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06/11/2024

The movie "I'm Sorry Son" starring African superstar Chris Attoh and directed by Francis Cell-Fis Owusu is out and streaming free on Tubi. Log on to Tubi and enjoy a movie extravaganza.

05/18/2024

Now streaming live on Tubi. An original thriller for the ages. Log on for some beautiful story telling and movie making by the maestro Cell-Fis.

“I’m Sorry Son”

A single mother, Jackie D. Payne, desperate to erase the pain of her past, is granted a second chance to rewrite her history by a mysterious entity. Transported back seven years, she relishes the blissful moments in an alternate reality untainted by her son's manipulative father.

However, her joy soon turns into a haunting battle against the memories of her unborn child. Jackie finds herself on an emotional tightrope, navigating the delicate balance between joy and heartache as she fights to reconcile the love and longing that intertwine in this mesmerizing tale of redemption and sacrifice.

Starring in this movie is Chris Attoh, the internationally acclaimed veteran actor and producer with over twenty movies and television series under his belt. Chris has been featured on Netflix, Amazon Prime, CNN, NBC, and The New York Times among others. The movie introduces Berko Owusu Jr. in his first role as a professional actor.

Written and directed by Francis ‘Cell-Fis’ Owusu, the movie -produced by Spectrum and co-produced by Chris Attoh - is set to premiere in Las Vegas and Chicago in 2024.

01/29/2024

The much-talked about movie 'I'm Sorry Son' set to stream. This was the premiere!

On January 20, 2024, a private screening of "I'm Sorry Son" was shown to the cast and their families at Galaxy Theatre Cannery.Chris Attoh, Angell Lynn Holme...

11/25/2023

African Spectrum Editorial

My People

The death of a person especially a famous one and an impending funeral conjures the spirits of My People to stand up to be counted.

When it comes to the death and funeral arrangements by our deceased people for deceased people,, My People have immediate reaction from folks who rush to to empathize with the bereaved family as if they cared.

After that sometimes hypocritical rush of compassion by some relations as to the tragedy at hand, My people especially the close ones willingly ingest themselves into the participation of the funeral arrangements and the supposed protocols to save face.

Why not?

My People -most of whom are sanctimonious in nature - try to prove to the living that the deceased who can't speak or defend themselves are precious commodities now dead.

My People, we need your face when we can see you and not when lying on the display bed of death motionless!

In our communities, when a tragedy like death happens, the means of disseminating such dreadful news shift into high gears with all the accoutrements intact.

Some of the means My People use in the spreading the 'GOSPEL' of the dead may be chronologically but not necessarily in order and are listed as followed:

Social Media
Word of mouth by Gossip Tycoons
Gong-Gong
Radio
Belling
TV
Video
Noise making Experts
Ear Merchants
Dirges
Flyers
Door to Door Pushers
Drones etc.

All the while not forgetting the everlasting last farewell tributes -some written with guilt -shrouded with lies and embellished with emotions that make one believe that My People really cared.

That's Baloney!

My People some of whom didn't like the deceased can now be seen wailing and shouting like they lost something precious.

Why stand there gnagging your teeth and shedding your wicked tears?

My People will then proceed to participate in the:

Informing the politicians, pastors, chiefs, elders or anyone of influence.
Professional Criers
Story tellers
One Week Celebration
40-Day Celebration
Funeral Day
Chiefs in Palanquins
Traditional Drumming
Traditional Dancing
Burial Service
Burial Feeding
Funeral Night
Thanksgiving Service
Thanksgiving Brunch
Spouse Seekers
Walk by Preachers
Errant folks seeking for take away baskets
Magicians
Hawkers etc.

All these activities keeping in mind that the one -year celebration where some of the above events will be repeated is lurking by.

During these solemn moments, most events are packed with My People!

Of course everything great involves money and some of My People come to reap rather than contribute!

It makes me wonder why in our part of the world, the paradigm shift for the love of the dead is greater than that of the living?

Consider the above display of compassion and the excessive waste of energy when it comes to the arrangements through the participation for the dead compared to the subsequent embracing of a situation when the living needs help.

When there is a call for the sick and the needy, all the outcries fall on deaf ears, yet when the outlets are channeled with wistful news of the demise of a loved one, My People pounce in and the fakers take turns in faking their consolations.

My People especially those close family relations who believe they are in it to inherit something will pay for the beautification of a funeral rather the expenses of a hospital bill.

My people will then seek to acquire all the belongings and properties of the deceased without paying heed to the immediate family members that may be displaced.

What a shame and immoral act for My People to seek or steal the properties of the dead!

It's time we focus on the living and give them care and credence.

My People, if you didn't love or helped one when alive, stay at your somewhere. We need your accolades and well wishes when we are alive and can see or hear; we don't need your compassion or your fake tears when we are dead!

11/20/2023

“I’m Sorry Son”

A single mother, Jackie D. Payne, desperate to erase the pain of her past, is granted a second chance to rewrite her history by a mysterious entity. Transported back seven years, she relishes the blissful moments in an alternate reality untainted by her son's manipulative father.

However, her joy soon turns into a haunting battle against the memories of her unborn child. Jackie finds herself on an emotional tightrope, navigating the delicate balance between joy and heartache as she fights to reconcile the love and longing that intertwine in this mesmerizing tale of redemption and sacrifice.

Starring in this movie is Chris Attoh, the internationally acclaimed veteran actor and producer with over twenty movies and television series under his belt. Chris has been featured on Netflix, Amazon Prime, CNN, NBC, and The New York Times among others. The movie introduces Berko Owusu Jr. in his first role as a professional actor.

Written and directed by Francis ‘Cell-Fis’ Owusu, the movie -produced by Spectrum and co-produced by Chris Attoh - is set to premiere in Las Vegas and Chicago in 2024.

04/22/2023

The Journalist and Pauline! The Soldier and The Nurse! Our past time is music and dancing! Enjoy!

04/22/2023

The Journalist and Pauline! Classic! Just doing what we do best!

10/01/2021

The Journalist's Soliloquy

The Privileged and the Underprivileged!

I sit down and wonder if this World is real!
I sleep, I dream and I wonder whether I am sleeping, dreaming or wondering!

We live in a world where mostly the privileged gain without contemplating or thinking that the outward patronization from the underprivileged make them wealthy.

These bourgeoisie and their industries would amount to nothing without the poor yet they treat the impoverished like dirt.

In addition, it's amazing that with most humanitarian stories centering on people who rose from rags-to-riches -and there are many- why do most of them become obnoxious and selfish once they attain power or become rich???

People don't respect the fruits that provide or have yielded them their foods or their glories!

Humans consider privilege as a virtue!

True!

But do we use our privileges wisely???

From the underprivileged perspective of minds, people have to be born into privileged families to succeed in life.

False!

Why???

If the system is set for all to benefit, only the lazy people will pretend to be unfruitful to society just for statistics.

There are privileged people that amounted to nothing whiles some underprivileged people amounted to something.

Judging by most World leaders, I believe more underprivileged folks have risen to the call than the few privileged that were silver-spoon fed yet lost their fortunes or did nothing for their people.

The privileged souls aspire to control the world and the people!

Some kill along the way to pave their paths!

To the lazy privileged people, the preservation of your lifestyles whereby suppressing your servants and your being worshipped as gods make your hearts function. You know you can always treat a human like an animal.

Life is beautiful and ugly!

We have plenty of natural gifts of life that are free, something like air, yet sometimes the underprivileged have to beg to breathe!

Privileged or Unprivileged, six feet under awaits you.

If people who are in privileged positions like some leaders are able oppress and suppress their own people, they are not different from animals in the jungle!

If the modern generational youth think they are suffering while they have all these technology whereby all is at their finger tips, let them be cognizant of the fact that their ancestors paved the world with nothing so the youth can have it all and be able to compete in a modern world. Instead of toadying to fake superiors, get together and help yourselves.

The modern youth must pray for a way-back machine in terms of literature that can relay and retell to them how hard our ancestors struggled and suffered.

Folks must also realize that respect to the elders must always be imminent.

In surmise, I appeal to all Blacks around the World that have conformed to the brutality of the privileged owners of the world to try solidarity as a solution.

The tide of change streams from the understanding of the people!

I am running for the president of Ghana!

I am not versed in any field apart from Journalism and Common Sense!

My connections with people from all walks and persuasions of life has revealed to me that in life genuine people don't need any introduction.

If you are privileged and you don't care about the people, stay at your somewhere. I don't need you!

Your false hope does not matter to me!

Privileged or unprivileged, you have a brain; if you have a brain and can be controlled by one with half a brain, the problem be you!

Privileged or unprivileged, rise up!

Nothing stops you from being influential!