name of spike lee new movie with nick cannon

It’s conceived in the same bare-knuckle satirical mode as his Bamboozled (2000) or Kevin Willmott’s CSA: The Confederate States of America (2004). Spike Lee really hits just a single note in this movie, but he hits it harder and longer and to more effect than many other directors could have done: the movie’s rough edges and angularities make it snag in your mind.

Samuel L Jackson is Dolmedes, the narrator speaking directly to the camera, with his own brand of choric impishness. White Catholic priest Fr Mike Corridan, based on Chicago’s real-life Michael Pfegler, has a grandiloquent sermon at the child’s funeral – a big set piece for John Cusack – in which he becomes hoarse with passion, denouncing state racism and privatised imprisonment as the new Jim Crow. They protectively barricade themselves in the local national guard compound (the equivalent of the Acropolis in the original) having Carry On-ishly used their sexy wiles to trick the racist military therein, tie them up and deprive them of their weapons. When the small child of a local woman, Irene (Jennifer Hudson), is senselessly killed in gang crossfire, Chi-Raq’s beautiful girlfriend Lysistrata (Teyonah Parris) is enraged and with the help of Helen (Angela Bassett) reaches out to the opposing gang members’ wives and girlfriends to begin a non-partisan sex strike to end the violence – “No peace, no pussy!” – inspired by the 2002 sex strike organised by Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee. Nick Cannon plays a rapper and gangbanger, also called Chi-Raq: he is macho, arrogant and up to his neck in the revenge cycle of local gang violence.

Name of spike lee new movie with nick cannon