Essential Black Cinema feat. The Popalicious Popheads (Black History Month Prepisode)

To celebrate Black History Month, POPpaGoss and Sprang welcome Tommie, aka The Popalicious Popheads to discuss his Top 5 Essential Black Films and more.

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Chapters

00:00:00 Welcome: What's Coming Up

00:02:07 Our Guest: The Popalicious Popheads Returns

00:04:59 Tommy & Josh's YouTube Channels and Future Guests

00:12:35 Exploring Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein Adaptation

00:20:28 Life as a Movie Extra: Set Stories

00:26:00 Ava DuVernay's Selma: MLK and Voting Rights

00:39:53 Solomon Northup's Ordeal: 12 Years a Slave

01:01:48 Steve McQueen's Powerful Historical Drama

01:05:34 Jean-Michel Basquiat: From Graffiti to Canvas

01:24:52 Denzel Washington's Portrayal of Malcolm X

01:31:52 Transformation in Prison: Malcom X's Spiritual Journey

01:50:52 Pilgrimage to Mecca: Malcom X's Evolving Views

02:04:12 Denzel's Performance & Spike Lee's Oscar Travesty

02:11:52 The Cultural Phenomenon of Marvel's Black Panther

02:29:29 Learning from Black Panther's 'Colonizer' Scene

02:32:56 Diverse Black Films & Episode Wrap-up