Method Man

biography:
Clifford Smith (born April 1, 1971 in Staten Island, New York), better known by his stage name Method Man or Meth is an American hip hop artist, record producer, actor and member of the hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan. He took his stage name from the 1979 film The Fearless Young Boxer, also known as Method Man. He is one half of the rap duo Method Man & Redman along with fellow rapper Redman. He won a Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By" with Mary J. Blige.

He appeared in the motion pictures Belly, How High, Garden State as well as a minor role in The Wackness. On television, he and hip-hop collaborator Redman co-starred on the short-lived Fox sitcom Method & Red, and he had a recurring role as Calvin "Cheese" Wagstaff on the acclaimed HBO drama series The Wire.

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Boston Public

overview: Principal Steven Harper runs Winslow High School as best as he can while dealing with the demands of the faculty, the students and their parents.

character: Flash Master K

original_name: Boston Public

original_language: en

Martin

overview: Sassy sitcom centering on radio and television personality Martin Payne. Series focuses on his romantic relationship with girlfriend Gina, her best friend Pam and escapades with best friends Tommy and Cole.

character: Method Man

original_name: Martin

Yo Momma

overview: Yo Momma is a American reality television game show based upon the black urban culture of insulting another's mother. Creators, executive producers and hosts are Wilmer Valderrama, along with Sam Sarpong, Jason Everhart and Destiny Lightsy. The show - which ran from 2006 to 2007, and as the title suggests - used "yo momma" jokes, and many episodes featured guest appearances from rappers.

original_name: Yo Momma

Third Watch

overview: The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55th precinct during the 3pm to 11pm shift - the 'Third Watch'.

character: C-Note

original_name: Third Watch

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

overview: A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.

character: Drops

original_name: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

The Wire

overview: Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

character: Melvin 'Cheese' Wagstaff

original_name: The Wire

One on One

overview: A sportscaster becomes a full-time dad when his ex-wife decides to accept a job out of the country and his teenage daughter, Breanna, moves in with him.

character: Self

original_name: One on One

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

overview: Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.

original_name: Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out

overview: Nick Cannon and an A-list celebrity lead a team of improv comedians as they compete against each other.

original_name: Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out

The Jamie Foxx Show

overview: Texas native Jamie King is an aspiring actor who heads to Hollywood in hopes to find fame and fortune in the entertainment industry. To support himself, he works at his Aunt Helen and Uncle Junior's Los Angeles hotel, the King's Towers.

original_name: The Jamie Foxx Show

Comic Book Men

overview: A show for Fanboys by Fanboys. Set in uber-geek Kevin Smith's iconic comic shop Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, the show explores every nook and cranny of Fanboy culture from A to Z. Endless circular debates about the technical accuracy of the USS Enterprise's warp-core schematics? Snarky comic aficionados with an encyclopedic knowledge of every Marvel back issue? You bet.

original_name: Comic Book Men

Tamron Hall

overview: Former news host and journalist Tamron Hall discusses all things topical and engages those she interviews in thorough meaningful and entertaining conversations.

character: Self - Guest

original_name: Tamron Hall

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

overview: In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

character: Dennis King

original_name: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

name: Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics

overview: A six-part documentary series that takes a deeper look into the stories, people and events that have transformed the world of comic books.

original_name: Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics

Burn Notice

overview: A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.

character: Valentine

original_name: Burn Notice

MADtv

overview: MADtv is an American sketch comedy television series originally inspired by Mad magazine. The one-hour show aired Saturday nights on Fox.

character: Gentry Abrams

original_name: MADtv

VERZUZ

overview: VERZUZ was introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic as a virtual DJ battle, with Timbaland and Swizz Beatz facing off in its first iteration through an Instagram Live broadcast in March 2020. VERZUZ was created by Grammy Award-winning record producers and entrepreneurs Timbaland and Swizz Beatz, that airs on Verzuz TV. It started as an American webcast series and the show was bought by Triller Network, and has became more than just hip-hop and R&B battles.

original_name: VERZUZ

Diary

overview:
Diary is an American documentary television series that premiered February 16, 2000, on MTV.

The show's opening titles begin with the slogan "You think you know ... but you have no idea."

original_name: Diary

Marvel's Luke Cage

overview: Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.

character: Cliff 'Method Man' Smith

original_name: Marvel's Luke Cage

The New Tom Green Show

overview:
The Tom Green Show is a North American television show, created by and starring Canadian comedian Tom Green, that first aired in September 1994. The series aired on Rogers Television 22, a community channel in Ottawa, Ontario, until 1996, when it was picked up by The Comedy Network. The second season began airing on December 4, 1998. (In 1996, Tom Green also produced a pilot episode for CBC Television, although the CBC did not pick up the series.)

In January 1999, the show moved to the United States and aired on MTV. The series stopped production in March 2000, due to Green's diagnosis of testicular cancer, but continued to appear on the channel via reruns and other promotional materials. In 2002, it was ranked #41 on TV Guide's 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time. In 2003, the show was revived as The New Tom Green Show. In 2006, Green launched Tom Green Live, a live call-in show for his website, which was later renamed Tom Green's House Tonight.

original_name: The New Tom Green Show

Jamie Kennedy's Blowin' Up

overview: Blowin' Up is a comedic reality show on MTV. The show stars Jamie Kennedy, an actor who follows his dream of becoming a successful rapper. The show was written by Kennedy after the success of the movie Malibu's Most Wanted, which he starred in. Along for the ride is his close friend Stu Stone, who keeps Jamie in check to stick to their rap career.

original_name: Jamie Kennedy's Blowin' Up

The Twilight Zone

overview: A 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host.

character: Kneigh

original_name: The Twilight Zone

Godfather of Harlem

overview: Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of Harlem.

character: Sam Christian

original_name: Godfather of Harlem

The Daily Show

overview: The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.

original_name: The Daily Show

Wildboyz

overview: Jackass stars Chris Pontius and Steve-O travel the globe to places like India, Mexico, Africa, Thailand, Argentina, Thailand, Argentina, for a nature show with a Jackass twist.

original_name: Wildboyz

Red Table Talk

overview: Jada Pinkett Smith, her daughter Willow, and mother Adrienne – three generations of women open their home for a series of candid conversations with family and friends.

original_name: Red Table Talk

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

overview: A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus spontaneous, hilarious and unpredictable talk.

Masters of the Universe: Revelation

overview: The war for Eternia begins again in what may be the final battle between He-Man and Skeletor. A new animated series from writer-director Kevin Smith.

character: Clamp Champ (voice)

original_name: Masters of the Universe: Revelation

The Chris Rock Show

overview: The Chris Rock Show is a late night comedy talk show featured on HBO. It was created by Chris Rock and featured various guests. The show won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program in 1999. It ran for five seasons from 1997 to 2000.

original_name: The Chris Rock Show

Scorpion

overview: Eccentric genius Walter O’Brien and his team of brilliant misfits comprise the last line of defense against complex, high-tech threats of the modern age. As Homeland Security’s new think tank, O’Brien’s “Scorpion” team includes Toby Curtis, an expert behaviorist who can read anyone; Happy Quinn, a mechanical prodigy; and Sylvester Dodd, a statistics guru.

character: Lucky the King

original_name: Scorpion

MTV Video Music Awards

overview: An annual award ceremony presented by MTV to honor the best in the music video medium.

original_name: MTV Video Music Awards

Drop the Mic

overview: Based on a popular segment on "The Late Late Show With James Corden" and emceed by rapper-actor Method Man and model Hailey Baldwin, "Drop the Mic" invites celebrities from the worlds of entertainment, music, sports, and pop culture to compete in rap battles. Episodes feature four players in head-to-head battles, creating moments packed with lyrical creativity and "Did you hear that?" moments. Studio audience votes determine the mic-dropping winner of each battle.

character: Self - Co-Host

original_name: Drop the Mic

The Deuce

overview: The story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early ’70s through the mid ’80s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the cocaine epidemic and the renewed real estate market ended the bawdy turbulence of the area.

character: Rodney

original_name: The Deuce

Yo! MTV Raps

overview: Popular rap music videos showcased along with live performances and interviews with notable rap artists.

original_name: Yo! MTV Raps

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

overview: A cartoon superhero interacts with live guests via his television set in this parody talk show based on 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Space Ghost.

original_name: Space Ghost Coast to Coast

The Jennifer Hudson Show

overview: Talented entertainer and newly-minted EGOT Jennifer Hudson takes on the daytime talk show landscape.

Sherri

overview: Sherri Shepherd, actress, comic, and Emmy Award-winning longtime co-host of "The View", appears before a live audience with a daily dose of pop culture, comedy, conversations, and daytime talk staples, including celebrity and human interest interviews.

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

overview: Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.

The Crew Has It

overview: Gianni Paolo and Michael Rainey Jr have teamed up to give fans an inside look at the entire Power universe. In the first episode the actors will tell you how they got on the Starz series and reveal some never told before stories from on set.

Method & Red

overview: Real life hip hop recording artists Method Man and Redman play themselves as they move into a comfortable luxury estate from the success of their recording albums and acting gigs and then try to fit in with the uptight, predominately Caucasian community whom try to evict them for their wild party gatherings while gaining admiration from a handful of neighbor eccentrics including the young son of their real estate agent whom live just next door.

Taraji's White Hot Holidays

overview: Taraji P. Henson spreads cheer, goodwill and some holiday magic in these annual music and variety specials.

Impractical Jokers

overview: This hidden-camera series follows four lifelong friends -- Brian "Q"' Quinn, James "Murr"' Murray, Joe Gatto and Sal Vulcano -- who take dares to an outrageous level. To find out who is best under pressure, the guys compete in awkward and outrageous hidden-camera hijinks with the loser performing what is deemed to be the most-mortifying challenge yet.

Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men

overview: Transcending the music documentary genre by creating a new lane that merges music, socio-cultural commentary and and intimate family portrait of the Wu-Tang Clan.

Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party

overview: The Queen of Cuisine and the King of Kush are coming together to invite their celebrity friends over for a little potluck fun. Games, recipes and musical guests. It's guaranteed to have everyone buzzing.

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

overview: After 13-year-old super-genius Lunella accidentally brings ten-ton T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur into present-day New York City via a time vortex, the duo works together to protect the city's Lower East Side from danger.

Saturday Night Live

overview: A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

overview: A half-hour satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events.

The Last O.G.

overview: An ex-felon is shocked to see just how much the world has changed when he is released from prison for good behavior after a 15-year stint and returns to his newly gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood.

Power Book II: Ghost

overview: Picking up just days after the “Power” finale, this sequel series follows Tariq navigating his new life, in which his desire to shed his father’s legacy comes up against the mounting pressure to save his family.

Bupkis

overview: Pete Davidson attempts to work through unique family dynamics and the complexities of fame to form meaningful relationships.

Wonderland

overview: Focuses on the daily life in a mental institution, from the perspectives of both the doctors and patients.

How Music Got Free

overview: Details the fascinating, and often funny, inside story of the technology-driven disruption that changed music during the late-90s and early-2000s. File sharing technology, combined with the insatiable demand for new music, created both the means and the motive for millions of young people to participate in outright theft – and be celebrated for it.

Oz

overview: The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.

Teenage Bounty Hunters

overview: After joining forces with a veteran bounty hunter, sixteen-year-old fraternal twin sisters Sterling and Blair dive into the world of bail skipping baddies while still navigating the high stakes of teenage love and sex.

The Good Wife

overview: Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.

Fat Joe Talks

overview: Fat Joe brings the audience along for intimate conversations and never-told-before stories with some of America's favorite celebrities and newsmakers who drive the cultural zeitgeist.

ODB: Wu Tang Forever

overview: The story of Ol' Dirty Bastard, co-founder of legendary hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan, through the eyes of his friends, family, and collaborators.

30 for 30

overview: 30 for 30 is the title for a series of documentary films airing on ESPN, its sister networks, and online highlighting interesting people and events in sports history. This currently includes four "volumes" of 30 episodes each, a 13-episode series under the ESPN Films Presents title in 2011–2012, and a series of 30 for 30 Shorts shown through the ESPN.com website. The series has also expanded to include Soccer Stories, which aired in advance of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and audio podcasts.  This entry refers to the main Volumes of the series presented by ESPN

The Grammys

overview: An awards show honoring the achievements of the members of the professional music recording industry. The members of the Recording Academy vote on who they think is most deserving of an award in 108 categories as specified by the academy.

Difficult People

overview: Life is really tough for Julie Kessler and Billy Epstein, two thirty-something aspiring comics living and working in New York City. While their friends and acquaintances move on to find success and love, they continue to struggle with careers and relationships, getting more bitter by the day.

Poker Face

overview: Follow Charlie Cale, a woman with an extraordinary ability to tell when someone is lying, as she hits the road and, at every stop, encounters a new cast of characters and crimes she can't help but solve.

The Good Guys

overview: Once upon the 1970s, Dan Stark and his partner, Frank Savage, were big-shot Dallas detectives. So big, in fact, that they were lauded as American heroes after saving the Governor's son. Thirty years later, Dan Stark is a washed-up detective who spends most of his time drunk or re-hashing his glory days. Dan's new partner, Jack Bailey, is an ambitious, by-the-book and overall good detective, but is sometimes a bit too snarky for his own good. His habit of undermining himself has earned him a dead-end position in the department, and he is stuck solving annoying petty theft cases that nobody else wants. Worse, he's been given the thankless task of babysitting Dan, the drunk pariah who can never keep partners for long.

The Masked Singer

overview: Celebrities compete in a singing competition with one major twist: each singer is shrouded from head to toe in an elaborate costume, complete with full face mask to conceal his or her identity. One singer will be eliminated each week, ultimately revealing his or her true identity.

First Wives Club

overview: Three women band together after their first marriages fall apart, and find strength in their sisterhood - and of course a little revenge. Based on the 1996 film.

Late Night with Seth Meyers

overview: Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live's" longest serving anchor on the show's wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as host of NBC's "Late Night" — home to A-list celebrity guests, memorable comedy and the best in musical talent. As the Emmy Award-winning head writer for "SNL," Meyers has established a reputation for sharp wit and perfectly timed comedy, and has gained fame for his spot-on jokes and satire. Meyers takes his departure from "SNL" to his new post at "Late Night," as Jimmy Fallon moves to "The Tonight Show".

Hollywood Squares

overview: Two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win money and prizes. The "board" for the game is a vertical stack of open-faced cubes, each occupied by a celebrity seated at a desk and facing the contestants. The celebrities are asked questions and the contestants judge the legitimacy of their answers to win the game.

The BRIT Awards

overview: The biggest night in the British music calendar, the BRIT Awards celebrate the biggest successes in music & promote new talent.

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

overview: After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in Los Angeles the program was brought back to New York.

普通话

克利福德·史密斯

biography:
克利福德·史密斯（Clifford Smith，1971 年 4 月 1 日出生于纽约史坦顿岛），艺名 Method Man 或 Meth 更为人所知，是一位美国嘻哈艺术家、唱片制作人、演员和嘻哈团体 Wu-Tang Clan 的成员。他的艺名取自 1979 年的电影《无所畏惧的年轻拳击手》，也被称为 Method Man。他是说唱二人组Method Man&Redman的一半，还有说唱歌手Redman。他与玛丽·布莱姬（Mary J. Blige）合作的《I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By》获得了格莱美最佳说唱表演奖。

他出演了电影《肚皮》、《多高》、《花园之州》，并在《古怪》中扮演了一个小角色。在电视上，他和嘻哈合作者雷德曼共同出演了短命的福克斯情景喜剧《方法与红色》，他在广受好评的HBO电视剧《火线》中反复扮演卡尔文·瓦格斯塔夫。

普通话

克利福德·史密斯

biography:
克利福德·史密斯（Clifford Smith，1971 年 4 月 1 日出生於紐約史坦頓島），藝名 Method Man 或 Meth 更為人所知，是一位美國嘻哈藝術家、唱片製作人、演員和嘻哈團體 Wu - Tang Clan 的成員。他的藝名取自 1979 年的電影《無所畏懼的年輕拳擊手》，也被稱為 Method Man。他是説唱二人組 Method Man&Redman 的一半，還有説唱歌手 Redman。他與瑪麗·布萊姬（Mary J.Blige）合作的《I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By》獲得了格萊美最佳説唱表演獎。

他出演了電影《肚皮》、《多高》、《花園之州》，並在《古怪》中扮演了一個小角色。在電視上，他和嘻哈合作者雷德曼共同出演了短命的福克斯情景喜劇《方法與紅色》，他在廣受好評的 HBO 電視劇《火線》中反覆扮演卡爾文·瓦格斯塔夫。

title: Garden State

overview: Andrew returns to his hometown for his mother’s funeral, a journey that reconnects him with old friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam—a girl also struggling with various maladies—opens up the possibility of rekindling emotional connections, confronting his psychologist father, and perhaps beginning a new life.

title: How High

overview: Jamal and Silas, two ordinary guys who smoke something magical, pass their college entrance exams with flying colors and end up at Harvard. Ivy League ways are strange but Silas and Jamal take it in a stride -- until their supply of supernatural smoke runs dry. That's when they have to start living by their wits and rely on their natural resources to make the grade.

title: Wu-Tang Clan: This Shit is from the Heart

original_title: Wu-Tang Clan: This Shit is from the Heart

title: Belly

overview: Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all.  As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign last?

title: Soul Plane

overview: Following a ridiculously awful flight that leads to his pet's death, Nashawn Wade files a lawsuit against the airline, and wins a multimillion-dollar settlement. Determined to create a better flying experience, Nashawn starts his own airline, one that caters to an African-American clientele. Going into business with a tricked-out plane piloted by the smooth Capt. Mack, the airline hits a snag when it has to deal with the family of Elvis Hunkee.

title: Black and Blue

overview: A documentary about police brutality that follows a DJ beat up by off duty DEA agents, a man arrested for filming a police officer, and many others as they fight for justice for their loved ones.

title: Hype Williams: The Videos Vol. 1

overview: Hype's acclaim for skillfully imaginative visually intoxicating music videos, The Videos Vol. 1, features 10 videos depicting his creative approach and artistry unmatched while becoming celebrated by music aficionados and film enthusiasts.

title: You're Watching Video Music Box

overview: The untold story of the world’s longest running video show, Video Music Box. A hip hop mainstay since 1983, VMB gave a platform to artists like Jay-Z, Nas and Mary J. Blige before they hit it big. Host Ralph McDaniels’ archives — amassed over nearly 40 years — reveal the show’s importance to numerous big-name musicians, as well as to the kids that grew up watching.

title: Sinners and Saints

overview: In lawless storm ravaged New Orleans, eleaguered Detective Sean Riley is trying to cope with the death of his young son and the abandonment of his wife. Facing a probable suspension from the department, Riley is teamed with a young homicide Detective, Will Ganz, to help solve a series of brutal murders that have plunged the city into a major gang war. The two quickly realize there is something far more sinister going on than either could have ever imagined.

title: Wu Tang Clan - Da Mystery of Kung Fu

overview: Lyrical Assassins, Wu Tang Clan, reveal da mystery of Kung Fu in this ass kickin' dub plate presentation. The GZA, Chef Raekwon, Method Man, Ol' Dirty Bastard, and the rest of the Wu Tang posse take a hard ride thru their world of lyrics and the Kung-Fu Movies that they have sampled on their albums. The Wu Tang posse also talk about the close association that the Movies have had on their music and lifestyle. "Da Mystery of Chess Boxing", "Shaolin V. Wu-Tang", and "The 36 Chambers" are just some of the many classic Kung-Fu Movies in this living show...

title: Rock the Bells

overview: An inside look at what it took to bring the Wu-Tang Clan together for their final performance at the Rock the Bells Hip-Hop festival.

title: Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee

overview: Filmed in part in front of a live audience at The New Amsterdam Theater in New York City, this Stan Lee tribute takes viewers on an action-packed journey throughout the life of Lee and across the Marvel Universe, sharing never-before-seen interviews and archive footage with Lee himself from deep within the Marvel and ABC News archives.

title: The Show

overview: A documentary about the culture of hip-hop. Through interviews with some of hip-hops biggest names, the film makers attempt to find out why it has become so popular.

title: The Sitter

overview: Noah, is not your typical entertain-the-kids-no-matter-how-boring-it-is kind of sitter. He's reluctant to take a sitting gig; he'd rather, well, be doing anything else, especially if it involves slacking. When Noah is watching the neighbor's kid he gets a booty call from his girlfriend in the city. To hook up with her, Noah takes to the streets, but his urban adventure spins out of control as he finds himself on the run from a maniacal drug lord.

title: Wu: The Story of the Wu-Tang Clan

overview: In the summer of 1993, the Wu-Tang Clan emerged from the slums of Staten Island, NY and took the hip-hop world by storm. Their legacy spanned over a decade, selling more than 20 million albums. Their talents brought them success and their music made them legends. This is their story..."WU: The Story of the Wu-Tang Clan" is an inspiring tale of the Clan's rise to power, fall from greatness and phoenix-like rebirth. This gem of a documentary includes a spectacular presentation of never before seen rare concert footage and interviews intimately narrated by acclaimed, Gerald "Gee-Bee" Barclay.

title: The Mortician

overview: Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new employee, Noah, (EJ Bonilla) by the morgue boss (Edward Furlong). Noah is a volatile youth working as part of his parole.Noah brings the notorious gangster, Carver (Dash Mihok), and his crew to the mortuary door. The Mortician's attention is pricked by the tattoo of Botticelli's 'Birth of Venus' inked on the body of a murdered woman (Judy Marte), that arrives at the morgue, triggering a series of haunting dreams from his childhood. Discovering a scared child, Kane (Cruz Santiago), fleeing the morgue, he's forced to act. They become reluctant allies, struggling for redemption as they run. Through his awkward heroism, the Mortician reconnects with his long forgotten past, and finds the answers he's been searching for. He find redemption and peace.

title: Xzibit | Restless Xposed

overview: Restless Xposed is the all-access pass that brings you into the world and behind the scenes of rising hip hop superstar Xzibit as he surges from underground dominance to platinum plus status. Features cameos by Eminem, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Fred Durst, Master P, Papa Roach and more. Includes all of Xzibit's hottest videos and audio commentary by Xzibit.

title: Method Man: Live from the Sunset Strip

overview: The first ever live DVD from the infamous Wu-Tang emcee!

title: Wu Tang Clan: Disciples of the 36 Chambers Chapter 2

overview: The Wu-Tang Clan reunites with all 9 original members to perform and headline Chapter 2 of the Rock The Bells Festival in San Bernardino, CA on July 17, 2004, which featured Redman, Dilated Peoples, and more on the same bill.

original_title: Wu Tang Clan: Disciples of the 36 Chambers

title: The Strip Game

overview: Method Man follows the lives of five strippers living in five different states. More than a voyeuristic trek between strip clubs, the film is an insightful, intimate look at the everyday lives of strippers.

title: Volcano High [MTV's Rapper Dub]

overview: Redubbing of a Korean kung fu film with the use of hip-hop and celebrity voiceovers. A young man with spectacular kung fu abilities is prohibited to use his skills, but soon finds himself forced to defend himself against tough students when he is sent to a disciplinary high school.

title: The Fairly OddParents: School's Out! The Musical

overview: It’s the last day of school, and the kids of Dimmsdale eagerly await the start of those fun-filled months of Summer Vacation. But this summer the grownups of Dimmsdale are worried that their kids are getting too wild, so they call a town meeting to find a solution for their concerns. Enter Flappy Bob, the clown founder of Flappy Bob’s Happy Peppy Learnatorium. Timmy and his friends are enrolled in Flappy Bob’s school, and they immediately see all hope of a fun summer dwindling away. Timmy realizes he must find a way to bring fun back to summer, and it’s all done through the magic of song.

original_title: The Fairly OddParents: School's Out! The Musical

title: Wu-Tang Clan: Live at Montreux

overview: In July 2007 the famous Miles Davis Hall at Montreux was witness to a gathering of the Wu-Tang Clan. With the exception of the sadly deceased Ol’ Dirty Bastard, the whole Clan was present: RZA, GZA, Method Man, Inspectah Deck, Raekwon The Chef, U-God, Ghostface Killah and Masta Killa. Also joining the party were some of their extended family members: Cappadonna, Streetlife and DJ Mathematics. This rare gathering of the full clan took Montreux by storm and got the whole audience on their feet and jumping with a set featuring all their best known hits and classics plus a number of solo tracks, including a clutch of Ol’ Dirty Bastard hits.

title: Backstage

overview: If you ever wanted to know what really goes on backstage, this is the definitive inside look - uncut and uncensored. Complete with on-stage performances you'll see an intimate view of what life is like at one of the biggest Rap Concert tours of all time. It shows life on the road, in hotels and off stage in a way you've never seen before.

title: The Wire: The Last Word

overview: A documentary exploring the role of the media in relation to the acclaimed series The Wire.

title: The Wire Odyssey

overview: A retrospective documentary of the first four seasons of the acclaimed series The Wire.

title: How I Learned to Fly

overview: Two African-American teenage boys are suddenly and mysteriously abandoned by their parents. The two have to learn how to survive on their own. From this desertion, comes an experience of beauty, meaning and enduring love.

title: On the Come Up

overview: Sixteen-year-old Brianna Jackson is a gifted rapper who plans to take the battle rap scene by storm to lift up her family and do right by the legacy of her father, a local hip-hop legend whose career was cut short by gang violence. However, when her first hit song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, she finds herself torn between the authenticity that got her this far and the false persona that the industry wants to impose on her.

title: Rhyme & Reason

overview: A study in the world of hip-hop, done mostly with interviews, in order to see why it is as popular as it is today and what the future holds.

title: The Wackness

overview: Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, who just happens to be the doctor's daughter. This is a coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, music and what it takes to be a man.

title: Milestone Generations

overview: The electrifying story of Milestone Media, of the challenges they faced in changing the face of superhero storytelling, and of the rebirth of the company –  now with entertainment legend Reggie Hudlin helping to steer the ship – just when the world needs the Milestone heroes more than ever.

title: My Baby's Daddy

overview: A trio of young men are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.

title: Shadow Force

overview: Kyrah and Isaac were once the leaders of a multinational special forces group called Shadow Force. They broke the rules by falling in love, and in order to protect their son, they go underground. With a large bounty on their heads, and the vengeful Shadow Force hot on their trail, one family's fight becomes all-out war.

title: Trouble Man

overview: Jaxen, a former cop turned Atlanta PI, is hired to find missing R&B star Jahari. His investigation uncovers her disappearance is connected to a larger conspiracy, forcing him to question those around him and his own past.

title: Seasons of Love

overview: Set in the picturesque backdrop of New York, "Seasons of Love" is a romantic, soulful holiday drama about two people who struggle to find love against the odds, while reconciling with the past and learning the true value of family.

title: Wu-Tang Saga

overview: Wu-Tang Saga is the story of the music super group the Wu-Tang Clan told by Cappadonna, chronicling over 9 concerts, a trip to Shaolin aka Staten Island, photoshoots, and the 5 percent philosophies. There's also many exclusive hip hop freestyles, as Cappadonna takes you inside the music business first hand. The first Wu-tang documentary to be entirely narrated by a Wu-Tang member, this is truly an epic Wu-Tang experience.

title: Meet the Spartans

overview: The heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing but leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of thirteen Spartans to defend their homeland against the invading Persians (whose ranks include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Transformers, and a hunchbacked Paris Hilton). No one is safe when the Spartans take on the biggest icons in pop culture!

title: Def Jam: Survival of the Illest: Live from 125

overview: Behind The Scenes at the World Famous Apollo Theatre. Raps hardest come to shut it down.

original_title: Def Jam: Survival of the Illest: Live from 125

title: The Great White Hype

overview: When the champ's promoter, Rev. Sultan, decides something new is needed to boost the marketability of the boxing matches, he searches and finds the only man to ever beat the champ. The problem is that he isn't a boxer anymore and he's white. However, once Rev. Sultan convinces him to fight, he goes into heavy training while the confident champ takes it easy and falls out of shape.

title: The Cobbler

overview: Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. Sometimes walking in another man's shoes is the only way one can discover who they really are.

title: Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’

overview: A provocative look into the seven-year history of the series that gave hip hop a voice and broke color barriers, integrating MTV with rap. "Yo! MTV Raps" premiered on August 6, 1988 with hosts Fab 5 Freddy, Ed Lover and Doctor Dré, and shaped the careers of many of today’s hip hop superstars, while simultaneously making groundbreaking strides in introducing hip hop to the mainstream.

title: Keanu

overview: Friends hatch a plot to retrieve a stolen cat by posing as drug dealers for a street gang.

title: Red Tails

overview: The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.

title: Staten Island Summer

overview: Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.

title: Trainwreck

overview: Ever since her father drilled into her head that monogamy isn't realistic, magazine writer Amy has made promiscuity her credo. As much as she enjoys an uninhibited life free of commitment, Amy is really in a rut. While writing a profile about charming and successful sports doctor Aaron Conners, she finds herself actually falling in love for the first time -- and what's more, Aaron seems to really like her too. Amy starts to wonder if it's time to clean up her act and face her fears.

title: #Lucky Number

overview: Made for TV movie based on a true story, an aspiring New York City sportscaster's life is on the slow track until he serendipitously gets the old cell phone number of a basketball superstar. Will the number be his ticket to success or a path to destruction?

title: The 4:30 Movie

overview: In the summer of 1986, three sixteen year old friends spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local multiplex. But when one of the guys also invites the girl of his dreams to see the latest comedy, each of the teens learn more about life and love.

title: Limp Bizkit: Greatest Videoz

overview: A compilation of music videos for songs by the nu metal band Limp Bizkit, most of which were directed by the band's frontman, Fred Durst.

title: Black and White

overview: Rich Bower is an up-and-coming star in the hip-hop world. Everyone wants to be around him, including Raven and her fellow upper-class white high school friends. The growing appeal of black culture among white teens fascinates documentary filmmaker Sam Donager, who sets out to chronicle it with her husband, Terry. But before Bower was a rapper, he was a gangster, and his criminal past comes back to haunt him and all those around him.

title: The Breaks

overview: Three friends united by their love of hip-hop work to make their big mark in the music industry. Beginning in the summer of 1990 NYC, Nikki a brilliant recent grad abandons a law school scholarship to pursue her dream of becoming a record exec along with the son of a legendary music producer boyfriend David who’s struggling at the city’s top R&B station. Dee Vee is an aspiring producer on the hunt to find the next big rapper on the come-up.

title: One Eight Seven

overview: When a Brooklyn high school student writes the police code for homicide, 187, inside a textbook owned by teacher Trevor Garfield, Garfield feels threatened. The principal dismisses the incident, but the same student stabs Trevor soon after. Fifteen months later, a physically and emotionally scarred Trevor relocates to California and takes up substitute teaching. To his dismay, his new school is as full of dangerously undisciplined students as his old one—including four Latin Americans and a European American claiming membership in tagging gang K.O.S. (Kappin' Off Suckers)—driving him over the edge.

title: Bad Shabbos

overview: An engaged interfaith couple are about to have their parents meet for the first time over a Shabbat dinner when an accidental manslaughter gets in the way.

title: How Music Got Free

overview: The fascinating, and often hilarious, inside story of the technology-driven disruption that changed music in the late '90s and early 2000s," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The documentary looks at the technology that made it possible for millions of young people to quench their thirst for new music by simply downloading it for free.

title: Amazon Music Live: Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, and De La Soul's 'N.Y. State of Mind Tour'

overview: Wu-Tang and Nas unite once again for a joint tour along with an appearance by De La Soul. Watch the iconic hip-hop event, recorded live from the Climate Pledge Arena. Don't miss a moment with Amazon Music Live.

original_title: Amazon Music Live: Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, and De La Soul's 'N.Y. State of Mind Tour'

title: Paterson

overview: A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.

title: Future World

overview: A young boy searches a future world wasteland for a rumored cure for his dying mother.

title: A Wu-Tang Experience: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre

overview: In August, 2021, the Wu-Tang Clan, backed by the 60-piece Colorado Symphony Orchestra, performed at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheater. Roughly 10,000 fans witnessed one of the most extraordinary concerts in Hip-Hop music history. Welcome to A Wu-Tang Experience.

original_title: A Wu-Tang Experience: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre

title: Mother & Gun

title: Where's the Money

overview: A quick witted young man from the streets of South Central must rush a lily-white USC fraternity to recover a stash of stolen money.

title: Brown Sugar

overview: Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one single childhood instant... witnessing the birth of hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic at a national magazine and he is a successful, though unfulfilled, hip-hop record company executive. Both come to realize that their true life passions will only be fulfilled by remembering what they learned that day on the corner.

title: Peppermint

overview: A grieving mother transforms herself into a vigilante following the murders of her husband and daughter, eluding the authorities to deliver her own personal brand of justice.

title: Scary Movie 3

overview: News anchorwoman Cindy Campbell has to investigate mysterious crop circles and killing video tapes, and help the President stop an alien invasion in the process.

title: The Indestructible Jimmy Brown

overview: Jimmy Brown is thirty and single. He has just come home from a failed life in New York City and thinks his life is over. After returning to Pasadena from a stalled career in the New York art scene, and a disastrous break-up, Jimmy finds himself right back where he started. Now he is living in his Parent s house and working in the Comic Book shop that he left behind over ten years ago. His co-workers, childhood buddies Lyman and Sack, have never left the security of the shop that they now co-own. Experts of pop culture and masters of their universe, Lyman and Sack are all too happy to let a dejected Jimmy back into the circle of dorks that he was a part of for so long. Desperate to revive his career and fearing that he will fall back into his old life, Jimmy keeps Lyman and Sack and anything else from his past at arms length. But when Alison Brew, Jimmy's high school crush comes back into his life, he ll need to remember the mistakes from his past to get the girl who got away

title: This Is the Night

overview: In the summer of 1982, as all of Staten Island anticipates the opening of a blockbuster boxing movie, an Italian-American family must confront its greatest challenges.

title: Venom

overview: A group of teenagers fear for their lives in the swamps of Louisiana, chased by Mr. Jangles, a man possessed by 13 evil souls, and now relentless in his pursuit of new victims.

title: Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror

overview: A hip hop horror anthology of three tales of terror told by the Hound of Hell (Snoop Dogg) that revolve around the residents of an inner-city neighborhood whose actions determine where they will go in the afterlife.

title: Taraji's White Hot Holiday Special

overview: Taraji P. Henson, Golden Globe-winning star of EMPIRE and the movie “Hidden Figures,” is back this holiday season to spread cheer, goodwill and some holiday magic in this third annual music and variety special.

title: Vampires vs. the Bronx

overview: Three gutsy kids from a rapidly gentrifying Bronx neighborhood stumble upon a sinister plot to suck all the life from their beloved community.

title: Shaft

overview: JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly.

title: Notorious B.I.G.: Bigger Than Life

overview: The greatest rapper to ever pick up a mic - with his velvety flow and unparalleled rhyme style he captivated everyone from Jay Z to Tupac. Now Notorious B.I.G. is revealed.

title: Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

overview: Jay and Silent Bob embark on a cross-country mission to stop Hollywood from rebooting a film based on their comic book characters Bluntman and Chronic.

title: Cop Land

overview: Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law.

title: Letter to the President

overview: Feature documentary that showcases the close-knit ties between the Hip Hop Music community and America's social and political policy in the last 30 years.

title: Big Pun: The Legacy

overview: His rhymes caught the attention of millions. His flow is un-matched by any. His story is captivating and triumphant. "Big Pun: The Legacy" chronicles the life of the Grammy Nominated artist "Big Pun" aka Christopher Rios, a Puerto Rican from the Bronx who made history by becoming the first Latino rapper to sell over a million records.

title: Concrete Cowboy

overview: Sent to live with his estranged father for the summer, a rebellious teen finds kinship in a tight-knit Philadelphia community of Black cowboys.

title: Last Looks

overview: A disgraced ex-cop seeks solace by moving to the woods, but his quiet life comes to an end when a private eye recruits him to investigate the murder of an eccentric TV star's wife.

title: Pete Rock: Soul Survivor

title: Magnum Dopus

overview: A behind the scenes look at the making of Jay & Silent Bob Reboot.

title: WWE Slammy Awards 2020

overview: R-Truth is your host as you know WWE hands out awards for Superstar of the Year, Match of the Year, and much more, celebrating the very best of Raw and SmackDown in the 2020 Slammy Awards.

title: Boricua's Bond

overview: Tommy, a talented Puerto Rican painter living in the South Bronx, befriends Allen, a white kid who's faced constant harassment since moving to the neighborhood with his single mother, Susan.

title: Mary J. Blige's My Life

overview: Mary J. Blige set the music world on fire with her trailblazing 1994 LP "My Life." The singer, producer and actress reveals the demons and blessings that inspired the record and propelled her to international stardom. She celebrates the 25th anniversary of her most influential work by performing the album live for the first time.

title: Street Life

overview: "Street Life" is the most controversial documentary ever to hit the streets. It's not only documentation, but also a bible to the streets. If focuses in on the mentality of urban America. This documentary will educate individuals who are not in the streets about the streets. It will also educate the people in the streets, to what they call...The Game. Hear real stories of war on the streets from people who are living it now. Heart breaking stories from people who made a wrong turn in life, just didn't think it could happen to them. Many of these stories that are being shared to the world through this documentary are by real people with real lives, doing real things. Witness the advantages and disadvantages of ... Street Life, growing up in the hood.

title: Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys

overview: The untold story of the man and the musician who made an immense cultural impact across just a few short years. Having gained exclusive rights to a never-before-seen personal archive shot by his wife alongside access to his closest friends and family, the doc is described by the filmmakers as a culture-defining special that humanizes ODB as a man, a father and a husband like never before. It explores how Russell Tyrone Jones created Ol' Dirty Bastard, a Hip Hop alter ego superhero that would ultimately consume him.

title: Love Beats Rhymes

overview: A young woman dreams of making it big in the world of hip hop, but her parents demand that she finish her university degree. She dutifully agrees to complete her education, but her spoken word proves to have a powerful impact in the classroom.

title: Poetic License

overview: Liz, a former therapist and soon-to-be empty nester, becomes the unexpected point of tension between two inseparable best friends and college seniors, Sam and Ari. Liz is forced to re-examine her life as the boys' friendship unravels in a fierce competition for her affection.

title: The New York Sack Exchange

overview: The year was 1981: A president and a pope survived assassins, gas cost about a buck-thirty and “Don’t Stop Believin'” was Top 10. And a phenomenon was sweeping the NFL. The Jets’ front four of Mark Gastineau, Joe Klecko, Marty Lyons and Abdul Salaam — all of whom the team drafted during the 1970s — led the league with 66 quarterback sacks and became stars.

title: Missionary

overview: 'Missionary,’ a short film featuring Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.

title: Relationship Goals

overview: When TV producer Leah Caldwell aims to become the first woman running New York's top morning show, her ex competes for the same role. Leah stays focused on her career, until chemistry with her ex challenges her priorities.

title: N.A.S.A.: The Spirit of Apollo

overview: A look behind the making of N.A.S.A.'s globetrotting debut album 'The Spirit of Apollo,' featuring footage of (to name a few) George Clinton's consciousness altered session, Method Man performing magic tricks, and recording Sizzla and Amanda Blank in Judgement Yard, Jamaica

title: Sunny

overview: Wealthy and glamorous Sunny radiates polished perfection, but beneath her sparkling society smile, Sunny is a drug kingpin, mob mistress and devoted single mother, who has an adrenaline-fueled 24 hours to clean up and get out of town before the local mob boss discovers her dysfunctional family's devastating secret.

title: Dave Chappelle's Block Party 2

overview: Actor, writer and comic Dave Chappelle loads up a bus with residents of his Ohio hometown and takes them to Brooklyn, N.Y. Once again there, the travelers enjoy a concert featuring old school legendary artist and some new school artist . Rehearsal footage and Chappelle's brand of comedy enliven the proceedings.

title: Method Man: Live from the Sunset Strip

title: The Strip Game

title: The Strip Game

title: How High

title: How High

place_of_birth: Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA

title: Garden State

title: How High

title: Belly

title: Soul Plane

title: Black and Blue

title: Hype Williams: The Videos Vol. 1

title: You're Watching Video Music Box

title: Sinners and Saints

title: Wu Tang Clan - Da Mystery of Kung Fu

title: Rock the Bells

title: Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee

title: The Show

title: The Sitter

title: Wu: The Story of the Wu-Tang Clan

title: The Mortician

title: Xzibit | Restless Xposed

title: Method Man: Live from the Sunset Strip

title: The Strip Game

title: Volcano High [MTV's Rapper Dub]

title: Wu-Tang Clan: Live at Montreux

title: Backstage

title: The Wire: The Last Word

title: The Wire Odyssey

title: How I Learned to Fly

title: On the Come Up

title: Rhyme & Reason

title: The Wackness

title: Milestone Generations

title: My Baby's Daddy

title: Shadow Force

title: Trouble Man

title: Seasons of Love

title: Wu-Tang Saga

title: Meet the Spartans

title: The Great White Hype

title: The Cobbler

title: Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’

title: Keanu

title: Red Tails

title: Staten Island Summer

title: Trainwreck

title: #Lucky Number

title: The 4:30 Movie

title: Limp Bizkit: Greatest Videoz

title: Black and White

title: The Breaks

title: One Eight Seven

title: Bad Shabbos

title: How Music Got Free

title: Paterson

title: Future World

title: Mother & Gun

title: Where's the Money

title: Brown Sugar

title: Peppermint

title: Scary Movie 3

title: The Indestructible Jimmy Brown

title: This Is the Night

title: Venom

title: Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror

title: Taraji's White Hot Holiday Special

title: Vampires vs. the Bronx

title: Shaft

title: Notorious B.I.G.: Bigger Than Life

title: Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

title: Cop Land

title: Letter to the President

title: Big Pun: The Legacy

title: Concrete Cowboy

title: Last Looks

title: Pete Rock: Soul Survivor

title: Magnum Dopus

title: WWE Slammy Awards 2020

title: Boricua's Bond

title: Mary J. Blige's My Life

title: Street Life

title: Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys

title: Love Beats Rhymes

title: Poetic License

title: The New York Sack Exchange

title: Missionary

title: Relationship Goals

title: N.A.S.A.: The Spirit of Apollo

title: Sunny

title: Dave Chappelle's Block Party 2

title: Method Man: Live from the Sunset Strip

title: The Strip Game

title: The Strip Game


Sanaa Lathan

biography:
Sanaa McCoy Lathan (/səˈnɑ/ born September 19, 1971) is an American stage, film, television, and voice actress. She is the daughter of actress Eleanor McCoy and film director Stan Lathan. She earned bachelor's degree in English from University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in drama from Yale.

She is best known for her roles as Robyn in The Best Man films and subsequent TV miniseries on Peacock, Naomi Hicks on Netflix's Hit & Run, Violet Jones in Nappily Ever After, Ashe Akino on Fox's drama Shots Fired, Deputy Director Natalie Austin in Now You See Me 2 (2016), Leah Vaughn in The Perfect Guy (2015), Jenelle Wilson on Showtime's drama The Affair, Mona Fredricks on Starz' drama Boss, Andrea in Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (2008), Beneatha Younger in ABC's film adaptation of A Raisin in the Sun (2008), Kenya McQueen in Something New (2006), Ann Merai Harrison in Out of Time (2004), Sidney 'Sid' Shaw in Brown Sugar (2002), Monica Wright in Love & Basketball (2000), Zora Banks in Disappearing Acts (2000), Alicia in The Wood (1999), Vanessa Brooks - the mother of Wesley Snipes' title character - in Blade (1998), and Briana Gilliam on NBC's sitcom Lateline.

She had recurring roles on HBO's Succession and FX's Nip/Tuck, and starred on NBC's short-lived sitcom Built to Last. In 2022, she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, for her work on the television series Succession.

Her other movie credits include With/In Vol 1 (2021) and Vol 2 (2022), American Assassin (2017), Contagion (2011), Powder Blue (2009), AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004), and more. She voiced Catwoman on HBO's animated series Harley Quinn, and Donna Tubbs on The Cleveland Show and on all Family Guy appearances.

In 2004, she starred on Broadway as Beneatha Younger in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Combs, Audra McDonald, and Phylicia Rashad, and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actress. She later reprise her role in the 2008 film adaptation. In 2010, she starred in the all-black performance of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Novello Theatre in London.

She earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her recurring role on Succession. She received an NAACP Image Award Nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for her performance in Brown Sugar. She received a NAACP Image Award nomination for her performance in The Best Man. She earned an Essence Award for Best Actress for her performance in Disappearing Acts. She earned the 2001 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture, an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress, and a BET Award for her performance in Love & Basketball.

In 2000, she was named by Ebony magazine as one of its 55 Most Beautiful People and was honored by Essence magazine and Black Entertainment Television.

In 2022, she made her directorial debut with the film On the Come Up, in which she also has a supporting role.

Family Guy

overview: Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family. Bumbling Peter and long-suffering Lois have three kids. Stewie (a brilliant but sadistic baby bent on killing his mother and taking over the world), Meg (the oldest, and is the most unpopular girl in town) and Chris (the middle kid, he's not very bright but has a passion for movies). The final member of the family is Brian - a talking dog and much more than a pet, he keeps Stewie in check whilst sipping Martinis and sorting through his own life issues.

character: Claire Huxtable (voice)

original_name: Family Guy

Nip/Tuck

overview: Hotshot plastic surgeons Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy experience full-blown midlife crises as they confront career, family and romance problems.

character: Michelle Landau

original_name: Nip/Tuck

LateLine

overview:
LateLine is an American TV sitcom that ran on NBC from March 17, 1998, through March 16, 1999. Due to an abrupt cancellation, there were seven unaired episodes.

Created by John Markus and Al Franken, LateLine depicted the behind-the-scenes goings-on of a fictitious late-night television news broadcast, patterned in part after the long-running ABC program Nightline. Many plotlines in the series were satirical, dealing with topics like Deep Throat and the Watergate break-in, and the episodes often had cameos by famous politicians.

On August 17, 2004, Paramount released a DVD set containing all nineteen episodes on three discs.

character: Briana Gilliam

original_name: LateLine

Moesha

overview: The everyday life of Moesha Mitchell, a vivacious young woman juggling romance, school, ever-changing family dynamics, and friendships.

character: Ebony

original_name: Moesha

Family Matters

overview: A long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. A spin-off of Perfect Strangers.

character: Allison

original_name: Family Matters

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

overview: Stepping into the late-late slot vacated by David Letterman, Conan O'Brien stars in a show that far outdoes its competition in sheer strangeness. Along with the celebrity interviews and musical numbers typical of late-night talk shows, this program make frequent use of odd walk-on characters and frequent "visits" from celebrity guests.

original_name: Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Solos

overview: Anthology series telling character-driven stories set at different moments in time, aiming to showcase that during people's most isolated moments, and in disparate circumstances, the human experience connects everyone.

character: Nia (voice)

original_name: Solos

The Cleveland Show

overview: The bizarre adventures of Cleveland Brown and his family.

character: Donna Tubbs (voice)

original_name: The Cleveland Show

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

overview: A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus spontaneous, hilarious and unpredictable talk.

original_name: LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Boss

overview: Mayor Tom Kane sits like a spider at the center of Chicago's web of power; a web built on a covenant with the people. They want to be led, they want disputes settled, jobs dispensed, and loyalties rewarded. If he achieves all this through deception and immorality, so be it. As long as he gets the job done, they look the other way. Yet despite being the most effective mayor in recent history, a degenerative brain disorder is ripping everything away from him. He can't trust his memory, his closest allies, or even himself.

character: Mona Fredricks

original_name: Boss

Family Guy

character: Muhammad Ali's Wife (voice)

Shots Fired

overview: A media storm sets off when an African-American cop kills a white teenager in a small North Carolina town.

character: Ashe Akino

original_name: Shots Fired

Succession

overview: Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.

character: Lisa Arthur

original_name: Succession

Harley Quinn

overview: Harley Quinn has finally broken things off once and for all with the Joker. Now, she's trying to make it on her own as the criminal Queenpin of Gotham City, with help from Poison Ivy and a ragtag crew of DC castoffs.

character: Catwoman (voice)

original_name: Harley Quinn

In the House

overview: A once-famous football player must rent part of his house to support himself. A single mother and her two kids are the latest tenants. He also owns a sports clinic that he barely manages to run with help from his friends

character: Charese

original_name: In the House

The Jennifer Hudson Show

overview: Talented entertainer and newly-minted EGOT Jennifer Hudson takes on the daytime talk show landscape.

original_name: The Jennifer Hudson Show

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

overview: Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.

original_name: Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Twilight Zone

overview: Tales of science fiction, fantasy and the occult, exploring humanity's hopes, despairs, prides and prejudices in metaphoric ways. Next stop ahead The Twilight Zone.

character: Nina Harrison

Curb Your Enthusiasm

overview: The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.

character: Sibby Sanders

original_name: Curb Your Enthusiasm

The Best Man: The Final Chapters

overview: Catch up with Harper, Robyn, Jordan, Lance, Quentin, Shelby, Candace, and Murch as their relationships evolve and past grievances resurface in the unpredictable stages of midlife crisis meets midlife renaissance.

character: Robyn

original_name: The Best Man: The Final Chapters

The Affair

overview: The emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah, a New York City schoolteacher and budding novelist with a wife of twenty years and four children and Alison, a young waitress and wife from Montauk at the end of Long Island, trying to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragedy.

character: Jenelle Wilson

original_name: The Affair

Hit & Run

overview: A happily married man's life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a mysterious hit-and-run accident in Tel Aviv.  Grief-stricken and confused, he searches for his wife's killers, who have fled to the U.S.  With the help of an ex-lover, he uncovers disturbing truths about his beloved wife and the secrets she kept from him.

character: Naomi Hicks

original_name: Hit & Run

origin_country: IL US

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

overview: Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.

original_name: Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Unsung Hollywood

overview: Shining a spotlight on ground-breaking artists and entertainers who’ve devoted their lives to making their mark in movies, television, comedy and sports – and in the process, helped to elevate and transform our world.

original_name: Unsung Hollywood

The Affair

character: Janelle Wilson

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Sanaa Lathan

biography:
Sanaa McCoy Lathan (* 19. September 1971) ist eine US-amerikanische Bühnen-, Film-, Fernseh- und Synchronsprecherin. Sie ist die Tochter der Schauspielerin Eleanor McCoy und des Filmregisseurs Stan Lathan. Sie erwarb einen Bachelor-Abschluss in Anglistik an der University of California, Berkeley, und einen Master-Abschluss in Theaterwissenschaften an der Yale University.

Sie ist vor allem bekannt für ihre Rollen als Robyn in den „The Best Man“-Filmen und der darauf basierenden TV-Miniserie auf Peacock, als Naomi Hicks in der Netflix-Serie „Hit & Run“, als Violet Jones in „Nappily Ever After“, als Ashe Akino in der Fox-Serie „Shots Fired“, als stellvertretende Direktorin Natalie Austin in „Die Unfassbaren 2“ (2016), als Leah Vaughn in „The Perfect Guy“ (2015), als Jenelle Wilson in der Showtime-Serie „The Affair“, als Mona Fredricks in der Starz-Serie „Boss“, als Andrea in Tyler Perrys „The Family That Preys“ (2008), als Beneatha Younger in der ABC-Verfilmung von „A Raisin in the Sun“ (2008), als Kenya McQueen in „Something New“ (2006), als Ann Merai Harrison in „Out of Time“ (2004), als Sidney „Sid“ Shaw in „Brown Sugar“ (2002), als Monica Wright in „Love & Basketball“ (2000), als Zora Banks in „Disappearing Acts“ (2000) und als Alicia in „The Wood“. (1999), Vanessa Brooks – die Mutter von Wesley Snipes' Titelfigur – in Blade (1998) und Briana Gilliam in der NBC-Sitcom Lateline.

Sie hatte wiederkehrende Rollen in HBOs Succession und FXs Nip/Tuck und spielte die Hauptrolle in der kurzlebigen NBC-Sitcom Built to Last. 2022 wurde sie für ihre Rolle in der Fernsehserie Succession für den Primetime Emmy Award als Beste Gastdarstellerin in einer Dramaserie nominiert.

Zu ihren weiteren Filmen zählen With/In Vol. 1 (2021) und Vol. 2 (2022), American Assassin (2017), Contagion (2011), Powder Blue (2009), AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004) und weitere. Sie sprach die Rolle der Catwoman in der HBO-Zeichentrickserie „Harley Quinn“ sowie die der Donna Tubbs in „The Cleveland Show“ und in allen Folgen von „Family Guy“.

2004 spielte sie am Broadway die Beneatha Younger in „A Raisin in the Sun“ an der Seite von Sean Combs, Audra McDonald und Phylicia Rashad und wurde für ihre Leistung in einer Nebenrolle für einen Tony Award nominiert. 2008 verkörperte sie die Rolle erneut in der Verfilmung. 2010 spielte sie die Hauptrolle in der Inszenierung von „Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach“ im Novello Theatre in London, die ausschließlich mit schwarzen Darstellern besetzt war.

Für ihre wiederkehrende Rolle in „Succession“ wurde sie mit einem Primetime Emmy Award als Beste Gastdarstellerin in einer Dramaserie ausgezeichnet. Für ihre Leistung in „Brown Sugar“ und „The Best Man“ erhielt sie jeweils eine NAACP Image Award-Nominierung als Beste Hauptdarstellerin in einem Spielfilm. Für ihre Leistung in „Disappearing Acts“ wurde sie mit dem Essence Award als Beste Hauptdarstellerin ausgezeichnet. 2001 erhielt sie den NAACP Image Award als Herausragende Hauptdarstellerin in einem Spielfilm, eine Nominierung für den Independent Spirit Award als Beste Hauptdarstellerin sowie einen BET Award für ihre Rolle in „Love & Basketball“.

Im Jahr 2000 wurde sie vom Ebony-Magazin zu einer der 55 schönsten Frauen gewählt und von Essence und Black Entertainment Television geehrt.

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biography:
Sanaa McCoy Lathan (ur. 19 września 1971 w Nowym Jorku, USA) – amerykańska aktorka.

Córka Stana Lathana, producenta telewizyjnego, i Eleanor McCoy, aktorki i tancerki. Uczyła się w Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics. Ukończyła anglistykę na University of California w Berkeley. Rozważała karierę prawniczki, jednak ostatecznie zapisała się na Yale School of Drama.

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桑娜·莱瑟

biography:
出生于1971年9月19日，是美国舞台、电影、电视和配音演员。她是女演员埃莉诺·麦考伊（Eleanor McCoy）和电影导演斯坦·莱森（Stan Lathan）的女儿。她在加州大学伯克利分校获得英语学士学位，在耶鲁大学获得戏剧硕士学位。

她最出名的角色是在《伴郎》电影和随后的电视迷你剧《孔雀》中饰演罗宾，在Netflix的《肇事逃逸》中饰演娜奥米·希克斯，在《从此以后》中饰演维奥莱特·琼斯，在福克斯电视剧《开枪》中饰演阿什·阿基诺，在《现在你看见我2》（2016）中饰演副导演娜塔莉·奥斯汀，在《完美家伙》（2015）中饰演莉亚·沃恩。 珍妮尔·威尔逊（Jenelle Wilson）在Showtime的电视剧《外遇》（The Affair）中，莫娜·弗雷德里克斯（Mona Fredricks）在斯塔兹（Starz）的电视剧《老板》（Boss）中，安德里亚（Andrea）在泰勒·佩里（Tyler Perry）的《捕食者》（2008）中，贝妮莎·杨格（Beneatha Younger）在ABC的电影改编的《阳光下的葡萄干》（2008）中，肯尼亚·麦昆（Kenya McQueen）在《新事物》（2006）中，安·梅莱·哈里森（Ann Merai Harrison）在《超时空》（2004）中，西德尼·西德·肖（Sidney 'Sid' Shaw）在《红糖》（2002）中， 莫妮卡·赖特（Monica Wright）在《爱情与篮球》（Love & Basketball，2000年）中，佐拉·班克斯（Zora Banks）在《消失的行为》（Disappearing Acts，2000年）中，艾丽西亚（Alicia）在《森林》（The Wood，1999年）中，凡妮莎·布鲁克斯（Vanessa Brooks）在《刀锋战士》（Blade，1998年）中饰演韦斯利·斯奈普斯（Wesley Snipes）的主角，以及NBC情景喜剧《Lateline》中的布莱安娜·吉列姆（Briana Gilliam）。

她在 HBO 的 Succession 和 FX 的 Nip/Tuck 中反复扮演角色，并出演了 NBC 短命的情景喜剧 Built to Last。2022 年，她因在电视连续剧《继承》中的工作而获得黄金时段艾美奖剧情类剧集杰出客串女演员提名。

她的其他电影作品包括 With/In Vol 1 （2021） 和 Vol 2 （2022）、American Assassin （2017）、Contagion （2011）、Powder Blue （2009）、AVP： Alien vs. Predator （2004） 等。她在 HBO 的动画系列《哈莉·奎因》中为猫女配音，在《克利夫兰秀》和所有《全家福》中为唐娜·塔布斯配音。

2004年，她与肖恩·库姆斯（Sean Combs）、奥德拉·麦克唐纳（Audra McDonald）和菲利西亚·拉沙德（Phylicia Rashad）一起在百老汇出演了《阳光下的葡萄干》（A Raisin in the Sun），并获得了托尼奖最佳女主角表演提名。她后来在 2008 年的电影改编中重新扮演了她的角色。2010年，她在伦敦诺韦洛剧院出演了全黑表演《热铁皮屋顶上的猫》。

她因在《继承》中的反复角色而获得了黄金时段艾美奖剧情类剧集杰出客座女演员奖。她因在《红糖》中的表演而获得全国有色人种协进会电影杰出女演员形象奖提名。她因在《最佳男人》中的表演而获得全国有色人种协进会形象奖提名。她因在《消失的行为》中的表演而获得了精华奖最佳女演员奖。她获得了2001年全国有色人种协进会电影杰出女演员形象奖，独立精神奖最佳女演员提名，以及她在《爱情与篮球》中的表演。

2000 年，她被 Ebony 杂志评为 55 位最美丽的人之一，并被 Essence 杂志和 Black Entertainment Television 授予荣誉。

2022 年，她凭借电影《On the Come Up》首次亮相，并在其中担任配角。

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普通话

桑娜·萊瑟

biography:
出生於 1971 年 9 月 19 日，是美國舞台、電影、電視和配音演員。她是女演員埃莉諾·麥考伊（Eleanor McCoy）和電影導演斯坦·萊森（Stan Lathan）的女兒。她在加州大學伯克利分校獲得英語學士學位，在耶魯大學獲得戲劇碩士學位。

她最出名的角色是在《伴郎》電影和隨後的電視迷你劇《孔雀》中飾演羅賓，在 Netflix 的《肇事逃逸》中飾演娜奧米·希克斯，在《從此以後》中飾演維奧萊特·瓊斯，在福克斯電視劇《開槍》中飾演阿什·阿基諾，在《現在你看見我 2》（2016）中飾演副導演娜塔莉·奧斯汀，在《完美傢夥》（2015）中飾演莉亞·沃恩。

珍妮爾·威爾遜（Jenelle Wilson）在 Showtime 的電視劇《外遇》（The Affair）中，莫娜·弗雷德里克斯（Mona Fredricks）在斯塔茲（Starz）的電視劇《老闆》（Boss）中，安德里亞（Andrea）在泰勒·佩裏（Tyler Perry）的《捕食者》（2008）中，貝妮莎·楊格（Beneatha Younger）在 ABC 的電影改編的《陽光下的葡萄乾》（2008）中，肯亞·麥昆（Kenya McQueen）在《新事物》（2006）中，安·梅萊·哈里森（Ann Merai Harrison）在《超時空》（2004）中，西德尼·西德·肖（Sidney 'Sid' Shaw）在《紅糖》（2002）中， 莫妮卡·賴特（Monica Wright）在《愛情與籃球》（Love & Basketball，2000 年）中，佐拉·班克斯（Zora Banks）在《消失的行為》（Disappearing Acts，2000 年）中，艾麗西亞（Alicia）在《森林》（The Wood，1999 年）中，凡妮莎·布魯克斯（Vanessa Brooks）在《幽靈刺客》（Blade，1998 年）中飾演韋斯利·斯奈普斯（Wesley Snipes）的主角，以及 NBC 情景喜劇《Lateline》中的布萊安娜·吉列姆（Briana Gilliam）。

她在 HBO 的 Succession 和 FX 的 Nip/Tuck 中反覆扮演角色，並出演了 NBC 短命的情景喜劇 Built to Last。2022 年，她因在電視聯續劇《遺密繼承人》中的工作而獲得黃金時段艾美獎劇情類劇集傑出客串女演員提名。

她的其他電影作品包括 With/In Vol 1 （2021） 和 Vol 2 （2022）、American Assassin （2017）、Contagion （2011）、Powder Blue （2009）、AVP： Alien vs.Predator （2004） 等。她在 HBO 的動畫系列《哈莉·奎因》中為貓女配音，在《克利夫蘭秀》和所有《全家福》中為唐娜·塔布斯配音。

2004 年，她與肖恩·庫姆斯（Sean Combs）、奧德拉·麥克唐納（Audra McDonald）和菲利西亞·拉沙德（Phylicia Rashad）一起在百老匯出演了《陽光下的葡萄乾》（A Raisin in the Sun），並獲得了託尼獎最佳女主角表演提名。她後來在 2008 年的電影改編中重新扮演了她的角色。2010 年，她在倫敦諾韋洛劇院出演了全黑表演《熱鐵皮屋頂上的貓》。

她因在《遺密繼承人》中的反覆角色而獲得了黃金時段艾美獎劇情類劇集傑出客座女演員獎。她因在《紅糖》中的表演而獲得全國有色人種協進會電影傑出女演員形象獎提名。她因在《最佳男人》中的表演而獲得全國有色人種協進會形象獎提名。她因在《消失的行為》中的表演而獲得了精華獎最佳女演員獎。她獲得了 2001 年全國有色人種協進會電影傑出女演員形象獎，獨立精神獎最佳女演員提名，以及她在《愛情與籃球》中的表演。

2000 年，她被 Ebony 雜誌評為 55 位最美麗的人之一，並被 Essence 雜誌和 Black Entertainment Television 授豫榮譽。

2022 年，她憑藉電影《On the Come Up》首次亮相，並在其中擔任配角。

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title: AVP: Alien vs. Predator

overview: When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about to step into a hunting ground where Aliens are grown as sport for the Predator race.

title: Out of Time

overview: Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in order to find out the truth.

title: Young. Wild. Free.

overview: High school senior Brandon is drowning in responsibilities when his world is turned upside down after being robbed at gunpoint by the girl of his dreams.

title: Life

overview: Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.

title: A Raisin in the Sun

overview: Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.

title: Wonderful World

overview: Ben Singer is a failed children's folk singer, a career proofreader, a less-than-extraordinary weekend dad, and perhaps the most negative man alive. Floundering in all aspects of his life, Ben's only comfort comes from regular chess games and friendly debates on game theory with his Senegalese roommate Ibou. When Ibou is suddenly struck ill, Ben's pessimistic worldview seems unequivocally confirmed. It takes an extended visit from Ibou's sister Khadi for Ben to realize that cynicism may be all a matter of perspective.

title: Blade

overview: The Daywalker known as "Blade" - a half-vampire, half-mortal man - becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires.

title: Love & Basketball

overview: Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball.  As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.

title: Something New

overview: Kenya McQueen thought she had it all: a successful career, good friends and family. There was just one thing she didn't have under control: her love life. All that changes when she meets sexy, free-spirited Brian Kelly. But when her ideal man arrives on the scene, Kenya must decide between the relationship everyone expects and the romance no one expected.

title: Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys

overview: Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout several decades. Recently, their lives have become mired in turmoil as their adult children’s extramarital affairs, unethical business practices, and a dark secret threaten to derail family fortunes and unravel the lives of all involved. Charlotte and Alice decide to take a breather from it all by making a cross-country road trip in which they rediscover themselves and possibly find a way to save their families from ruin.

title: The Best Man

overview: After writing a soon-to-be bestselling novel, writer and committed bachelor Harper attempts to hide the fact that his saucy new book is loosely based on the lives and loves of his tight-knit group of friends. Harper is set to be best man at his friend Lance's wedding, and all his friends will be in attendance. When an advance copy of the book makes its way into the hands of his ex-flame, Jordan, Harper attempts to keep it under wraps.

title: The Wood

overview: In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the twenty-something trio's childhood exploits, the memories capture the mood and nostalgia of the '80s era.

title: Brown Sugar

overview: Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one single childhood instant... witnessing the birth of hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic at a national magazine and he is a successful, though unfulfilled, hip-hop record company executive. Both come to realize that their true life passions will only be fulfilled by remembering what they learned that day on the corner.

title: Disappearing Acts

overview: A struggling construction worker and an aspiring musician find themselves falling in love.

title: Contagion

overview: As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.

title: Powder Blue

overview: On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide.

title: Repentance

overview: An earnest life-coach/author, Thomas Carter, is mysteriously abducted by a deranged client, Angel Sanchez, who delves into Thomas' teachings and uses his spiritual messages of Karma - action and reaction (Vipaka), against him to terrorize him and his family for their past sins.

title: The Best Man Holiday

overview: When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.

title: The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat

overview: Three lifelong best friends known as “The Supremes” share the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood from decades of weathering life’s storms. Through the joys and sorrows of life, marriage and children, happiness and blues, love and loss, new shades of heartbreak and illness threaten to stir up the past when the trio sees their bond put to the test as they face their most challenging times yet.

title: The Perfect Guy

overview: With a fulfilling career and a loving relationship, lobbyist Leah Vaughn seems to have it all. Things come crashing down when Dave, her long-term boyfriend, disagrees with her future plans for marriage and a family. The resulting painful breakup leaves Leah heartbroken, until she meets the charming and handsome Carter Duncan. Soon, the budding romance turns dangerous as Carter reveals his volatile nature, forcing Leah to break up with the man she thought was Mr. Right. She soon realizes that Carter doesn't want to let her go.

title: On the Come Up

overview: Sixteen-year-old Brianna Jackson is a gifted rapper who plans to take the battle rap scene by storm to lift up her family and do right by the legacy of her father, a local hip-hop legend whose career was cut short by gang violence. However, when her first hit song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, she finds herself torn between the authenticity that got her this far and the false persona that the industry wants to impose on her.

title: The Golden Blaze

overview: Two African American boys schoolyard rivalry spirals out of control when their fathers develop superpowers.

title: Leap

overview: Sanaa Lathan's directorial debut. A short film created for the With/In anthology.

title: Now You See Me 2

overview: One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.

title: Approaching the Unknown

overview: Captain William Stanaforth is on a one-way solo mission to take the first steps in colonising Mars. Like all pioneers throughout history, Stanaforth will face insurmountable odds and life and death decisions as he rockets bravely through space.

title: Catfish in Black Bean Sauce

overview: An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After 22 years, the children are reunited with their birth mother, bringing deeply submerged resentments and misconceptions to the surface, and forcing the characters to reexamine their identity and relationships in both comical and poignant situations.

title: Drive

overview: A prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with a dread-locked bystander, and the two of them elude their pursuers narrowly each time.

title: American Assassin

overview: Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets.

title: Native Son

overview: A young black man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever.

title: Nappily Ever After

overview: After an accident at the hair salon, Violet realizes she's not living life to the fullest. A soulful barber helps her put the pieces back together.

title: Miracle in the Woods

overview: Quarreled sisters; Sarah and Wanda inherit property from their mother. It has always belonged to the family. Sarah insists on selling it as soon as possible because she has many difficulties. She goes there with her daughter; Gina. Wanda, on the other hand, wants to keep the property in family. They soon discover that it's not abandoned. Old lady, Lilly Cooper has been living there for many years and doesn't want to leave the house, at least, not as long as she can meet her son.

title: With/In Volume 1

overview: Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directors to first-timers, all provided with the same iPhone and basic gear to bring their visions to life.

title: Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”

overview: Documentary on the making of the film “Love & Basketball” produced by the Criterion Collection in 2021

original_title: Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”

title: Lost in America

overview: Following director Rotimi Rainwater, a former homeless youth, as he travels the country to shine a light on the epidemic of youth homelessness in America.

title: A Blue Butterfly

overview: Limousine driver Sentwali is living in self-imposed exile when he meets and forms a connection with a charismatic actress, and for the first time in decades, considers a future.

title: Dreams Worth While: The Journey of "A Raisin in the Sun"

overview: Cast and crew discuss making "A Raisin in the Sun" for television.

original_title: Dreams Worth While: The Journey of "A Raisin in the Sun"

title: Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Affair

overview: When a family celebration brings relatives and friends together for a weekend, old secrets, unexpected relationships, and long-standing grudges quickly turn the gathering upside down. As tensions rise and drama unfolds, Madea steps in to set everyone straight before the family's biggest secret tears them apart.

title: Tilt

overview: A struggling freelance reporter and her cinephile cam operator investigate a citywide conspiracy against the backdrop of a roaring L.A. wildfire.

title: With/In Volume 1

title: On the Come Up

title: The Perfect Guy

title: Young. Wild. Free.

title: Nappily Ever After

title: Leap

title: The Perfect Guy

title: Disappearing Acts

title: Disappearing Acts

title: AVP: Alien vs. Predator

title: Out of Time

title: Young. Wild. Free.

title: Life

title: A Raisin in the Sun

title: Wonderful World

title: Blade

title: Love & Basketball

title: Something New

title: Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys

title: The Wood

title: The Best Man

title: Brown Sugar

title: Disappearing Acts

title: Contagion

title: Powder Blue

title: Repentance

title: The Best Man Holiday

title: The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat

title: The Perfect Guy

title: On the Come Up

title: The Golden Blaze

title: Leap

title: Now You See Me 2

title: Approaching the Unknown

title: Catfish in Black Bean Sauce

title: Drive

title: American Assassin

title: Native Son

title: Nappily Ever After

title: Miracle in the Woods

title: With/In Volume 1

title: Lost in America

title: A Blue Butterfly

title: Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Affair

title: Tilt

title: With/In Volume 1

title: On the Come Up

title: Young. Wild. Free.

title: Nappily Ever After

title: The Perfect Guy

title: Leap