Spike Lee, whose Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X are among the best films of the past quarter century, and are certainly among the best that have ever dealt with racial issues, has returned to societal themes in his most interesting movie in twenty years. Centering on the gun violence epidemic in Chicago, Chi-raq contains a message we desperately need. If it isn't self-evident, the title is...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Thursday, March 3, 2016
The Trouble With Harry
There is a man dead, lying in the grass peacefully. A variety of characters all seem quite morbidly calm about the whole thing as they pass him by. The first to see him, an older retired navy captain named Albert Wiles (Edmund Gwenn, best known by today's audiences for his Academy Award-winning role...
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