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Join me for School Daze , a very Special Nick's Pix Screening  on Wednesday, September 10th, at 7 p.m. in Oak Park! Tickets are only $9 ($7 for seniors!) Get your tix HERE! WAKE UP: A Look Back at Spike Lee’s Wild, Loud, Vital Masterpiece School Daze I absolutely love School Daze . I loved it when it first hit screens back in 1988, and I love it even more today. It’s a film that bursts with energy, ideas, and emotion. It's one of my favorite Spike Lee joints, wild, flawed, a

In honor of the release of Spike Lee ’s brilliant new movie Highest 2 Lowest   , a remake of Akira Kurosawa ’s High and Low , I’ve decided to do something I’ve never done before: rank every single one of his theatrical narrative films in order of preference. NOTE: Highest 2 Lowest is not included on this list. I just saw it...I have to let it ruminate for a while. This is strictly narrative, dramatic, fiction-based Spike Lee. That means no television work, no documentaries,

My next monthly Nick's Pix  series is the 1992 Eddie Murphy  comedy "Boomerang," directed by Reginald Hudlin , featuring an all-star lineup of comedy greats. This one-night-only screening is Wed. November 13th at Classic Cinema's Lake Theater in Oak Park. Get your tickets here! One Murphy's best movies and a personal favorite of mine. Eddie Murphy in the 1980s There was a period in the 1980s when everything Eddie Murphy touched turned to gold. He dominated the box office wit