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Man with curly hair and glasses standing in front of a poster advertising "Brooklyn's own MIKE TYSON".
Review

Do the Right Thing (1989)

by Kambole Campbell

Spike Lee’s mag­num opus tells the sto­ry of a tense, swel­ter­ing sum­mer day in Brook­lyn, New York.

5
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Two men, one wearing a Union Jack t-shirt and the other a brown vest, sit on the bonnet of a red sports car.
In Praise Of

Revisiting Summer of Sam – Spike Lee’s other great heatwave movie

by Justine Smith

A ser­i­al killer and swel­ter­ing heat make for a lethal cock­tail in the director’s under­rat­ed 1999 film.
Four men, one wearing a cap, discussing outdoors in wooded area.
Incoming

Spike Lee has started casting his new Civil War drama

by Charles Bramesco

Lucy Hale and Lucas Till are the first actors attached to Son of the South.
A man in a white shirt and blue cape with a symbol on it, standing in a room with red walls and candles.

How BlacKkKlansman joins the dots between our racist past and present

by Kambole Campbell

Like Do the Right Thing and Bam­boo­zled before it, Spike Lee’s film is a wake up call to white America.
Two men in white and red uniforms, discussing documents in a room with a large Christian cross illuminated in the background.

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.
Two smiling men in suits, one Black and one white, standing together.

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.
A man with curly hair wearing a red jacket sitting in a car and holding a camera.
Review

BlacKkKlansman

by Adam Woodward

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

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Two men, one wearing a plaid shirt and the other wearing a yellow shirt, both with facial hair, stand in a room with posters on the wall.
Festivals

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.
A woman with blonde hair and a radiant smile leaning on the edge of a swimming pool.
Festivals

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

by David Jenkins, Adam Woodward

Jean-Luc Godard, Spike Lee and Alice Rohrwach­er are set to com­pete for this year’s Palme d’Or.
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Not Movies

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.