The film opens today, February 3 in New York and will expand to more cities in the coming weeks. Jamal Joseph’s “Chapter & Verse” first premiered at the Urbanworld Film Festival in 2015 and now the ...

James Baldwin’s bracingly relevant writings, which inspired the potent “I Am Not Your Negro,” also resonate deeply in “Chapter & Verse,” Jamal Joseph’s tough/tender portrait of an ex-con attempting to ...

Chapter & Verse, which finishes a run in Chicago tomorrow night, follows a former gang leader (Daniel Beaty) who, after serving eight years in prison, reenters society and struggles to adapt to his ...

Returning to his Harlem hometown, an ex-con tries to make a fresh start, and help new friends, in Jamal Joseph’s assured low-key indie. Stories about ex-cons attempting to reform their lives – and ...