Films starring Pam Grier, Richard Roundtree, Isaac Hayes, Fred Williamson, and more will screen. The indie theater announced the upcoming festival which will take place August 16 through August 22.
Everyone has seen the classic horror film where the token Black person—specifically the Black guy—dies first. But Black ...
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 ...
What would Hollywood be without a good ole Blaxploitation film? And now that “They Cloned Tyrone” has hit Netflix screens, conversations about the Blaxploitation movies that crawled so that “They ...
Blaxploitation, a film genre that started in the early ‘70s, was known for sex, violence, and ACTION. Some people know it because of the music (cue the timeless “Super Fly” soundtrack by Curtis ...
Read full article: 📈Best-performing Florida stocks last week In September, prices inflated by 0.1% compared to August, and were up 2.4% from September 2022 The 1970s gave rise to an audacious ...
1960’s exploitation films did so much for the industry, as they created a general roadmap for how to make a commercially successful film. The following decade would bring further proof in the form of ...
I recently watched J.D.’s Revenge and discovered it has only been reviewed by 10 critics on Rotten Tomatoes. It also only has 50% on the site, which is a travesty. This movie is actually really ...
As a preteen growing up in Jersey City, New Jersey, Odie Henderson saw a tremendous number of wildly inappropriate movies. Take age 4, an especially big, bad year for Henderson and inarguably too ...
Film Forum will be presenting a group of films dating largely from the genre’s heyday, the early 1970s, under the title “Blaxploitation, Baby!” Has this series been mounted as an air-conditioned ...
FLASH BACK HALF A CENTURY. New York City is at its grittiest state in years. As our movie opens, a camera hovers above Times Square before slowly panning down and zooming in. Theater marquees show ...