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Commanding black performer Bill Nunn made his feature debut in fellow Morehouse College graduate Spike Lee's "School Daze" but really etched himself into moviegoers' minds as a formidable screen presence in his.... Commanding black performer Bill Nunn made his feature debut in fellow Morehouse College graduate Spike Lee's "School Daze" but really ...

Award-winning director Spike Lee and a film crew spent Wednesday at the childhood home of Michael Jackson filming a documentary about the King of Pop.

Ever since Design Sponge ever so brilliantly created a series aptly titled Living In, I thought it would be fitting of Get Togetha to create something based on one of my most favorite iconic films ever "Mo' Better Blues." Without giving away the nitty gritty, the story is about a love triangle gone awry where Denzel Washington makes clear to all ...

Charismatic, handsome, leading young jazz musician of the 1980s and 90s. Marsalis grew up a member of the "Royal Family" of jazz in New Orleans.

In rethinking the Tony-winning 2008 rock musical Passing Strange for the screen, director Spike Lee made sure to do the right thing: not fuck up what worked like gangbusters onstage.

With his film 'adaptation' of Stew's rock musical, Spike Lee explores the Obama phenomenon and what it means to pass for black.

With his world-famous older brothers Wynton on ``headliner'' trumpet and Branford on sexy saxophone, Delfeayo Marsalis chose the trombone, gawky and U-shaped, without valves and prone to growl rather than purr.

THERE was a time when Papo Vazquez , an Afro-Puerto Rican trombonist, did not understand jazz.

The tragedy of actor Wesley Snipes' career was not due to the fact that he was sentenced to three years of jail time for tax evasion in 2008, but rather because it overshadowed a prolific decade of work in which he.... The tragedy of actor Wesley Snipes' career was not due to the fact that he was sentenced to three years of jail time for tax ...

Last week, because no other movie -- including "Year One" -- meshed with my schedule, I ended up seeing "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3." What a mistake that was.

Dancehall music was really hot in the early 1990s. Shabba Ranks, Mad Cobra and Patra all had hit songs in the United States, so it was no surprise when a group of Jamaicans decided to put up some money and produce Kla$h, a movie based on the genre.

Denzel plays the good guy in The Taking of Pelham 123, but he's been the bad guy plenty of times too.

Another big-budget Tony Scott action flick, another opportunity to slam his directorial flourishes: clumsy plots, spastic camera movements, and a nearly childish disregard for plausibility.