For this week’s Flashback Friday, guest blogger Rick 29 writes about one of the 1970s most interesting films: The popularity of Blaxploitation films had already begun to wane by 1974, just three brief years after Shaft made a box office splash….
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You Don’t Mess Around With Jim: The Best of Brown is Coming
To football fans he was known as the fearsome running back for the Cleveland Browns who broke many rushing records during his nine-year career. His amazing accomplishments led to The Sporting News naming him the top football player of all…
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Black Dynamite (2009) Starring Michael Jai White Movie Review
Are you suckaz gonna line up to see the blaxploitation satire Black Dynamite? Watch Movie Irv’s Raw Review of writer/director Scott Sanders’ film to see how this one-man jury rates the kung fu fighting: Black Dynamite (2009) Starring Michael Jai…
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He’s tough, he’s sexy and he’s angry. Oh, yeah. He’s also black. He’s Black Dynamite, the jive-talking, feet-a-flying, Afro-wearing, no-nonsense hero who also happens to be a sex machine. Just like Shaft. John Shaft. After his bro’ is murdered, he…
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