Bamboozled 2000  R, 135 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson, Michael Rapaport, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Paul Mooney, Sarah Jones, Gillian Iliana Waters, Susan Batson
Spike Lee takes on racial bias in the television industry as Harvard-educated black writer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) develops a show for black tap dancers Savion Glover and Tommy Davidson. The catch is that they will be made up in black face and perform in a minstrel show. The show is a hit, but its success does not come without repercussions from all sides.
|  | |
Get on the Bus 1996  R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: Ossie Davis, Charles S. Dutton, Andre Braugher, Richard Belzer, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Harry Lennix, Isaiah Washington, Roger Guenveur Smith, De'aundre Bonds, Hill Harper, Gabriel Casseus, Albert Hall, Bernie Mac, Steve White, Joie Lee
A group of African-American men board a bus in Los Angeles and head for Minister Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March in Washington, D.C., during October 1995. Along the way, conversations reveal the complex racial problems that exist in the United States as the men strive for unity and understanding.
| | |
MacArthur Park 2001  R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Billy Wirth
Cast: Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Brandon Quintin Adams, B-Real, Bad Azz, Miguel A. Nunez Jr., Balthazar Getty, Sticky Fingaz, Rachel Hunter, Lori Petty, Julie Delpy, Ellen Cleghorne, Glenn Plummer
This film provides a portrait of crack cocaine addiction in the Los Angeles MacArthur Park area. Cody (Thomas Jefferson Byrd), once a jazz musician, abandoned his family and now is a long-time resident of the area. Cody's son (Brandon Quintin Adams) tracks him down and confronts him, and another ex-addict, Karen (Rachel Hunter), also tells him there is a way out. Will he be strong enough to make a life for himself?
| | |
 Set It Off 1996   R, 121 min.
Genre: Action
Director: F. Gary Gray
Cast: Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, Kimberly Elise, John C. McGinley, Blair Underwood, Vincent & Van Baum, Chaz Lamar Shepherd, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Charles Robinson
Four L.A. housing-project friends–Stony (Jada Pinkett Smith), Cleo (Queen Latifah), Frankie (Vivica Fox), and Tisean (Kimberly Elise)–obtain guns and begin casing banks for possible robberies after realizing that a stoned acquaintance of theirs got away with a $20,000 bank heist.
| | |
Trois 2000 R, 93 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Rob Hardy
Cast: Gary Dourdan, Gretchen Palmer, Kenya Moore, Soloman K. Smith, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Chrystale Wilson, Bryce Wilson, Jay Jones, Tariq Holloway, Donna Biscoe
Jermaine (Gary Dourdan) thinks he and his wife Jasmine (Kenya Moore) need something to spice up their sex life. Jasmine, secretly dealing with a past abusive relationship, reluctantly agrees, so Jermaine hires Jade (Gretchen Palmer) to make a threesome. After one romp, Jermaine starts being stalked–could it be by Jade? The all-Black cast & crew do an adequate job in this "Fatal Attraction" look-a-like–especially considering the low budget.
| | |
| 1. Bamboozled (2000)
2. Get on the Bus (1996)
3. MacArthur Park (2001)
4. Set It Off (1996)
5. Trois (2000)
In The News
|
