CHICAGO (WLS) -- "We did not make up the term Chi-Raq. That wasn't us. That was your fellow, local rappers," filmmaker Spike Lee said Monday in Chicago, the day after his movie premiered here. Lee and ...

More alive than most of the year’s films put together, Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq” is urgent agitprop that pulsates with unalloyed rage for the “self-inflicted genocide” of South Chicago and explodes with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kendrick Lamar pays homage to Spike Lee's work - Credit: by Michael Owens/Getty Images; Tristan Fewings/Getty Images Spike Lee, ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Spike Lee's explosive movie "Chi-Raq" continues to bring attention to violence in the streets of Chicago, and ABC7 Eyewitness News entertainment reporter Janet Davies talked to the ...

*The Electronic Urban Report/EUR recently attended a screening of Spike Lee‘s latest film, “C hi-Raq.” It’s a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against ...

*Spike Lee’s determination to keep the title of his upcoming film “Chi-raq” untouched … continues to rub local officials in Chicago the wrong way. In an interview with Chicago magazine, Lee spoke on ...

Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq" is an exuberant, angry, in-your-face and all-over-the-place movie that takes "Lysistrata" from ancient Greece and drops it into present-day Chicago, rhyming couplets and all.

Spike Lee's controversial film “Chi-Raq” will make its world premiere Sunday night in Chicago. The film's title, a portmanteau of "Chicago" and Iraq," has garnered significant criticism throughout the ...