Acting
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
Everything Michael DeVeaux II ever wanted was so close, yet, so far away. His life was idyllic, relaxed, and mostly beautiful. He had his wife, his mistresses, his money, his mansion, his music, and his collection of contemporary art. But, he also had a love/hate relationship with a dead musical genius who was his idol. But, when a buried family secret reveals itself, he discovers that the things that he thought were important, are not important at all.
Cold-hearted professor Dominique is suffering from kidney failure. While attending the Smith and Wesson family reunion, she tries to approach estranged sister, CeCe, for a transplant. However, the two of them have too many unresolved issues from their childhood. At great emotional expense, CeCe tries to confront past demons to find forgiveness and healing. Struggling with her own vulnerability, Dominique is forced to do some soul searching to address personal shortcomings in order to save her own life. And as the events surrounding the reunion continue to unfold, family members uncover buried truths and love, yet family politics nevertheless persist with the Smiths vying to maintain dominance and shut out the Wesson faction.
The Johnson clan returns for this heartfelt yuletide drama that finds the individual family members struggling with a surfeit of issues. While the conceited Sam obnoxiously flaunts his success before brother Robert, Robert himself grapples with alcoholism. Meanwhile, Candy shocks the more traditional family members by inviting her vegan boyfriend to dinner, and Aunt Michelle buckles beneath the weight of loneliness and prays aloud for a man to come into her life. These events and others all add up to a bittersweet mixture of humor and pathos, laced with Christian sentiments.
Their marriages were perfect.... or so it seemed.... They had beautiful wives, talented children, powerful careers, wealth in abundance. But, lurking beneath the glossy exteriors of their narcissistic lives was a secret so dark, so dangerous, so deadly in its intent that it sent a spiritual emissary to lay claim to their lives!! Will they survive this killer .... from beyond the grave? Ernest and Michelle Serrano's GRIM WEAVER - coming this Fall! Even the hair on her beautiful head may have the power ...to kill your body and steal... YOUR SOUL!!.
A busy entrepreneur never knew what she was missing when a young immigrant landscaper becomes attracted to her instantly. The busy executive questions her feelings as outsiders are against the relationship. Extreme measures are taken to stop this whirlwind romance from blooming. Is the passion strong enough to endure the negative forces trying to tear them apart?
When Nadine Lazard (Kenya Moore), wife of Richard Lazard (Rudulph Moise), comes up missing, the focus immediately turns on her husband, a prominent Haitian doctor. The plot thickens when Violet Martin (vivica A. Fox), a beautiful detective assigned to the case, is led to believe that Nadine was the victim of a powerful Haitian Voodoo priest (Obba Babatunde). But nothing is as it seems in this complex psychological thriller that delves into the dark world of Voodoo, deception, and the fragility of the mind. Clifton Powell, Miguel Nunez Jr., and Jean Claude LaMarre costar.
Three store owners discover their strip mall has been gambled away to a thug who loves to bowl. After unsuccessful attempts to pay the thug back they enter a bowling tournament to win the money, despite having no previous bowling skills.
Evicted from his apartment, James has to move in with his girlfriend of 3 months. He quickly discovers that she's everything he never wanted in a woman. His only option is to get her to break up with him -- but still let him sleep on the couch.
Hardcore gangsta Isaiah Knight decides to leave his gang, The Platinum Playaz, to go straight and look after his mother and sister. When he opens up his own nightclub, the members of his former crew see it as the perfect place to make a big drug score. Desperate to stay legit, Knight scuppers the drug deal, invoking the wrath of Lynch, the new leader of the Playaz, who decides to take revenge by ambushing Knight. Knight's mother and sister are killed during the hit and when Lynch escapes prosecution for the killings, Knight decides to exact his own form of bloody justice.
Three brothers use legal and illegal methods to make it out of their drug-infected neighborhood.
This entry in director Jean-Claude La Marre's Pastor Jones series sees the beleaguered clergyman coping with a gap in the church budget. When he can't make a payment on one of the church's loans, the pastor fears he may have to stop funding the choir, and turns to its two lead members (who happen to be quibbling siblings) to help save the day. Will they be able to put their pride aside and keep the choir together?
Three powerful men have been invited to a meeting which will change one of their lives forever. Money and power are all they care about. They fear no man. They will come to fear "The Job Interview".
Mobster Rudy Wright rises to the top of the Los Angeles underworld.
Paul loves God and his wife but finds himself confronted with a decision that could lead to the loss of both. During the bumpy Road to Damascus where Love and hate, good and evil, envy and admiration become opposite twins that challenge the stability of Paul's life. The congregation will find themselves twisting through a matrix of multiple emotions as they seek to save their very own souls.
