Are we ready for the next rapper-turned-actor? Ice Spice joins the likes of other Ice-named rappers Ice Cube and Ice-T in Hollywood, having beeb cast in a new Spike Lee Joint. Variety reports the Grammy-nominated rapper will appear in Spike Lee’s High and Low, an upcoming English-language reinterpretation of the Akira Kurosawa crime thriller. Lee’s […]
Spike Lee and Denzel Washington reunite for remake of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low
No one is ready for this upcoming Spike Lee joint, especially with it being a reunion between Lee and Denzel Washington, as news has broken that Lee is turning to the work of legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa as he adapts the 1963 film High and Low. Apple Original Films and A24 are partnering on Spike […]
Ten Essential Films of the 1960s
Following on from the 1940s and 1950s, it’s back to the swinging sixties as we look at ten essential films from the decade that you cannot miss… When you think back to key transitions in cinematic history there are a number of eras that saw an almost seismic shift in the kind of films being […]
Akira Kurosawa’s Police Procedural Films
Tom Jolliffe looks at two classic crime thrillers from Akira Kurosawa, Stray Dog and High and Low… His reputation precedes him. Akira Kurosawa is one of the greatest directors of all time. A master of cinema, who took a degree of influence from old Hollywood gangster films and Westerns and refined them in his own […]
