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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
Detail of the Penguin Classics cover of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust, showing a bright graphic of orange, cream and blue zig-zagging lines and dots.

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
A close-up of Winston Duke in Nine Days, wearing silver-rimmed spectacles and a look of concern on his face.

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
A promo image for John Waters' Serial Mom showing the title character posed in front of a white picket fence in a cheery polka-dot dress. She smiles sinisterly while holding a knife above a pristine cherry pie, though the knife seems to already have some of the red filling smeared on the blade. Unless...

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
Detail from the cover of Runecairn shows the skull and spine of a serpent's skeleton rendered in bright pink and purple inks.

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
A still from Querelle shows a sailor leaning against a telephone pole as a theatrical sun sets behind him.

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
A black-and-white photograph of a Black woman standing in front of a Senegalese mask hung on a wall. Her hands rest on the wall to either side of it, and she turns to look over her right shoulder towards something or someone behind her.

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
A black and white photograph of several Black Americans rioting in the street in the 1970s.

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
In a still from The Last of England, a woman with long blonde hair wearing a wedding dress rends her dress apart while screaming in front of an open flame.

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
A portrait of the poet Danez Smith.

Homie

By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 24th, 2021

It’s been a hell of a ride.

World Tour
A person reclines on an animal drawn carriage.

Senegal

By Oluwatayo Adewole • August 3rd, 2021

Senegal here we come!

World Tour
A teenager sits in a straw hut, holding up a shard of glass through which we can see part of his face, which is Black and covered in white chalk, with a nose ring in. We see this from behind so the back of his head takes up half of the screen.

South Africa

By Oluwatayo Adewole • July 9th, 2021

A trip to South Africa!

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
A couple ride in the back seat of a car, dimly lit. One rests their head on the other.

Hong Kong

By Oluwatayo Adewole • May 13th, 2021

Pack your bags for Hong Kong but also Argentina sort of!

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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
A blindfolded wedding couple.

Australia

By Oluwatayo Adewole • March 9th, 2021

Throw something on the barbie, Tayo’s going down under!

World Tour

France

By Oluwatayo Adewole • February 4th, 2021

A discussion on cycles of violence.

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.

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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.

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