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Few twentieth century film industry professionals can boast a career as storied or influential as Sidney Poitier - the quality and significance of his work on screen as an actor, behind the scenes as director,...

This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. David Byrne’s American Utopia begins with what is almost a caricature of the man himself. Infamously awkward...

It’s unfortunate for director Yemi Bamiro that his documentary One Man and His Shoes comes out in the same year as ESPN’s superb doc series The Last Dance. Both deal with Michael Jordan’s basketball...

Spike Lee is back with the characteristically audacious and opinionated BlacKkKlansman, and according to our Senior Features Ed, Tom, this is nothing but good. Tom awarded the latest Spike Lee joint a...

In 2012, when Obama was president and racism in America seemed to be fading, Django Unchained featured a notorious scene with the Ku Klux Klan. Squabbling about eyeholes and spare bags, the white supremacist...

In 2012, when Obama was president and racism in America seemed to be fading, Django Unchained featured a notorious scene with the Ku Klux Klan. Squabbling about eyeholes and spare bags, the white supremacist...

Spike Lee’s Pass Over brings Antoinette Nwandu’s play of the same name to the screen, delivering something that’s neither a fresh work nor your run-of-the-mill filmed play. Pass Over begins with shots...

“This is an emergency!” Spike Lee proclaims at the outset of his latest feature. There is an anger coursing through Chi-Raq that hasn’t been felt in the director’s work for some time; as passionate as...

“By any means necessary” – the mantra that often opens Spike Lee’s films – would appear to reflect the director's core beliefs: the absolute necessity of equality for African Americans, by any means...

Over the past few years there has been a renewed push for representation of black voices in Hollywood. With recent online campaigns such as #OscarsSoWhite, and more physical movements like Black Lives Matter,...

Friendships are tested in this mellow hybrid between a documentary and a drama. Cronies' style references sitcoms like The Office and Parks & Rec with its breaking the fourth wall, but struggles to say...

Chan-wook Park's Oldboy squints into a broken mirror. It sees not a reflection but a remake; Spike Lee's version of events gurns back - the very definition of a pointless movie. Stripped of the original's...