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Matthew Cherry’s The Last Fall, which stars Lance Gross and Nicole Beharie, began its theatrical run exactly a week ago, Friday, October 26th, in Los Angeles, at the Rave Cinemas in the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw plaza.  It’s been extended for an additional week at Rave, so if you’re in LA, and you have yet to see it, you have at least another week to do so! As [...]

Continue Reading Matthew Cherry’s Family Drama ‘The Last Fall’ Extended An Additional Week At Rave, LA

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First, in limited release, Matthew Cherry’s family/sports drama, The Last Fall, which stars Lance Gross and Nicole Beharie. After 7 months on the film festival circuit, starting with its SXSW debut, the film begins its theatrical run today, Friday, October 26th, in Los Angeles, at the Rave Cinemas in the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw plaza.  Showtimes are as follows: 10:10am,12:30pm, 3:00pm, 5:30pm, 8:10pm and 10:50pm, in a 200 seat theater.  Once again, its synopsis reads: [...]

Continue Reading New In USA Theaters This Weekend: Family Drama ‘The Last Fall,’ Sci-Fi Drama ‘Cloud Atlas’

Tags: baldwin hills crenshaw plaza, film, film festival circuit, harry lennix, high school sweetheart, Kyle, October, tom tykwer, vanessa bell calloway

Thanks to S A, the Chicago based black film review webseries, Reel Soul, has been a success. And if you don’t believe me, just ask co-creator and co-host Vaun Monroe. As he says, ”a modest webisode series called Reel Soul tested the waters with Shadow and Act’s viewership to see if two guys discussing Black film had an audience. The [...]

Continue Reading IndieGoGo Campaign For Black Film Review Web Series ‘Reel Soul"

Tags: Campaign, columbia college chicago, critc, cultural development group, harry lennix, IndieGoGo, shadow and act, Soul, video dept

Thanks to S A, the Chicago based black film review webseries, Reel Soul, has been a success. And if you don’t believe me, just ask co-creator and co-host Vaun Monroe. As he says, ”a modest webisode series called Reel Soul tested the waters with Shadow and Act’s viewership to see if two guys discussing Black film had an audience. The [...]

Continue Reading IndieGoGo Campaign For Black Film Review Web Series ‘Reel Soul"

Tags: Campaign, columbia college chicago, critc, cultural development group, harry lennix, IndieGoGo, shadow and act, Soul, video dept

Announced at the 2012 American Black Film Festival, where the film screened, Matthew Cherry’s family drama, The Last Fall, was been acquired by Image Entertainment (which you may recall was acquired by Bob Johnson’s RLJ) in a deal that included all non-theatrical North American rights (DVD, VOD, Digital Download, etc). The film, which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival, stars Lance Gross and Nicole Beharie, now has official theatrical [...]

Continue Reading Matthew Cherry’s ‘The Last Fall’ Gets Official Theatrical Playdates, New Trailer

Tags: baldwin hills crenshaw plaza, harry lennix, high school sweetheart, southwest film festival, theatrical release trailer, vanessa bell calloway

The Chicago International Film Festival, which runs from October 11-25,  announced their official schedule yesterday and among the dozens iof films which will be presented at this year’s festival are several films that will, no doubt, will be of interest to readers at S A.  Director Danny Green’s feature film Mr. Sophistication starring Harry Lennix, [...]

Continue Reading ‘Mr. Sophistication’ ‘Alaskaland’ And ‘Benji’ (Among Others) To Be Screened at Chicago International Film Festival

Tags: alain gomis, chicago international film festival, Dirs, harry lennix, international film festival, jon edwards, kim nguyen, October, Screened

SA has written about Nigerian-American filmmaker Olatunde Osunsanmi before; the last time was two years ago, upon the impending November 2009 theater release of his alien-abduction thriller The Fourth Kind, which starred Milla Jovovich. Olatunde has finished production on his upcoming thriller Evidence, penned by John Swetnam and produced by Bold Films and Marc Platt [...]

Continue Reading Post-Prod: Olatunde Osunsanmi’s Thriller "Evidence" Investigates Found Footage on Massacre (Harry Lennix, Aml Ameen)

Tags: alien abduction, american filmmaker, Aml, aml ameen, film, harry lennix, marc platt productions, Osunsanmi, stephen moyer

SA has written about Nigerian-American filmmaker Olatunde Osunsanmi before; the last time was two years ago, upon the impending November 2009 theater release of his alien-abduction thriller The Fourth Kind, which starred Milla Jovovich. Olatunde has finished production on his upcoming thriller Evidence, penned by John Swetnam and produced by Bold Films and Marc Platt [...]

Continue Reading Post-Prod: Olatunde Osunsanmi’s Thriller "Evidence" Investigates Found Footage on Massacre (Aml Ameen, Harry Lennix)

Tags: alien abduction, american filmmaker, Aml, aml ameen, film, harry lennix, marc platt productions, Osunsanmi, stephen moyer

From producer/writer/director Jeff Byrd (brother of casting director Twinkie Byrd - Sparkle, Jumping The Broom more – whom I interviewed last week; post coming soon) comes what he’s describing as “an urban contemporary re-telling of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” titled A Beautiful Soul. Here’s a synopsis for the film: RB superstar Andre Stephens (Deitrick Haddon) is [...]

Continue Reading Preview Spiritual Drama "A Beautiful Soul" (Directed By Jeff Byrd, w/ Harry Lennix, Vanessa Bell Calloway)

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