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Black Gunn * (1972, Jim Brown, Martin Landau, Brenda Sykes, Herbert Jefferson Jr, Luciana Paluzzi) – Classic Movie Review 11,827
Director Robert Hartford-Davis’s 1972 crime action thriller Black Gunn is a rather poor, and dismayingly weakly made blaxploitation movie, with Jim Brown as Gunn, a rich nightclub owner on the trail of mafia capo and […]
Halls of Anger *** (1970, Calvin Lockhart, Janet MacLachlan, Jeff Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 10,438
Director Paul Bogart’s 1970 drama Halls of Anger stars Calvin Lockhart, Janet MacLachlan, Jeff Bridges, James A Watson Jr, Rob Reiner, Edward Asner, John McLiam and Otis Day [Dewayne Jesse], and Patricia Stich. Sixty white […]
Juice ***½ (1992, Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, Jermaine Hopkins, Khalil Kain, Samuel L Jackson, Queen Latifah) – Classic Movie Review 10,155
Co-writer/ director Ernest R Dickerson, who frequently worked as a cinematographer on many of Spike Lee’s early movies, puts on a director’s cap for the first time for the tough-edged 1992 rights-of-passage action crime drama […]
Car Wash **** (1976, Richard Pryor, Franklyn Ajaye, Darrow Igus) – Classic Movie Review 9869
‘Hey, it’s a ’70s thing! ‘ The 1976 blaxploitation comedy Car Wash is an appealing, zany farce, with director Michael Schultz giving his largely black cast plenty of room to enjoy prankish japes around the […]
Come Back Charleston Blue *** (1972, Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St Jacques, Peter De Anda) – Classic Movie Review 9495
Come Back Charleston Blue is an underrated blaxploitation comedy crime action thriller from the first (Seventies) wave of black movies. Director Mark Warren’s 1972 sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem (based on the Chester Himes […]
Cotton Comes to Harlem *** (1970, Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St Jacques, Calvin Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 9494
Director Ossie Davis’s 1970 comedy crime action thriller Cotton Comes to Harlem stars Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St Jacques as black detectives Gravedigger Jones (Cambridge) and Coffin Ed Johnson (St Jacques). The two Harlem cops […]
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song *** (1971, Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales) – Classic Movie Review 9456
Melvin Van Peebles writes, scores, edits, directs, produces and stars in the 1971 action crime drama Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song. Melvin Van Peebles is the whole show as Sweetback, a cool guy on the […]