Subject: Spike Lee

• Video Savant: Cymande's “Bra”

  Sticking with the summer-song theme from last week's Video Savant on Ween's “Push th' Little Daisies,” let's examine the gloriously snappy “Bra” by Cymande. Sampled to devastating effect by De La Soul on 3 Feet High and Rising's “Change in Speak” and used on the soundtracks to Spike Lee's Crooklyn and 25th Hour, this hugely uplifting track from Cymande's self-titled 1972 LP is one of the greatest examples of Caribbean-flavored funk on record. (Cymande's members hailed from Jamaica an

  June 3, 2008

• Video Savant: The Cool Kids' “Jingling”

  June 17, 2008

• Modesty Blaze

  January 9, 2003

• No Matter the Runtime and Budget, Spike Lee's WWII Drama 'Miracle at St. Anna' Is an Epic Bore

  September 25, 2008

• Metaphor Saves Katrina-Based 'Rising Water' From Drowning at the Maverick

  May 8, 2008

• DVDish

  Pause & Rewind: The best DVDs of '07 made old movies feel new again.

  December 27, 2007

• Tuesday - 11/20

  When the Levees Broke: Part II at the Irvine Fine Arts Center, The Whirling Dervishes of Turkey at the Barclay

  November 22, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the week: The Sophisticated Misfit
  

  November 1, 2007

• Thorn Necklaces and Hummingbirds

  ‘100th Birthday Celebration for Frida Kahlo’

  October 18, 2007

• Youngblood at Heart

  Seven years after leaving the industry that made him a star, former comic book wunderkind Rob Liefeld is ready for his heroes to be reborn

  October 11, 2007

• Again With the Serious Face

  Adam Sandler plays a 9/11 widower in Reign Over Me and finally nails a somber role

  March 22, 2007

• Sex Divas and Jazz Police

  March 6, 2003

• Special Screenings

  Movie(s) of the Week: Bible Madness and Dont Go In the Church

  July 5, 2007

• This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

  April 19, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: Bullitt

  April 12, 2007

• Camera dCheatin

  The movies cant get enough of marrieds getting it on outside marriage

  February 8, 2007

• New Reviews

  Becket; Constellation; Hurricane on the Bayou; The Messengers

  February 1, 2007

• Weird and Wonderful

  Eraserhead, A History of Violence, Star Wars Episode IV and more

  January 4, 2007

• A True Horror Classic

  When the Levees Broke

  December 21, 2006

• VH1 Is a Joke

  Public Enemy

  December 7, 2006

• Grade-A Slumming

  August 3, 2006

• Dear Kevin

  July 20, 2006

• Trendzilla

  June 15, 2006

• Special Screenings

  April 27, 2006

• Catch Me If You Can

  March 23, 2006

• Living in Oblivion

  January 27, 2005

• Bad Meetings With Great People

  September 30, 2004

• Troy Story

  June 10, 2004

• Whos Your Daddy?

  May 27, 2004

• Truth or Consequences

  December 26, 2002

• My Elvis Weighs a Ton

  October 10, 2002

• Don't Mess with the Missionary Man

  April 11, 2002

• Its a Living

  September 6, 2001

• Great Dorks Afire!

  August 16, 2001

• Yokel Oh, Nos

  July 5, 2001

• The King of Rock

  May 10, 2001

• Diver Down

  August 13, 1998

• [[Trendzilla] . . . And the Non-Prescription Eyeglasses You Hornrimmed In On

  November 5, 2009