Tag: Drama

Chasing Waterfalls

Chasing WaterfallsRelease Date:  5/8/16; TV One
Genre:   Drama
Rating:  NR
Running Time:  Unknown
Director:  Ryan Richmond
Cast:  Drew Sidora, Jasmine Guy, Tim Reid, Joyful Drake, Daniel May, Kisa Willis.

Story:  Chasing Waterfalls is the modern telling of the biblical Book of David transported to the cut-throat world of fashion.

Olivia, an up-and-coming fashion designer gets the opportunity of a lifetime to work for icon Salma Barrie.  But things go out of control when Olivia must step up to save the company and fight against a former co-worker who has started a competing company.

Chasing Waterfalls navigates the treacherous, cutthroat waters of the fashion industry while gently teaching viewers about obedience, faithfulness and God’s grace. The story follows the journey of Olivia (Sidora), an aspiring fashion designer, who is striving for success while working for Salma Barrie, the owner of a once fruitful, eponymous clothing brand. As she jumps at the opportunity to become the new fashion “It Girl,” Olivia must balance her family responsibilities, especially the caring of her aging father Quincy (Tim Reid) and troublesome sister Coco (Kisa Willis).

As a result of Salma Barrie’s lead designer Hiram Locke (Daniel May) defecting to launch a high-profile competing line, Olivia is given an opportunity to help her suffering firm by introducing her own designs. Her life quickly spirals out-of-control as she takes advantage of and hurts the people who helped her along the way including her closest ally, Salma’s son Cabot (Redaric Williams).  Matters become dire when Salma’s daughter Doreen (Joyful Drake) hatches her own plan for the company. Salma, who though pleased with the success of her brand, her jealousy towards Olivia could bring this fashion house toppling down.  Sources:  TV One, It Needs To Be CED.

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The Other Side

Release Date:  8/1/18
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  TV-MA
Running Time:  138 mins.
Director:   Warren Pemberton
Studio:  The Other Side Productions, Soul Rebel Entertainment, Usman Sharif Productions

Cast:   Erica Hubbard (Gemma), Brad James (Allen), Altovise Lawrence (Kiya), Miguel A. Núñez, Jr. (Tobias), Roger Guenveur Smith (Martin), Cocoa Brown (Wedding Planner).

Story:  When Gem decided to invite her long-lost friend to be the Maid of Honor in her wedding, Allen, her fiancé, had no clue he’d be meeting Kiya, a wildly outspoken lesbian novelist.  Though an aspiring writer himself, Allen finds not a friend in his new house-guest, but a rival for Gem’s attention.  Eventually, the soon-to-be husband discovers there’s a lot more to the story than his fiancée explained.  Source:  theotherside-movie (Official Site).

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Of Mind and Music

Of Mind and Music

a/k/a Una Vida: A Fable of Music and the Mind

Release Date:  2/12/16 (In Theaters); 3/29/16 (DVD); 2014
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  PG-13
Running Time:  97 mins.
Studio(s):  Monterey Video; Una Vida Productions
Director:  Richie Adams

Cast:  Joaquim de Almeida (Dr. Alvaro Cruz), Aunjanue Ellis (Una Vida), Bill Cobbs (Stompleg), Ruth Negga (Jessica), Sharon Lawrence (Angela Cruz), Andre Royo (Kenny).

Story:  A story about a beautiful street musician suffering from memory loss and a disheartened neuroscientist intent on helping her, bringing together the city of New Orleans and the jazz that made it famous. Sources: IMDB; Shadow & Act.

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Coco

Azealia BanksRelease Date:  3/11/16 (In Theaters; Limited)
Genre:   Drama
Rating: NR
Running Time:  Unknown
Studio(s):  Codeblack Films, Lionsgate, Spoken Productions.
Director:  RZA

Cast:  Common (Coltrane), Azealia Banks (Coco), John David Washington (Mahlik), Hana Mae Lee (Julie), Lorraine Toussaint (Nichelle), Jill Scott (Professor Dixon).

Story:  Coco (Azealia Banks) dreams of pursuing a hip-hop career, but is persuaded by her parents to finish college. In a poetry class, she is transfixed by “the power of the spoken word,” developing a verbal strength that ends up propelling her toward her rap goals.

The Hollywood Reporter notes that Scott will play a “a professor who believes that rapping and slam poetry cannot co-exist;” Toussaint will reportedly play Coco’s mother, and Common will appear as a “mentor figure.”

Source:  Rolling Stone; Photo Source:  Billboard/Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images.

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1982

1982Release Date:  3/1/16; DVD (2013)
Genre:  Drama
Rating:  R
Running Time:  90 mins.
Studio(s):  Black Squirrel Films, Confluential Films, Lionsgate.
Director: Tommy Oliver
Cast:  Hill Harper (Tim Brown), Bokeem Woodbine (Scoop), Sharon Leal (Shenae Brown),  La La Anthony (Neecy), Omar Benson Miller (T. K. Williams), Quinton Aaron (Turtle),  Wayne Brady (Alonzo), Elise Neal (Stacy), Ruby Dee (Rose Brown), Troi Zee (Maya).

Story:  When a government assassin is asked to do one last hit before retiring for good, he finds himself befriending the target and falling in love with the target’s wife and sister. When the agency finds out that he may not execute the mission as planned, it becomes a game of cat and mouse as he decides the fate of his new friend and the woman he truly loves…..who also has a dark secret. Sources: IMDB; Amazon.

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City of Vultures

a/k/a Vulture City

City of Vultures

Release Date:  2/9/16; DVD (2015)
Genre:  Drama
Rating: NR
Running Time:  97 mins.
Studio(s):  My Dream Entertainment; Uncork’d Entertainment
Director:  Marcus Carothers
Cast:  Marcus Carothers, Turion Wilson, Guadalís Del Carmen.
Story:  Inside an impoverished community in Chicago, Marcus, an ex-convicted felon returns from prison after eight years 0f incarceration. A product of a failed family structure, Marcus, like so many others in his community, functioned under a street-code of savagery. The “Gangster Disciples” governed the territories, and as a former member he lived in ongoing regret of the mob-related acts that led him to prison.

His determination to fit into common society is partnered with his first love, Shonna. Once a sheltered young lady of stern upbringing, Shonna experienced atrocities as a pre-teen which later led to promiscuity and prostitution. Marcus’s release from prison was her breath of hope.

They reunite on a quest to bury their darkened past and experience the fruits of the American Dream by escaping the realm of Chicago city streets.  Sources:  Amazon; IMDB.

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