Denzel Washington gives his most commanding screen performance in ages as a music tycoon who thinks his son has been ...

Julia Izumi’s “Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (With Live & Active Cultures!)” at Woolly Mammoth is a ...

Some of Spike Lee’s most deeply felt passions — filmmaking and the New York Knicks — have collided at the Cannes Film ...

There’s enormous risk in remaking a movie like “High and Low.” Japanese master Akira Kurosawa set the bar high with his 1963 ...

Denzel Washington 's "unpredictable" new crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest has debuted with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score. The film from director Spike Lee is a new interpretation of Akira ...

Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, director of 'Seven Samurai' and 'Rashomon', once picked his favourite American movies by the likes of John Ford and Scorsese.

US director Spike Lee says music artists today are not as politically active as they were in the 1970s, because doing so is ...

Spike Lee remakes Akira Kurosawa's High and Low into a thrilling caper crime movie starring Denzel Washington and Jeffrey ...

Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest has once again brought Steven Soderbergh's show Full Circle back in the discussion due to one ...

Movies are a regular presence in author Kazuo Ishiguro's life in part because filmmakers keep wanting to turn his books into ...

Released in 1954 by the legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, Seven Samurai tells the tale of a 16th century samurai who heeds a village's call for protection against marauding bandits.

Ishikawa's subtle adaptation of the Nobel Prize winner's first novel finds resonance and haunting ambiguity in Japan's fading ...