Spike Lee

Texas Theatre Screens Do The Right Thing In 35 mm Tonight

Polish up your Jordans, because Texas Theatre takes you back to 1989, Brooklyn tonight when it screens Do The Right Thing on 35 mm. Escape the Wednesday rut and cruise over to Oak Cliff where the Spike Lee Joint takes you back to that boombox era, when Public Enemy made everyone pump the Running Man ... More >>

In the Lee of Valentine’s Day

Best Films: 10 for 2012

You better watch out.

So, Matthew Morrison, Tony Romo and Erin Andrews Walk Into a Dinner Party ...

WireImage​No doubt you were too busy to attend last night's Super Bowl shindigs. So once more into the breach -- or WireImage, which has invites to all the best parties. Like, once more, the private Audi Forum dinner party at the Rachofsky House, where Glee's Matthew Morrison found himself amongst ... More >>

Spike Lee, Speaking in Denton Tonight, is Drawing Fire for His Taste in Liquor

​Spike Lee's at the University of North Texas tonight, and fellow Brooklynite Amaya Santos, 17, knows what she'd like to ask the filmmaker. "Spike Lee, what's going on here?" was Santos' first thought when she counted up 28 ads for Lee's Absolut Brooklyn in the Utica Avenue subway station. Santos ... More >>

The Top 10 Best Character Names in Sports Movies That I Could Think of Off the Top of My Head

Jesus saves. And shoots.​Why did the Los Angeles Lakers lose Game 2 of the NBA Finals Sunday night? Because they turned their back on Jesus. Boston Celtics' guard Ray Allen - who played "Jesus Shuttlesworth" in Spike Lee's He Got Game - went off on L.A. He hit a Finals-record eight 3-pointe ... More >>

Whitt's End: 5.22.09

Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *You'll have to savor this offering like a cow with its cud, because this morning I'm headed out to the Byron Nelson to chug margaritas and chase girls in The Pavilion watch golf and conduct research ... More >>

Mars Blackmon's in Town. For AFI? Nope.

A Friend of Unfair Park noticed this note at the end of ESPN.com's recap of last night's Mavs-Warriors recap:Movie director Spike Lee, a noted Knicks fan, sat courtside with Mavs owner Mark Cuban. Lee is in town for a film festival.Can only think of one, but so far no confirmation from AFI Dallas fo ... More >>

Miracle at Santa Anna

No matter the runtime and budget, Spike Lee's World War II drama is an epic bore

Oh, Canada

Midway through the Toronto film fest, and things are looking bleak

God Bless America. And Sports.

Fly Write, Right?

Southwest's James Parker hopes his book takes off

Spike Lee's School Daze at UTA

Pause & Rewind

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

Wanna Be Entertained?

Weird and Wonderful

A True Horror Classic

Laugh Factor

Charlie Murphy visits Nokia

Old School

Steve Harvey visits Fair Park

When Evacuees Become Residents, Part 2

A Real Double Feature

Sans Quentin

Lucky Number Slevin plays Tarantino's game, without Tarantino's results

It's a Crime

Spike Lee's Inside Man plots the heist of your moviegoing dollars

Best Jazz Club

Brooklyn

I Hate It

This Spike Lee joint is a cockeyed, self-righteous and graceless diatribe

Zen Fest

July 10

Wrong Wayans

Do the right thing: Avoid White Chicks in bad masks

Sneaker Pimp

A lifetime of hip-hop and hoops comes together in Bobbito Garcia's new book

Rescued, 9/11

A writer helps a New York City fireman mourn his Guys

You, Me, Him

Philip Seymour Hoffman is a great actor, because he never acts

Ground Zero Hour

A man's last day of freedom becomes Spike's meditation on September 11

Far From Happy

The year's best featured plenty of Sad White Guys

Well Dunne

The Deep Ellum Film Festival returns, suffering from the Terrific Twos

The Negro Problem

Spike Lee's new racial satire starts out strong but loses its way

Kingdom Comedy

Spike Lee takes a fresh and gloriously unpolished look at black standup talent

The wedding swinger

Invite The Best Man -- just don't ask him to stick around too long

Blowing out the '70s

Bravo for the decade that keeps on giving

That summer of '77

Murder, mayhem, and a whole bunch of hate

Ad it up

Back in the game

At 38, Public Enemy's Chuck D goes 'where no age has gone before'

Smoke gets in your eyes

Smoke Signals drifts away into a haze of ham-fisted storytelling

Out There

He got lame

Spike Lee tosses up a brick with his bleak He Got Game

Answer this door

DTC's Thunder is a sensual roof-raiser

Love story

Beautiful Thing shimmers with quiet joy

Fantastic voyage

Spike Lee's Get on the Bus takes us to amazing places

Hang-up call

Spike Lee gets psychedelic with his mind-numbing phone-sex parable, Girl 6

Time inspired

Clockers is a searing sordid exorcism for Spike Lee

Shooting blanks

Melvin and Mario Van Peebles' Festival-capping historical drama Panther is a muddled mess

B.S. 101

John Singleton's college melodrama Higher Learning is a baffling misfire