Shelton Jackson Lee (Part 3)

OK, I’m gonna finish out the nineties on Spike Lee films, and save the new millennium ones for another time, as I want to write about something else next. Next in the line-up for 90′s mini-reviews is: Crooklyn (1994): A pleasant film, not bad, not great, but a fairly realistic depiction of Black family life [...]

Shelton Jackson Lee (Part 2)

The 90′s for Spike Lee were pretty much his salad days; people paid attention to what he had to say, wanted to see his movies, and Black Hollywood clamored to be in them, as it seemed to give their careers a sense of legitimacy and importance. In this decade he made 10 feature films, nine [...]

YAWN….

Yanked from the wonderful Beatniks website: Oprah Winfrey is set to produce “The Great Debaters” directed by and starring Denzel Washington. Now before you panic, this isn’t Winfrey’s first time producing. She’s produced a number of films to include Their Eyes Were Watching God, Halle Berry’s project for ABC, a few years back. The movie [...]

I Think I Just Died And Went To Heaven!!!!

I must be on Santa’s “nice” list….all of Hollywood’s sexiest and finest rolled up into one sizzling package. “American Gangster” is coming out soon, and look at the lineup: Denzel Washington, Common, Cuba Gooding (who seems to have come to his senses these days), Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor (a Spike Lee favorite in his films), [...]