Buffalo Soldiers 2001 R, 98 min. Genre: Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Gregor Jordan Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Anna Paquin, Dean Stockwell, Elizabeth McGovern, Gabriel Mann, Leon, Michael Pena, Brian Delate, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Kick Gurry
Set in West Germany during 1989, this is the story of a U.S. Army supply clerk, Ray Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix), who solves his own problems with boredom by running a lucrative black market involving products ranging from Mop 'n' Glo to heroin.
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Joe's Apartment 1996 PG-13, 80 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: John Payson Cast: Jerry O'Connell, Megan Ward, Robert Vaughn, Don Ho, Jim Turner, Sandra "Pepa" Denton, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Billy West, David Huddleston, Reginald Hudlin
A young Iowan (Jerry O'Connell) moves to New York and settles into a rent-controlled apartment. The apartment is infested with cockroaches, but these roaches are a bit different–they sing and dance and become Joe's friends.
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The Keeper 1995 N/R, 90 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Joe Brewster Cast: Giancarlo Esposito, Regina Taylor, Isaach De Bankole, Ron Brice, O.L. Duke, Arthur French, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Samuel E. Wright
A law student, Paul Lamont (Giancarlo Esposito), is also a humanitarian corrections officer who bails out one of his charges, Jean Baptiste (Isaach De Bankole), and brings him home to await trial. In the interim, Paul begins to question his own beliefs in this brooding story filled with psychological underpinnings.
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Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood 2003 R, 85 min. Genre: Comedy / Horror / Fantasy
Director: Steven Ayromlooi Cast: Warwick Davis, Tangi Miller, Sticky Fingaz, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Laz Alonso, Sherrie Jackson, Donzaleigh Abernathy, Keesha Sharp, Page Kennedy, Terence Bernie Hines, Evan Mann, Christopher Murray, Sonya Eddy, Beau Billingslea
Number six in the series finds Emily (Tangi Miller) and her friends discovering The Leprechaun's (Warwick Davis) gold beneath a building site. They were warned about taking the gold and would soon wish they had heeded the warnings as The Leprechaun sets out to get it back–in his own special way.
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Mercy Streets 2000 PG-13, 106 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Jon Gunn Cast: Eric Roberts, David A.R. White, Cynthia Watros, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Lawrence Taylor, Stacy Keach, Robert LaSardo, Lisa Furst, Kevin Downes, Koji Kataoka, John Mann, Michael Villani, Robert Lyon Rasner, Brian C. Bennetts, Jon Gunn
Orphaned twins–John and Jeremiah (both roles played by David White)–have taken diverse paths. John is an embittered ex-con who tries to double-cross his former partner, Rome (Eric Roberts). When plans go awry, Rome mistakes Jeremiah for John and kidnaps him. John, in turn, stays undercover by pretending to be Jeremiah who is just days away from his ordination as an Episcopal priest.
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Night Falls on Manhattan 1997 R, 114 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Sidney Lumet Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Andy Garcia, Lena Olin, Ian Holm, Ron Leibman, James Gandolfini, Colm Feore, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Dominic Chianese, Paul(2) Guilfoyle, Richard Bright
This film adaptation of former N.Y.C. police commissioner Robert Daley's novel, "Tainted Evidence," involves police corruption that implicates the district attorney's father.
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| 1. Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
2. Joe's Apartment (1996)
3. The Keeper (1995)
4. Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood (2003)
5. Mercy Streets (2000)
6. Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)
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