In 1971, Melvin Van Peebles made “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” as an indirect response to Sidney Poitier’s performance in 1967’s “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” While the ’60s and ’70s ...
Last week I binge watched theGrioTV’s marathon of blaxploitation Pam Grier movies and realized that I know nothing about blaxploitation films and that Pam Grier was pretty amazing. This week, the trek ...
Here's an ever-growing list of some of the best blaxploitation films I reviewed during Black History Month and in Unstreamable, a weekly column about films not currently streaming. Check back ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Blaxploitation film era is, for better or worse, a cornerstone in the foundation of modern Black history. The subgenre, a ...
*TUCSON, Ariz. — The blaxploitation movies of early 1970s Hollywood occupy a unique space in film history by being, to many, as problematic as they are influential. Derrais Carter, a University of ...
Yesterday, three of the city’s most diligent film programming groups, Black World Cinema, the Chicago Cinema Society, and South Side Projections, teamed up to host a “Jim Kelly Day,” an all day ...
Keke Palmer plays a woman who makes slave owners pay in Krystin Ver Linden's quasi-Blaxploitation debut. By John DeFore An awkwardly structured adventure that stumbles pretty badly in what should be ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’re up for a night of blaxploitation and all that comes with it, and are looking for a horrifyingly deadly night instead of ...
The Blaxploitation film era is, for better or worse, a cornerstone in the foundation of modern Black history. The subgenre, a portmanteau of Black and exploitation, came at critical time between the ...
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