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Chance the Rapper slams Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq for being “exploitive and...
Photo by David Brendan Hall Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq reimagines the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata, in which women of Athens withhold sex from their husbands in order to end a war, using the gang violence...
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Does Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq Do the Right Thing?
Page to Screen is a regular column in which Matt Melis explores how either a classic or contemporary work of literature made the sometimes triumphant, often disastrous leap from prose to film. This...
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Sundance Film Festival announces star-studded premieres for 2016 lineup
Now we’re talking: Sundance Film Festival has officially unveiled its exceptional slate of premieres for its 2016 installment. A few major highlights include exciting new documentaries by Spike Lee...
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Spike Lee responds to Chance the Rapper’s Chi-Raq criticism
Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq was bound to cause controversy. Any film trying to address the very real, very present crisis of gun violence in American and particularly on the streets of Chicago is bound to have...
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The 50 Most Anticipated Films of 2016
Artwork by Cap Blackard 2015 is gone, people. Let’s look forward to the future: new screenings, new stories. To fresh and exciting movies in 2016! Yippie kay-yay movie lovers! Wait, there’s another...
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Spike Lee’s new documentary on Michael Jackson to be released with Off the...
Just a month removed from the release of Chi-raq, Spike Lee is already prepping his next film. He’ll spotlight a decidedly more uplifting topic, specifically the King of Pop’s rise to the top, with a...
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David Byrne, Questlove, The Weeknd appear in trailer for Spike Lee’s Michael...
Michael Jackson will never stop moonwalking. Four years ago, director Spike Lee celebrated the King of Pop with his Bad 25 documentary, and now he’s back for another listen with Michael Jackson’s...
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The 10 Most Anticipated Films at Sundance 2016
A year goes by fast. This time last year, our film staff was still arguing about the fake baby in American Sniper and preparing for our first-ever go-round at Park City’s annual celebration of...
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Sundance Film Review: Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. “I’ll do the old stuff for you.” That’s Michael Jackson, young, uncanny, and ready to conquer the world at age 23. He’s...
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Ranking: Sundance 2016 Films From Worst to Best
Bookmark and follow our exclusive coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2016. “Drop the mind.”Last year’s installment of the Sundance Film Festival was warm and sunny. This year? Not so much. There...
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The world pays tribute to Prince: President Obama, Questlove, Justin...
Earlier today, the world lost one of its best, most legendary artists in Prince. The High Priest of Pop was found unresponsive at his Paisley Park Estate in Chanhassen, Minnesosta, and shortly after,...
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The Oscars has finally done something about its diversity problem — sort of
The 2016 Oscars gained a lot of flack for the lack of diversity among nominees, so much so that the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite sparked national debate, and Spike Lee along with Will Smith and Jada Pinkett...
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Drake reflects on Alton Sterling shooting with moving open letter
In Baton Rouge early Tuesday morning, a white police officer shot and killed Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man who was believed to have had a gun in his possession while selling CDs outside of a...
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Are We Finally Ready to Do the Right Thing?
Music, Movies & Moods is a regular free-form column in which Matt Melis explores the cracks between where art and daily life meet. I knew going into the theater last night that things would be...
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The Best Movie Remakes of the Last 30 Years
Rank and File finds us sorting through an exhaustive, comprehensive body of work or collection of pop-culture artifacts. This time, we go down through the years and handpick the movie remakes that...
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TV adaptation of Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It ordered to series by Netflix
Today in “Netflix is doing anything it wants, because who’s going to stop it” news: Spike Lee will be the latest veteran filmmaker to immerse himself in the Golden Age of Television. The Hollywood...
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Space Jam director Joe Pytka reveals abandoned Tiger Woods-starring sequel
Twenty years later, Space Jam is back on the court. There’s the nationwide re-release and a sequel you may have heard of starring LeBron James, Patrick Patterson be damned. What’s more, the original...
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Seal was “furious” over Bugs Bunny’s appearance in “Fly Like an Eagle” video
Twenty years after its release, the Space Jam soundtrack endures as an iconic artifact of ’90s pop culture. Led by smash hits like R. Kelly‘s “I Believe I Can Fly” and Seal’s “Fly Like an Eagle”, the...
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The Orwells let loose video for new song “Black Francis”— watch
The Orwells will issue a new album called Terrible Human Beings next month. The follow-up to 2014’s well-received Disgraceland spans 13 tracks and marks their third full-length overall. Today, as a...
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10 Iconic Films That Never Won a Single Oscar
Awards like the Oscars are fodder for so much whining and moaning: Who got absolutely snubbed? Who shouldn’t have been nominated? Who should or shouldn’t have won? But, as we sit and nitpick the...
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