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Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one. [9 September 2008] The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product. [11 January 2007] Columns
The Audacity of Certain Black BallersThe distance we’ve come from Jackie Robinson hawking Chock Full o’Nuts coffee in the ‘50s, and black A-list jocks hawking virtually anything under the sun today, is astounding. [17 July 2009] (more Negritude 2.0) Why, Spike, Why?For all of Spike Lee's status as the eternal Young Turk, he's also a moviemaker who came of age just a few years after the brat pack of Spielberg, Scorsese, de Palma, et al. [17 October 2008] (more The Screener) Reviews
Miracle at St. AnnaSpike Lee's answer to the many WWII movies that have left out the experiences of black soldiers, Miracle at St. Anna is ambitious and ardent. [26 September 2008] 
She’s Gotta Have ItSupported by armchair psychology, a jazz soundtrack, and a healthy concern with sex and relationship anxiety, Spike Lee's film plays like a Woody Allen movie across the bridge. [14 January 2008] 
Inside Man (2006)Appearing in tight shots, the grainy hi-def digital exacerbating their complexities, the interviewees are traumatized or performative, sometimes both. [15 August 2006]
Inside Man (2006)New York is everywhere in Spike Lee's sharp, new, genre-bending movie. [24 March 2006] 
She Hate Me (2004)As the last bill appears -- a three dollar 'bogus' bill featuring George W. Bush's face -- Spike Lee laughs. 'Hopefully, by the time you're seeing this DVD, he'll be out!'" [24 February 2005] 
The 25th Hour (2002)The 25th Hour opens with huge, hard-hitting shots of the March 2002 tribute to the Twin Towers, the towers of light. [19 December 2002] 
Summer of Sam (1999)It was a hot time in the city. The days sweltered and the nights vibrated with the latest craze, disco. In the Bronx in 1977, the Yankees were headed for a pennant, a Con Ed blackout inspired looting, assaulting, and arresting, and the .44 killer was shooting young dark-haired women and their dates as they necked in their parked cars. [1 January 1995] 
Bamboozled (2000)Messy, outrageous, and mostly brilliant, 'Bamboozled' is bound to make trouble. And I can't think of a more important trouble to make. Blogs
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