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Top 25 Films of 2018
Before we get to 2018’s best films, a year embarrassed with onscreen riches, a quick word about a bear. The year began with dread, held over from the one before it. The last few years have been great...
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Golden Globes 2019: Who Will Win, Who Should Win
Pop culture in the internet age moves pretty fast sometimes. If you don’t slow down and enjoy it every once in a while, you might miss it. Even as another year’s award season brings with it renewed...
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The Killers return with new single “Land of the Free” and Spike Lee-directed...
The Killers were spotted in the recording studio in December, and now we know why. Brandon Flowers and his Las Vegas-bred outfit have released a new single titled “Land of the Free”. Debuted on Zane...
View ArticleThe Academy reveals 2019 Oscar nominees: See the full list
The 91st Academy Awards still don’t have a host, but as of this morning, we now have the full crop of nominees for the annual ceremony honoring the very best in film. In a year where the race has...
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Spike Lee receives first-ever Oscar nomination for Best Director
Despite having over 35 films to his name since 1983, two of which being 1989’s Do the Right Thing and 1992’s Malcolm X, Spike Lee has never been nominated for an Oscar for Best Director. That was,...
View ArticleChadwick Boseman to star in Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods
The Academy Awards are still two weeks away and director Spike Lee already has his eyes set on a follow-up to his Oscar-nominated BlacKkKlansman. Even better, he’s teaming up with the star of another...
View ArticleScorsese, Tarantino, and Spike Lee blast Oscars in scathing open letter
On February 11th, the Academy announced that it would be presenting four Oscars —cinematography, film editing, live action short, and makeup and hairstyling — during commercial breaks of the upcoming...
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Terence Blanchard’s Grammy-winning BlacKkKlansman score heads to groovy red...
Spike Lee’s BlackKkKlansman gets so many things right: the casting, the editing, the writing, but especially the music. In addition to having the most addicting soundtrack released all year in 2018,...
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2019 Academy Award Winners: The Complete List
The 2019 Academy Awards take place this evening at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. Now in its 91st year, the annual award honors cinematic achievements in the film industry. For the first...
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Oscars 2019: The Best Dressed Stars on the Red Carpet
The 91st Academy Awards lacked a host, but hardly had any vacancy in style. Between Spike Lee channeling The Purple One to Billy Porter’s jaw-dropping gown, the red carpet leading into the Dolby...
View ArticleSpike Lee lashes out at Green Book following its Best Picture victory
Despite picking up his first-ever Oscar in a competitive category, Spike Lee was none to pleased with the final results of tonight’s ceremony. After Green Book topped Lee’s own BlackKklansman and...
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Donald Trump calls Spike Lee racist following Oscar speech [Updated]
Spike Lee keeps on winning. In addition to taking home his first Oscar for BlacKkKlansman at last night’s 91st Academy Awards — and voicing our frustrations over Green Book winning — the veteran...
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Why the Oscars Left Many of Us Feeling Like Spike Lee
Huh. That started off well and ended a little rockier, didn’t it? Last night, for those of you who still know/care, the 91st annual Academy Awards ceremony took place. And after a great deal of run-up...
View ArticleBruce Hornsby on Scoring for Spike Lee, Admiring Justin Vernon, and Writing a...
Download | Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public On the latest Kyle Meredith With…, multi-instrumentalist songwriter Bruce Hornsby touches on his history scoring...
View ArticleSpike Lee-produced See You Yesterday combines Black Lives Matter with Back to...
Time travel has become such a trope of the sci-fi genre, you tend to forget how magical it can really be. That all should change with Netflix’s See You Yesterday, which offers a topical twist on the...
View ArticleClassic Film Review: Crooklyn Tackles Growing Up, the Spike Lee Way
Oh, the perilous joys of nostalgia on film. Memory is inviting. You can write and rewrite the narrative until it achieves a sort of crystalline perfection. Your best day, that first love, the purity of...
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The 80 Greatest Movies of the ’80s
By now, our nostalgia for the ’80s has outlasted the decade itself by about 20 years — and for good reason. Like the ’60s before it, the ’80s was an Industrial Revolution of Pop Culture. Think about...
View ArticleSpike Lee to direct hip-hop version of Romeo and Juliet
Spike Lee will revisit one of literature’s most timeless and tragic love stories for his next film, but with a twist. Titled Prince of Cats, it’s said to be an ’80s-set, hip-hop take on the...
View ArticleTop 100 Films of the 2010s
At the top of the 2010s, in one of the top films on the list you’re about to read through, a young tech mogul declared in an ecstatic frenzy that we were going to live on the Internet. He was right, of...
View ArticleNational Film Registry adds Purple Rain, Clerks, Boys Don’t Cry, Platoon, The...
The Library of Congress has today announced the next wave of 25 films added to the National Film Registry In addition to classics like Purple Rain, Platoon, and Sleeping Beauty, a record seven movies...
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