Ummm….okay

From the sweetie Coco LaRue at the eclectic blog Thursday Nite Fever: The New York Post reports that acclaimed film director Spike Lee plans to direct a Broadway revival of Stalag 17 in early 2008.British actor Clive Owen will likely star in the play,which bowed on Broadway in 1951 at the 48th Street Theatre. Jose [...]

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 [...]

Shelton Jackson Lee (Part 1)

Shelton Jackson Lee, a.k.a .Spike Lee, has definitely made his mark in American film. I may get flak for this, but I am not a fan of his earlier work….pretty much the whole first decade of his career is a write-off for me, even though I know others found it interesting and provocative. In my [...]

MTV Movie Awards…..LAME as usual

Let me make this perfectly clear: I have no love for MTV. Over the years I have watched them trot out black culture when it’s convenient for them, applaud themselves as “pioneers” and then completely ignore us. Now they have included film as well. I knew it wasn’t looking good when I found out Sarah [...]