John Ridley

And I suspect that those who love documentaries are feeling likewise.

As I've mentioned, my podcast partner, John Ridley, has been away for a while.

He has been on an extended trip and will be back soon.

In the meantime, we wanted to share with you today my interview with Ken Jacobson, who is the executive director of the Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute, which puts on the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in Arkansas.

I'm down for it.

I want to thank Ken Jacobson again for having DocTalk at the festival again this year.

John Ridley is going to be back with me very soon.

Very, very soon.

I am talking about, because he got two miniseries, but I am talking specifically about the Razor series.

The one, yeah, Razor's Edge or something that John Ridley wrote.

Razor's Edge, yes.

Yeah.

Hi everybody, I'm Matt Carey and welcome to Dog Talk.

My co-host John Ridley is away in October, as I've mentioned, so he will be back soon.

So we wish him safe travels and look forward to having John back on the show.

Later on in this episode, we're going to speak with the directors of Nuisance Bear.

on December 4th.

We hope that strong box office performance by these Oscar-contending films will continue, not only through the rest of the year, but into the new year.

We will be back next week with another episode of DocTalk, and my co-host John Ridley will be back to join us for that.

We hope you will be back with us.

Oh, definitely

The Other History of the DC Universe by John Ridley with art by Giuseppe Camuncoli and Andrea Cucchi

This is a monumental piece of work, both in its narrative scope and its visual presentation.

It was released during the COVID lockdowns, which was a period defined by intense global isolation and historical reflection

Yeah, it was a time when society was collectively trapped inside, staring at screens, reevaluating the past, and really questioning the narratives we had always accepted as truth

Exactly

And John Ridley takes that cultural moment of reevaluation and applies it directly to the fictional history of DC Comics.

The book is structured almost like an anthology or a series of historical essays.

[upbeat music] Hey, this is John Ridley.

And this is Matt Carey, senior documentary editor at Deadline.com.

Matt, it is good to see you.