Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite a muted reception back in May 1994 — certainly compared to Spike Lee’s previous film “Malcolm X” — “Crooklyn” has endured ...

Oh, the perilous joys of nostalgia on film. Memory is inviting. You can write and rewrite the narrative until it achieves a sort of crystalline perfection. Your best day, that first love, the purity ...

According to the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, their "One Film, One New York" contest "sparked a lively citywide discussion around water-coolers about great New York movies." ...

A still from Spike Lee’s Crooklyn. Hopscotch, stick ball, dominoes, and double-dutch: the 1994 film Crooklyn opens with all of this and more playing out on the stoops and sidewalks of the ...

Relatively unknown at the time, Harlem’s own, Bokeem Woodbine got his start as an extra in Ernest Dickerson‘s classic film, Juice. After a starring role in HBO’s Strapped, Woodbine would go on to have ...

Crooklyn, Spike Lee’s ode to brownstone Brooklyn, has won the inaugural “One Film, One New York” contest, which invited New Yorkers to vote on which of five Gotham-related films should be shown at ...