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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 …

[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 …

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 …

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 …