Spike Lee's new movie

From the New Yorker:


These deeply sedimented recollections emerge thanks to Spike Lee’s rousing yet deeply reflective new movie, “Red Hook Summer” (opening tomorrow), which is, in effect, a gospel musical that gets its narrative drive from the conflict between a young skeptic and an elderly preacher in a predominantly black neighborhood in Brooklyn.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2012/08/red-hook-summer-the-image-of-the-spirit.html#ixzz23MCNQsaA

Interesting. Though Entertainment Weekly hated it.

NY Times:

The Two Halves of a Neighborhood's Soul, Bared for All to See "Red Hook Summer," directed by Spike Lee, looks at African-American resilience in a struggling New York City neighborhood.

http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/movies/movie-review-red-hook-summer-directed-by-spike-lee.html?nl=movies&emc=mua5_20120810

"a gospel musical that gets its narrative drive from the conflict between a young skeptic and an elderly preacher in a predominantly black neighborhood in Brooklyn."



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Apparently the thing about the movie is that it turns out that the preacher is a pedophile - which many critics think throws the whole movie off whack.

damn! i thought it was a movie about Red Hook brewery.
a black preacher pedophile?! i think i'll pass on that one.