Spike Lee
VOD film review: BlacKkKlansman
December 24, 2018 | Nathanael SmithSpike Lee’s uncomfortably entertaining comedy viciously skewers modern American politics with a hammer.Read More
VOD film review: She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
August 7, 2018 | David FarnorSpike Lee’s coming-of-age comedy is a bold, trailblazing achievement.Read More
Trailer: Spike Lee’s Pass Over premieres on Amazon Prime Video
April 20, 2018 | David FarnorSpike Lee may be in the middle of She’s Gotta Have It at Netflix, but his latest joint, Pass Over, is premiering on Amazon Prime Video this week.
Pass Over is a play by Antoinette Nwandu, an African-American playwright based … Read More
Netflix UK TV review: She’s Gotta Have It (spoilers)
November 26, 2017 | Benedict SealLyrical, perfectly performed and bitingly relevant, Netflix’s She’s Gotta Have It series is all Spike Lee and it’s glorious.Read More
First look Netflix UK TV review: She’s Gotta Have It
November 22, 2017 | Benedict SealThis a spoiler-free review of the opening episodes of Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It. Already seen Season 1? Read our spoiler-filled review of the whole season here.
It’s not often that a director gets to remake their own … Read More
Netflix UK film review: Rodney King
May 2, 2017 | Tom BondThis powerful monologue giving a voice to Rodney King is one of the year’s must-see documentaries.Read More
VOD film review: Chi-Raq
December 1, 2016 | David FarnorWitty, funny and powerful, Spike Lee’s rallying cry to disarm demands to be seen.Read More
Exclusive clip: Samuel L. Jackson in Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq
November 30, 2016 | David FarnorSpike Lee’s Chi-Raq is released in UK cinemas on Friday 2nd December – and we’ve got an exclusive from the film to give you a glimpse of its incendiary brilliance.
Inspired by the ancient Greek play “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes, the … Read More
Amazon’s Chi-Raq gets UK release
November 4, 2016 | David FarnorAmazon’s Chi-Raq has finally got a UK release date. Spike Lee’s stirring, stunning musical is the first original movie produced by Amazon.
A modern adaptation of the Greek play Lysistrata, by Aristophanes, Chi-Raq stars Teyonah Paris as Lysistrata, who leads … Read More
Amazon releases trailer for Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq
November 4, 2015 | David FarnorAmazon has released the trailer for Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq.
The first Amazon original movie is a serious statement from both the streaming service and Lee, whose film is a modern adaptation of the Greek play Lysistrata, by Aristophanes. Teyonah Paris … Read More