (31:12).

In this episode I talk about some of my favorite films of the Summer (and a few that weren't so good but still need some attention). Also... a quick Fall 2024 preview!

Welcome back. As part of our continuing 90's Neo-noir series, we're taking a look at Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 masterpiece, CURE, staring Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, and Anna Nakagawa.

Yakusho stars as Takabe, a detective unraveling a series of brutal murders, each marked by an "X" carved into the victims' bodies. The only link: a mysterious drifter. Kurosawa, ever the genre anti-stylist, contorts the noir framework into something eerily familiar yet unsettlingly alien, crafting one of the most mesmerizing and psychologically abrasive thrillers ever made.

CURE, often hailed as a pioneer of the J-horror wave, is an undeniable classic. In this episode, we'll get to the bottom of why that is.

In this mid-year dispatch I talk a bit about some of my favorite films of the year.

Welcome to the Exposure Cinema Podcast. In this episode, the first in our 90's Neo-noir series, we'll be talking a bit about Hype Williams' 1998 classic BELLY. The film has now been rightfully reclaimed as challenging, complex, and undeniable piece within both Black and Neo-noir cinema, but it hasn't always been that way. We'll talk about the film's style, narrative structure, and what exactly has made this elusive, disorienting and staggeringly beautiful film so enduring.