Lee digs deep to create a classic
BlacKkKlansman is a funny, furious telling of the true story of black police detective Ron Stallworth and his partner Flip Zimmerman investigating the local chapter of the KKK in Colorado Springs in the early 1970s
Cinema
BlacKkKlansman: Directed by Spike Lee, Nationwide, 16,Rating: *****
The Children Act: Directed by Richard Eyre, Nationwide, 12A,Rating:***
A century ago, at the dawn of popular cinema, DW Griffith told the story of the origins of the white supremacist organisation known as the Ku Klux Klan in The Birth of a Nation, a notorious film whose racist depictions of black Americans as semi-feral rapists and murderers and the white-robed KKK as a heroic ...
