Talk to Me (2007)
Directed by Kasi Lemmons
The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the 1960s.
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Michael and Danny Philippou’s “Talk to Me” contains splendid nasty scares, often feeling like Australia’s answer to Sam Raimi’s “The Evil Dead” (or Joel Schumacher’s “Flatliners”) for the modern generation, where teens summon ghostly spirits as a party trick or newly found drug.
Even if the industry still hasn’t recognized Henson for her “Hustle & Flow” performance, her 18 episodes of “Boston Legal” from 2007 to 2008 as Whitney Rome or her role in 2007’s “Talk to Me” with Don Cheadle, Henson says after this press tour and upon release of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” “you will surely know me now” and know how to pronounce her Swahili name, too.
Director Rick Famuyiwa (Brown Sugar, Talk to Me) serves up another self-reflexive study of race relations, romance and pop culture with Dope.
Credit is due to writer/director Rick Famuyiwa (who shared an NAACP Image award with Michael Genet for their Talk to Me script) for going against the grain with this comedic tale of three friends from a tough LA neighbourhood whose unfashionable interests include filling in college applications, playing in a punky guitar band and listening to shiny 90s beats or, as the film puts it, “shit white people like”.
The film was written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa, who also made “Brown Sugar” and “Talk to Me.” Since, like the protagonist, Famuyiwa is a native of Inglewood, Calif., and had a Nigerian father, I’m guessing it’s at least semi-autobiographical.
Famuyiwa has been around a while and his best work, such as the screenplay for the Don Cheadle vehicle "Talk to Me," indicates a voice deserving of wider recognition.