blaxploitation

The US in the late 60s was a country torn apart by war, both in Vietnam and on the streets. The inevitable failure of the counterculture, along with the voices of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. were extinguished through assassination,…

Ten years ago the well of parody films was dry. Meet the Spartans, Vampires Suck and ceaseless Scary Movies had drank it empty leaving nothing but hot air and a barely there puddle. Within that puddle writers Michael Jai White, Byron Minns…

I’ll admit that I hadn’t seen a Shaft film before this one but odds are neither have you. This unimaginatively-titled series suffers what could be called the Godzilla issue: a franchise known less by direct exposure and more by reputation…

Nothing screams ‘cinematic-rebellion’ louder than the Blaxploitation era of movie making in the 1970s.  This was a genre which primarily catered for the black audiences of the day, where the African-American male or female was the dominant…