Spike Lee

The reviews for Spike Lee's film "Red Hook Summer" that premiered at Sundance earlier this week have not been good. His comments made after the premiere about Hollywood studios knowing "nothing about black people" made more headlines than the actual film. An open letter published yesterday by "Red Hook" co-writer, James McBride, is sure to make even more headlines because he takes the film community to task and says "nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens." Below is...Read Full Story

Spike Lee will be hosting a free lecture at the Chicago State University library tomorrow Wednesday February 8th, from 6-8:30PM.Read Full Story

*As you probably know by now, Spike Lee was at the Sundance film festival to screen his new movie, “Red Hook Summer,” which is a low-budget, independent film that takes place in a Brooklyn neighborhood. After the Sunday screening, he introduced the cast and began to field questions. This is where things went sour. As we have all come to know, wherever Spike Lee goes, his sharp edge follows. So when a perfectly reasonable question happened to be asked by a particular celebrity in the...Read Full Story

*Days after Spike Lee railed against Hollywood studio executives at the Sundance Film Festival, his co-producer and co-writer of “Red Hook Summer” has accused those same executives of attempting to keep black filmmakers under their thumb. “It’s the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens,” James McBride wrote on the Lee website, 40acres.com. “And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller — writer, musician, filmmaker. Being...Read Full Story

Spike Lee spewed his anger at the Sundance Film Festival as if he is in the ghetto or around people of ignorance. Sundance Film Festival is known for  its happy atmosphere, career opportunities amongst many other beautiful highlights, but Spike Lee felt this was the right time to have a flash back on the turbulence he has faced in his professional career and all it took to ignite the already lit flame of anger was Chris Rock asking Spike a question  on Red Hook Summer  on if the film would...Read Full Story

( 4UMF NEWS ) Spike Lee Covers JET Magazine : Director Spike Lee graces the cover of JET magazine. In the feature story , Lee talks about how he found his calling: “I was just standing in the corner, looking out my window and seeing the richness and variety of African- American experience. What I was seeing on television and the diversity of African-American experience was lacking in television and film. And my parents were very progressive. I remember getting a lecture from my mother...Read Full Story

I have a confession to make. The only real reason I saw Spike Lee’s new film at the Sundance Film Festival here is because it is set in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, where my oldest daughter started her career in an elementary school with Teach for America. Even though I think and write about religion for a living, I didn’t attend “Red Hook Summer” because the program guide describes it as the story of a “firebrand preacher bent on getting (his grandson) to accept Jesus Christ as his...Read Full Story

Air Jordan is a fetish to young adults for both male and female, but now that is all history, because according to a twitter report the commander in Chief is in on it. Yes Spike Lee seen here in the picture with President Barack Obama presented him with an Air Jordan sneaker. Apparently these Air Jordan sneakers are still to be release to the public some time in January under the “Bordeaux” title and will be price at $175. Featured on the shoe is Spike’s “40 Acres and a mule” logo which is...Read Full Story

FINALLY on Blu-ray…Read Full Story

‘I just asked a normal question,’ Rock tells MTV News about what prompted the director’s passionate criticism against Hollywood. By Josh Wigler, with reporting by Eric Ditzian Chris Rock Photo: MTV News PARK CITY, Utah — The old refrain of “more money, more problems” seems to apply to Spike Lee’s “Red Hook Summer,” the director’s new drama he unveiled at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday. During a Q&A session following the screening of the filmmaker’s religion-focused feature...Read Full Story