2 MUST SEE Films: Dope & Fresh Dressed!!!

2 MUST SEE Films: Dope & Fresh Dressed

First up is the coming of age comedy/drama “Dope” which stars Zoë Kravitz, Forest Whitaker, Kiersey Clemons, Shameik Moore, Kimberly Elise, Rick Fox, Tyga and more…

Dope is directed by Rick Famuyiwa and the film is set to drop in June.

Synopsis:

A coming of age comedy/drama for the post hip hop generation. Malcolm is a geek, carefully surviving life in The Bottoms, a tough neighborhood in Inglewood, CA filled gangsters and drugs dealers, while juggling his senior year of college applications, interviews and the SAT. His dream is to attend Harvard. A chance invitation to a big underground party leads Malcolm and his friends into a, only in Los Angeles, gritty adventure filed with offbeat characters and bad choices. If Malcolm can persevere, he’ll go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.

Dope hits theaters on June 19, 2015.

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Our second MUST SEE movie is “Fresh Dressed” which is a fascinating, fun-to-watch chronicle of hip-hop, urban fashion and the hustle that brought oversized pants and graffiti-drenched jackets from Orchard Street to high fashion’s catwalks and Middle America shopping malls.

The film explores black culture, and how it reaches deep to Southern plantation culture, the Black church and Little Richard, with a backdrop filled with a music-drenched history from a rich mix of archival materials.

The film is director Sacha Jenkins that tells a story by in-depth interviews with rappers, designers and other industry insiders, such as: Pharrell Williams, Damon Dash, Karl Kani, Kanye West, Nasir Jones, and André Leon Talley. The result is a passionate telling of how the reach for freedom of expression and a better life by a culture that refused to be squashed.

Synopsis:

Fresh Dressed chronicles the history of Hip-Hop/Urban fashion and its rise from southern cotton plantations to the gangs of 1970s in the South Bronx, to corporate America, and everywhere in-between. Supported by rich archival materials and in depth interviews with individuals crucial to the evolution of a way of life–and the outsiders who studied and admired them–Fresh Dressed goes to the core of where style was born on the black and brown side of town.

Fresh Dressed hits theaters on June 26, 2015.