A Spike Lee Joint: He Got Game
Jake (Denzel Washington) is offered time off his lengthy prison sentence if he can persuade his son, basketball prodigy Jesus (Ray Allen), to sign up for a scholarship at Big […]
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A Spike Lee Joint: 25th Hour
Monty (Edward Norton) is a drug dealer in New York whose busted when police search his house. 25th Hour documents his final day of freedom which he spends with his […]
A Spike Lee Joint: Mo’ Better Blues
Denzel Washington is Bleek Gilliam, a trumpeter from Brooklyn, New York. He plays with his band, including his egotistic saxophonist Shadow (Wesley Snipes), and has to deal with his gambling-addicted […]
A Spike Lee Joint: School Daze
Set in Mission College, a black university, School Daze follows a number of characters through their relationships and friendships during the first few weeks of term. This is basically your […]
Mary Poppins
With this week’s release of Saving Mr Banks, about the troubled production of Mary Poppins, I decided to re-watch the classic film, to see if it was worth Walt Disney […]
A Spike Lee Joint: Clockers
In Brooklyn a young man called Strike (Mekhi Phifer) takes up hustling for a local drug boss, Rodney (Delroy Lindo). When a murder takes place, and Strike’s brother Victor (Isaiah […]
A Spike Lee Joint: Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing is set entirely on one street in Brooklyn, where, apparently, no cars ever drive. Taking place over only a couple of days, it focuses on the […]
A Spike Lee Joint: Get On The Bus
In 1995, a bus full of men are heading Washington D.C. to attend Farrakhan’s Million Man March for black rights. They include a father and son tethered together (Thomas Jefferson […]
A Spike Lee Joint: She Hate Me
Jack (Anthony Mackie) is a VP at a large pharmaceutical company until he goes public with allegations of unethical practices. When he loses his job he begins taking money from […]
A Spike Lee Joint: Jungle Fever
Jungle Fever revolves around Flipper (Wesley Snipes) and Angie (Annabella Sciorra) a mixed race couple from New York who have an affair. It also follows Flipper’s crack addict brother Gator […]
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