All of TVGuide.com Videos Only

New Jack City

1991, Movie, R, 97 mins

New Jack City: Review

1991 will go down in movie history as the year African-American films finally came into their own. Buoyed by Spike Lee's success, studios and investors embraced young black male filmmakers, and the predominance of a paternalistic, condescending, white view of black life seems to be ebbing. Of course, not every young black filmmaker is Spike Lee. The year's output has varied tremendously, both in quality and in popularity. One of the bigger-budgeted films, Mario Van Peebles... read more leave a comment

New Jack City: Cast & Details

Year: 1991
Rated R

User Rating:

(9 ratings)
Add Your Rating:

Cast
Wesley Snipes: Nino Brown
Ice-T: Scotty Appleton
Allen Payne: Gee Money
Chris Rock: Pookie
Mario Van Peebles: Detective Stone
Michael Michele: Selina

more New Jack City cast & details

New Jack City: TV Guide News

Everybody Hates Chris This episode... | Today's News: Our Take | 2/17/2006
Everybody Hates ChrisThis episode was about my two favorite childhood things: video games and candy. Back in the '80s, I'd chug Pop Rocks as I played Pong on my Atari 800 while wearing my homemade Star Trek uniform. (Sci-fi was my third favorite thing.) Even geeks have something they're good at, and tonight we found out that Chris could kick ass at Asteroids. Now for the kids at home whose idea of video games is Halo, Grand Theft Auto or even the Teletubbies (yes, they have a game), Asteroids must have looked like it was programmed by Cro-Magnons — those little ships resemble cave paintings. Ah, how things have changed. For my generation, watching this show is like reading Proust's Remembrance of Things Past (OK, the C read more

more New Jack City spoilers, news and recaps (1 total news articles)