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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Blaxploitation
Director: Steve Shill
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Obsessed isn’t a very good movie, but as a sociological document, it’s fascinating. Here’s a movie which is precisely calibrated to appeal specifically to the aspirations and fears of American black women.
Temp Lisa Sheridan (Ali Larter) sets her sights on Derek Charles (Idris Elba), […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Blaxploitation
Director: D’Urville Martin
Year: 1975
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
For a while there, it seemed like Dolemite was going to be a blaxploitation classic. It starts out in fine style, with Dolemite (comedian Rudy Ray Moore) signifying, wearing snazzy ghetto threads, and trying out his (nonexistent) karate moves.
At first glance, Rudy Ray Moore would seem […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Blaxploitation
Director: Jamaa Fanaka
Year: 1982
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Within minutes, it’s obvious that writer/director Jamaa Fanaka has abandoned the relatively serious intent of Penitentiary. A Star Wars style crawl comes up on the screen, bringing us up to date on the saga of Too Sweet (Leon Isaac Kennedy), accompanied by ludicrous […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Blaxploitation
Director: Jamaa Fanaka
Year: 1979
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I first saw Penitentiary in a now long defunct grindhouse theater in downtown Philadelphia, where the drunks snored and the floors were sticky, I hope only with spilled soda although I suspect that’s not true. It was the perfect venue for exploitation […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Blackploitation
Director: Melvin Van Peebles
Year: 1971
Rating:
CLASSICS I HATE
It’s too bad in a way — Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song could have been a powerful motion picture. As it stands, it’s an interesting social document.
In the prologue, we find out that our hero Sweetback (Melvin Van Peebles) was snatched off the streets as a […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Blaxploitation
Director: Michael Campus
Year: 1973
Rating:
CLASSICS I HATE
There isn’t a whole lot of action in The Mack. Sure, there’s a shootout before the opening credits, and Goldie AKA The Mack (Max Julien) wastes a few scumbags that went after him and his people late in the flick, but most of the running time […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/Blackploitation
Director: Larry Cohen
Year: 2006
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For the first 45 minutes or so, writer Aubrey K. Rattan and director Larry Cohen put together a kickass version of a modern blaxploitation movie.
All of the elements are done with style to spare. There’s the wall to wall R&B music score — the […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Blaxploitation
Director: Jack Starrett
Year: 1972
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
A pity. Slaughter starts and ends on a strong note, but everything in the middle is as thin as a soup made with water and a nail.
First we get the theme song by Billy Preston over the credits - funkay! An old black couple gets […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Blaxploitation
Director: Arthur Marks
Year: 1975
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Bucktown isn’t a very good movie, but it is interesting. Bucktown asks the question “When does the right to scuffle become exploitation of one’s brothers and sisters?” The question is clearly directed at the black community of the era, but it’s still timely.
Duke (Fred Williamson) […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/Blaxploitation/Comedy
Director: Ice Cube
Year: 1998
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
As you would expect from a movie about strip clubs from writer/director Ice Cube, The Players’ Club is blackalicious. There’s as much monster booty and ebonic patter flying around as you could possibly want.
What’s more surprising is that, for a good percentage of it’s running time, […]
