Eddie Palmieri, the percussive jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, and arranger, died on Aug. 6 at his home in Hackensack, N.J. He was 88.

In choosing to adapt Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, Spike Lee set the bar for himself formidably high. That 1963 thriller is ...

Spike Lee's latest film, 'Highest 2 Lowest,' premiered in Brooklyn, featuring stars like Denzel Washington and Ice Spice at BAM.

Denzel Washington stars in a loose remake of the 1963 Akira Kurosawa film High and Low. And four anthropomorphic turtles are ...

Reuniting with his longtime leading man Denzel Washington and remaking an Akira Kurosawa crime classic, Lee captures energy ...

The film, based on Akira Kurosawa's 1963 movie 'High and Low,' is often audacious but also has moments that don't work.

The director returns to New York City, reuniting with Denzel Washington as a big-time record exec, for a twisty parable about power and conscience.

A lot like the 1963 Akira Kurosawa film “High and Low,” but a lot not, Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest” goes its own unpredictable way.

You expect a measure (or three) of idiosyncrasy from a Spike Lee movie; few major filmmakers follow their muse with such ornery dedication. So if “Highest 2 Lowest” is Lee’s most ambitious and ...

That score is such a drag it was close to ruining the movie for me, until Lee shifts gears into a second-act action set-piece that sweeps in Yankees gameday crowds and the annual Puerto Rican Day ...

A loosey-goosey remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 classic "High and Low," the film stars Washington as a music business mogul ...

However, Spike Lee's "Highest 2 Lowest" doesn't concern itself with any of that, neither reaching the original's artistic ...