 16 Blocks 2006  PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Bruce Willis, Mos Def, David Morse, Jenna Stern, Casey Sander, Cylk Cozart, David Zayas, Robert Racki, Patrick Garrow, Sasha Roiz, Conrad Pla, Hechter Ubarry, Richard Fitzpatrick, Peter McRobbie
NYPD officer Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis) is assigned the job of escorting convict Eddie Bunker (Mos Def) from the jail to the courthouse–a mere 16 blocks. If Mosley fails to reach the courthouse by 10:00 A.M., the case will be dismissed, which is exactly what Jack's colleagues want because, as Jack learns while making the delivery, Bunker is scheduled to testify against the police officers. They are determined to kill Bunker before he reaches his destination, and suddenly Jack realizes that the length of those 16 blocks may be endless.
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Be Kind Rewind 2008  PG-13, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michel Gondry
Cast: Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow, Melonie Diaz, Sigourney Weaver, Chandler Parker, Arjay Smith, Quenton Aaron, Irv Gooch, Gio Perez, Basia Rosas, Tomasz Soltys, Marcus Carl Franklin
Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover) owns the Be Kind Rewind Video and Thrift Shop, and Mike (Mos Def) is a clerk in the store that stocks only VHS cassettes. One day, Mr. Fletcher takes off to check out the competition and tells Mike that his friend Jerry (Jack Black) is not allowed in the store. But, Jerry does arrive and, without knowing it, erases all the store's tapes. (His brain had been magnetized the day before when he tried to sabotage a nearby power plant.) A store regular, Miss Falewicz (Mia Farrow) comes in and threatens to tell on them if she cannot have a working copy of "Ghostbusters" by the end of the day. The solution to their problem: Mike and Jerry recreate films–including "Ghostbusters," "The Lion King," and "Back to the Future"–using themselves and neighbors as actors. The shop does a great business when the clients are thrilled with the remakes and ask for more.
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Brown Sugar 2002  PG-13, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance / Musical
Director: Rick Famuyiwa
Cast: Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Mos Def, Nicole Ari Parker, Boris Kodjoe, Queen Latifah, Wendell Pierce, Erik Weiner, Reggi Wyns, Melissa Martinez, Marc John Jefferies, Breece Wilson, Brette Taylor, Aaliyyah Hill, Venida Evans
Dre (Taye Diggs) and Sidney (Sanaa Lathan) have been good friends since they were children and share a love for rap music. Dre is a record executive and is now engaged to Reese (Nicole Ari Parker). Meanwhile, Sidney is engaged to professional basketball player Kelby (Boris Kodjoe). It isn't until Sydney gives support when Dre makes a career change that she finally realizes that it is Dre who she truly loves. 1 User Review
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Cadillac Records 2008 R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Darnell Martin
Cast: Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Gabrielle Union, Beyonce Knowles, Columbus Short, Mos Def, Cedric the Entertainer, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Eamonn Walker, Natasha Ononogbo, Ginnie Randall, Norman Reedus, Jay O. Sanders, Valence Thomas, Gano Grills
Sex and violence play big roles in this story about a Chicago recording studio, Chess Records. It was founded in 1950 by Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody) and helped produce fame for such stars as Chuck Berry (Mos Def), Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), and Etta James (Beyonce Knowles) during a period that stretched into the 1960s when the controversial Chess had a booming business. The story is narrated by Willie Dixon (Cedric the Entertainer) and follows the lives of the talented performers who recorded their songs at Chess Records studio.
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Carmen: A Hip Hopera 2001  PG-13, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Townsend
Cast: Beyonce Knowles, Mekhi Phifer, Mos Def, Rah Digga, Joy Bryant, Jermaine Dupri, Wyclef Jean, Da Brat, Lil' Bow Wow, Casey Lee, Troy Winbush, Sam Sarpong
The Prosper Merimee novel is filmed again, this time updated to modern-day L.A. Policeman Derrick Hill is ordered by his corrupt boss to arrest aspiring actress Carmen (Beyonce Knowles) for involvement in a bar incident. He falls in love with her, and she leads him down the road to ruin.
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Civil Brand 2003  R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Neema Barnette
Cast: LisaRaye, N'Bushe Wright, Mos Def, Lark Voorhies, Da Brat, Monica Calhoun, Tichina Arnold, Clifton Powell, MC Lyte, Robert Archer Lynn, Reed R. McCants
In this expose of prison life, corruption runs rampant in a women's prison, and, while protesting the corruption, women inmates take over the prison.
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 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 2005 PG, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Sci-Fi
Director: Garth Jennings
Cast: Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, Bill Nighy, John Malkovich, Warwick Davis, Anna Chancellor, Alan Rickman, Helen Mirren, Stephen Fry, Thomas Lennon
Just before aliens act on their plans to destroy Earth, Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) is whisked off on an adventure-filled ride around the Galaxy.
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Island of the Dead 2000  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Tim Southam
Cast: Talisa Soto, Bruce Ramsay, Malcolm McDowell, Steffen Wink, Kent McQuaid, Paul Hopkins, Tyrone Benskin, Mos Def, Michel Perron, Daniel Pilon
Wealthy developer Rupert King (Malcolm McDowell) decides to buy a small island near NYC and build a resort on it. The island is also the final resting place for the city's unknown and destitute bodies. When Rupert, his staff, and workers are trapped by swarms of hungry, zombie-like flies, things get tough for the developers.
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 The Italian Job 2003 PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Action
Director: F. Gary Gray
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Donald Sutherland, Mos Def, Jason Statham, Seth Green, Edward Norton, Jimmy Shubert, Franky G, Shawn Fanning, Tammi Cubilette, Mary Portser, Shawn Fanning, Joel Homan, Julie Costello
This story begins in Italy but soon switches to Los Angeles where Charlie Croker (Mark Wahlberg) leads his gang of thieves in setting up the biggest traffic jam that Los Angeles has ever seen. The reason: to provide their escape after stealing gold bullion that Charlie and his cohorts had already stolen in Italy and lost in a double cross.
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 Monster's Ball 2001 R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Marc Forster
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Peter Boyle, Heath Ledger, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Mos Def, Coronji Calhoun, Taylor Simpson, Gabrielle Witcher, Amber Rules, Charles Cowan Jr., Taylor LaGrange, Anthony Bean, Francine Segal, John McConnell
Racism is uncovered when Hank (Billy Bob Thornton) falls for Leticia (Halle Berry) whose husband (Sean "Diddy" Combs) was executed in a "monster ball" (no lawyer or minister was present). Hank has quit his job as a death row prison guard, but he can't deal with the fact that he was part of the team that executed the husband of the woman he now loves. Halle Berry received an Oscar for Best Actress.
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Next Day Air 2009 R, 90 min.
Genre: Action / Comedy
Director: Benny Boom
Cast: Donald Faison, Mike Epps, Darius McCrary, Mos Def, Wood Harris, Yasmin Deliz, Omari Hardwick, Emilio Rivera, Cisco Reyes, Lauren London, Lobo Sebastian, Malik Barhardt, Debbie Allen, Jo D. Jonz, Shawn Michael Howard
Impaired by his weed smoking, Next Day Air deliveryman Leo (Donald Faison) accidentally delivers 10 kilos of grade-A cocaine to inept criminals Brody (Mike Epps) and Guch (Wood Harris). They plot to sell the cocaine to Brody's cousin Shavoo (Omari Hardwick) who just happens to be a drug dealer. Meanwhile, the intended recipients of the cocaine package, mobster Jesus (Cisco Reyes) and his girlfriend Chita (Yasmin Deliz) start searching for the package before drug lord Bodega (Emilio Rivera) learns that it is missing. Double-crosses and schemes lie ahead in what will culminate in an all-out battle for what amounts to a million dollars in cash and drugs.
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Where's Marlowe? 1999 R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Daniel Pyne
Cast: Miguel Ferrer, John Livingston, Mos Def, John Slattery, Allison Dean, Clayton Rohner, Elizabeth Schofield, Barbara Howard, Kirk Baltz, Miguel Sandoval
This spoof on the art of documentary making features Wilt Crawley (Mos Def) and A.J. Edison (John Livingston) filming a down-and-out detective, John Boone (Miguel Ferrer), as their subject. But soon they offer to help out by working for Boone and, in the process, assume starring roles in their own documentary.
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The Woodsman 2004 R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nicole Kassell
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Mos Def, Benjamin Bratt, David Alan Grier, Eve, Kevin Rice, Michael Shannon, Hannah Pilkes, Carlos Leon, Gina Philips, Bobby Prochaska
Paroled pedophile Walter (Kevin Bacon) seeks redemption but finds his goal all but unattainable despite returning to his hometown, getting a job at a lumberyard, and dating Vickie (Kyra Sedgewick).
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| 1. 16 Blocks (2006)
2. Be Kind Rewind (2008)
3. Brown Sugar (2002)
4. Cadillac Records (2008)
5. Carmen: A Hip Hopera (2001)
6. Civil Brand (2003)
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
8. Island of the Dead (2000)
9. The Italian Job (2003)
10. Monster's Ball (2001)
11. Next Day Air (2009)
12. Where's Marlowe? (1999)
13. The Woodsman (2004)
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