Category: Blaxploitation

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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.

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  Trouble Man (1972)

  June 22, 2022

  1970s, Action, B Movie, Blaxploitation, Crime, Drama, Los Angeles, Music, Noir, Thriller

  What brought me to watching Trouble Man (1972) I’m sure is the same thing that draws in a lot of people and possibly has had more cultural impact than the film itself: Marvin Gaye’s soundtrack. The song ‘Trouble Man’ is a brilliant piece of music, and much like the ‘Theme To Shaft,’ it smoothly and… Read.

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  Truck Turner (1974)

  May 8, 2022

  1970s, Action, Blaxploitation, Car Chase Cinema, Crime, Drugs, Los Angeles

  Truck Turner (1974) is as supercharged and rollicking a film as the pumping score provided by star Isaac Hayes. Not just content with winning the Oscar for the ‘Theme to Shaft’ and establishing the sound of what would be termed Blaxploitation, Hayes decided to try acting as well. As the title character, a former football… Read.

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  Across 110th Street (1972)

  March 17, 2021

  1970s, Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Drama, New York, Noir, Political, Thriller, Uncategorized

  Jackie Brown is one of my all time favourite soundtracks and I always wanted to watch the movie where it took its opening/closing theme, ‘Across 110th Street’ by Bobby Womack. I was a little surprised to find that the melancholic, orchestral sweep of the song I know was not used in the title credit sequence… Read.