Month: July 2020

Project Power

Release Date:  8/14/20; Netflix
Genre:  Sci-Fi/Thriller
Rating:  R
Directors:  Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman
Studio(s):  Netflix, Screen Arcade, Supermarché
Running Time:  Unknown
Cast:  Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Art), Dominique Fishback (Robin), Rodrigo Santoro, Amy Landecker, Allen Maldonado, Kyanna Simone Simpson, Andrene Ward-Hammond, Courtney B. Vance, Machine Gun Kelly, Casey Neistat, Jim Klock, Luke Hawx, Janet Nguyen.

Story:  On the streets of New Orleans, word begins to spread about a mysterious new pill that unlocks superpowers unique to each user. The catch: You don’t know what will happen until you take it. While some develop bulletproof skin, invisibility, and super strength, others exhibit a deadlier reaction. But when the pill escalates crime within the city to dangerous levels, a local cop (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) teams with a teenage dealer (Dominique Fishback) and a former soldier fueled by a secret vendetta (Jamie Foxx) to fight power with power and risk taking the pill in order to track down and stop the group responsible for creating it.  Source(s):  IMDB; Slashfilm.com.

Trailer:

by Categories: Upcoming FilmsTags: , Leave a comment

Son Of The South

Release Date:   2/5/21; VOD (Original Release – 8/26/20; American Black Film Festival)
Genre:  Biography/Drama
Rating:   Pg-13
Director:  Barry Alexander Brown
Studio(s):  Buffalo 8 Productions, El Ride Productions, Lucidity Entertainment, Major Motion Pictures, River Bend Pictures, SSS Film Capital, Clear Horizon.
Running Time:  105 mins.

Cast:  Lucas Till as Bob Zellner, Lucy Hale as Carol Anne, Lex Scott Davis as Joanne, Julia Ormond as Virginia Durr, Cedric the Entertainer as Ralph Abernathy, Sharonne Lainer as Rosa Parks, Brian Dennehy as Grandfather, Chaka Forman as Jim Forman, Mike C. Manning as Townsend Ellis, Shamier Anderson as Reggie, Ludi Lin as Derek Ang, Dexter Darden as John Lewis, Matt William Knowles as Jim Zwerg, Byron Herlong as James Zellner, Onye Eme-Akwari as Charles McDew.

Story:  Based on Bob Zellner’s autobiography The Wrong Side of Murder Creek, the film follows the true-life story of Zellner, an Alabama native and grandson of a Birmingham Klansman who is pulled into the center of the civil rights movement. The spring and summer of 1961 challenged the 22-year old to rethink his beliefs as he witnessed the heroism of John Lewis during the Montgomery Freedom Riders riot in May of that year.  Spike Lee is the executive producer.  Source(s):  Black Film; The Wektumpka Herald.

Trailer:

by Categories: Upcoming FilmsTags: , Leave a comment

Concrete Cowboy

Release Date:  4/2/21; Netflix (Original Release – 9/13/20)
Genre:  Drama/Based On A True Story
Rating:  R
Director:  Ricky Staub
Studio(s):  Green Door Pictures, Lee Daniels Entertainment, Neighborhood Film Co., Tucker Tooley Entertainment; Netflix
Running Time:  111 mins.

Cast:  Idris Elba (Harp), Caleb McLaughlin (Cole), Jharrel Jerome (Smush), Lorraine Toussaint (Nessie), Byron Bowers (Rome), Method Man (Leroy).

Story:  In this drama inspired by the real-life Fletcher Street Stables, 15-year-old Cole is taken to live with his estranged father Harp in North Philadelphia. There he discovers the city’s vibrant urban cowboy subculture, which has existed for more than 100 years providing a safe haven for the neighborhood despite the surrounding poverty, violence, and encroachment of gentrification.  Source:  IMDB; Shadow and Act.

Movie Clip:

 

 

by Categories: Upcoming FilmsTags: , , , , Leave a comment

Bruised

Release Date:  11/24/21; Netflix (Original Release – 2020)
Genre:  Drama/Thriller
Rating:  NR
Director:  Halle Berry
Studio(s):  Romulus Entertainment, Aloe Entertainment, Bohemia Media, Head Gear Films, Metrol Technology, Rhea Films (II), Thunder Road Pictures
Running Time:  Unknown

Cast:   Halle Berry, Shamier Anderson, Adan Canto, Shelia Atim, Stephen McKinley Henderson.

Story:  Jackie Justice, a disgraced MMA fighter who has failed at the one thing she’s ever been good at – fighting. When 6-year-old Manny, the son she walked out on years ago, returns on her doorstep, Jackie has to conquer her demons, face one of the fiercest rising stars of the MMA world and ultimately fight to become the mother this kid deserves.  Source:  Shadow and Act.

by Categories: Upcoming FilmsTags: Leave a comment