What to Watch: 'Black Dynamite,' 'The Proposal' DVD, 'Freestyle'

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Coming out this week is 'Black Dynamite,' a hilarious new comedy starring Michael Jai White.

Directed by Scott Sanders, the film also stars Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Obba Babatunde, Kym Whitley, Mykelti Williamson, Bokeem Woodbine, Kevin Chapman, Tommy Davidson, John Salley, Chris Spencer, Phil Morris, Brian McKnight and Arsenio Hall.

The film follows the story of 1970s African American action legend Black Dynamite. When "the Man" kills his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages and floods the ghetto with malt liquor, Black Dynamite is the one hero willing to fight -- all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.

Corporate ambition makes for strange bedfellows when a hard-nosed executive talks her overworked assistant into a marriage of convenience in 'The Proposal,' which is out on Blu-ray and DVD.

Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) terrorizes her publishing house co-workers with her abrasive take-no-prisoners management style, especially her overworked assistant Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds). But when Margaret is threatened with deportation to her native Canada because of an immigration technicality, the quick-thinking exec announces that she and Andrew are engaged to be married.

Ambitious Andrew agrees to go along with her scheme if there's a long-awaited promotion in it for him. Everything is going according to Margaret's plan until an overzealous immigration official makes it his business to prove that the couple's engagement is bogus. To demonstrate her commitment to her new fiancé, Margaret agrees to attend a family get-together with her hubby-to-be in Alaska. Margaret's type-A ways put her at odds with her eccentric future in-laws with hilarious consequences until the Paxtons teach her a thing or two about family.

Directed by rising filmmaker Kevin Fitzgerald (aka DJ Organic), 'Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme' documents the freestyle scene from the early 1980s to present day, featuring a who's who of seminal hip-hop figures, including MC Supernatural, Mos Def, Roots members Black Thought and Questlove, Notorious B.I.G., Tupac Shakur, DJ Kool Herc and The Last Poets.

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