Features
Monday, January 9 2012
The Best DVDs of 2011
With the continuing rise of Blu-ray, this year sees a lot of repeat entries. Just because they're here again, however, doesn't mean they're any less special.
Monday, August 15 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 5: Derek Jarman to Mike Leigh
Mid-way through our series, Day 5 is a glorious mishmash of international auteurist cinema. Today we go from saints and sinners, from Brookyln to Britain, from the beginning of time to the Dystopian future, and around the world and beyond.
Tuesday, September 9 2008
Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008
From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.
Thursday, January 11 2007
The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006
For 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.
Columns
Friday, July 17 2009
The Audacity of Certain Black Ballers
The 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.
Friday, October 17 2008
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.
Reviews
Tuesday, January 8 2013
Spike Lee Continues His Chronicles of Brooklyn in 'Red Hook Summer'
This is the magnificent Clarke Peters' first go-round with Spike Lee, and fans of The Wire or Treme shouldn't miss it.
Friday, August 10 2012
Spike Lee Is Back in Brooklyn: 'Red Hook Summer'
The movie is obviously a labor of love; made with clear budgetary limitations, it employs thin-looking digital cinematography and vivid colors.
Friday, June 10 2011
'If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise': The Big Not so-Easy Keeps Its Head Just Above Water
Spike Lee has proven himself adept at juggling vast amounts of information and conflicting points-of-view.
Monday, August 23 2010
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise
Magnificent and convulsive, angry and affectionate, Spike Lee's If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise assembles pieces of New Orleans' story, told by survivors and witnesses, politicians and poets.
Friday, January 29 2010
Passing Strange
A melding of serious drama, sarcastic humor, and brash power pop attitude, this marks a watershed moment in the life of a musical adventurer who has yet to bask in the spotlight.
Blogs
Monday, April 18 2011
'If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise' comes to DVD on 19 April.
Spike Lee's angry and magnificent documentary tracks how the U.S. exploitation of resources, in particular oil, has shaped New Orleans' ongoing fragility.
Thursday, September 25 2008
'Miracle' Is Engrossing if Uneven
Spike Lee has a big mouth. It's a good thing he's so talented, since he often loves to write confrontational checks that his filmmaking sometimes…
News
Tuesday, January 24 2012
Sundance 2012: Spike Lee film polarizes Sundance festival
PARK CITY, Utah — Spike Lee prompted a squall of controversy at the Sundance Film Festival when he accused the Hollywood studios of “know(ing) nothing…
Tuesday, August 24 2010
Stories keep coming in New Orleans
Spike Lee's return to New Orleans for the follow-up of his sprawling post-Hurricane Katrina documentary "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts" is…
Tuesday, February 10 2009
‘Miracle at St. Anna,' ‘Frozen River' two of 2008's best
Two of the most powerful films of 2008, movies that stay with you long after their final credits roll by, are out this week on…
Thursday, September 25 2008
Spike Lee hopes his ‘Miracle' launches a film trend
TORONTO - Early in Spike Lee's World War II movie, "Miracle at St. Anna," there's a clip of John Wayne rallying the troops in the…
