#Roger Guenveur Smith

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Panther (1995) - M. Emmet Walsh 

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Deep Cover (1992)

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Bad movie I have 4 Film Favorites Final Destination Collection It has Final Destination 2000, Final Destination 2 (2003), Final Destination 3 (2006) and The Final Destination 4 (2009)

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Till (2022, dir. Chinonye Chukwu) - review by Rookie-Critic

Till was the rare biopic that manages to rise above the genre trappings and give its audience something a little more than just a rehashing of historical events. By putting Mamie Till-Mobley at the film's center and focusing on the grief of a mother who needlessly lost her son to racist brutality, Chukwu has allowed the film to breathe, and has allowed the audience to come in and be outraged and distraught with her. The film never feels emotionally manipulative, which would have been very easy to do here. Instead, the film starkly shows the nature of what happened that day, and how Till-Mobley handled the aftermath, the history speaks for itself here, and Danielle Deadwyler is merely performing as a conduit for her grief, her anger, and her determination. Other civil rights figures of the time, such as Medgar Evers and T. R. M. Howard make appearances, and instead of pulling major focus towards these very famous figures, the film instead allows them to take a backseat. This is not their story, it's Till-Mobley's, and Chukwu respects the real life people this movie is based on enough to allow them to take center stage and never falters from that. There's really not a lot else to say, it's just an incredibly well-made historical drama with an oft overlooked, wildly sympathetic and empowering woman at its core. Till is well worth the watch.

Score: 9/10

Currently available to rent or purchase on digital (iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, etc.) and to pre-order on DVD & Blu-ray through Orion/Universal Studios/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Roger Guenveur Smith (July 27, 1955) is an actor, director, and writer known for his collaborations with Spike Lee.

He attended Loyola High School in Los Angeles and graduated from Occidental College (American Studies). He studied at Yale University, where he successfully auditioned for the Drama School and switched his pursuit of a graduate degree in History. He studied at the Keskidee Arts Centre in London.

He has appeared in films such as School Daze, Do the Right Thing, King of New York, Panther, Malcolm X, Poetic Justice, Get On The Bus, Eve’s Bayou, He Got Game, and Summer of Sam. He had a recurring role in A Different World.

He starred in the self-written and produced A Huey P. Newton Story in 1991. He received an Obie Award, and his performance was filmed by Spike Lee and released in 2001.

He continues to work in and support independent film projects. He had a starring role in K-Street. He read in Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives. He was the voice of Bao-Dur in the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II The Sith Lords. He portrayed a corrupt detective in Fist of the Warrior. He starred in Deep Cover. He played a villain in All About the Benjamins. He portrayed Agent Schreck in the first installment of The Final Destination. He played the main villain in Mercenary for Justice. He was in American Gangster, in which he played the role of “Nate”, Frank Lucas’s army connection in Vietnam. Most recently he played the role of “Isaiah” in The Birth of a Nation, a film about the life of Nat Turner.

He had a recurring role in Oz.

Juan and John, written and performed by him, is based on baseball’s most famous fight—San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marichal clubbing Johnny Roseboro of the Los Angeles Dodgers with his bat during a 1965 battle for the pennant at Candlestick Park—which traumatized the playwright as a child.

He portrayed Booker T. Washington in Self Made, based on the life of Madame C. J. Walker. He married Caroline Smith and they had a daughter. He is married to LeTania Kirkland Smith and they have three children. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Hello! 😊

Could you please help me locate some people who could play the parents and a younger sister for Aisha Dee? Thank you.

Done a whole ass family template including brother, sister, mother and father here.

Some additions as that is five years old now:

Due to Aisha being biracial please make one parent white and one black (or biracial). Thank you. Those older adults who are biracial will have (br) next to them.

Younger sister

Maisie Richardson-Sellers

Kadiatou Holm Keita

Brittany O'Grady

Laura Harrier

Mercedes Morris

Ruby Barker

Taylor Russell

Alisha Boe

Mother

Laverne Cox - Trans woman

Candis Cayne - Trans woman

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Melissa McCarthy

Nina Sosanya (br)

Adjoa Andoh (br)

Andie MacDowell

Carmen Ejogo (br)

Suranne Jones

Rutina Wesley

Sanaa Lathan

Danai Gurira

Adina Porter

Regina King

Lillias White

Father

Roger Guenveur Smith

Sean Patrick Thomas

Richard Ayoade (br)

Laurence Fishburne

Daniel Sunjata (br)

Viggo Mortensen

Harold Perrineau

Omari Hardwick

Craig Robinson

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Zachary Quinto

David Tennant

John Krasinski

DB Woodside

Willem Dafoe

Michael Ealy

Skeet Ulrich

Rhys Darby

Andy Serkis

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Final Destination (2000)

Final Destination (2000) #FinalDestination #Horror #Thriller #Movie #Film #Review

Final Destination (2000) Director (and co-writer): James Wong Cast: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke, Daniel Roebuck, Roger Guenveur Smith, Chad Donella, Seann William Scott, Tony Todd, Amanda Detmer Alex Browning is among a group of high school students on a trip to Europe. He suddenly has a premonition their airplane will crash, he screams to warn the others but is thrown…

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Roger Guenveur Smith Net Worth 2023: What Is The Actor Worth?

Roger Guenveur Smith Net Worth 2023: What Is The Actor Worth?

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Till Official Poster

The true story of Mamie Till-Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till. 

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In celebration of the 25th anniversary for Eve's Bayou

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Roger Guenveur Smith and Bob Marley at Tuff Gong studios, Jamaica, 1979

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Final Destination (2000)

Director - James Wong, Cinematography - Robert McLachlan

"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast. But when we say this, we imagine that the hour is placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun, or that death could arrive this same afternoon - this afternoon which is so certain, and which has every hour filled in advance."

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Roger Guenveur Smith appreciation post

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Now, Let us preface this entire review with the knowledge that I saw the first FD movie when I was about 9 years old and for some reason (I can't imagine what) completely blocked the entire premonition from my memory and only made it past Tod's death before I was done.

The shot of his bloodshot eyes haunted me for years and neither of my parents could remember the movie. I was a terrified child, so I never consciously watched a horror movie until I was about 15, after 'Seed of Chucky' (Yes, I know) scared the absolute daylights out of me for years, so this one memory really didn't help.

BUT, I watched the first one again one day and was instantly hooked (you can imagine my surprise at seeing Tod's death again and finally knowing I wasn't entirely an insane person.)

The first FD movie is a classic, everyone knows it, I don't know a person who hasn't seen FD1, apart from the children I teach, which I suppose is a good thing. We start with Alex Browning, preparing for a school trip to Paris, with his best friend Tod, and Tod's brother George, who for years I assumed was his twin. (He is not.)

Alex gets his premonition of the plane crash/explosion/all around disaster and instantly jumps into action trying to warn people of their impending doom. Obviously he is removed by the attendants and seven people are removed from the plane.

The first death (aside from the premonition coming true) is Tod's, I'll admit we start of with a pretty wonky execution (no pun intended) of Tod's death, strangely blue liquid (I've always debated whether it is or isn't water, but I don't think death personally cares that much so maybe I shouldn't either... but nonetheless this blue liquid causes Tod to slip while he's hanging washing on his bathtub washing line (which seems unnecessarily convoluted and impractical) but as I said earlier, the death haunted me for years so it was obviously effective in what it set out to do.

This is where Alex and Clear (another survivor) meet William Bloodworth - The icon that is Tony Todd (Candyman) himself.

Our next death is Terry 'drop fucking dead' Chaney, who really up until this point had really been somewhat of a nothing character but potentially single-handedly gave one of the most memorable lines of the franchise to her boyfriend Carter 'The Dick' Horton before being absolutely obliterated by a speeding bus, this death was and still is a jumper for me (and not the warm, knitted type)

Ms Lewton's death is next and her death is honestly just ridiculous and again overly convoluted, her tea is not enough to numb her pain, so into her boiling hot mug, she pours some extremely flammable vodka (You know when James A Janisse thinks a death is dumb, that it probably is X) the fire vodka finds its way into her computer (which she definitely could not soak in rice to fix) which causes it to explode shards of glass in to her neck and, you guessed it sets her house on fire. She reaches for the cloth on her counter and gets a handy block of knives in her torso, which as you can imagine isn't very useful for staying alive, Alex then REMOVES the knife, not only getting his fingerprints all over the 'murder' weapon but also definitely didn't aid in any chances of the emergency services being able to potentially save his teacher.

Our next death is the one that hurt me the most (being the Seann William Scott fan I am), Billy Hitchcock gets his head sliced in half horizontally by a passing train which our survivors Alex, Clear, Carter and Billy had moments ago had almost been blasted by smithereens too.

Alex realises that Clear is next on deaths list as he is holed up in his crazy bunker and goes to save her, getting electrocuted by power line in the process, a fade to white implies that Alex is dead until we skip to 6 months in the future and our survivors are finally going to Paris, Alex isn't convinced that death isn't finished yet and removes himself from his friends to protect them, almost getting hit by a large, neon sign only to be saved by Carter, who then gets hit and killed by the same sign.

We find out the futures of Alex and Clear in FD2, so I will include them when I cover that movie.

- Jess

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