With Spike Lee as her mentor, Aiyana-Lee transforms her real-life hardships into a breakout role and original song in the ...

At the Cannes Film Festival premiere of “Highest 2 Lowest” in May, all eyes were on the crime drama’s fourth lead: A$AP Rocky ...

Directed by the Oscar-deserving Lee, Highest 2 Lowest also stars A$AP Rocky, Jeffrey Wright, and Ilfenesh Hadera in the buzzy film now playing in select theaters/opening Sept. 5, 2025 on Apple TV+.

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

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

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

The Oscar-winner’s latest collaboration with Lee – based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 masterpiece ‘High and Low’ – is short on emotional depth ...

The last time Spike Lee adapted a film considered an untouchable masterpiece (Park Chan-wook’s “Old Boy”) didn’t go so well. He’s done better in reenvisioning Akira Kurosawa’s great 1963 kidnap noir, ...

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

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 ...

There is something in New York that is its own,” Hadera said. “You can stroll through an exhibit or sing your heart out and ...

Spike Lee trusts her. Denzel Washington knows what she can do. Now is time for the rest of Hollywood to wake up to the ...