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"Blinded by the Light": Fans Like Us, Baby...

"Blinded by the Light": Fans Like Us, Baby...

Update: 2019-08-26

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Cory and Isaac explore how Gurinder Chadha's film attempts to fuse the music of Bruce Springsteen, the universal experience of fandom, and the coming-of-age story of a Pakistani-British teenager in the tumultuous 1980s.

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"Blinded by the Light": Fans Like Us, Baby...

"Blinded by the Light": Fans Like Us, Baby...

Isaac Handelman