• New film continues the story of the rebirth of New Orleans
• New York Rep. Rangel requests a delay in his corruption trial
• Obama to GOP: How do you pay for tax cut extensions?

• Obama confers about Afghanistan with a bipartisan group of legislators (because bipartisanship has been going so well for him lately...)
• Polanski loses bid to be released; court calls him a "flight risk."
• Why are we taking the word "climate" out of climate change legislation?

More than twenty years after its release, Spike Lee's debut feature She's Gotta Have It still shines as a benchmark of cinema verité filmmaking and a killer stylistic archive of box-fresh Brooklyn, circa 1986. more ›

Slim pickin's today, friends. You can either choose a movie starring Oscar winners/nominees (which of course doesn't guarantee anything), or you can go with movies that cater to the lowest common denominator. Which is apparently pretty damn low these days. *Inside Man Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster. Kudos, Spike Lee, for making a movie with one fine-lookin’ cast. (*Ed. Note: We saw a sneak preview of this movie and really enjoyed the nuances... more ›