Friday Foster (1975)

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 […]

Bones (2001)

Bones (2001) is a horror movie about Snoop Dogg playing a 1970s-era pimp who comes back from the dead to take ghoulish revenge on those who crossed him. In the mix are a group of young promoters and musicians planning to open up a nightclub – unfortunately it’s in the building that Snoop Dogg’s character, […]

Class Of 1999 (1990)

Joanna Gould wrote about Class Of 1999 (1990) for the ‘good bad movies’ issue of VHS Tracking and I’d always been meaning to confront this one. I remember vividly reading about the movie in video store magazines as a kid; the poster and the plot scared the hell out of me, the idea of high […]