Category: Black American Cinema

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  Friday Foster (1975)

  August 30, 2022

  1970s, Action, B Movie, Black American Cinema, Blaxploitation, Comedy, Comicbook Movies, Crime, Exploitation Cinema, Mystery, Noir, Thriller

  While it has violence and nudity, there’s something lighter and frothier about the blaxploitation film, Friday Foster (1975); it’s almost ready to be a crowd-pleasing TV movie pilot, maybe because the film is being based on a comic strip (comparable to Modesty Blaise in terms of syndicated newspaper comics). A vehicle for the great Pam… Read.

• Killer Of Sheep (1977)

  August 3, 2020

  1970s, Arthouse Cinema, Black American Cinema, Drama, Independent Film, Los Angeles

  Thanks to Revelation Film Festival’s online version of their annual film festival, Couched, which ran this year in July, they included a Black Lives Matter section that included two films by Black American filmmaker Charles Burnett. Killer Of Sheep (1977), Burnett’s thesis film at UCLA, was something I’d long wanted to see due to its… Read.