Category: Upcoming Films

The Good Life

The Good LifeRelease Date:  11/18/14 (DVD)
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  Unknown
Running Time: 125 mins.
Studio:  Redd Bone Productions; Maverick Entertainment Group
Directors:  Owen McManus, Jr. 
Cast:  Robert McGill, Jr. (Mikey), Janell Flugence (Alicia), Selam Workeneh (Sasha), James Mastio, Drew Benson, Jonathan Sorapuru (Kevin).

Details:  Women, money, power, greed, drugs, passion, desire, love, wealth, secrets, seduction…family, tragedy…choices. Protagonist Mikey searches for the alluring good life in an underworld where antagonist Fabian holds all power. Younger brother, Kevin, wants in, against Mikey’s will. Forced to choose between family and the good life, what will Mikey choose?  Source: Maverick Entertainment.

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Englewood

Englewooda/k/a Englewood: The Growing Pains in Chicago
Release Date:  10/7/14 (DVD)
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  NR
Running Time:  93 mins.
Studio:  Forever Foreign Films LLC; Maverick Entertainment Group
Director:  William Cochran
Cast:  David Cowan (Joshua), William Cochran (Dennis), Rodney Harvey (Calvin), Aayisha Chanel (Kiesha)

Story:  Englewood examines the lives of three young men in Chicago, growing up in the Englewood area, who all have different views on the world as well as their value in it. Source(s): Maverick Entertainment; Forever Foreign Films; Official Facebook page.

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My Other Mother

My Other MotherRelease Date:  9/21/14 (Made-For-TV, UPTV)
Genre:  Drama
Cast:  Lynn Whitfield, Essence Atkins, GregAlan Williams, Jasmine Guy, Angie Stone

Story:  Candace “Candy” Meyers (Essence Atkins) is a successful anchor on a top-rated national magazine show. Fiercely independent and committed to her job, Candy doesn’t make many friends with her demanding, gruff nature. In fact, her only true friend might be her long-time manager Lewis (Kendrick Cross). Candy discovers that an anonymous fan she’s had for years has passed way – and he was her biological father, Freddy Nelson.

Content with the love and support of her adoptive family, Candy has never been curious about her biological parents. That all changes when she travels back for her father’s funeral, meets the Nelson family – including biological uncle Abner (GregAlan Williams), Freddy’s wife Delores (Angie Stone) and her two step-brothers – and discovers that her reclusive, angry and stubborn birth mother, Mary Jo (Lynn Whitfield) is going to be a challenge. The journey these two surprisingly similar women take getting to know each other will break down walls and open them up to a life they never knew was possible.  Source: UpTV.

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Pitbulls In A Skirt

Pitbulls In A SkirtRelease Date:  2/2/10
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  NR
Running Time:  109 mins.
Studio:  Cartel Urban Cinema
Directors:  Seven; Toy Styles; Charisse Washington
Cast:  Levar Miles-Turner, Shonda Mayes, Tia Shorts, Pierre Proctor, Steve Austin

Details:  If you make it through the gates which house Emerald City, one of D.C. s deadliest projects, you’ll run into four women who hold it down. And if you don’t belong, you’ll quickly find out what they have nestled inside the purses they keep closely to them. These females aren’t just pretty faces. They were taken out of their beds and placed on the throne by the hustler’s they loved.  Source:  IMDB.

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Go For Sisters

Go For Sisters 2Go For Sisters 1Release Date:  8/19/14, DVD;  11/8/13, Theaters (Limited)
Genre:  Drama/Crime
Rating:  NR
Running Time: 123 mins.
Studio: Variance Films
Director:  John Sayles
Cast:  LisaGay Hamilton (Bernice), Yolonda Ross (Fontayne), Edward James Olmos (Freddy Suarez), Hilary Barraford (Cindy), Mahershala Ali (Dez), Harold Perrineau (Wiley), Isaiah Washington (Vernell).

Story:  Bernice (LisaGay Hamilton) and Fontayne (Yolonda Ross) grew up so close people said they could “go for sisters”, but time sent them down different paths. Twenty years later, those paths cross: Fontayne is a recovering addict fresh out of jail, and Bernice is her new parole officer.

When Bernice’s son Rodney goes missing on the Mexican border, his shady associates all in hiding or brutally murdered, Bernice realizes she needs someone with the connections to navigate Rodney’s world without involving the police… and turns to her old friend. The pair enlist the services of disgraced ex-LAPD detective Freddy Suárez (Edward James Olmos) and plunge into the dim underbelly of Tijuana, forced to unravel a complex web of human traffickers, smugglers, and corrupt cops before Rodney meets the same fate as his partners.  Source:  Goforsisters.com, official site.

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Falcon Rising

Falcoln Rising Release Date:  9/5/14 (theatrical release); 9/6/14 (VOD)
Genre:  Action
Rating:  R
Running Time: 100 mins.
Studio:  Strohberry Films, Freestyle Releasing, Moonstone Entertainment
Director:  Ernie Barbarash
 
Cast:  Michael Jai White (John ‘Falcon’ Chapman), Laila Ali (Cindy Chapman), Neal McDonough (Manny Ridley), Masashi Odate (Hirimoto).

Details:  Falcon Rising is the first installment of the Codename Falcon action franchise which will revolve around former marine John “Falcon” Chapman, a dark anti-hero driven by guilt, who will destroy himself unless given something else to destroy – a useful weapon-of-last-resort for the foreign ministry. The first movie sees Chapman traveling to Brazil to hunt down his sister’s brutal attackers, in the process discovering an underground world of drugs, prostitution, and police corruption ruled by the Japanese mafia.

The franchise will produce 1-2 movies a year following Chapman as he is sent to exotic locations to do the foreign ministry’s dirty work. Source(s): Moonstone films; Broadway World.

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