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Racial Inequality in Hollywood: An Infographic
2013 was a good year for African-American filmmakers with many features with Black leads such as 42, After Earth, Black Nativity, Mandela, Fruitvale Station, The Butler and 12 Years A Slave, which went on to win Best Picture at this year's Academy Awards. Des...
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Top 10 Behind-the-Scenes Sports Movies
It seems like you can't round a corner without running into one movie or another telling the so-inspirational story of some underdog athlete who beats the odds and did a thing really really well. But the world of sport is as much a world of business as it is o...
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Defending Spike Lee’s ‘Oldboy’
Spike Lee's remake of Park Chan-wook's Oldboy was met with a largely negative response last week and many fans claimed that it was just Hollywood at work again tearing down a revered foreign film just for the money. Money is a motivating factor in a lot of Hol...
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Spike Lee Dismisses Artist Whose Work He Allegedly Stole
With Spike Lee’s latest film Oldboy hitting theaters this week the incendiary, Brooklyn-born filmmaker has been getting some serious PR – just not in the way he expected.
Recently a graphic designer by the name of Juan Luis Garcia has stepped forward and pe...
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Spike Lee’s ‘Oldboy’ Remake Disappoints
In 2003, Oldboy struck at precisely the right time for movie lovers. It was able to introduce a whole slew of canny viewers to the then-blossoming world of Korean cinema. It put director Park Chan-wook and his Vengeance Trilogy on the map. For the film, famed ...
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Examining The Films of Spike Lee
Spike Lee is one of the few directors working today whose style is immediately recognizable. From the tone-setting opening credits sequences, to the famously infamous double dolly shot, to cinematography and editing that felt as if it were physically affecting...
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History of Film: Spike Lee’s ‘Do The Right Thing’ — Dynamite Under Every Seat
Do the Right Thing is currently #5 on my all time best movies list. It was my best film of 1989 as well, earning the top slot after my emotional first viewing of it at Jersey City’s State Theater. The State is where I was introduced to director Spike Lee’s wo...
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