Spike Lee

movies Feb. 12, 2019

Chadwick Boseman Will Be in the Next Spike Lee MovieYou can almost smell the Oscars.

By Anne Victoria Clark

hollywood signs Jan. 22, 2019

Oscar Nominations: The Academy Is a House DividedFinally, the Oscars look like America: in total disagreement with itself.

By Mark Harris

awards season Jan. 8, 2019

Bradley Cooper Double-Dips With Two DGA NominationsSee the full list of DGA nominees.

By Hunter Harris

criticisms Aug. 24, 2018

Spike Lee Defends BlacKkKlansman Depiction of Police After Boots Riley Critique“Look at my films: They’ve been very critical of the police, but on the other hand I’m never going to say all police are corrupt.”

By Halle Kiefer

criticisms Aug. 17, 2018

Boots Riley Takes Issue With the ‘Made-Up’ Story of Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansmanThe Sorry to Bother You director says the film’s deviations from the real story all seem designed to depict the police as champions against racism.

By Halle Kiefer

charlottesville Aug. 9, 2018

Spike Lee Is the One Who Told Barack Obama About Charlottesville“I could see on his face — that shock.”

By Dee Lockett

cannes 2018 Aug. 7, 2018

Spike Lee on BlacKkKlansman and Not Taking the Bait on Kanye“This motherf*cker goes off!”

By Kyle Buchanan

movie review Aug. 6, 2018

Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman Is an Entertaining and Effective Piece of MelodramaThe filmmaker doesn’t do subtlety.

By David Edelstein

encounter Aug. 5, 2018

Playing Tourist With BlacKkKlansman’s John David WashingtonSpike Lee’s new star is becoming face-on-the-movie-poster famous.

By Allison P. Davis

movies July 31, 2018

Topher Grace Does Self-Care by Undoing Film FranchisesSome of us do charcoal masks, others recut The Hobbit trilogy into one simple two-hour movie.

By Anne Victoria Clark

exclusive July 31, 2018

Watch Topher Grace’s Racist Ode to White America in This BlacKkKlansman ClipGrace plays Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke in this exclusive from Spike Lee’s new movie.

By Kyle Buchanan

May 15, 2018

‘That Motherfucker’: Read Spike Lee’s Passionate Anti-Trump Monologue at CannesAt the press conference for his film BlacKkKlansman, Lee was left shaken after this five-minute speech.

By Kyle Buchanan

movie review May 14, 2018

Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman Is Stylish, Hilarious, and Utterly UncompromisingFrom its bombastic title on down, Spike Lee is in stylistic conversation with the blaxploitation genre.

By Emily Yoshida

cinemacon 2018 Apr. 25, 2018

Jason Blum on BlacKkKlansman: ‘They Are Awful But They Are Stupid!’This movie sounds like a hoot.

By Chris Lee

Apr. 25, 2018

Spike Lee Has Seen Black Panther 4 Times AlreadyAt the Tribeca Film Festival, the veteran director professed his love for the film — and discussed Colin Kaepernick.

By Charles Bramesco

cannes 2018 Apr. 12, 2018

Cannes 2018 Lineup: Silver Lake, Spike Lee, and New GodardSolo: A Star Wars Story will screen out of competition.

By Hunter Harris

the industry Jan. 2, 2018

Netflix Needs More She’s Gotta Have It, Specifically a Second Season’s WorthSpike Lee and star DeWanda Wise celebrated the news via Instagram.

By Halle Kiefer

Dec. 12, 2017

Spike Lee Explains Nola Darling’s Amazing Bed in She’s Gotta Have It“It couldn’t have been an ordinary bed. It would not have had the same impact.”

By Hunter Harris

close reads Dec. 4, 2017

The Shallow Radicalism of the She’s Gotta Have It FinaleThis Thanksgiving dinner from hell proves that Nola has no idea who she really is, and neither do the writers.

By Angelica Jade Bastién

tv review Nov. 22, 2017

Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It Is a Scattered, Playful RemakeLee does his thing, and you can take it or leave it.

By Matt Zoller Seitz

Nov. 21, 2017

Spike Lee on Turning She’s Gotta Have It Into a Netflix Series“There were some very interesting discussions among the writers sometimes that were split by gender.”

By Matt Zoller Seitz

trailer mix Oct. 12, 2017

See the First Trailer for Spike Lee’s TV Series She’s Gotta Have ItPremiering on Netflix this Thanksgiving.

By Hunter Harris

Sept. 12, 2017

Spike Lee Looks Back on Crooklyn“I don’t want to sound pompous, but in my career, I’ve done a lot of shit that people didn’t get when it came out, and eventually they catch it!”

By Ashley Clark

Sept. 8, 2017

Spike Lee and Jordan Peele Team Up for Crime Thriller ‘Black Klansman’After breaking records earlier this year with his directorial debut Get Out, Jordan Peele is teaming up with Spike Lee for a new film project. […]

By Megh Wright

cannes 2017 May 22, 2017

Spike Lee Is Worried Trump Will Start a Nuclear War“Hopefully he has the fake codes!”

By Jada Yuan

bernie or bust? May 22, 2017

Spike Lee Won’t Say Who He Voted For, But It Probably Wasn’t Hillary ClintonSpike thinks Trump should be impeached because he can’t dance, among other shortcomings.

By Hunter Harris

Apr. 6, 2017

See a Trailer for Netflix’s Special One-Man Show About Rodney KingRoger Guenveur Smith calls Rodney King the first reality-TV star.

By Hunter Harris

where’s the beef? Jan. 23, 2017

Chrisette Michele Responds to Spike Lee in Song“Spike won’t pay me / a crook from Crooklyn.”

By Dee Lockett

backlash Jan. 19, 2017

Spike Lee Won’t Use Chrisette Michele’s MusicShe’s Gotta Have It won’t have “Black Girl Magic.”

By Jordan Crucchiola

2016 election Nov. 26, 2016

Bernie Sanders and Spike Lee Candidly Discuss the Presidential Election“It is a very different world. And it’s a very frightening world. But we gotta get beyond that.”

By Devon Ivie

anniversaries Nov. 3, 2016

Gene Hackman Was Hell on the Hoosiers SetJack Nicholson was the first choice for his role.

By David Marchese

r.i.p. Sept. 24, 2016

Do the Right Thing Actor Bill Nunn Dead at 62Nunn passed away in his hometown of Pittsburgh.

By Halle Kiefer

the industry Sept. 15, 2016

Spike Lee Will Make a She’s Gotta Have It Series for NetflixIt’s a “contemporary update” of the 1986 film.

By Nate Jones

memorials Apr. 22, 2016

The View From Spike Lee’s Prince Block Party“Is this the line to get in?”

By Nate Jones

feel the bern Apr. 17, 2016

Spike Lee Wants You to ‘Wake Up’ and Vote BernieSpike’s five-minute video also features Susan Sarandon and Alan Cumming, among other celebs.

By Greg Cwik

where’s the beef? Mar. 9, 2016

Chance the Rapper Calls Spike Lee a ‘Liar’Spike reportedly called Chance a “straight-up fraud” at Northwestern University.

By Dee Lockett

sundance 2016 Jan. 25, 2016

Spike Lee on Rampling, Caine, and Oscar Politics“Charlotte Rampling and Stacey Dash need to hang out. And they need to go with God. Both of them.”

By Jada Yuan

#oscarssowhite Jan. 20, 2016

Spike Lee Didn’t Say He Was ‘Boycotting’ Oscars“Chris Rock is a grown-ass man. He can do what he wants to do.”

By Jackson McHenry and E. Alex Jung

reissues Jan. 7, 2016

Off the Wall Reissued With New Spike Lee DocMichael Jackson’s Journey From Motown to Off the Wall will premiere first at Sundance.

By Dee Lockett

chi-raq Dec. 10, 2015

Chance the Rapper Calls Chi-Raq ‘Exploitative’Spike Lee responds: “Chance the Rapper should say full disclosure: His father works for the mayor.”

By Dee Lockett

chat room Dec. 7, 2015

Nick Cannon on Chi-Raq, the Folly of Manhood, and Sex Strikes“When Spike first came to me, he was like, ‘Yo, man, I’m trying to save lives on the South Side of Chicago,’ and I was like, ‘I’m in.’”

By Kevin Lincoln

movie review Dec. 4, 2015