What makes “He Got Game” unique for a hoop movie is that the climactic basketball scene is one-on-one. Not the big showdown in a packed gym with a scorekeeper and clock, the typical definition ...

Read the Empire Movie review of He Got Game. After a couple of seriously worrying missteps, Lee is back at the top of his game, positioning ...

The father, the son and the holy game. In the spirit of basketball, we take it back to Spike Lee’s 1998 film He Got Game starring Denzel Washington. Spike Lee has built a reputation based on his ...

The movie is perhaps best remembered for the “Jimmy Dolan Shake and Bake” move he teaches Saleh (fake left, fake right, between your opponent’s legs). ‘Basketball Diaries’ (1995) ...

He Got Game is a movie that your children’s children are going to watch, and clearly the legacy of the film is going strong if we’re still talking about it 25 years later. Happy 25th birthday ...

He Got Game serves not just as another reminder of how damn good this guy is an actor, but how effective it can be to see him in a role that portrays a complicated father-son relationship.

He Got Game Trading Blue Chips for Uncut Gems : The NBA Cinematic Universe Josh and Benny Safdie’s Uncut Gems could lazily be classified as a “basketball movie,” which raises the stakes in the third ...

“He Got Game” (Spike Lee, 1998) at 7 p.m. on FX. A basketball movie in a league of its own: powerful, passionate, full of love and anger, wisdom and sarcasm, violence and beauty. On one level ...

"Now Spike made NIL movies before NIL. That's what I'm talking about," he said. "He Got Game" exposed the high-stakes world of college sports, where coaches, boosters, and agents compete for the ...

It’s just not the same if he didn’t have something to do with the movie, with the Part 2.” The original “He Got Game,” starring Allen as a young basketball phenom and Washington as his ...