Nov 14, 2019 · Queen & Slim (2019) R | Crime, Drama, Romance. Trailer #2. While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man and a black woman, are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results, when the man kills the police officer in self-defense. Terrified and in fear for their lives, the man, a retail employee, and the …
Director: Jonathan Lynn | Stars: Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio, Mitchell Whitfield. Votes: 120,466 | Gross: $52.93M. Vincent “Vinny” Gambini (Joe Pesci) is a brash Brooklyn lawyer who only recently managed to pass the bar exam on his sixth try.
Blaxploitation film about three martial-arts specialists who prevent white supremacists from tainting the U.S. water supply with a toxin that's only harmful to black people. Director: Gordon Parks Jr. | Stars: Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Sheila Frazier. Votes: 1,430 | …
Dec 24, 1989 · The Woman in Black: Directed by Herbert Wise. With Adrian Rawlins, Bernard Hepton, David Daker, Pauline Moran. A lawyer travels to a small seaside town to settle the estate of a recently deceased woman, but soon becomes ensnared in something much more sinister.
When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about or go near the woman's dreary home and no one will explain or even acknowledge the menacing woman in black he keeps seeing.
Adrian Rawlins, who played Arthur Kidd in this 1989 version of The Woman In Black, later played James Potter, father to Harry Potter in the Harry Potter films. Harry Potter was played by Daniel Radcliffe, and Daniel would later go on to portray the same character (Arthur Kipps) in the 2012 version of The Woman in Black (2012).
On “Insecure,” Andrew (Alexander Hodge) and Molly (Yvonne Orji) play a couple navigating a new relationship. Credit... In a recent episode of HBO’s “Insecure,” Molly (Yvonne Orji), home for Thanksgiving and chatting about her dating life, shares a picture of her new beau, Andrew, from her phone. With slight glee in her eyes, Molly’s mother probes, ...
Data: The New York Times, using media reports from across the country to capture a sense of the rising tide of anti-Asian bias, found more than 110 episodes since March 2020 in which there was clear evidence of race-based hate.
Many community leaders say racist assaults are being overlooked by the authorities. What Happened in Atlanta: Eight people, including six women of Asian descent, were killed in shootings at massage parlors in Atlanta on March 16.
Will Ferrell, left, and Kerry Washington reboot the characters of Tom and Helen Willis in a live version of “The Jeffersons” on ABC. Credit... Last year, when ABC aired a live special reboot of “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons,” it made perfect sense to have Kerry Washington play Helen.
In one scene, Caleb (Hugh Dancy ), a white junior associate at a law firm, and his boss, Liz (Audra McDonald), a black partner there, read an erotic excerpt from the play aloud as they prepare for a deposition, and the heightened sexual tension of the script forces them to acknowledge their own mutual attraction.
This film is based on an autobiography called Proved Innocent: The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Emma Thompson, and you can rent it on Amazon or iTunes.
This Harrison Ford movie tells the story of a man who must prove his innocence of a crime he was wrongly convicted of committing. As you can tell from the film's name, he's on the run from the police, and it's a race-for-your life story that you can't forget.
In true crime, various echelons of the genre exist. There are the stories that make you disgusted by human nature and grateful for the criminal justice system. There are other cases that remain unsolved and make you muse over whodunit. And then, there are the tales of wrongful convictions that keep you up at night because you simply can't believe ...