Playing Hot Peas and Butter: J. John Aquino on CROOKLYN and a Solute Gifts Soundtrack Mix
Every July and December, I look forward to the Solute movie gift exchange. I’ve gotten…
The Friday Article Roundup Fashions a Personality
The FAR knows how to stay hip and stand out from the crowd! Our clothes…
Film on the Internet: INSIDE MAN (2006)
Spike Lee’s exuberant, cleverly crafted heist film is inventive and indulgent in the best possible…
The Friday Article Roundup Reveres the Worthy
Monuments topple as we attempt to separate the laudable from the merely memorable! The movies…
The Friday Article Roundup Ruminates on the Past
It’s a near-certainty that the majority of Friday articles are going to look backwards for…
Year of the Month: Jake Gittes on Crooklyn
The 1990s were, in large part, Spike Lee’s historical period, his investigations into his country’s…
Year of the Month: Bamboozled
When Boots Riley’s critique of BlacKKKlansman first came out, my immediate reaction was, how far…
Film on the Disc: CSA: THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA
As one might expect, BlackkKlansman has generated some interesting ongoing discussion and debate (including here on…
BLACKkKLANSMAN
You have some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that…
Dissolve On (7/30/2017-8/5/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…