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April 6, 2009

HALF PAST DEAD: One Bad Chestnut

When you think of Morris Chestnut, there may be several words that spring to mind:

RICKY!, Sexy chocolate, Great actor.

Pretty much no one ever says “bad buy.” That is, unless they’ve seen this scene from Half Past Dead (premiering Sat. at 8pm [ET]).

We bet Ricky would never shoot a clergyman in cold blood. No, Chestnut really did some stretching from his usual romantic comedy roles to play criminal mastermind 49erOne in Dead. But he’s not the only Hollywood good-guy-gone-bad. Blair Underwood, who’s played a lot of stand-up characters in films like Something New and Set It Off, has also showed his evil side in movies like Asunder and G.

So how do you like your Black male actors — nice or a bit naughty? Take the poll below.

What kind of roles do you like to see Black actors playing?

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March 27, 2009

MARCH MOVIE MADNESS: Laurence Fishburne VS Henry Simmons

Welcome to March Movie Madness, the month TV One airs some of the biggest premieres with some of the biggest stars including Samuel L. Jackson in The Cleaner, Terrence Howard in Spark, Pam Grier in Friday Foster and more.

Each week in March, we pit two of our biggest stars against each other in a Fame-off, which actor do you think delievered the goods in a scene from their film?

LAST WEEK: Ice Cube VS Ice Cube

THIS WEEK: Legendary actor Laurence Fishburne goes up against NYPD Blue alum Henry Simmons in this weekend’s movies. Fishburne stars in Fled, the 1996 update of Sidney Poitier’s classic The Defiant Ones premiering on TV One Saturday at 6pm(ET). Henry Simmons stars in the multilayered drama South of Pico on Saturday and Sunday at 8pm (ET).

FLED: In this scene, Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin are in the middle of one of their many escapes from the cops when Fishburne reveals something big. Is he telling the truth? Watch and judge.

SOUTH OF PICO: Henry Simmons stars as Dr. Walter Chambers, a man desperate to get more funding for his research and help a young cancer patient who only wants to go home to die. Watch and judge.

Now that you’ve seen the clips, it’s time to vote

Who did the best in their scene?

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February 27, 2009

The Cleaner: Samuel L. Jackson vs Eva Mendes

We premiered this film back in February, but in case you missed it, The Cleaner (Sunday at 5pm [ET])airing is probably the best Sam Jackson film you’ve NEVER seen.

As a crime-scene cleaner, Jackson keeps a low profile, that is until he cleans up a crime scene in Eva Mendes’ house. When she gets the inkling that something has gone wrong with her husband and her life, she comes to the man she thinks may have the answers.

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