When I was growing up, there was always an unspoken code between friends who were boys. There was a way we were supposed to act and an expectation that even the closest friendships would be casual and…
BlacKkKlansman Movie Review: Spike Lee delivers a powerful film for our time
Little subtlety can be found in BlacKkKlansman as Spike Lee draws harrowing parallels between the past and the here and now. In the 1970s, an African American detective of the Colorado Springs police …
Spike Lee In Talks To Direct Sony Superhero Movie Nightwatch
Rumor has it that Hollywood might not only be learning from the box office success of films like Black Panther and A Wrinkle In Time, but running with it. The spark for the latest speculative flame is…
Jon’s Movie Review: ‘Chi-Raq’
Chi-Raq (mostly) successfully combines the over-the-top comedy style of the Greek play with the tragic, rhyming melodrama of a Shakespearean work. The two tones erratically dance around each other, so…
Top Forgotten Film Homages: Part 1
The reinvention of a famous film sequence, or a film homage, is a extremely delicate art form, so nuanced that the allusion may become altogether lost by a modern audience. Although film homages may b…
What To Watch This Weekend: Spike Lee’s Oldboy or Park Chan-Wook’s Oldboy
The remake of Park Chan Wook’s cult classic Oldboy, directed by Spike Lee, did not get a warm reception from critics and was a box office disaster. Even Spike Lee and the film’s main star,…
The Top 10 Reasons To Look Forward To The Upcoming Films of 2013
Now that the Summer blockbuster season has been laid to rest, the Fall awards-focused season is taking over. Studios looking to win Oscars for their films like to bundle up as many of their movies lat…