More than 550 actors, directors, writers and musicians — including Jane Fonda, Billie Eilish, Pedro Pascal, Gracie Abrams, Spike Lee, Viola Davis, Barbra Streisand, Ben Stiller, John Legend, Janelle Monae, and Natalie Portman — have teamed up to relaunch the Committee for the First Amendment, a group originally formed in …
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Denzel Washington, one of Hollywood’s most noted movie stars, said he no longer watches movies himself. In a recent interview with GQ alongside Highest 2 Lowest co-star A$AP Rocky and director Spike Lee, Washington claimed to not be interested in watching anything on the big screen. In the interview, Rocky …
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Spike Lee’s brilliance as a movie director has never been in question. For decades, moviegoers have come to appreciate his eye for artsy, captivating visuals, such as the opening montage of his latest film, Highest 2 Lowest, which begins with the magnificence of a Brooklyn morning. Lee’s sense for music …
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ESPN has dropped Spike Lee‘s forthcoming multi-part documentary series about former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. The sports network confirmed to Reuters that they will not to broadcast the series, which Lee is directing. “ESPN, Colin Kaepernick, and Spike Lee have collectively decided to no longer proceed with this project as …
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Leave it to Spike Lee to explode the typical high-stakes remake. His new film, Highest 2 Lowest, which opened Friday, flips Akira Kurosawa’s mannered 1963 staple, High and Low, into a rowdy, topical, laugh-out-loud romp (starring Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, and A$AP Rocky) that’s as beautifully jarring as a dissonant …
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A$AP Rocky has released “Trunks” and “Both Eyes Closed,” two new songs from the Highest 2 Lowest soundtrack. Both tracks appear in the Spike Lee-directed, Denzel Washington-starring film, with “Trunks” being an integral plot point (no spoilers!). It’s unclear if the tracks were crafted from the perspective of rapper Yung …
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Salsa icon Eddie Palmieri, who died Aug. 6 at the age of 88, was one of the artists who best summed up the restless beauty of the New York music scene. Born in East Harlem to Puerto Rican parents — and the younger brother of Charlie, another virtuoso keyboardist and …
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A$AP Rocky‘s long-awaited comeback album, Don’t Be Dumb, is still nowhere in sight, but he does have two new songs in Spike Lee‘s new movie, Highest 2 Lowest, which also features A$AP in a leading role. “Trunks” and “Both Eyes Closed” will both appear on the film’s soundtrack album, due …
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Denzel Washington‘s creative relationship with director Spike Lee goes all the way back to the 1990s’Mo’ Better Blues, which they followed up with the landmark moviesMalcolm X,He Got Game, andInside Man. After a 19-year break, they have reunited for the kidnapping thriller Highest 2 Lowest. It hits theaters August 15 …
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A new Spike Lee movie is still a calendar-clearing event; in the near 30 years since She’s Gotta Have It helped kickstart the Amerindie boom and introduced the world to a brash, trash-talking auteur from Brooklyn, he’s given us era-defining statements and eccentric sidebars, epic biopics and intimate performance movies, …
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