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Spike Lee called out various film critics that he alleged told him that his 1989 film Do the Right Thing would spark riots when it premiered.

Spike Lee has blasted critics who claimed Do the Right Thing would spark riots.

Spike Lee blasts 'Do The Right Thing' critics after accepting the Ebert Director Award at TIFF.

As he received the Ebert Director Award – named after the late film critic Roger Ebert – at the Toronto International Film Festival Tribute Awards, Spike Lee blasted writers who

As he received the Ebert Director Award – named after the late film critic Roger Ebert – at the Toronto International Film Festival Tribute Awards, Spike Lee blasted writers who

For a number of reasons I touched on last week, the state of the film and television industry has largely stalled out, both creatively and practically.

(1) ATTACKING THE KILLER TOMATOES. “The most overrated metric in movies is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked,” says Vulture, nevertheless, “Rotten Tomatoes Still Has Hollywood in Its Grip”. …“The studios didn’t invent Rotten Tomatoes, and most of them don’t like it,” says the filmmaker Paul Schrader. “But the system is broken. Audiences are dumber. Normal people

NEW ULM – The New Ulm Film Society (NUFS) will take off the rose tinted glasses for a screening of the 1998 fantasy film “Pleasantville.” The screening s

Alex Gibney, Raoul Peck, Errol Morris say film festivals like Toronto are essential for documentary films and filmmakers

Brian Helgeland misses the mark badly in this chowduh-thick slop of a New England thriller also starring Ben Foster, Toby Wallace and Tommy Lee Jones.