Anytime a flashy Rolls-Royce cruises on camera to James Brown’s The Payback, that film is automatically deemed cool by ...

Spike Lee and Denzel Washington reunite in a new action film, Highest 2 Lowest, a reimagining of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 film, ...

Bill Hader, director Oliver Hermanus and other Kurosawa enthusiasts pick must-see and deep-cut films by the Japanese master ...

Highlights this week include Angela Yee Day in Brooklyn and Manhattan’s 2025 Charlie Parker Festival — both free.

Denzel Washington collaborates with director/executive producer Spike Lee, fellow veteran actor Jeffrey Wright, in entertaining though uneven twist on today’s rich and ...

Spike Lee thinks that people from Chicago hate the movie Chiraq.

He’s done better in reenvisioning Akira Kurosawa’s great 1963 kidnap noir ... Easter eggs and political themes are layered ...

“Highest 2 Lowest” Marks a Conservative Pivot for Spike Lee Denzel Washington stars as a music executive who takes police matters into his own hands, in this remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 kidnapping ...

The overwhelming final impression, from top to bottom and highest 2 lowest, is of the sheer joy Lee takes in his work and all ...

Spike Lee's latest masterpiece, Highest 2 Lowest, delivers an epic ending but fails to immortalize itself in the same way as ...

A resonant voice sings “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” from the musical “Oklahoma” at the start of Spike Lee’s neo-noir crime thriller “Highest 2 Lowest,” showing through Labor Day at the Martha’s ...

It takes a gutsy filmmaker to attempt to remake a classic, and Spike Lee certainly aimed for the sky with Highest 2 Lowest.