I’m sure it’s meant to be an outrage, but whether the “mess” part is also intentional is an open question. In the end, Spike Lee has made a brave, ambitious, energetic and even inspirational flop.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel isn’t too pleased with the title of Spike Lee’s upcoming Amazon Studios movie, Chiraq. During a meeting on Wednesday, Emanuel said that he spoke with Lee about the movie, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- "We did not make up the term Chi-Raq. That wasn't us. That was your fellow, local rappers," filmmaker Spike Lee said Monday in Chicago, the day after his movie premiered here. Lee and ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Followed by mothers who have lost children to gun violence, director Spike Lee came to the city's South Side to defend his upcoming film, "Chiraq." Mayor Rahm Emanuel and some ...

One can only assume, with the title Chiraq (Chicago + Iraq = Chiraq), that Spike Lee’s upcoming Amazon.com-released film will delve into Chicago. Chicago was nicknamed Chiraq because of the murders ...

What George Santayana wrote in "The Life of Reason" was: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Conversely those who remember the past are able to take it, polish it, ...

Spike Lee thinks that people from Chicago hate the movie Chiraq. During an interview on V-103 Atlanta about his new film Highest 2 Lowest, Lee said the 2015 musical is one of the movies he’s made that ...

*Spike Lee’s determination to keep the title of his upcoming film “Chi-raq” untouched … continues to rub local officials in Chicago the wrong way. In an interview with Chicago magazine, Lee spoke on ...

The film was criticized for comparing gun violence in Chicago to war in Iraq. — -- Spike Lee's upcoming project, "Chiraq," a film about gun violence in Chicago whose title merges the city's name ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Flanked by parents holding photographs of the children they’ve lost to gun violence in Chicago, filmmaker Spike Lee on Thursday defended his choice to make a movie about the city with ...

When it comes to problems of violence in Chicago, does Lee's latest help, or hurt? We rounded up some smart takes on the film. Spike Lee's latest, Chi-Raq, is designed to provoke: women in Chicago's ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Oscar-nominated filmmaker Spike Lee appeared on Chicago's South Side Thursday with parents who have lost children to the city's gun and gang violence to defend his choice to make a ...