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.
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
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”