In a wide-ranging interview, our most audacious filmmaker blasts gangsta rap, hails the Original Kings of Comedy and talks about his scorching blackface farce, "Bamboozled."

Spike Lee's explosive, near-masterpiece media satire balances between brilliance and incoherence.

By Andrew O'Hehir

This fantasy crap, fake-o effects and all, betrays princes of dice, masters of graph and wielders of bong.

Two Christmas films have made the list

Corporate America lost billions on the Net. That doesn't mean the medium has no value -- but the moguls remain clueless about where it lies.

Of course Spike Lee has the right to transcend movies about race. He also has the talent to do better than this plodding moral fable about a prison-bound Edward Norton.

Romance from China, stasis from Iran, an epic from Korea and Dogma from Denmark dominate the year in film.

How Charlie Chaplin's poisonously dark "Monsieur Verdoux" drove the audience away -- and was embraced by critics and filmmakers as a masterpiece.

Colin Farrell and Christian Bale are totally wasted in this superstatic triangular love story.

The cinema icon talks about reshaping American mythology with his WWII epic, "Miracle at St. Anna," and what Hollywood would look like if he were in charge.

Hayut, who posed as billionaire Lev Leviev's son on Tinder, conned multiple women out of approximately $10 million

The "Madea" creator lashes back at his most vocal critic and wonders why Jewish people don't get mad over "Tootsie"

Two teenage girls spring to life in Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff's comic tale of obsessives, compulsives and searchers for authenticity.

The insurrectionist Republican senator also defended Mark Furhman after the OJ trial