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conversations about the Blaxploitation movies that crawled so that “They Cloned Tyrone” could pimp walk have come to the forefront. Juel Taylor’s film welcomes watchers to The Glen ...
So much so that it got us thinking about some of the awesome more modern flicks that may have callbacks to blaxploitation movies of the ‘70s. Now, some of these movies are more modern than ...
Yet the movies also gave Black audiences a rare ... Here’s a list of seven Blaxploitation films worth watching: A PIECE OF THE ACTION (Tubi) Leave it to director Sidney Poitier to class things ...
The Blaxploitation film era is, for better or worse, a cornerstone in the foundation of modern Black history. The subgenre, a portmanteau of Black and exploitation, came at critical time between ...
We went back and forth on that, and he finally said, “I think we actually think the same thing here: That when the (Blaxploitation) movies ceased to be marketable for Black audiences ...
The genre’s treasures can be witnessed at Film Forum in Manhattan, where, over the course of a week, 16 movies will screen as part of a series called Blaxploitation, Baby! While the program ...
While the genre itself faded after the ‘70s, the DNA of Blaxploitation movies lives on in movies like the 2009 spoof “Black Dynamite” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown” (1997 ...
As hip-hop evolved, so too did rappers’ relationships with Blaxploitation films. One of the more obvious examples is Snoop Dogg, whose fascination with these movies persists to this day (the ...
We went back and forth on that, and he finally said, “I think we actually think the same thing here: That when the (Blaxploitation) movies ceased to be marketable for Black audiences ...