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DVD Review: Spike Lee Films “Passing Strange”

Bob Cashill January 13, 2010 7

Some stage plays and musicals are adapted into films. Others are simply filmed. That would seem to be the easier gig—but if you’ve suffered through one where the camera never moved, or never seemed

Sugar Water: Black and/or White

Robert Cass June 30, 2009 18

Writer-producer-director Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing opened in theaters on June 30, 1989. “White people still ask me why Mookie threw the [trash] can through the window” at the film’s climax, he recently

DVD Review: “Miracle at St. Anna”

Scott Malchus February 13, 2009 0

Miracle at St. Anna opens with a crime: A black postal worker pulls out a German Lugar pistol and kills an Italian man waiting in line to buy stamps. Why did he do it?

Sugar Water: White Men Can’t Believe I’m Talking About Wesley Snipes Again

Robert Cass April 27, 2008 6

Last Thursday actor Wesley Snipes (U.S. Marshals, Undisputed) was sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty in February of three misdemeanor counts for willfully failing to file his tax returns from

Sugar Water: Super Cyborg Sunday

Robert Cass March 2, 2008 2

I’ll get to the cyborgs in a second, but before I do, I need to mention one last thing in regard to Wesley Snipes — in my three February posts you may have noticed