Funerals & Snakes

Funerals & Snakes

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Something to watch tonight: Tuesday 18 March
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Us (Peele, 2019)

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Back in July 2019 – just as Jordan Peele’s Us was being released to home entertainment – I wrote this compilation of critical responses to the film which I called “Overthinking Us”.

Peele’s horror story about a middle-class Black American family haunted by mysterious doppelgängers, was ripe for allegorical interrogation and I wasn’t the only one who was …

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