There's Samuel L. Jackson, a favorite of Lee's, Blaring "Wake Up!" among his omniscient pleas. Chi-raq is one of the best films of the year. Top 20, maybe Top 10, certainly near.

Spike Lee dug Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl LIX halftime show, and he especially liked what he (and others) saw as an homage to his 2015 film "Chi-Raq." Lamar cast Samuel L. Jackson as Uncle Sam in ...