This is what Spike Lee has done with his latest movie, "Chi-Raq," which I watched Sunday night at the Santa Monica Place ArcLight. He took the age-old story of Lysistrata, wherein a strong female ...

in Chi-Raq. Even if the now-veteran director lays everything on a bit thick, repeatedly makes many of the same points and lets things go on too long, he’s still found a lively and legitimate way ...

It's even the premise of the new movie "Chi-Raq". With Chicago reeling from an autumn of gun violence, seeing a mostly-male crowd camped out for a new shoe store recently left April Lawson enraged.