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A viral Facebook post shared more than 2,200 times claims the two pictures show military memorials damaged during George Floyd protests. Verdict: False The images, which predate 2020, come from two separate incidents that were unrelated to the recent protests. Fact Check:   Protests and riots have taken place across the…

Da 5 Bloods Spike Lee Netflix 12 June 2020 (US) Other In 1935, Langston Hughes, the bard of Harlem, wrote a poem entitled "Let America Be America Again", Within his lamentation of a land failing to live up to its potential, he hoped for a future in which no man…

Updated / Sunday, 14 Jun 2020 17:20 Although overlong, this new arrival to Netflix is a must-see For a 63-year-old, Spike Lee rightfully - and thankfully - remains the angriest of young men. His passion burns from every frame of Da 5 Bloods, an epic examination of friend and foe, grace and…

Spike Lee took a break from basking in the positive reviews for his new film Da 5 Bloods to call out the treatment his fellow director Woody Allen has received.During an appearance Saturday on New York station WOR's In The Morning show, Lee, 63, addressed the Manhattan director as his 'friend'…

The rapidly unfolding movement to pull down Confederate monuments around the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of police has extended to statues of slave traders, imperialists, conquerors and explorers around the world, including Christopher Columbus, Cecil Rhodes and Belgium’s King Leopold II. Protests and,…

MOVIE REVIEW “DA 5 BLOODS” Rated R. On Netflix. Grade: B As George Floyd-inspired protests rage in the streets, Academy Award-winning writer-director Spike Lee delivers another cinematic piece of black history. But for all its timeliness, “Da 5 Bloods” is confusing. Is it a documentary, a semi-comic Vietnam-fave-movie mixtape or…

When Green Book beat BlacKkKlansman for the Best Picture Oscar in 2019, Spike Lee took it with his characteristic sardonicism. "I'm snakebit," he explained to the press. "Every time someone's driving somebody, I lose." Lee's bitterness was warranted. In the three decades since his masterpiece, Do the Right Thing, was…

Workers removed a controversial statue of Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton from Civic Square in Hamilton, New Zealand.MICHAEL BRADLEY/AFP via Getty ImagesAt the University of Oxford, protesters have stepped up their longtime push to remove a statue of Rhodes, the Victorian imperialist who served as prime minister of the Cape…

Looking for something new to watch on Netflix? We're here to help! Here is a list of all the best new shows and movies released on Netflix the week of June 12-18.Finally, some good f---ing movies and TV shows. After a couple of weak weeks, Netflix has a baker's dozen…

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