Category: Spike Lee
Spike Lee Is Re-Editing An Episode Of His “NYC Epicenters” Docuseries After Getting Shit For Including 9/11 Truthers
It’s fitting that Spike Lee looks like the conductor of the Fuckery Express in that picture above because he recently choo choo’d his way into some controversy and now he’s trying to choo choo his way out of it. Spike Lee made a docuseries for HBO Max called NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½, which covers some of the disasters and obstacles that NYC has faced this century, so far. It debuted last week and the episode devoted to the 9/11 terrorist attacks will air closer to the 20th anniversary of 9/11. That’s only a few weeks away and so Spike Lee is now furiously doing the damage control shuffle while re-editing it after getting criticized for including conspiracy theories from 9/11 truthers.
Spike Lee Says He Still Has Questions About 9/11
Conspiracy theorists rejoice because you are being seen! The 9/11 conspiracy theories may soon be back in the mainstream after 20 years. Spike Lee has a new documentary coming out on HBO Max called NYC Epicenters: 9/11 – 2021½ which talks about important events in New York’s recent history. Spike talked about it a bit and let it be known that he still has questions about what really happened.
Festival Goers Are Grossed Out By Having To Give A Saliva Sample To Attend Cannes
We can now add spittle to the list of things the Cannes Film Festival attendees deem to be more repugnant than Roman Polanski. According to Variety, festival attendees arriving from outside of the EU are being required to visit The Drool Tent, or La Tente de Bave, if you will, to provide a saliva sample to be tested for COVID-19 before attending any events inside the Palais. Festival-goers have described the process as “really gross” but then turn around and watch Tilda Swinton in a movie about a woman suffering from “exploding head syndrome,” (via IndieWire) or worse, a movie starring Simon Rex! Yes, old Dirt Nasty himself has a movie at Cannes this year and Roman Polanski does not. The earth is healing.
Bong Joon-ho Says Spike Lee Movies Taught Him How To Curse In English
With the Oscars just around the corner, Awards Season is furiously fiddling its way to climax. There are so many awards going on right now it’s hard to keep track. I feel bad for Parasite director Bong Joon-ho, who keeps getting nominated for shit he’s probably never heard of before. I mean, this is a guy who gloriously shaded the Oscars by calling them “very local”. But still, he is dutifully making the rounds. Last week the African American Film Critics Association Awards were held, and Joon-ho accepted awards for best screenplay and best foreign film for Parasite. During his acceptance speech, Joon-ho gave a special shout out to Spike Lee for helping him learn how to curse in English. All I can say is thank GOD he didn’t learn it from watching Quentin Tarantino movies.
Spike Lee Finally Won An Oscar, And Was Pissed When “Green Book” Got Best Picture
Spike Lee finally an Oscar after years and years and YEARS of being a recognized fixture of the movie industry but getting no tiny gold man-shaped statues. Well clear that mantle over the fireplace (or whatever rich people have to show off trophies) because Spike Lee won an Oscar last night for Best Adapted Screenplay for his movie BlacKkKlansman. But Spike Lee’s joy over finally getting his hands on that trophy was temporarily interrupted by Green Book winning Best Picture, which made him almost walk out of the damn theater.
Jada Pinkett Smith Is Boycotting This Year’s Oscars Over The Lack Of Diversity
Idris Elba, Ryan Coogler, Creed, Will Smith and Straight Outta Compton were all talked about as possible Oscar nominees, but when the nominations were announced last week, they pretty much all got a whole lot of nothing. Straight Outta Compton was nominated for Best Original Screenplay and Sylvester Stallone got Creed’s only nomination. Johnny Depp probably wasn’t nominated for Black Mass because the word “black” is in the title of his movie. It’s the second year in a row when people of color were shut out of the acting categories. Straight Outta Compton’s executive producer shit on the Oscars’ lack of diversity on Facebook, and over the weekend, Jada Pinkett Smith joined him in speaking out against the show. Even the host of this year’s Oscars, Chris Rock, called it the “White BETs.”
On Saturday, Jada tweeted about how people of color are asked to perform at and show up to the Oscars but aren’t recognized with nominations. Jada wondered if they should boycott the Oscars? And yesterday, Jada answered her own question and said in a video on Facebook that she’s not going to or watching the Oscars this year. Jada said that POC have so much power now and need to realize that. Jada knows the Academy can nominate whoever they want, but maybe it’s time for POC to pull out of that shit and “make programs for ourselves that acknowledge us in ways that we see fit, that are just as good as the so-called mainstream.”
We must stand in our power.
Posted by Jada Pinkett Smith on Monday, January 18, 2016
Spike Lee co-signed Jada’s words on Instagram yesterday. Spike Lee isn’t going to the Oscars this year either. He doesn’t totally blame the Academy. He wrote that the real battle is with the studio executives of Hollywood who make the decisions.
If Jada Pinkett Smith puts together her own awards show and airs it on the same night as the Oscars, my remote control is going to get the repeated pounding of its life. I’m going to furiously switch between Jada’s Oscars and the Oscar Oscars. Because I really want to see Jaden Smith’s interpretive dance performances of the best picture nominees and I really, really want to see Chris Rock roast Hollywood and the Oscars.