Spike Lee's latest, Chi-Raq, is designed to provoke: women in Chicago's south side go on a "sex strike" to curb gang violence, cribbing from Lysistrata, Aristophanes' comic account of the ...

Indeed, in “Chi-Raq,” gang violence serves as a celluloid proxy — a big screen metaphor — for the myriad shortcomings of African-American men.

Part sermon, part stand-up special and largely, bizarrely entertaining, “Chi-Raq” likely will go down as the best (and only) rhyme-based, Greek play-inspired sex comedy to examine life in one ...

Lee appeals to Chicago pride in Chi-Raq's opening moments, with a stark lyric video featuring Nick Cannon as rapper / gang leader Demetrius Dupree, spitting equal parts faith and hope in Chicago ...

While “Chi-Raq” is very much set in the here and now, its origins date back to screenwriter Kevin Willmott acting in the ancient greek play “Lysistrata,” which “Chi-Raq” is based upon ...

Opening Dec. 4, Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq” is destined to make almost everybody angry — not for what it says about Chicago’s homicide statistics, especially among young African-Americans, but ...

As it turns out, Spike Lee’s controversial film “Chi-Raq” isn’t about Chiraq. Not the one Chicagoans have come to know. I attended the film’s premiere at the Chicago T… ...

Spike Lee‘s “Chi-Raq” opens with a stark statistic: there have been more murders in Chicago over the last decade than U.S. soldiers lost in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.Most of these ...

Yes, "Chi-Raq" is what Lee has also described as satire — a modern treatment of the Greek play "Lysistrata," first staged in 411 B.C. In fact, it's a Spike Lee satire, ...

One doesn’t often have the opportunity to converse with an actor who’s sitting next to the real-life figure his character is based on — but from the get-go, little about “Chi-Raq” has ...

Chi-Raq filmed this past summer, and not long afterward, Amazon’s Ted Hope and Bob Berney approached Roadside Attractions and ongoing partner Lionsgate about handling parts of the title’s release.