No place for hate

Rating: 8/10 (20 October 2018)

BlacKKKlansman. Spike Lee's latest and possibly most angry film for some time. Quite a feat to create a film that makes you angry one minute, laugh the next then back to anger, then hope. But Lee accomplishes it. Based on a 1970s true story, a black newly recruited cop who has a talent for undercover work 'joins' the Klu Klux Klan through ongoing telephone communication. His obvious blackness means he can't meet them in person but he works in tandem with a Jewish cop to infiltrate KKK intelligence. Lee draws obvious parallels with Trump's modern day America - not least when showing footage of the Charlottesville race riots of last year. 8 out of ten