Spike Lee

How Spike Lee bends the truth to tackle contemporary racism

By Tom Bond

In BlacKkKlansman, the director dramatises real-life events in order to make his point.

Spike Lee and the art of the challenging postscript

By Chance Solem-Pfeifer

BlacKkKlansman is the latest ‘Spike Lee Joint’ to feature a powerful, thought-provoking epilogue.

BlacKkKlansman

By Adam Woodward

A black cop infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan in Spike Lee’s fiery, fiercely funny takedown of institutional racism.

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BlacKkKlansman – first look review

By Adam Woodward

Spike Lee’s latest interrogation of racism in America is his most entertaining and thought-provoking film in years.

The Cannes Film Festival just announced its most diverse line-up ever

By David Jenkins

Jean-Luc Godard, Spike Lee and Alice Rohrwacher are set to compete for this year’s Palme d’Or.

Netflix’s She’s Gotta Have It is a timely ode to black womanhood

By Roxanne Sancto

Nola Darling is reborn in this vital update of Spike Lee’s 1986 film.

Malcolm X at 25: The untold mystery of Betty Shabazz

By Nadia Latif

Spike Lee’s epic biopic of the black civil rights leader offers only glimpses of the great woman behind the man.

Watch the trailer for Spike Lee’s Netflix Original, She’s Gotta Have It

By Juliette Cottu

Take a peek at the director's first foray into TV and meet the new Nola Darling.

This amazing video explores the making of Do the Right Thing

By Jack Godwin

Take a fascinating behind the scenes look at the director’s 1989 film.

Spike Lee’s Rodney King film is coming to Netflix next month

By Jack Godwin

The director has adapted Roger Guenveur Smith’s one-man show.

Six great films that show the dark side of the TV industry

By Tom Bond

From Network to Nightcrawler, cinema has a long history of exposing television’s rotten core.

30 TV shows you can’t afford to miss in 2017

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Must-see series coming your way next year including Taboo, American Gods and Stranger Things.

The 25 best films of 2016

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Our annual rundown of the year’s finest new releases, featuring Paterson, Love & Friendship, Rogue One and more.

Chi-Raq

By Adam Woodward

This stylish, urgent Chicago-set satire is a major return to form for its director, Spike Lee.

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Sensational artwork from the first 100 years of black film posters

By Little White Lies

These beautiful, revealing posters highlight African-American culture’s contribution to cinema.

Lone Star: a profile of Denzel Washington in seven chapters

By Jessica Kiang

In a landscape of total celebrity saturation, is this enigmatic Hollywood icon is the last of the pure movie stars?

Every film by a black director at the 2016 BFI London Film Festival

By Ewan Cameron

New films from Ava DuVernay and Spike Lee are part of the official programme’s focus on diversity.

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