Tag: Scatman Crothers

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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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  The King Of Marvin Gardens (1972)

  September 9, 2019

  1970s, Drama

  The post Easy Rider era of 1970s American cinema was a mythologised time when major studios produced depressing dramas about losers (though mainly white male losers). Fitting right into that sub-genre is The King Of Marvin Gardens (1972), which was director Bob Rafelson reuniting with Jack Nicholson after the success of Five Easy Pieces; I’d… Read.