Spike Lee

Gimme the Loot Glows With Star Power

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Screw Spike Lee

Spike Lee Is No Quentin Tarantino

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke reviews the controversy surrounding Django Unchained. (WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD)Screw Spike Lee. Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchain ... More >>

Michael Jackson and Spike Lee's Bad 25 Movie: "Get to It, This Is a Bliss-Out"

Look, if there's any part of you that thinks you might be interested in catching BAD 25, Spike Lee's two-hour celebration/behind-the-scenes history of Michael Jackson's 1988 Bad LP, then seriously, get to it. This is a bliss-out. The performance footage alone is thrilling, and Lee has augmented it ... More >>

Red Hook Summer: Spike Lee's Messy Mix of Authenticity and Awkwardness

2012 film preview

Big Momma in the House

Tommy Boy

Heat Blow 15-Point Lead, Lose to the Knicks

​The Miami Heat blew a 15-point lead and lost 91-86 to the New York Knicks last night, thus making local sports talk radio even douchier than normal for at least another week.The loss continues a troubling trend of not being able to beat playoff contending teams, or even win a big game in the clos ... More >>

Mad Madea Goes Wild

Around Town: Tattoolapalooza, Banksy, USA v. Ghana, Spike Lee, and Kid Sister

Maluca plays Grand Central on Saturday.​FridayTattoo artists from all over country will descend on Miami's downtown Hyatt this weekend for the three-day Tattoolapalooza. There'll be tattoo contests, marauding evil clowns, inking seminars, gnarly bikers, and goth punk bands. If you're going to get ... More >>

Spike Lee in Miami to Teach Filmmaking and to Slam America's Inept Disaster Response

​Asked the difference between his characters and Hollywood's, director Spike Lee answered, "Mine are real." Lee has made it his cinematic mission to accurately portray being black in America. In one of his first films, Do the Right Thing, he sketched a rich portrait of racial tension in a Brooklyn ... More >>

Film the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

A psychic predicts where Dwyane Wade will end up next year

A Psychic Predicts Dwyane Wade's Future, and It Involves Heat Fans Crying

Jacob KatelOur psychic consultant mines that coconut.With basketball demigod Dwyane Wade's Miami Heat contract expiring after this season, speculation has reached a fever pitch: Will he stay? Will fellow superstar LeBron James, currently a Cleveland Cavalier, join him on the Heat to form a champions ... More >>

Halcyon Jets exec accused of sabotaging the company

The ABFF Drops into Town

Seventies Soul Jam Still On at WPB's Kravis Center, Jan. 15

As the Seventies ended and disco pushed into the mainstream, those who came of age during that period always seemed to be reminded that they had missed out on the great cultural revolution of the raging Sixties. As many recall, former Beatle John Lennon himself pretty much summed it up when he decla ... More >>

Throwback Tuesdays: Sam Cooke--"A Change is Gonna Come"

Spike Lee braves Liberty City- and gets dissed by a cantankerous old man- for Obama

Very Minor Miracle

No matter the runtime and budget, Spike Lee's WWII drama is an epic bore.

In Living Color

Fantastic films for Black History Month at the Cosford.

Pause and Rewind

The best DVDs of '07 made old movies feel new again.

Joe Chambers

High-Class Hoofing

Witness the incomparable Savion Glover

A True Horror Classic

DVD releases for the week of December 19, 2006

Stage Capsules

Current shows

Stage Capsules

Current shows

Reviving Tommy Davidson

Live and In Living Color

PERSONAL BEST

Puerto Sagua

Wake Up, Spike Lee

The Negro Problem

Spike Lee's new racial satire starts out strong but ends up wasting ammunition

Comedy Central

Spike Lee takes a fresh and gloriously unpolished look at black stand-up talent

That Summer of '77

Rotations

Game Theory

Rotations

Disconnected

Time Signature

Boy N the Hood

Nothing Doing

Projector Set

Swelter

X to See

Field of Screams

Program Notes

No Dear, I Think That Was A 'Heck'

Toxic Shock