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Devil in a Blue Dress
(more) »rank: 9548starring: Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle, Maury Chaykin
directed by: Carl Franklin
: :Easy rawlins is a world war ii vet who accepts $100 to find daphne monet a lady whos involved with a wealthy mayoral candidate. Central avenue in 1948 los angeles is where the action returns time and time again. When easy goes there looking for daphne the woman he meets winds up dead. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Starring: Denzel Washington Tom Sizemore Run time: 101 minutes Rating: R Director: Carl Franklin essential video:Despite rave reviews as one of the most stylish and intelligent detective pictures in a number of years, this 1995 adaptation of Walter Mosley's novel ...
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Blue Streak
(more) »rank: 8563starring: Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Peter Greene, Dave Chappelle, Nicole Ari Parker
directed by: Les Mayfield
: :Jewel thief miles logan finds the only way he can recover a diamond he stole two years prior is to impersonate a detective who along with his rookie partner ends up using his wits to solve crimes. Special features: production notes animated menus talent files theatrical trailer and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 01/22/2008 Starring: Martin Lawrence Dave Chappelle Run time: 94 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Les Mayfield :Martin Lawrence can certainly talk a blue streak (witness his concert film, You So Crazy), but he tones it down to PG-13 for this by-the-book action comedy. Lawrence stars as ...
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Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored
(more) »rank: 15846starring: Al Freeman Jr., Phylicia Rashad, Leon, Paula Kelly, Salli Richardson
directed by: Tim Reid
: :Tim Reid's wonderful film about life in the black neighborhood of Glen Allan, Mississippi, from the mid-'40s to the dawn of the civil rights movement, is thick with terrific, inspired actors and possessed of a mature, limpid visual style. The story is told from the point of view of a young boy raised by his stalwart grandfather and his kind aunt. But the collective tale of a community coming to terms with the risks it must take to fight racism and achieve political rights is equally important and compelling. Beautifully written (based on the autobiographical novel by Clifton Taubert), Reid's vision is rich ...
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Crooklyn
(more) »rank: 12286starring: Vondie Curtis-Hall, N. Jeremi Duru, Frances Foster, Zelda Harris, David Patrick Kelly
: :The wife and children of a jobless jazz musician deal with everyday life in 1970s brooklyn. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 10/24/2006 Starring: Frances Foster Carlton Williams Run time: 115 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Spike Lee essential video:Spike Lee's semiautobiographical, 1994 film about the good and bad times for a Brooklyn family in the '70s has passion and nostalgic good feeling, but it is also a mess of random reflections and arbitrary storytelling. The centerpiece of the movie is a little girl (Zelda Harris) who views the ups and downs of her parents' experiences (mom and dad are played ...
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In His Father's Shoes
(more) »rank: 5740starring: Louis Gossett Jr.; Barbara Eve Harris; Rachael Crawford; Djanet Sears; Robert Ri'chard; Shadia Simmons; Fiona Reid; Dylan Provencher; Dan Warry-Smith; Kevin Duhaney; Dan Petronijevic; A.J. Cook; Mary Long; Naomi Lee Allen; R.D. Reid; Christine Brubaker; Eric Fink; Timm Zemanek; David Roemmele; Joel S. Keller
directed by: Vic Sarin
: :Emmy Award Winner for Outstanding Children's Special & Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special, Robert Ri'chard
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Phat Girlz
(more) »rank: 19091starring: Doug Ballard, Jack Noseworthy, Eric Roberts, Mo'nique, Jimmy Jean-Louis
:Description:Superstar comedienne Mo'Nique is 'hilarious' (San Francisco Chronicle) as a sassy, plus-sized fashion designer who's tired of taking no for an answer in this 'delightful' (Boston Globe) comedy about living life to the fullest. Jazmin Biltmore (Mo'Nique) has big plans for large ladies ? she's designed a sexy line of clothes for curvaceous women like herself. But when she can't get funding for her designs or meet a man who appreciates her unique physique, Jazmin's patience starts running thin. That is, until she wins an all-expense-paid trip to a resort in Palms Springs, where she just might just meet the man of her ...
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Mississippi Masala
(more) »rank: 23795starring: Mohan Agashe, Sarita Choudhury, Ranjit Chowdhry, Willy Cobbs, Charles S. Dutton
: :Minas family was expelled from uganda under the reign of dictator idi amin. Like the colorful indian dish masala mina is a hot spicy mix of cultures. But when she and demetrius fall in love nothing in her past prepares them for the family outrage they face. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 04/22/2008 Starring: Denzel Washington Roshan Seth Run time: 118 minutes Rating: R :Mira Nair, the Indian director, scored an international art-house hit with her feature debut, Salaam Bombay!, a tale of life in the streets of seething urban India. Her next film was a surprising turnabout: Mississippi Masala ...
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Dolemite
(more) »rank: 10851starring: Brenda Banks (II), Jana Bisbing, Brenda DeLong, Pat Haywood, Karolynn Hill
: :Who's the baddest motherf****r to blow onto blaxploitation screens? Forget Shaft and just ask X-rated comic and 'godfather of rap' Rudy Ray Moore. He'll give you the gospel of Dolemite. Street hustler, pimp, and all-around ghetto superhero Dolemite began life as a character in Moore's nightclub act and was a natural character for his self-financed film debut, a revenge tale set on the corrupt streets of L.A.Dolemite is sprung from prison by an impossibly understanding warden so he can find the drug-dealing, gun-smuggling crooks who framed him. With the help of his all-girl army of kung fu killers and the most flamboyant wardrobe ...
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Jazz on a Summer's Day/A Summer's Day With Bert Stern
(more) »rank: 19292starring: Jimmy Giuffre, Thelonious Monk, Henry Grimes, Sonny Stitt, Sal Salvador
directed by: Bert Stern, Aram Avakian
: essential video:Part concert documentary, part pop-cultural time capsule, Bert Stern's Jazz on a Summer's Day chronicles the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival with an approach as deceptively relaxed, even impulsive, as the music itself. Still photographer Stern sidesteps more formal documentary conventions such as narrative voiceovers to wander purposefully from festival stage to boarding-house jam sessions, taking in the parallel color and motion of the America's Cup preparations when he isn't capturing rich color footage of the performances and the celebratory mood of the concertgoers. In the process, he documents American jazz at a notably golden moment in its development--diverse, adventurous, and still ...
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Mike Douglas - Moments & Memories
(more) »rank: 5386starring: Martin Luther King Jr., Bob Newhart, John Lennon, Mel Brooks, Bill Cosby
directed by: Al Greenfield
: :- Before there was Oprah or Dr. Phil or Ellen, or any of these people, there was Mike Douglas.- - Jay Leno, remembering Mike Douglas on The Tonight ShowLegendary daytime talk show host Mike Douglas influenced many of today's biggest stars, including Barbara Walters, Jay Leno, Regis Philbin, and Rosie O'Donnell, among many others. He ruled daytime talk from 1961 to 1982, reaching as many as 15 million people with a single show and averaging an astounding seven million viewers a day. MOMENTS AND MEMORIES takes a look back at Douglas' tenure as talk-show-host extraordinaire. The program unlocks a plethora of amazing ...
