Spike Lee: A Stale, Tired Act
There was actually a time long, long ago when I admired filmmaker Spike Lee and eagerly anticipated his new movies. Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s, Lee was making the type of original, gripping, eccentric, gritty, controversial movies that nobody else (least of all, the Hollywood establishment) would dare to make. At that time, as an independent young director, Spike really was a brave trailblazer who existed outside the mainstream and had to fight for financing in order to get him works made.