Tag: Spike Lee

By: Matt Overton The Twenty-second Joint Glory, glory, hallelujah! Not only are we celebrating the fact that I have finished watching all of Spike Lee’s narrative feature films, but we’re ...

By: Matt Overton The Twenty-first Joint I foolishly assumed I had reached the nadir of Spike Lee’s career with his inflammatory Oldboy (2013), but little did I know what he ...

By: Matt Overton The Twentieth Joint In a career filled with deliberately controversial and provocative films, Spike Lee accomplished the unimaginable with his remake of Oldboy. The original 2003 film ...

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 The Eighteenth Joint A mild-mannered postal worker murders an innocent man in cold blood one random morning, and an ancient Italian statue is found in the perp’s ...

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 Sixteenth Joint Sucker Free City is one of Spike Lee’s least viewed feature films on Letterboxd. This made for television movie was created for Showtime in ...

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 ...