Reflections, Perceptions and Misconceptions of Black Culture in Film
Release Date: 1/27/20; Sundance Film Festival Genre: Horror Rating: R Director: Shana Feste Studio(s): Automatik, Blumhouse Productions, Quiet Girl Productions, Universal Pictures Running Time: 93 mins. Cast: Ella Balinska (Cherie), Pilou Asbæk (Ethan), Clark Gregg, Betsy Brandt, Jess Gabor (Maya), Aml Ameen Story: A blind date turns violent and the woman has to get home…
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Release Date: 1/23/20 – Sundance Film Festival Genre: Comedy/Horror Rating: NR Director: Justin Simien Studio(s): Sight Unseen Pictures Running Time: 115 mins. Cast: Elle Lorraine, Vanessa Williams, Jay Pharoah, Lena Waithe, Blair Underwood, Laverne Cox Story: Los Angeles, 1989. Anna Bludso (Elle Lorraine) is a scarred survivor of a scalp burn from a mild relaxer…
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Release Date: 2/16/20 Series Premiere; Showtime (Limited) Genre: Drama Rating: NR Director(s): Albert Hughes, Haifaa Al-Mansour, Michael Nankin Studio(s): Blumhouse Television, Showtime Networks Cast: Joshua Caleb Johnson (Onion), Ethan Hawke (John Brown), Daveed Diggs (Frederick Douglass), Orlando Jones (The Rail Man), Wyatt Russell (U.S. Army Officer J. E. B. Stuart), McKinley Belcher III (Broadnax),…
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Release Date: 1/27/20; Sundance Film Festival Genre: Drama/Fantasy Rating: NR Director: Edson Oda Studio(s): Mandalay Pictures Running Time: 110 mins. Cast: Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Benedict Wong, Bill Skarsgård, Tony Hale, David Rysdahl Story: What if being born is not the beginning but the goal? In a house distant from the reality we know, a reclusive…
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a/k/a Sylvie Release Date: 1/27/20 – Sundance Film Festival Genre: Drama/Romance Rating: NR Director: Eugene Ashe Studio(s): Iam21 Entertainment Running Time: 114 mins. Cast: Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, Eva Longoria, Aja Naomi King, Wendi Mclendon-Covey, Jemima Kirke Story: The jazz is smooth and the air sultry in the New York summer of 1957. Sylvie helps around…
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a/k/a Twelve a/k/a 12 O’Clock Boys Release Date: 1/27/20 – Sundance Film Festival; 4/10/20 – In Theaters Genre: Drama Rating: R Director: Angel Manuel Soto Studio(s): Overbrook Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) Running Time: 125 mins. Cast: Jahi Di’Allo Winston, Meek Mill, Will Catlett, Teyonah Parris, Donielle Tremaine Hansley, Kezii Curtis Story: Fourteen-year-old Mouse (Jahi…
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