Is the New Spike Lee Joint Serving Pound Cake?
21 August 2025

Is the New Spike Lee Joint Serving Pound Cake?

Cannonball with Wesley Morris

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“Highest 2 Lowest” is an over-the-top, bougie and unapologetically New York movie. It might also be Spike Lee’s most conservative offering to date. Wesley invites critic Vinson Cunningham to discuss whether the 68-year-old director is picking up an old refrain, and telling young Black men to pull up their pants.

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