While “Chi-Raq” is very much set in the here and now, its origins date back to screenwriter Kevin Willmott acting in the ancient greek play “Lysistrata,” which “Chi-Raq” is based upon, back in college ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Hughes is an entertainment writer covering cinema and genre TV. This article is more than 9 years old. With a single trailer, ...

Power Book III: Raising Kanan zooms in on the teen years of Kanan Stark (Mekai Curtis). His mother, Raquel “Raq” Thomas’ (Patina Miller), informs a lot of who he will later become. Ambitious and ...

The movie, the first feature produced by Amazon Studios, is a loose adaptation of the ancient Greek drama “Lysistrata.” In Lee’s telling, a group of determined women in Chicago band together to demand ...

Opening Dec. 4, Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq” is destined to make almost everybody angry — not for what it says about Chicago’s homicide statistics, especially among young African-Americans, but for how it ...

Even before the trailer for Spike Lee’s latest film, Chi-raq, was unveiled, there was controversy. From the very beginning, there were people who objected to the film’s title as well as to a New ...

The term damned if you do and damned if you don’t kept coming to mind combing through the pushback to Spike Lee’s latest, “Chi-Raq.” The film was co-written by University of Kansas film professor ...

Spike Lee and controversy go together like macaroni and cheese. His latest project, “Chi-Raq,” which hits theaters Dec. 4, is no different. But after almost 30 years in the industry, the Atlanta-born, ...

Patina Miller earned her respect as a fierce drug lord in the gritty streets of 90s-era Southside Jamaica, Queens, in STARZ's crime drama "Power Book III: Raising Kanan" and as an acclaimed actress ...

MTV's chief film critic argues that Spike Lee's latest was the best film of the year, though you won't see it at the Academy Awards this year. is MTV's Chief Film Critic and a regular contributor to ...