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Premature

Release Date:  2/21/20; In Theaters – Limited (Original Release: 1/26/19; Sundance Film Festival)
Genre:  Drama/Romance
Rating:  NR
Director:  Rashaad Ernesto Green
Studio(s):   Relic Pictures
Running Time:  86 mins.
Cast:  Zora Howard, Joshua Boone, Michelle Wilson, Alexis Marie Wint, Imani Lewis, Tashiana Washington.

Story:  On a summer night in Harlem during her last months at home before starting college, seventeen-year-old poet Ayanna (Zora Howard) meets Isaiah (Joshua Boone), a charming music producer who has just moved to the city. It’s not long before these two artistic souls are drawn together in a passionate summer romance. But as the highs of young love give way to jealousy, suspicion, and all-too-real consequences, Ayanna must confront the complexities of the adult world–whether she is ready or not. Emotionally raw, intimate, and honest, Premature is at once timeless and bracingly contemporary in its portrait of a young woman navigating the difficult choices that can shape a life.  Source:  Rotten Tomatoes.

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Mope

Release Date:  1/27/19; Sundance Film Festival
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  NR
Director:  Lucas Heyne
Studio(s):   Parkside Pictures, Saxton Cinema, Uncooperative Pictures
Running Time:  105 mins.

Cast:  Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Kelly Sry, Brian Huskey, Max Adler, David Arquette, Tonya Cornelisse.

Story:   In the multibillion-dollar world of pornography, the term mope refers to a low-level, wannabe porn actor who perhaps isn’t quite well endowed or otherwise attractive enough to achieve the success granted to “bigger”-name porn stars. Within the seedy underbelly of the industry, mopes are the lowest of the low, hanging around sets and taking on menial jobs with aspirations of being called upon to participate in a colossal gang-bang scene that could (but most likely won’t) lead to their big break.  Stephen Clancy Hill and Herbert Wong, respectively known by their porn alter egos Steve Driver and Tom Dong, were two such mopes—real-life best friends attempting to live the impossible porno dream, but the blurred line between reality and delusion ultimately sent them both tumbling down a path of destruction.  Source:  Sundance.org.

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Three’s Complicated

Release Date:  1/13/19; TV One
Genre:  Comedy
Rating:  NR
Director:  Shari L. Carpenter
Studio(s):   Swirl Films; TV One
Running Time:  Unknown
Cast:  Shanola Hampton (Deja), Tyler Lepley (Sonny), Kyanna Simone Simpson (Eleni), Charles Malik Whitfield (Craig)

Story:  Three’s Complicated chronicles the complicated love story of 42-year-old divorcee Deja (Hampton) who after a bad day and one too many drinks has a whirlwind weekend fling with a man ten years her junior, Woodson (Lepley). That wouldn’t be so bad, until she suspects she might be pregnant and discovers that her weekend lover may be her daughter’s (Simpson) new beau.  Source:  TV One.

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Love & Drugs

Release Date:  1/22/19; DVD (2018)
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  NR
Director:  Demarcus Bailey & Vernon Snoop Robinson
Studio(s):   Maverick Entertainment
Running Time:  91 mins.
Cast:  Cory Espie, Santosha Faulkner, Kenny Gardner, Carl Brown.
Story:   Marc was just a young guy in love, but when the love of his life humiliated him he turned to a life of crime to earn respect. That was until the day she came back into his life. Now will she love the man that he became, or does he have to change who he is. Marc has the ultimate choice: Love or Drugs.  Source:  Maverick Entertainment.

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Clemency

Release Date:  12/27/19; In Theaters (Original Release: 1/27/19 Sundance Film Festival)
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  NR
Director:  Chinonye Chukwu
Studio(s):   ACE Pictures Entertainment, Big Indie Pictures
Running Time:  113 mins.

Cast:  Alfre Woodard, Aldis Hodge, Richard Schiff, Wendell Pierce, Richard Gunn, Danielle Brooks.

Story:   How do you salvage your marriage when you are struggling to salvage your soul, your sense of self, and your sense of right and wrong? Bernadine Williams (Alfre Woodard) is a prison warden who, over the years, has been drifting away from her husband while dutifully carrying out executions in a maximum security prison. When she strikes up a unique bond with death-row inmate Anthony Woods (Aldis Hodge), a layer of emotional skin is peeled back, forcing Bernadine to confront the complex—and often contradictory—relationship between good intentions, unrequited desires, and what it means to be sanctioned to kill.  Source:  Sundance.org.

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Coins for Christmas

Release Date:  12/16/18; TV One
Genre:  Comedy/Holiday
Rating:  NR
Director:  Jamal Hill
Studio(s):   Swirl Films, TV One
Cast:  Essence Atkins (Madison), Stephen Bishop (Alec), Tyla Harris (Chloe), Caleb T. Thomas (Jackie), Candice Harris (Laney), Karon Riley (Jake), Little JJ (Rex), Andrew Rush (Ryan), Terrence ‘T.C.’ Carson (Hank).

Story:   Single mom Madison finds herself scraping pennies together two weeks before Christmas after the IRS freezes her bank account, her ex fails to come through with any help and her boss fires her. Desperate to pay bills and buy gifts for her teenage children, Madison jumps into the ever-popular “gig economy.” That’s when she meets and eventually gets hired by obnoxious, sidelined former pro football player Alec Darby, also secretly on the verge of going broke. This odd couple butts heads time and time again, but they eventually forge a friendship. And, to their surprise, they learn a lot about themselves and teach one another how to be better people.  Source:  TV One.

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