March 28, 2019 • 30 mins
We dissect Jordan Peele’s new psychological thriller, “Us,” and discuss the film’s central question (WITHOUT SPOILERS): Are any of us ever truly free from the past?
Also, we’re going on a short hiatus. Happy spring, and we’ll be back in your ears soon.
Discussed this week:
- “Us” (directed by Jordan Peele, 2019)
- “Suspiria” (directed by Dario Argento, 1977)
- “The People Under the Stairs” (directed by Wes Craven, 1991)
- “It Follows” (directed by David Robert Mitchell, 2014)
- “White Is for Witching” (Helen Oyeyemi, 2014)
- “Beloved” (Toni Morrison, 1987)
- “Beloved” (directed by Jonathan Demme, 1998)
- Jan Svankmajer
- “Beloved” (Toni Morrison, audiobook, 2006)
- “The Souls of Black Folk” (W.E.B. DuBois, 1903)
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