Spike Lee rips Rahm Emanuel on 'Chi-Raq' orange carpet
Kind words are in short supply for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel at the premiere of Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq" in New...
View ArticleIn "Chi-raq" the sex strike is...
Sex strikes, like the one in "Chi-raq," can be powerful motivators - at the very least, they're great for publicity Women have withheld sex to achieve everything from an end to violence to a decent...
View ArticleSpike Lee rips Rahm Emanuel on 'Chi-Raq' orange carpet
Kind words are in short supply for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel at the premiere of Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq" in New...
View ArticleReview: Women force men to lay down guns in ‘Chi-raq’
Outrageous, gaudy, clumsy, preachy, bawdy, bizarre and certainly topical, Spike Lee’s “Chi-raq” is a political protest and a pop-culture explosion. Lee has essentially taken Aristophanes’ classic play,...
View ArticleIt’s ‘Exploitive and Problematic’
Chance the Rapper has a bone to pick with Spike Lee over the content of Lee’s latest film, “Chi-Raq.” Chance took to Twitter Friday morning to criticize Lee’s modern re-telling of “Lysistrata” by...
View ArticleSpike Lee rips Rahm Emanuel at 'Chi-Raq' premiere in New York
NEW YORK — Kind words were in short supply for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel at the premiere of Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq” in New York on Tuesday night. Emmanuel fired Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy after...
View ArticleTeyonah Parris hopes to 'inspire change' with her role in Spike Lee's 'Chi-Raq'
Long before the Friday release of Spike Lee's latest movie, "Chi-Raq," the film's theme and tone stirred controversy, particularly in the city where it's set, Chicago. A modern retelling of the Greek...
View ArticleMovie Review | Message emerges from satire about race in 'Chi-Raq'
Chi-Raq is destined to make almost everybody angry — not for what it says about Chicago homicide statistics, especially regarding young blacks, but for how it says it. Director and co-writer Spike Lee...
View Article"Chi-Raq": From Spike Lee, strident polemic in updated Lysistrata
There's a lot of sermonizing going on in Spike Lee's Chi-Raq, although only about five minutes' worth of it comes from the pulpit. There, John Cusack in the role of a Chicago preacher, the only white...
View Article“Lysistrata” Performed by Cal State East Bay’s Department of Theatre & Dance...
(Source: California State University, East Bay) California State University, East Bay's Department of Theatre & Dance presented Aristophanes' classic play 'Lysistrata' using the contemporary...
View ArticleFilmmaker Kevin Willmott to participate in online chat about 'Chi-Raq' (KU -...
(Source: KU - The University of Kansas) LAWRENCE - More than 2,600 people have been shot in Chicago this year, a number that has grabbed national headlines. When Kevin Willmott, associate professor of...
View ArticleSpike Lee Blasts Chance The Rapper Over 'Chi-Raq' Critique
Spike Lee responded to Chance the Rapper's criticism of his new movie Chi-Raq by noting the rapper's father, Ken Williams-Bennett, works with Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel in an interview on MSNBC....
View ArticleKansas filmmaker Kevin Willmott teams with Spike Lee for new movie
To write a modern-day story on gangs and gun violence in America, Kevin Willmott turned to a Greek comedy written in 411 B.C. for inspiration. Willmott, a filmmaker and associate professor of film and...
View ArticleSpike Lee's latest film looks at sex-strikes as a political weapon
In Aristophanes' ancient comedy Lysistrata, the women of Greece, sick of war and bloodshed, are driven by the eponymous heroine to go on a sex strike as a means of forcing the men to broker peace. US...
View ArticleSpike Lee rebuffs Chicago-based rapper's criticism of Chi-Raq
Do the Right Thing director says Chance the Rapper’s father works for the city’s mayor, who has been criticised for Chicago’s high gun crime...
View ArticleSpike Lee rips Rahm Emanuel on 'Chi-Raq' orange carpet
Kind words are in short supply for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel at the premiere of Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq" in New...
View ArticleSex, Drugs, Wu Tang Clan and Spike Lee
News on December 9, 2015 that the Wu Tang Clan had chosen to donate a good portion of the profits from the sale of their Once Upon A Time in Shaolin album to charity upon realizing the buyer of the...
View ArticleSpike Lee rips Rahm Emanuel on 'Chi-Raq' orange carpet
Kind words are in short supply for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel at the premiere of Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq" in New...
View ArticleSpike Lee rips Rahm Emanuel at 'Chi-Raq' premiere in New York
NEW YORK — Kind words were in short supply for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel at the premiere of Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq” in New York on Tuesday night. Emmanuel fired Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy after...
View ArticleSpike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq’ earns impressive box office opening in Chicago
Spike Lee’s musical drama Chi-Raq was released this weekend through a limited release and did particularly well in Chicago, where the film is set and was shot. Lee’s latest project is a modern telling...
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