by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
The Creator feels like a miracle of a movie. An original science fiction blockbuster not based on any preexisting work with legitimate movie stars, with an auteur director left to his own devices feels like a rare occurrence.
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Amsterdam is a pretty fun movie I’ll probably never watch again
by Jaime Davis, Staff Writer, The Fixer
Directed by Spike Lee
Starring John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier
Running time: 2 hours 15 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for language throughout, including racial epithets, and for disturbing/violent material and some sexual references
By Francis Friel, The Projectionist
Spike Lee is one of the few remaining living legends who still thinks of his own cinema in terms of great shots. I guarantee that, at 61 years of age, the Master still has camera setups and dolly and crane ideas he’s been waiting to spring his entire life but that he’ll never realize. He lives and breathes movies like no one else. Look at the recent output from others of his generation and you won’t find a single sequence as simple or as powerful as the early goings of BlacKkKlansman, where a meeting of the Colorado Springs Black Student Union transforms into a ritualistic, almost holy presentation of black faces, their features emerging from darkness as crisply and elegantly as if they were floating out of a Rembrandt painting.
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