In choosing to adapt Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, Spike Lee set the bar for himself formidably high. That 1963 thriller is one of the Japanese auteur’s finest, a study in stark social contrasts that unfolds in two discrete acts: the first a tense chamber drama set in the hilltop home of a wealthy manufacturer,

I’m going to hear it from him if I’m not bringing it,” Lee tells Vanity Fair. “I don’t want my brother to get my ass slapped. Can’t do that. There’s a standard we have.”

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but when Akira Kurosawa hasn’t been alive for 27 years to be flattered, Spike Lee and Alan Fox end up only flattering themselves with 'Highest 2 Lowest'.

Denzel Washington knows “all money ain’t good money” – but sometimes you’ve got to put food on the table.

Denzel Washington was on "First Take" with Spike Lee promoting his new movie and criticized Jerry Jones for how he's run the Dallas Cowboys