Spike Lee Jumps On Board Mike Tyson’s HBO Boxing Drama, Da Brick
Mike Tyson is bouncing back not as a heavy weight contender but to wrest the title from Mark Wahlberg’s Entourage, which was loosely based on Mark Wahlberg’s early years in Hollywood. Tyson who...
View ArticleSpike Lee Says Oscar Voters Make Bad Calls
“There are many times in history where the best work does not get awarded,” Spike Lee told The Hollywood Reporter. “And I’m not even talking about my own work.” But talking about his own work, Lee...
View ArticleThe Help: Hollywood’s Hard-On For The Feel-Good Fable On Black Tragedy
I wonder how many black folk went to the theaters to see Spike Lee’s Miracle At Saint Anna. True. We don’t buy a $12 dollar ticket to the movies to learn the searing truth about black history. Perhaps,...
View ArticleWhat is ‘Black Cinema’? Have You Ever Wondered?
Is a black film the theater film about black experiences that is produced, written, directed, and performed by black people for mainly black audiences? Or is it King Vidor’s Hallelujah, Shirley...
View ArticleTyler Perry Haters, The Bickering Must Stop!
Readers’ Discretion Thoroughly Advised. So you have a college education from the North. You’re no longer Christian – hell you don’t even believe in God – and you think that prayer is for the...
View Article‘Do The Right Thing’ – What Is The Black Man Doing Wrong, And The Black Woman...
I call on Do The Right Thing out of curiosity. I bend over it out of a passion for Spike Lee’s insight into the persistent color line in the twenty-first century. For me, Mr. Spike Lee’s Do The Right...
View ArticleTyler Perry And ‘For Better Or Worse’ – A Fish Out Of Water
I don’t know what to call his new soap opera or are they webisodes? This is not to demean web series, in fact, some of the best TV today are online. Notably, if Osiris, ABG, Diary of A Single Mom, The...
View ArticleTowards A Black Reconstruction In Film
The question of how Black people and our filmmakers should approach the reconstruction of Blackness, both internally and in regards to its relationship to external influences, is a central issue in...
View Article‘Marley, 2012′– Spike Lee Woulda Made A Better Bob Marley Film
Right from frame one, you knew that Bob’s Great ‘Britain roots’ had to be taken a little more seriously than the man himself would have ever wished. Why? Because, director Kevin McDonald is Scottish...
View ArticleDjango Unchained – The Black, The Beautiful & Ev’thing Ugly
*** NO SPOILERS *** To which Prof. Michael Eric Dyson of Georgetown University & MSNBC responds (paraphrased): This film on slavery in America is going down as a classic, whether you like it or...
View ArticleWill You Fund The Newest Hottest Spike Lee Joint?
I never thought I would use the words “Spike Lee” and “Kickstarter” in the same sentence, but there it goes. If anything, Spike Lee will go down in history as implementing the most creative financing....
View Article[LOL] Alex Haley And Spike Lee Do 18+8=?
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