Repost: Red Hook Summer (December 12th at the Cleveland Museum of Art)

[RED HOOK SUMMER screens Wednesday December 12th at 6:45 pm at the Cleveland Museum of Art.]

Review by Bob Ignizio

Spike Lee's RED HOOK SUMMER starts out as a fairly typical coming of age story. 13 year old Flik Royale (Jules Brown) has been sent by his mother to spend the summer in Red Hook, New York under the care of his Grandfather, Da Good Bishop Enoch Rouse (Clarke Peters). The urban locale is a bit of a culture shock for Flik, accustomed as he is to life in suburban Atlanta, but even more jarring is his sudden immersion in religious life. Flik is far more interested in recording the strange new world around him on his iPad2's camera and hanging out with Chazz (Toni Lysaith), the asthmatic daughter of a one of his grandfather's parishioners, than in heeding Enoch's calls to come to Jesus.

Red Hook Summer (opens in Cleveland on August 31st exclusively at Cinemark Valley View)

[RED HOOK SUMMER opens in Cleveland on August 31st exclusively at Cinemark Valley View.]

Review by Bob Ignizio

Spike Lee's RED HOOK SUMMER starts out as a fairly typical coming of age story. 13 year old Flik Royale (Jules Brown) has been sent by his mother to spend the summer in Red Hook, New York under the care of his Grandfather, Da Good Bishop Enoch Rouse (Clarke Peters). The urban locale is a bit of a culture shock for Flik, accustomed as he is to life in suburban Atlanta, but even more jarring is his sudden immersion in religious life. Flik is far more interested in recording the strange new world around him on his iPad2's camera and hanging out with Chazz (Toni Lysaith), the asthmatic daughter of a one of his grandfather's parishioners, than in heeding Enoch's calls to come to Jesus.