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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Henry “Buzz” Glass: Square Dance Variations Volume I

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    Holy Hell! Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP Turns 20

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    Interview: Nonagon

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    Jimbo Mathus/Andrew Bird: These 13

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    Django Django: Glowing in the Dark

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    Various Artists: Tchic Tchic: French Bossa Nova 1963-1974

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    Chet Baker: (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You/Chet Baker in New York/Chet/Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe

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    Jimbo Mathus/Andrew Bird: These 13

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    A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Invisible Cities

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    Black Sabbath: Vol. 4 (Super Deluxe Edition)

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    Melvins: Working with God

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    Resequence: Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

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    Resequence: Prince: 1999

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    Coming 2 America

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    Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry

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    Children of Ash and Elm: by Neil Price

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Home Tag Archives: spike lee

Tag Archives: spike lee

David Byrne’s American Utopia

By Pat Padua
October 18, 2020
in :  Film, Film Reviews

An arty, self-conscious oldies show that preaches to the choir and doesn’t nearly reach its creators’ previous heights.

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The Best Films of 2020 (So Far)

By Spectrum Culture Staff
July 2, 2020
in :  Lists, Year End Lists

We hope this list inspires you to watch something tonight that you may have normally skipped out on.

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Revisit: Bamboozled

By Trevor Link
April 6, 2020
in :  Features, Film, Revisit-Rediscover

In Bamboozled, there is no equivalent to this safe space of "blackness."

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Revisit: Do the Right Thing

By Nathan Kamal
August 19, 2019
in :  Features, Film, Revisit-Rediscover

Do the Right Thing saw a filmmaker at the extreme apex of his abilities, one who transformed his affectations into style and his opinions into public debate.

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BlacKkKlansman

By David Harris
August 9, 2018
in :  Film, Film Reviews, Recommended

It’s good to have Spike Lee’s voice back and strong, even if the situation that brought it out of hibernation is an ugly and terrible reality.

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Chi-Raq

By Benjamin Aspray
December 7, 2015
in :  Film, Film Reviews

Chi-Raq is sometimes very funny, often obnoxious and never boring.

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The Best Films of 2015 (So Far)

By Spectrum Culture Staff
July 2, 2015
in :  Lists, Year End Lists

This past weekend, a few million assholes shelled out $55million to see Jurassic World. As we take the rest of the week off and recall the wonderful movies we’ve screened so far in 2015, it is hard to believe that people are still spending their $12 to see dinosaurs chew up a bunch of morons. We hope this list inspires …

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Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

By Robert Ham
February 18, 2015
in :  Film, Film Reviews

[xrr rating=3.5/5]The discussion surrounding Da Sweet Blood of Jesus has rightfully fallen on the fact that director Spike Lee funded his latest joint via Kickstarter. Although he was not the first well-known director to go that route, his decision to crowdfund this picture spoke volumes about how unwilling the Hollywood system is to support the idiosyncratic visions of iconoclasts like …

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List Inconsequential: Things We’re Excited About in 2013!

By Spectrum Culture Staff
January 10, 2013
in :  List Inconsequential, Lists

The Great Gatsby (Dir: Baz Luhrmann) F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest novels ever written. That’s not even an opinion, that’s a fact by the consensus of close to 100 years of publication. But despite the fact that it’s an utterly cinematic novel, full of lush emotion, flashbacks, glamorous parties and violence, there’s never been …

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Oeuvre: Spike Lee: Red Hook Summer

By Trevor Link
September 27, 2012
in :  Features, Film, Oeuvre

At the heart of Spike Lee’s cinema, as with his newest film Red Hook Summer, is the neighborhood. From the very beginning, he name checked a Brooklyn neighborhood in the title of his student film Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, while his follow-up, the feature debut She’s Gotta Have It, weaves four characters, a woman and three suitors, through …

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