Filmmaker Spike Lee, last seen wearing a Lawrence Taylor New York Giants jersey to last week's Bulls victory over the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, will be at Chicago State University from 6-8 p.m. tomorrow for a lecture. more ›

North Central College of Naperville chose filmmaker Spike Lee as as its Martin Luther King Jr. week speaker. "An Evening with Spike Lee" begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday, January 18 and, predictably, some Italian-American groups are crying foul. more ›

Spike Lee's intense 1989 film Do the Right Thing was a seminal achievement. An ambitious, aggressive, stark look at American race relations and how we approach or ignore them until they reach a breaking point, Do the Right Thing has informed Lee's work ever since, for better or worse. When Lee's on, his films match the level set by "DTRT" (Crooklyn, Malcolm X). When he's not, his films suffer (Bamboozled) more ›

Spike Lee announced yesterday at Cannes that he's making a feature documentary about Michael Jordan, financed by the NBA, and tentatively scheduled for release this time next year. [Variety]
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Wade Miller is in, and Mark Prior is on his way to Iowa. Spike Lee is spending time with about 300 CPS students. Someone broke into the Deatrick family's Bolingbrook home and stole a computer, jewelry and a pug named Pixie, but all they really care about is getting their dog back, especially for their kid. Thanks to the Bolingbrook Crime Stoppers, family and friends of the victims, and B96 radio hosts Eddie and... more ›

This weekend’s mainstream cinema offerings are once again slim. Last week offered only the disappointing V For Vendetta while the lone film that sparks our interest this morning is Spike Lee’s Inside Man. more ›

Steve James. more ›