Tag: Spike Lee

By: Matt Overton The Thirteenth Joint Bamboozled is the most provocative film I’ve ever watched. Spike Lee masterminds a minstrel show for the 21st century as he dares America to ...

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 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 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, ...

By: Matt Overton The Sixth Joint Spike Lee’s 1992 biopic on the life of accomplished and controversial civil rights leader Malcolm X is a towering achievement. Ambitious in scope and ...

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 ...