Do the Film Thing Victor Omoayo

March 10, 2024 - SEASON ONE FINALE! In this audio essay, Victor explores the multiverse-spanning film Everything Everywhere All at Once, written and directed by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, starring Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, James Hong, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Googly eyes, tax forms, and hot dog fingers - OH MY!

**SEASON TWO will debut June 2024!**

Written, edited and produced by Victor Omoayo


Sources for this episode:
Chin, Daniel. ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Reimagines the Multiverse. The Ringer, 29 Mar. 2022. https://www.theringer.com/movies/2022/3/29/23000959/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-multiverse

“Everything Everywhere All at Once - Box Office Mojo.” Box Office Mojo, https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt6710474/?ref_=bo_se_r_1. Accessed 5 Mar 2024.

“Nihilism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nihilism. Accessed 5 Mar. 2024.

Pratt, Alan. Nihilism | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://iep.utm.edu/nihilism/. Accessed 26 Feb. 2024




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March 3, 2024 - In this audio essay, Victor explores the 2007 horror film The Mist, written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1980 novella by Stephen King.

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Sources for this episode:
”The Mist - Box Office Mojo.” Box Office Mojo, www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0884328/?ref_=bo_se_r_1. Accessed 9 Feb. 2024.



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February 25, 2024 - In this audio essay, Victor explores the 1985 cult classic comedy The Last Dragon, directed by Michael Schultz, starring Taimak, Vanity, and Julius Curry.

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Sources for this episode:
The Last Dragon. Audio Commentary by Michael Schultz, directed by Schultz, TriStar Pictures, 2015.

Smalls, Shanté Paradigm. “Eating Popcorn with Chopsticks: Revisionary Black Masculinity in Berry Gordy’s the Last Dragon.” Criticism, vol. 58, no. 2, Spring 2016, pp. 305–26. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.13110/criticism.58.2.0305.

Cha-Jua, S. (2008). Black Audiences, Blaxploitation and Kung Fu Films, and Challenges to White Celluloid Masculinity. In P. Fu (Ed.), China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema (pp. 199-223). University of Illinois Press.



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February 18, 2024 - In this audio essay, Victor explores Martin Scorsese’s 1985 comedy After Hours, starring Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, Catherine O’Hara, and Verna Bloom.

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Sources for this episode:
Ebert, Roger. Scorsese by Ebert. The University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Edwards, Ivana. ”The Essence of ’Kafkaesque’.” The New York Times, December 29, 1991, pp. 12, https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/29/nyregion/the-essence-of-kafkaesque.html.

O’Malley, Sheila. ”After Hours: No Exit.”, The Criterion Collection, July 11, 2023, https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8197-after-hours-no-exit.

Scorsese, Martin, Griffin Dunne, Amy Robinson, Michael Ballhaus and Thelma Schoonmaker. Audio Commentary. After Hours, Criterion Collection, 2023.



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February 11, 2024 - In this audio essay, Victor explores David Lynch’s mesmerizing 2001 neo-noir Mulholland Dr., starring Naomi Watts, Laura Harring and Justin Theroux.

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Sources for this episode:
Rodley, Chris (edited by). Lynch on Lynch. Revised Edition. London: Faber & Faber, 2005.

Lynch, David and Naomi Watts. ”David Lynch and Naomi Watts.” Mulholland Drive, Criterion Collection, 2015.

Harring, Laura, Johanna Ray, Justin Theroux, and Naomi Watts. ”Laura Harring, Johanna Ray, Justin Theroux, and Naomi Watts.” Mulholland Drive, Criterion Collection, 2015.


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February 4, 2024 - In this audio essay, Victor explores the 1997 film Eve’s Bayou, the directorial debut of Kasi Lemmons.

Written, edited and produced by Victor Omoayo


Sources for this episode:
Lemmons, Kasi. ”Kasi Lemmons” [Interview] Eve’s Bayou, Directed by Kasi Lemmons, Criterion Collection, 2019

Allen, Nick. ”Ebertfest 2016: Kasi Lemmons Presents a Director’s Cut of ”Eve’s Bayou”.”, April 16, 2016, https://www.rogerebert.com/festivals/ebertfest-2016-kasi-lemmons-presents-a-directors-cut-of-eves-bayou.

”AFI Movie Club: EVE’S BAYOU .”, June 8, 2020, https://www.afi.com/news/afi-movie-club-eves-bayou/.


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