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Spike Lee said at the Sundance Film Festival that he made Red Hook Summer because Hollywood wouldn't have made that kind of movie about black people.

The first sign of trouble in "Red Hook Summer" is a reminder of a much better Spike Lee joint set in the same neighborhood over 20 years ago. While sheltered Atlanta teen Flik (Jules Taylor Brown) gets a tour of the Red Hook

By Channon Hodge Area politicians warn that changes in customs inspections could decimate the shipping industry in Red Hook. Under the proposal, US Customs and Border Protection inspections would end in Brooklyn. Currently, Customs inspectors flag one

Red Hook Summer kicks off after the sullen and angry Flick (newcomer Jules Brown) is dropped off by his mother to spend the summer with his bishop grandfather, Enoch Rouse (Clarke Peters). The first half of the film passes

Lee's self-financed “Red Hook Summer'' was kept under tight wraps until its Sunday night premiere, whereupon it was greeted by a packed audience at the Eccles Theater with diminishing affection and growing incomprehension. Set in the housing projects

For those expecting Mookie's mid-career encore to signify a return to Spike Lee's roots, "Red Hook Summer" instead surprises — and to some extent delights — as yet another radically unique entry in the director's iconoclastic oeuvre.

Spike Lee said at the Sundance Film Festival that he made Red Hook Summer because Hollywood wouldn't have made that kind of movie about black people.

A small gym called Sessions Fit opened a few weeks ago on Van Brunt Street in the space where the acclaimed restaurant 360 used to be (and, more recently, the short-lived Italian restaurant O' Barone). The studio is offering spinning, boot camp,

By Dan Hyman Last August, just five months shy of the world premiere of his latest film, Red Hook Summer, Spike Lee belatedly discovered its musical centerpiece. While attending a Michael Jackson tribute concert at Los Angeles' W Hotel, the acclaimed

Explaining his controversial statement made during a Q and A session at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, Lee says, 'I'm not here to condemn Hollywood, even if it may sound like that.'