Dolemite
After Netflix made a high-quality feature about Rudy Ray Moore, Amazon cheaply snapped up his movies in an act of opportunism worthy of the man himself. The original Dolemite movie […]
Tag Archives: blaxploitation
Dolemite Is My Name
By this point Snoop Dogg is Netflix’s biggest sub-category, more populous even than hitman comedies or cannabis cookery shows (obviously there is overlap). Between his movie cameos, album appearances and […]
Shaft
John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson), nephew of the original black private dick (Richard Roundtree), works for the NYPD in typically maverick style. But when a known racist (Christian Bale) escapes […]
Super Fly
Youngblood Priest (Ron O’Neal) is a Harlem coke pusher who decides to go straight after one final score: selling 30 kilos of cocaine in 4 months for $1 million. Talk about a […]
Blacula
What’s the difference between Dracula and Theresa May? One lies in a coffin, the other lies while coughin’. And also lies in a coffin. As the name suggests, Blacula is a blaxploitation […]
Black Shampoo
Mr Jonathan (John Daniels) is a sexy hairdresser with a libido as big as his afro, who does more for his favourite customers than just their hair, presumably in violation […]
Across 110th Street
Three men steal $300,000 from the mob in this blaxploitation classic from 1972. My main complaint with Black Mama, White Mama (co-written by Jonathan Demme, who sadly passed away yesterday) was that […]
Foxy Brown
Tagline: “A chick with drive who don’t take no jive! “ Pam Grier plays Foxy Brown, a sassy, sexy, hardass woman with the most subtle name since Pussy Galore. Foxy […]
The Brother From Another Planet
This blaxploitation sci fi asks what would happen if an alien arrived who looked like a black man and instead of landing in a blaze of media to speak to […]
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