Press Play with Madeleine Brand
What does ‘Black and Blue’ say about race and policing?
Our critics review “The Current War,” about the race to bring electricity to American homes, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison and Michael Shannon as George Westinghouse; “Black and Blue,” about a rookie police woman whose body camera…
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readOur critics review “The Current War,” about the race to bring electricity to American homes, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison and Michael Shannon as George Westinghouse; “Black and Blue,” about a rookie police woman whose body camera catches bad cops shooting a civilian; “Countdown,” a horror movie about an app that tells you exactly when you die, and it might have something to do with your death too; “Frankie,” starring Isabelle Huppert as a woman on her deathbed.
The full episode
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Tick fire: How evacuees are faring- 0:00How evacuees are coping with the Tick fire
- 6:13Attorney General Bill Barr is investigating the investigators of the 2016 election
- 12:53Why GOP senators up for reelection might break with Trump over impeachment
- 20:22How a small group of men made millions while the rest of us lost our homes
- 36:21What does ‘Black and Blue’ say about race and policing?You’re reading this
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play
Amy Ta
Digital News & Culture Editor
Katie Walsh
film reviewer for the Tribune News Service, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wrap
Tim Grierson
senior U.S. critic for Screen International and author of “This Is How You Make a Movie”
The full episode
5 of 5Tick fire: How evacuees are faring- 0:00How evacuees are coping with the Tick fire
- 6:13Attorney General Bill Barr is investigating the investigators of the 2016 election
- 12:53Why GOP senators up for reelection might break with Trump over impeachment
- 20:22How a small group of men made millions while the rest of us lost our homes
- 36:21What does ‘Black and Blue’ say about race and policing?You’re reading this