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Jungle Fever
June 7, 1991 JUNGLE FEVER is five films and five years into the career of Spike Lee. You have the financed-on-credit-cards debut SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT, the polished studio debut SCHOOL DAZE, the...
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Barton Fink
“He’s poor, this wrestler! He’s had struggle!” It used to be that August was a time for studios to release a bunch of movies they thought were bad or didn’t have high expectations for. You know, they...
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Transformers’s Dark of the Moon
note: this review is excessively long and convoluted and takes forever to get to the point, but only as a clever form-is-an-extension-of-content type reference to the movie it describes, in my opinion....
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The Nutcracker: The Untold Story
Finally the truth can be told. Because you know what? We have the right to know. Not to brag or anything, but I always thought the official story behind this Nutcracker business was a bunch of...
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Summer Movie Flashback: The Taking of Pelham 123
2009 After their disagreement over DOMINO, my eyeballs and Tony Scott’s movies weren’t speaking to each other for years. But UNSTOPPABLE was okay and then the poor guy died and my eyeballs started to...
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Do the Right Thing
Thoughts on DO THE RIGHT THING, 25 years later. This is still my favorite Spike Lee movie. And I’m a big Spike Lee fan. I mean, I can’t say as big as they get, ’cause I still haven’t seen SHE HATE ME...
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Mo’ Better Blues
After DO THE RIGHT THING made Spike Lee into a major cultural force, he set his sights on a few subjects he thought were important. Before he made his MALCOLM X movie with Denzel, and before he didn’t...
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He Got Game
also May 1, 1998 I remember thinking of HE GOT GAME as a slightly under-the-radar Spike Lee joint, but I think it’s become pretty well known over the years. It’s just that it’s in that middle period...
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The Batman
(there will be spoils) Yes it’s true, comic book super heroes hold too much of a monopoly on movies and television right now. I agree, we get it, but also I enjoy the genre. And of all the ongoing...
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Monkeybone
Here’s a story I may or may not have told before. It takes place on February 28, 2001. A few minutes before 11 am there was a 6.8 earthquake epicentered in the southern Puget Sound. I was at work and...
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