We had no idea when Spike Lee’s next film, “Da 5 Bloods,” would be released, all we knew was that shooting had wrapped and the film was all but in the can and ready to go. We expected a fall release date, due to its Oscar potential, and especially with COVID-19 likely to rage on for most of the summer. And yet, here we are, it’s the first week of May and Netflix has just announced that Lee’s next opus will be released 4 weeks from now. Holy smokes. According to Netflix’s official Twitter account, the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s “Da 5 Bloods,” is arriving on Netflix on June 12. Lee also shared a teaser poster for the film. But there is still no trailer attached. I presume any day now we will have one. “Da 5 Bloods” stars Chadwick Boseman, Paul Walter Hauser, Norm Lewis, Delroy Lindo, and Jonathan Majors. The film follows five Black soldiers that return to Vietnam to find the remains of their commander, while also looking for a buried treasure. The runtime given to me back in November was that of 2 hours and 30 minutes, well, today it has been confirmed that the official runtime for Lee’s next movie will be 155 minutes [via Netflix] I wrote back in December: “The “BlacKkKlansman” director had a solid outing with the aforementioned movie last year, which was deemed a comeback of sorts after a rough 10-year stretch of films that included “Miracle at St. Anna,” “Red Hook Summer,” “Oldboy,” “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus” and, to a lesser extent, “Chiraq.” Those were the five worst Lee movies of his career (as far as I’m concerned).” “And this is coming from an unadorned fan of his. Lee could practically do nothing wrong in my books between his 1986 debut “She’s Gotta Have It” all the way to 2006’s heist flick, “Inside Man” (let’s pretend 2004’s misbegotten “She Hate Me” doesn’t exist). The Lee filmography speaks for itself, really: “Do the Right Thing,” “Jungle Fever,” “Malcolm X,” “The 25th Hour,” “Summer of Sam,” and his most vastly underrated movie, which, quite curiously, is the most pertinently relevant film for 2019, “Bamboozled.” An East Coast critic went to a private screening of “Da 5 Bloods” and was absolutely floored by it. He sent me this short review: Contribute Hire me

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