Tara Wilson Movies
Actress Tara Wilson began signing for filmed roles in the early 2000s, and specialized in ethnically oriented character performances. Wilson landed one of her first assignments as the girlfriend of the late Puerto Rican actor Tito Goya in Piñero, director Leon Ichaso's ambitious biopic of the titular Latin American playwright, then followed this up with supporting portrayals in such outings as the low-budget crime thriller Snuffed Out (2002) and the urban drama Rap War One. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
Actor/director Carl T. Evans pulls double duty on both sides of the camera to weave this paranoid tale of a New Jersey police detective who stumbles into a far-reaching government conspiracy. Evans teams with screenwriter/producer Charles Kipps to pen an original screenplay, and Chris Noth co-stars as a college professor who remains skeptical of the detective's outrageous claims. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Carl T. Evans, Chris Noth, (more)
Ricardo Sean Thompson's Rap War One concerns a young Brooklynite who attempts to live the straight life even though he is surrounded by crime, drugs, and poverty. When he impregnates his girlfriend, he has to figure out how to increase his monetary intake. He learns of a club where rappers freestyle against each other for cash prizes. He becomes a star of these battles, but the club owner is fully involved in the street life and may starting seducing the young man into becoming a part of that world. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
When a pair of childhood girlfriends inadvertently kill the nephew of the Assistant District Attorney in a drug deal gone bad, they hit the road with a vengeful drug dealer and a rogue DEA agent in hot pursuit in director Ricardo Thompson's dark crime thriller. Taking arms to defend themselves from the blood-lusting lawman and anyone else who stands in their way, Dream and Shan find that survival is a kill-or-be-killed game on the streets where corruption is law and sentences are served with a bullet. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mahasin Ali, Christian Sorge, (more)
Miguel Pinero became a leading figure in New York's art scene during the 1970s as a poet, actor, and playwright whose vibrant, often pointed, work spoke directly to the lower classes and to disenfranchised minorities. As a founder of the influential Nuyorican Poets Cafe, his poetry soon became recognized as a forerunner to rap and hip-hop music. TV screenwriter turned director Leon Ichaso spins this impressionistic biographical look at this artist. Raised in an abusive family, Pinero (Benjamin Bratt) turns to streets for solace. Soon he is engaging in petty crime, drug dealing, and addiction. When he finds himself in Sing-Sing, he turns his experiences in prison into the play Short Eyes, which eventually garners him seven Tony awards in 1974. Uncomfortable with his new fame, he clings to his girlfriend, Sugar (Talisa Soto), and his childhood buddy, Miguel Algarin (Giancarlo Esposito), who is a literature professor and who co-founded the Nuyorican Cafe. Though Pinero makes cameos on such shows as Kojak, his art begins to suffer as he starts to succumb to his drug addictions. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Benjamin Bratt, Giancarlo Esposito, (more)
