Selected Works

Podcasts

• The best Max Martin songs of all time (Pop Pantheon)

• ‘Clueless’ at 30; Top 5 movies (in our lexicon) (Filmspotting)

• Mariah Carey Part 2 (Pop Pantheon)

• 1959 in movies (A Very Good Year)

• What’s the definitive piece of Y2K pop culture? (PCHH)

• ‘Boyz ’N the Hood’ (Blank Check)

Criticism

• Raising questions isn’t enough. The best films of the year took a stance. (NPR)

• The limitations of trash TV, as seen in ‘All’s Fair’ (NPR)

• This is not your grandmother’s ‘Hedda’ (NPR)

• In Hollywood, Nina Simone’s always “Feeling Good” (SEEN #008)

• ‘The Wiz’: A Soulful Oz (Criterion Collection)

• ‘Sinners’ gives Michael B. Jordan two roles of a lifetime (NPR)

• ‘Hollywood Shuffle’: Against type (Criterion Collection)

• A brief guide to 21st century blackface (The New York Times)

• The cultural canon is better than ever (The New York Times)

Longform Audio & Essays

• The New Black Film Canon (Slate + NPR)

• Screening Ourselves: ‘The Godfather’ and the limits of representation (NPR)

• Screening Ourselves: Queer villains, erotic noir, 90s pulp. ‘Basic Instinct’ and the backlash, rewound (NPR)

• Screening Ourselves: Revisiting the ‘Color Purple’ wars (NPR)

• At Dolly Parton's Civil War-themed dinner theater, there's violence on many sides (Slate)

• The making of an American Girl (Slate)

Interviews and Profiles

• The Exonerated Five: ‘We were just baby boys’ (The New York Times)

• Jerrod Carmichael is ready to get personal (to a degree) (The New York Times)

• Better days for ‘Better Things’ with the women in charge (The New York Times)

• Kerry Washington has something to fear (The New York Times)

• Greta Gerwig on ‘Lady Bird’ (Slate)

Video Essays