Paul Benjamin, best known for portraying one of the three wise Brooklyn “cornermen” in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, has died at the age of 81. Spike Lee announced that Benjamin died on June 28th via Instagram, no other details of his death were immediately available. In Do the Right Thing, Paul Benjamin played […]
Watch the trailer for Spike Lee-produced time travel movie See You Yesterday
Netflix has released the trailer for See You Yesterday, a time-travel movie produced by Spike Lee, and directed by Stefon Bristol, inspired by his own 15 minute short film of the same name (which you can watch here). Take a look at the film’s poster, trailer and synopsis here… High school best friends and science […]
Road to the Oscars 2019 – Can BlacKkKlansman win Best Picture?
In the week before the 91st Academy Awards are handed out, Tom Beasley takes a look at each Best Picture nominee and its chances of Oscars victory. Next, Spike Lee might finally get his awards season time in the sun for BlacKkKlansman… Spike Lee has always been a filmmaker at the forefront of bringing stories […]
Chadwick Boseman teaming with Spike Lee for Da 5 Bloods
Variety is reporting that Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman is teaming with Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman) for Lee’s next joint, Da 5 Bloods, which also has Delroy Lindo (Malcolm X) and Jean Reno (The Promise) in talks to star. According to Variety, Da 5 Bloods follows a group of Vietnam veterans who return to the jungle to […]
Spike Lee to direct Frederick Douglass Now
Having already adapted A Huey P. Newton Story and Rodney King, Variety is reporting that Spike Lee is now set to film a third one-man stage show by his frequent collaborator Roger Guenveur Smith in Frederick Douglass Now. Frederick Douglass was a 19th abolitionist, social reformer and writer who escaped slavery to become the leader […]
Exclusive Interview: BlacKkKlansman actor Paul Walter Hauser on working with Spike Lee and Adam Driver, playing a white supremacist, Cobra Kai and more
The following conversation took place between Flickering Myth writer Justin Cook and BlacKkKlansman actor Paul Walter Hauser… Today, Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman hits shelves nationwide on 4K, DVD and Blu-ray (and is available for rental), and in celebration of the film’s home video release, Flickering Myth had the opportunity to talk to one of the film’s stars, […]
Spike Lee confirms he’s not working on Spider-Man spinoff Nightwatch
With Venom proving a hit at the box office with over half a billion dollars and counting, we can presumably expect a flurry of activity from Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters over the coming months as the studio looks to lay out the future of its Spider-Man spinoff universe. In additions to projects such as […]
Movie Review – BlacKkKlansman (2018)
BlacKkKlansman, 2018. Directed by Spike Lee. Starring John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Japser Pääkkönen, Ryan Eggold, Paul Walter Hauser, Topher Grace, Alec Baldwin and Harry Belafonte. SYNOPSIS: Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan with the help of a white surrogate, who eventually […]
Movie Review – BlacKkKlansman (2018)
BlacKkKlansman, 2018. Directed by Spike Lee. Starring John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace, Ryan Eggold, Paul Walter Hauser, Corey Hawkins, Robert John Burke, Michael Buscemi, Jasper Pääkkönen, Harry Belafonte, Ashlie Atkinson, Craig muMs Grant, and Alec Baldwin. . SYNOPSIS: Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully manages to infiltrate the local […]
Movie Review – BlacKkKlansman (2018)
BlacKkKlansman, 2018. Directed by Spike Lee. Starring John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Jasper Paakkonen, Topher Grace, and Ryan Eggold. SYNOPSIS: Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is an African-American rookie cop on the Colorado police force, who manages to infiltrate the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, using his partner Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) as […]