Luna Ray Media Celebrates The Release of 5 Films In The Netflix Black Lives Matter Collection
Luna Ray Media proudly celebrates the inclusion of Rodney King in the Black Lives Matter Netflix collection. Upon the initial release, Roger Guenveur Smith and Spike Lee’s powerful theater film piece was praised by a variety of press, including The Guardian, LA Times, and The Hollywood Reporter. Roger Guenveur Smith is also included in four other films available with Netflix’s Black Lives Matter collection, including School Daze (1988), Do The Right Thing (1989), Get On The Bus (1996), and Self Made (2020).
For the full Black Lives Matter Netflix collection listing, click here.
Rodney King (2017)
Dir. by Spike Lee | TV-MA | Social Issue Dramas
Roger Guenveur Smith gives voice to the man at the center of the brutal police beating that helped fuel the 1992 LA riots. Spike Lee directs.
Starring: Roger Guenveur Smith
For more info and full credits: www.imdb.com/title/tt6624312/
School Daze (1988)
Dir. by Spike Lee | R | 2h | Comedies
At an all-Black college, a student activist and his cousin pledging a fraternity navigate the social divides amid parties, protests and conflicts.
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Roger Guenveur Smith
More info and full credits here: www.imdb.com/title/tt0096054/
Do The Right Thing (1989)
Dir. by Spike Lee | 18+ | 1h 59m
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Starring: Roger Guenveur Smith
More info and full credits here: www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/
Get On The Bus (1996)
Dir. by Spike Lee | R | 2h 1m | Social Issue Dramas
A diverse group of African American men treks from LA to Washington, DC in an eventful cross-country journey to the Million Man March.
Starring: Ossie Davis, Charles S. Dutton, Richard Belzer, Roger Guenveur Smith
More info and full credits here: www.imdb.com/title/tt0116404/
Self Made (2020)
Based on On Her Own Ground by A’Lelia Bundles | TV-MA | 1 Season | TV Shows
An African American washerwoman rises from poverty to build a beauty empire and become the first female self-made millionaire. Based on a true story.
Starring: Octavia Spencer, Tiffany Haddish, Carmen Ejogo, Roger Guenveur Smith
More info and full credits here: www.imdb.com/title/tt8771910/