Hip-hop fans nostalgic for the good/bad old days of West Cost-East Coast blood feuds between Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls (aka the Notorious B.I.G.) can look forward to "Notorious," George Tillman Jr.'s biopic of Biggie - known to his mother (played here by Angela Bassett) as Christopher Wallace.
First-timer Jamal Woolard stars as Biggie, with Anthony Mackie as Tupac and the astonishingly prolific Derek Luke as Sean Combs (whose multiplying aliases we decline to enumerate).
The film is currently scheduled for release at the dawn of 2009, but those who want an early taste can sample a video diary here: