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Check Out the Interview with Changing The Game Star Sean Riggs and Lou Gaul of Phillyburbs.com!

The 31-year-old Chicago native believes more independent films will be coming and adding new depth to the moviegoing experience. “There’s great content in the urban community,” Riggs says at the Philadelphia Museum of Art prior to a screening of his new film, writer-director Rel Dowdell’s “Changing the Game,” now in theaters. “It was great to see how much the city of Philadelphia supported this film.” READ MORE >

Check Out the Interview with Changing The Game Star Tony Todd for Cinedelphia!

Veteran stage/screen actor Tony Todd was recently in Philadelphia for the premiere of the locally shot dramatic thriller Changing the Game. Todd spoke to Cinedelphia about his new film, his upcoming projects, and the contrasting worlds of mainstream and independent film. READ MORE >

"CHANGING THE GAME" Gets Great National Review from Noted Critic Avi Offer of NYC Movie Guru!

Darrell Barnes (Sean Riggs), a young African-American, lives with his spiritual grandmother (Irma P. Hall) on the mean streets of North Philadelphia where he finds his life in danger every day. Ever since he was very young, though, he always loved to read--he's the rare street thug who can quote Machiavelli's The Prince to his friends, Dre (Dennis L.A. White) and Craig (Sticky Fingaz).

Just when you think the plot will unfold like a standard crime drama, it takes a 180 degree turn as Darrell gets accepted into an Ivy League school and eventually gets a job at a firm on Wall Street. Life seems much easier and peaceful working in the financial industry---or so he thinks until he gets to experience how Wall Street mirrors the mean streets in more ways than one. READ MORE >

From the Black Film Archive at Indiana University Website: Check Out Audience Reactions...

Four days ago, Rel Dowel’s ‘Changing the Game,’ with Tony Todd, Irma P. Hall, and Kirk Jones, opened in 5 cities (Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, D.C., and Atlanta). It’s been getting some great reviews and generating an amount of hype, with NYC Movie Guru calling the film “suspenseful, intriguing, wise and genuinely heartfelt." VIEW REACTIONS >

Changing The Game Gets Same 3 out of 4 Star Review as The Hunger Games on The Movie Report!

The title of Rel Dowdell's years-in-the-making follow-up to his debut Train Ride appears, in its very opening moments, to be either less than accurate or ironic, as one sees a young African-American male taking a bullet in 1980s-era Philadelphia. What immediately follows, a series of flashbacks to incidents and associations that led the youth to this moment as he lies unconscious in the hospital, further gives the impression of a boilerplate urban drama. READ MORE >

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