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Gimme the Loot: NYCDIY

The sweet small pleasures of Gimme the Loot.

Oh, You Mean There Is Actually A Game During NBA All-Star Weekend? (Plus, Can You Name The Rappers In Our Courtside Photo?)

After a weekend of human gridlock at the Galleria, traffic snarls, bottles poppin', and all the parties you could handle, NBA All-Star Weekend in Houston came to a close on Sunday with the Western Conference defeating their Eastern foes 143-138, the Los Angeles Clippers' Chris Paul getting the game' ... More >>

Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth

Jerry "The King" Lawler Piledrives Clipper Fan: Old School WWE Wrestlers for Each NBA Playoff Series (w/ VIDEO)

People laugh dismissively when I say it, but the more they can incorporate WWE performers and the general WWE "way" of entertainment, the more enjoyable other genres of sports will become. No, I'm not talking about the predetermined outcomes of matches (The NBA has already incorporated that aspect o ... More >>

Mo' Better Tunes: The Ultimate Spike Lee Soundtrack

​When Spike Lee puts out a new film, I always make a point to check it out, even if I hated his last one. He's directed more hits than misses, and even his duds have been quality duds. The first Spike Lee joint that I saw as a kid was Malcolm X, which I definitely did not understand at all beyond ... More >>

Top 10 Films to Celebrate Black History Month

In 1926 historian Carter G. Wilson began what was known as Negro History Week in an effort to make the African American story more prevalent in our culture's consciousnesses. The week evolved into an entire month-long celebration and promotion of African American history, which we recognize this mon ... More >>

The Film Issue: 10 for 2012

The Film Issue

Looking back on the year in movies, and what's coming in 2012.

2011 NBA Draft -- The Live Blog

Keep coming back for the latest​The overwhelming consensus on the 2011 NBA Draft is that it's, by and large, a pretty underwhelming group of players, and it may quite possibly be completely devoid of future All-Stars. So why am I so excited about tonight's festivities? Because of all the thin ... More >>

Homecoming

Gang Starr's DJ Premier still mourns partner Guru.

The Top 5 Musical Eco-Fails

uscgd8 via Flick​The bad news about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is that BP's magic undersea dome didn't work, and the slick is now the size of Connecticut. And unless the latest half-assed stopgap measure (a "junk shot" of debris fired down the well in an attempt to plug it) works, it could be ... More >>

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SXSW Film Festival Line-Up Is, To Use A Terrible Word, Finalized

The SXSW Film Festival's complete line-up has been announced, featuring 108 features over nine days, with half of those being world premieres.(And many of those "world premieres" being also "the only time these films will play on a large screen.")The big names include Spike Lee, with his filmed vers ... More >>

Very Minor: Miracle at St. Anna

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

Oh, Canada

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

Movies For Your Hurricane Party Tonight

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

Spike Lee’s look at Hurricane Katrina might be his most important work yet

The Best DVDs of 2007

They made old movies feel new again

Independent Black Film Festival

PopCornNLemonade Films screens nine African-American films

Cold War Reheated

Song of Sommore

Weird and Wonderful

A True Horror Classic

Katrinavision

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

Paranoia Self Destroyer

A New Birth Brass Band set at the Volcano makes Racket long for a new and improved tinfoil hat

Second Run

Celebrating the overachieving, underhyped movies of 2004

I Hate It

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

Wrong Wayans

Do the right thing: Avoid White Chicks in bad masks

The Music The

If you want poetry, read a book

Ground Zero Hour

A man's last day of freedom becomes Spike's moving meditation on 9/11

Far from Happy

The year's best featured plenty of sad white guys

Art and Soul

From our innermost insecurities to the wildest flights of fantasy, 2002 stimulated both heart and head

Racket

The Last Concert Cafe has glimpses from its unique history

The Malcolm X Files

Spike Lee's scathing satire of network television goes out with a bang

Just for Laughs

Spike Lee's gloriously unpolished concert film focuses on the yuks -- to our great amusement

Original Style

The Roots makes rap come alive live

Indelible Image

Rotation

Fouling Out

With He Got Game, Spike Lee lets down the sport he loves

Brothers on the Bus

Talk It Up

Spike Lee works the phone-sex lines, but loses his connection

The Year in Film

Though not great, 1995 still produced some movies worth seeing (and reseeing)

Running Out of Time

With Clockers, Spike Lee givesa touching, and harrowing, view of inner-city life

B.S. 101

John Singleton's Higher Learning fails to make the grade

Press Picks

Rockets Mania

As the Rockets fought for the title, Houstonians fought -- and failed -- to keep their sanity

City Life, Family Strife

Spike Lee returns to old haunts, and old ways, in Crooklyn

A Sermon from the Past

In attitude and action, Purlie Victorious feels rooted in a more hopeful time