Sentences with phrase «as blaxploitation»

BadAsssss Cinema is a feature documentary in which Isaac Julien explores the 70s hollywoodian film genre known as blaxploitation and its trajectory in American cinema and society.

From here on out, the film is a gleefully bloody homage to B - grade horror films of the past as the Gecko brothers and their hostages, with the aid of bar patrons Frost (Fred Williamson, doing a fun sendup of his image as a blaxploitation action icon) and Sex Machine (Tom Savini) fight for their lives.

And they played an important role in creating popular genres such as Blaxploitation, Biker movies and the Beach Party movies that helped make Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon household names.

Not exact matches

She became a trend setter for future heroines to come, but she herself is inspired by the blaxploitation stars of the 70s such as Pam Grier and Tamara Dobson.

Jada Pinkett's animated performance as Shame's fast - talking girl Friday is one of the few outstanding elements in this otherwise so - so spoof of blaxploitation pictures.

This blaxploitation horror film is also known as The Watts Monster.

He changed the ethnicity of the lead female character in Leonard's novel from the white Jackie Burke to a black Jackie Brown which allowed him to cast Pam Grier and reference her blaxploitation films «Foxy Brown» and «Coffy» as well as, employing the use of Bobby Womack's «Across 110th Street».

Complete with a Xanadu - style dance routine, Pam Grier as Pluto's mother indulging in tired blaxploitation moves and rent - a-cameo John Cleese as a virtual reality chauffeur, this is a flop of epic proportions.

Before Keenen Ivory Wayans» handle on silliness got out of control in dross such as White Chicks and Dance Flick, he displayed a niftier touch for boisterous humour in this inventive blaxploitation parody.

In an era where so many films are merely stealing elements from each other, The Mack emerges as one of the most unique, and even if it lacks the focus and jointed structure to call it a great film for mainstream viewers, it is well worth seeking out for fans of not only Blaxploitation films, but gritty crime dramas in general.

Tim Story of the original Fantastic Four (2005) is directing the movie, which is seen as a continuation of the story of the private detective that first appeared in the 1970s blaxploitation action movie that became a pop culture phenomenon.

I'm going to be generous and hypothesize that DP Ted Moore saw this as an opportunity to give a blaxploitation flick some Bondian flair rather than the other way around1.

«Django Unchained» could also be called a revival of the Blaxploitation movie, a genre that became popular in the 1970s featuring mostly black casts, soundtracks with soul and funky music such as wah - wah guitars, with African - Americans taking revenge on «crackers.»

Knowles follows in the shoes of Elizabeth Hurley and Heather Graham as Powers» female sidekick and is quite good at capturing the attitude of the Blaxploitation heroines she's parodying.

In this remake of the 1972 blaxploitation classic (from «Hotline Bling» music video whiz Director X), Trevor Jackson stars as a drug dealer trying to go straight.

«While far more mainstream — and by extension, kid - friendly — than such blaxploitation classics as «Foxy Brown» and «Cleopatra Jones,» «Black Panther» upholds the same tradition of celebrating strong, assertive black women,» he wrote.

A film that already starts out oddly enough — as a kind of subversive biopic about a low point in Miles Davis» life — gets even stranger as it morphs into an ode to «70s blaxploitation movies, before a third act in which it completely disables the brakes.

Many blaxploitation films take this same storyline as positive reinforcement of the late 1960s Black Power movement.

Perhaps in this respect it can not truly be a blaxploitation movie as it cashes in on the genre rather than strengthens it?

In the 70s, as new black heroes emerged from Blaxploitation films to grapple with the racial, social, economic and political issues of the day, Marvel's writers once more attempted to make Black Panther more openly political.

While this story might seem simple enough, Chabon sprinkles it with doses of trivia from the 70s: blaxploitation movies (see Beyond the Book), and jazz, soul and funk music; as well as cult movie classics - a noticeable nod to Quentin Tarantino is included.

Shaft, the 1971 blaxploitation crime film, features private eye John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) as he goes up against the white mafia to track down the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem crime kingpin.

She also looks to 1970s Blaxploitation films and music legends such as Eartha Kitt, Bessie Smith, Sharon Jones, and Billie Holiday also inform Thomas's works.

Her works are as likely to reference 19th - century painting as 1970s Blaxploitation films.

From Birth of a Nation in the early 1900s to the «Blaxploitation» films of the 1970s, Black women were type - casted as carnal and promiscuous, often as prostitutes or «jezebels.»

Color combinations vibrate in these large - scale figurative works that reference Matisse, Blaxploitation, religious icons such as the Madonna and psychedelia.

Chris Ofili is renowned internationally for his richly layered works that combine imagery and influences from sources as divergent as comic books, hiphop, Zimbabwean cave paintings, Biblical scenes, and 1970s - era Blaxploitation films.

In his extremely diverse oeuvre, Ofili has taken imagery and inspiration from such disparate, history - spanning sources as the Bible, hip - hop music, Zimbabwean cave paintings, Blaxploitation films, and William Blake's poems.

«These pieces and perspectives narrate several Ofilis: the colorist who works in restricted palettes, at times Garveyite red, black and green, at others blue monochromes or Favist ochres, purples and greens; the scatologist who uses shit as a sculptural base and pictorial ground, handling paint both to build up and denude his paintings surfaces; and the mime of machismo and voyeurism who draws on imagery from blaxploitation, Marvel comics, porn, and postcolonial African photography,» he writes.

Their subject matter often refers to his Nigerian heritage and the wider African American and Afro - Caribbean experience, making reference to sources as diverse as Zimbabwean cave paintings, blaxploitation movies, comic books, funk and hip - hop album covers, pornography and the Bible.

The artist's diverse oeuvre has taken imagery and inspiration from such disparate, history - spanning sources as the Bible, hip - hop music, Zimbabwean cave paintings, Blaxploitation films, and the works of William Blake.