Tag: NYC

By: Matt Overton All That Jazz is one of those elusive films that I never heard of before joining Letterboxd, but have seen all over the place since then. It ...

By: Matt Overton The Nineteenth Joint Has anyone ever identified a slump era in Spike Lee’s career? I find it extremely ironic that the same year Obama was inaugurated, Spike ...

By: Matt Overton DA TWENTY-FIFTH JOINT I understand I’m jumping the gun on this retrospective by writing this review before writing the remainder of Spike Lee’s filmography. I promise the ...

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 The Eleventh Joint He Got Game is one of Spike Lee’s most iconic films, and for good reason. Anyone familiar with the man should be aware of ...

By: Matt Overton The Eighth Joint Spike Lee returns to the crime genre with his 1995 film Clockers. A few of his joints dipped their toes into the genre, but ...

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, ...