Run It Back 1982 By Oluwatayo Adewole • August 30th, 2023 This month we step on over to 1982 to discuss two films which tell the stories of a Black relationship on each side of the Atlantic.
Run It Back 1934 By Oluwatayo Adewole • July 27th, 2023 In this case it seems dear reader, that the enemy of our enemy is not quite a friend – or at least they’re one who we shouldn’t invite to stay in our home.
Run It Back You’ve Gotta Stop Living Like You’re Already Dead By Oluwatayo Adewole • June 29th, 2023 What use is it to name the knife that slides between your ribs if you can’t let yourself be helped?
Run It Back 1994 By Oluwatayo Adewole • April 28th, 2023 The year of John Wayne Gacy’s execution, Jeffrey Dahmer’s baptism and John Waters’ suburban comedy Serial Mom.
Funeral Rites After Ragnarok: Featuring Colin Le Sueur By Oluwatayo Adewole • April 24th, 2023 It’s a bold move for Le Sueur to make a Norse-inspired Souls-like tabletop roleplaying game, and yet he manages to avoid some extremely fraught territory.
Run It Back 1982 By Oluwatayo Adewole • March 24th, 2023 This month we’re taking on two grand pieces of homoeroticism, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film Querelle and Judas Priest’s Screaming for Vengeance.
Run It Back 1966 By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 25th, 2023 Freedom is one of those fundamental and recurring items in how we think about the world we live in and our place in it. There are few times where this was clearer than in 1966.
Run It Back 1973 By Oluwatayo Adewole • November 29th, 2022 A poetic embodiment of the fever-dream feelings within The Spook Who Sat By The Door and Ganja & Hess.
Run It Back 1943 By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 26th, 2022 How do you see that the world is bigger and more full of mystery than you had ever imagined and yet still your purest impulse continues to be to subjugate?
Run It Back 1987 By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 28th, 2022 Tayo’s back discussing two films from 1987, both by trailblazing gay directors, Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys and Derek Jarman’s The Last of England.
World Tour Zambia By Oluwatayo Adewole • June 11th, 2021 What makes a witch? Is it a hue of the skin? Is it a twitch in the eye? Is it a smell in the air?
World Tour Hong Kong By Oluwatayo Adewole • May 13th, 2021 Pack your bags for Hong Kong but also Argentina sort of!
Exploits Feature Queer Black Manhoods By Oluwatayo Adewole • May 3rd, 2021 Black men in the West are offered two models for existing and neither have room for queerness.
World Tour Spain By Oluwatayo Adewole • April 2nd, 2021 Things get messy on this trip to Spain, really messy.
World Tour Australia By Oluwatayo Adewole • March 9th, 2021 Throw something on the barbie, Tayo’s going down under!
World Tour Germany By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 4th, 2021 Bring out your beers and your bratwurst, and let’s get going! On tap: Herzog’s Aguirre and Wenders’ Wings of Desire.
World Tour Brazil By Oluwatayo Adewole • November 27th, 2020 Welcome to this month’s stop on our world tour! Take a break from post-election stress, sip your Cachaça and let’s dive right in to Bacurau.
World Tour Indonesia By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 23rd, 2020 That’s why Gone With the Wind is/was revered and why we’re inundated with period pieces that refuse to meaningfully interrogate the class/colonial violence that this splendor is built upon.
World Tour Finding the poetry in The Burial of Kojo By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 24th, 2020 An existential wail, followed by a look at Ghanaian film The Burial of Kojo.
World Tour England By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 4th, 2020 Oluwatayo starts his tour on his home turf of England with the film Bait and the latest album from Charmpit.
Feature Excerpt The New Age of Nollywood By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 28th, 2020 A new generation of Nigerian filmmakers is finally putting quality over quantity.
Let Black Boys Be Soft By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 8th, 2019 Being black and male in the Western world means a lot labels are grafted onto your personality every day.
