DA 5 BLOODS (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Delroy Lindo (Crooklyn), Norm Lewis (Sex and the City 2), Clarke Peters (Red Hook Summer), Isiah Whitlock Jr. (She Hate Me), Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther), Jonathan Majors (The Last Black Man in San Francisco), Paul Walter Hauser (Richard Jewell), Jean Reno (The Da Vinci Code), Mélanie Thierry (One for the Road), Jasper Pääkkönen (BlacKkKlansman), Veronica Ngô (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Giancarlo Esposito (Malcolm X)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman), director, writer, producer; Danny Bilson (The Rocketeer), Paul De Meo (Arena) and Kevin Willmott (Chi-Raq), writers; Jon Kilik (Foxcatcher), Beatriz Levin (film debut) and Lloyd Levin (United 93), producers; Terence Blanchard (25th Hour), composer; Newton Thomas Sigel (Drive), cinematographer; Adam Gough (Roma), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Four veterans of the Vietnam War (Lindo, Lewis, Peters and Whitlock Jr.) return to the country, where they battle the forces of man and nature in order to find the remains of their fallen Squad Leader and the gold treasure he helped them hide…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Spike Lee’s first Netflix film is an intense war flick that contains everything you love about not just the genre as a whole, but also everything great about Lee’s style of filmmaking.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 12TH JUNE 2020 (EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX)

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