Tag: film

By: Matt Overton The Seventeenth Joint Star leading man Denzel Washington is back with director Spike for their fourth and most recent collaboration prior to this year’s exciting drop. Inside ...

By: Matt Overton The Fifteenth Joint When I first thought about doing a full watch-through of Spike Lee’s filmography there was one movie that stood out among the twenty plus ...

By: Matt Overton The Fourteenth Joint Before he helped create one of the worst seasons in television history, David Benioff wrote his debut novel titled “The 25th Hour.” The narrative ...

By: Matt Overton The Twelfth Joint Summer of Sam is one strange picture. It purports to be a true crime film about the Son of Sam murders that took place ...

By: Matt Overton Zach Cregger’s long awaited follow up to his smashing debut Barbarian has finally hit theaters, and I’m overjoyed to see it receiving such an overwhelmingly positive reaction. ...

By: Matt Overton The Tenth Joint Get on the Bus is another Spike Lee film that sets out to empower the Black community. It tells the tale of a group ...

By: Matt Overton The Ninth Joint It’s not often that I put on a movie that my fiancée has never heard of, and she actually stays to watch it to ...

By: Matt Overton The Seventh Joint Crooklyn is a semi-autobiographical film inspired by Spike Lee’s childhood. It is a portrait of a loving Black family in 1970s Brooklyn: the mother, ...

By: Matt Overton The Fifth Joint The moment Stevie Wonder's song started playing over the well-animated, New York-style credits, I could tell Spike Lee was cooking with Jungle Fever. Released ...

By: Matt Overton The Fourth Joint Mo’ Better Blues was the first collaboration between Spike Lee and Denzel Washington. Somewhat surprisingly, in Spike’s decades-spanning career, he has only featured Denzel ...