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Miguel Sandoval, Spike Lee, and Ossie Davis

Spike Lee’s ‘Do The Right Thing’ on Peacock

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, African-American cinema, African-American filmmakers, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, National Film Registry, Peacock, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 02/15/2022 Sean Axmaker

Spike Lee’s vibrant, vital, thoroughly accomplished third feature is a provocative and intelligent exploration of race and racism that opens with a call to action and ends with a ferocious cry in the face of injustice.

Sanaa Lathan navigates ‘Love & Basketball’ on HBO Max

!Featured, African-American cinema, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Directed by Women, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, Romance, sports, SVOD 01/26/2022 Sean Axmaker

Gina Prince-Bythewood uses sports as a metaphor for life and love in this intelligent romantic drama starring Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps.

Denzel Washington is ‘Malcolm X’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, African-American filmmakers, Based on a nonfiction book, based on a true story, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, HBO Max, historical, National Film Registry, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 01/06/2022 Sean Axmaker

Spike Lee’s epic biographical drama of the controversial civil rights leader earned Washington his first Oscar nomination for best actor.

Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, and Jodie Foster star in Spike Lee's 'Inside Man.'

Clive Owen has an ‘Inside Man’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Action, African-American filmmakers, Blu-ray, caper, DVD, HBO Max, heist, Streaming Movies, SVOD 11/29/2021 Sean Axmaker

Spike Lee directs this smart, sharp, high concept heist thriller with Denzel Washington as the NYPD detective at a bank robbery turned hostage situations.

Nola Darling and Tommy Redmond Hicks star in Spike Lee's debut feature

Spike Lee’s original ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ on Netflix

!Featured, African-American filmmakers, American Independent Cinema, Comedy, DVD, Netflix, Streaming Movies 11/21/2017 Sean Axmaker

“Please baby, please baby, please baby baby baby please!” Spike Lee exploded in the independent film world with his debut feature She’s Gotta Have It (1986), an inventive low budget romance with a strong-willed heroine. Tracy Camilla Johns is the confident and sexually independent Nola Darling, a young professional Brooklynite who is happy to sample […]

Teyonah Parris stars in Spike Lee's 'Chi-Raq.'

Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, African-American filmmakers, Amazon Prime Video, Streaming Movies 02/04/2016 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Spike Lee weaves a familiar call through Chi-Raq (2015), his polarizing portrait of violence on Chicago’s South Side. Wake up. It’s been a cry and a plea since his first studio feature, School Daze (1998), and it’s particularly resonant in a film about black-on-black gang violence in Chicago, where more Americans have been murdered in […]

Wendell Pierce in the HBO series Treme created by David Simon

Revisit ‘Treme’ and ‘When the Levees Broke’ to remember Katrina – Amazon Prime and HBO Now

!Featured, African-American filmmakers, Amazon Prime Video, Documentary, Streaming TV 08/30/2015 Sean Axmaker

This weekend marked the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, a natural disaster compounded by insufficient defenses and a disastrous response by the government. Looking for a proper way to mark the occasion? Amazon Prime and HBO subscribers have two very good options. Treme, David Simon’s follow-up to The Wire, is beautifully […]