Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Vidiots, Los Angeles
**Screenwriters**: Thomas Lee Wright, Barry Michael Cooper **Producers**: George Jackson, David McHenry Vidiots is thrilled to welcome the legendary multi-hyphenate **Mario Van Peebles** for a special screening of his directorial debut film *New Jack City* followed by a conversation with **Van Peebles** and **Santi Elijah Holley, **the author of *An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created, *and a forthcoming book on Melvin Van Peebles and independent Black cinema. Mario Van Peebles remixes the blaxploitation genre for the 1990s in this gritty gangster flick. The Cash Money Brothers with kingpin Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) at their helm run the steets and drug trade of New York City. Two hard-nosed NYPD officers (Ice-T and Judd Nelson) have got to go undercover to bring down the pushers and save the streets of Harlem from the crack epidemic. An electric debut that helped usher in the urban gangster wave of the 1990s, with a killer soundtrack, and tons of cameos from Fab Five Freddy, Flava Flav, Eek-a-Mouse, and Keith Sweat, to name a few, *New Jack City* is an intoxicating crime classic, best enjoyed big and loud! **Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.