FILMLAB:A worthy sequel to “The Best Man”

Movie: The Best Man HolidayGenre: Drama, ComedyDirected by: Malcolm D. Lee

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Movie: The Best Man HolidayGenre: Drama, ComedyDirected by: Malcolm D. LeeProducers: Malcolm D. Lee, Sean DanielCast: Taye Diggs, Morris Chestnut, Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long, Terrence Howard, Regina Hall, Harold PerrineauRunning time: 123 minutesAfter nearly 15 years apart, Taye Diggs (television’s Private Practice), Nia Long (Soul Food), Morris Chestnut (Kick-Ass 2), Harold Perrineau (Zero Dark Thirty), Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow), Sanaa Lathan (Contagion), Monica Calhoun (Love & Basketball), Melissa De Sousa (Miss Congeniality) and Regina Hall (Scary Movie franchise) reprise their career-launching roles in The Best Man Holiday, the long-awaited next chapter to the film that ushered in a new era of comedy.

When the college friends finally reunite over the Christmas holidays, they will discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be ignited. Malcolm D. Lee returns to write and direct this sequel to his directorial debut.The Best Man Holiday manages honest laughs out of broad humor, and affects convincing drama from a deeply conventional plot. BOOKSHELF: Farewell MadibaBook: Long Walk to FreedomAuthor: Nelson MadelaNelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world.

As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa’s antiapartheid movement, the deceased hero was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He was revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history’s greatest figures. In this book, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life--an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.