From Spike Lee’s new satire to the Westworld finale: your at-a-glance guide to the best in culture across the UK Chi-Raq The debut offering from Amazon’s big-screen arm gets its cinematic release this week. Spike Lee’s latest relocates the classical Greek play Lysistrata to modern-day Chicago, for a satire with a timely message. When a child is accidentally shot dead, the title character, played by Mad Men’s Teyonah Parris, organises the women of the city’s South Side to pressure the men into putting an end to their violence by withholding sex. Big, bold and controversial, Chi-Raq tackles gun crime in the age of Black Lives Matter through sideways means, and boasts a starry cast including Samuel L Jackson and Jennifer Hudson. _On general release from Friday 9 Dec_ Continue reading...
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