Spike Lee – MRQE

“If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise”

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Spike Lee returns to New Orleans five years after Katrina to see how the ambitious plans to reinvent the Crescent City are playing out.

Sucker Free City (TV)

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The film follows three young men as they are drawn into lives of crime. Nick (Crowley) uses his entry-level corporate job to commit credit card fraud and deals drugs on the side. K-Luv (Mackie) is a member of the “V-Dubs”, an African-American street gang. Lincoln (Leung) is a rising figure in the Chinese mafia. Gentrification forces Nick’s family to move out of their home in the Mission District into Hunter’s Point where they are harassed by the V-Dubs. K-Luv’s side business of selling bootleg compact discs leads him to enlist Nick’s help to bootleg CDs and to negotiate a truce with Lincoln. Lincoln conducts an affair with his boss’ daughter Angela (Carpio), a Stanford student engaged to a medical student classmate.

Great Performances:: Passing Strange (TVE)

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young black artist leaves his Los Angeles digs and travels to Europe to find himself. A theatrical stage production of the original Broadway musical.

A Huey P. Newton Story (TV)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Huey P. Newton Story is a 2001 film directed by Spike Lee. It is a filmed performance of Roger Guenveur Smith’s one-man show of the same name. Smith sits in a chair on a stage and tells about the past, mostly dealing with Huey P. Newton’s life and times.

Highest 2 Lowest

mrqe — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the “best ears in the business”, is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.

Da 5 Bloods

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.

Rodney King

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

25 years ago, four LAPD officers were acquitted in a state court for beating King, sparking three days of rioting that left 53 people dead. Now, around the anniversary, this Spike Lee-produced one-man show (Roger Guenver Smith) will be streaming on Netflix. A complex, semi-tragic figure, King drowned in 2012. His life was rarely smooth, or simple its telling makes for a sober, moving watch.

Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Director Spike Lee chronicles Michael Jackson’s early rise to fame.

Chi-Raq

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status.