TEYONAH PARRIS

CANDYMAN (2021)
Starring Lakeith Stanfield, Yahya Abdul-Mateen Ii, Teyonah Parris, Tony Todd, Cassie Kramer, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, Rebecca Spence, Kyle Kaminsky and Carl Clemons-Hopkins. Directed by Nia Dacosta.

For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorised by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright, move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.

With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini Green old-timer exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind Candyman. Anxious to maintain his status in the Chicago art world, Anthony begins to explore these macabre details in his studio as fresh grist for paintings, unknowingly opening a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifyingly viral wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.

REVIEWS Candyman - Sweet, sugar, Candyman

THE PHOTOGRAPH (2020)
Starring Lakeith Stanfield, Issa Rae, Chelsea Peretti, Courtney B. Vance, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Kenneth Kynt Bryan, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Teyonah Parris, Lilrel Howery and Rob Morgan. Directed by Stella Meghie.

When famed photographer Christina Eames dies suddenly, she leaves her estranged daughter Mae Morton hurt, angry and confused. But tucked away in a safe-deposit box is a single photograph and a letter that will propel Mae on a journey that will ignite an unexpected romance with rising-star journalist Michael Block and lead Mae toward Isaac Jefferson, a New Orleans fisherman with a mysterious connection to her mother’s past.

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (2019)
Starring Kiki Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Dave Franco, Ed Skrein, Brian Tyree Henry, Colman Domingo, Teyonah Parris, Michael Beach and Aunjanue Ellis. Directed by Barry Jenkins.

A love story set in 1970s Harlem, New York. After her fiancé is framed for a crime, a young woman races against the clock to prove his innocence while pregnant with their first child.

REVIEWS If Beale Street Could Talk - Love is a many splendid thing indeed