Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, and a 1962 episode of the American TV show 87th Precinct all ...

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.

Reuniting with his longtime leading man Denzel Washington and remaking an Akira Kurosawa crime classic, Lee captures energy ...

Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the first time in 20 years with ‘Highest 2 Lowest,’ a loose, jazzy update of a Japanese cinema classic.

The film, based on Akira Kurosawa's 1963 movie 'High and Low,' is often audacious but also has moments that don't work.

Spike Lee's new film "Highest 2 Lowest" stars Denzel Washington as a record mogul whose life is upended by a kidnapping.

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but when Akira Kurosawa hasn’t been alive for 27 years to be flattered, ...

For the fifth time, Oscar-winning acting legend Denzel Washington unites with legendary Oscar-winning director Spike Lee for ...

From the opening moments of “Highest 2 Lowest,” Spike Lee’s remix-as-remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 film “High and Low,” you ...

The 1959 Ed McBain crime novel “King’s Ransom” has crossed the Pacific Ocean twice now, and its latest screen incarnation, “Highest 2 Lowest,” makes for a disarming hand-off from the stern gravity of ...

There’s a reason why Spike Lee‘s latest, “Highest 2 Lowest” opens with “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'” from “Oklahoma!” ...

Spike Lee's new film "Highest 2 Lowest" stars Denzel Washington as a record mogul whose life is upended by a kidnapping.