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Showing posts with label 2004. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2004. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Murda Muzik (2004)






















Starring:
  • Big Noyd
  • Havoc
  • Prodigy
IMDB.com
This movie is the story of Fresh (Big Noyd), a street kid with connections inside the music industry. When his friend (G.O.D. III of Infamous Mobb) comes home from jail with musical aspirations instead of returning to the life of crime, Fresh must choose between lyrics and larceny...With the help of mutual friends and Queensbridge neighbors, Mobb Deep, who play themselves, they seem to have a path laid for them in the music industry that will get them off the streets for good. But Fresh finds that walking away from the streets is not that simple....A very decent straight to video release, Mobb Deep only appear in spurts, as Prodigy produced and wrote the screenplay. Director Lawrence Page has a hilarious cameo as a rival drug dealer.

Friday, June 7, 2013

Hotel Rwanda (2004)
















Starring:
  • Xolani Mali
  • Don Cheadle
  • Sophie Okonedo
IMDB.com
Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda--and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004)












Starring:
  • Shirley Chisholm
  • Ronald Dellums
  • Susan Brownmiller
  • Amiri Baraka
  • Reverend Walter Fauntroy and
  • Octavia Butler
In 1968, Shirley Chisholm becomes the first black woman elected to Congress. In 1972, she becomes the first black woman to run for president. Shunned by the political establishment, she's supported by a motley crew of blacks, feminists, and young voters. Their campaign-trail adventures are frenzied, fierce, and fundamentally right on!

Featuring stirring archival footage, period music, interviews with supporters, opponents and observers, and Chisholm's own commentary — then and now — "CHISHOLM '72" is a remarkable recollection of a campaign that broke new ground in politics, and truly reached out to 'the people.'