Sentences with phrase «blaxploitation films for»

His first foray into cherry - picking scores was a bit obvious, using music from Pam Grier «s blaxploitation films for the score to his celluloid statue built to Grier, Jackie Brown.

Not exact matches

For credibility and weight, Wayans intuitively cast blaxploitation vets Isaac Hayes, Bernie Casey, and Jim Brown in leading roles; the film also features Chris Rock's debut.

Quentin Tarantino has dabbled in just about every genre at this point in his career, so it's only natural that he would try his hand at a Western, although «Django Unchained» is actually more of a genre mash - up between a spaghetti western and a blaxploitation film, with all the musical cues, whip pans and other stylistic flourishes that both genres are known for.

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.

Sony Pictures has released a teaser trailer for Superfly, a «remake» of the 1972 blaxploitation film Super Fly, about a cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.

In the midst of the fight for civil rights, and at a time when Blaxploitation films were in full stride, here we have a film that delves into the very same themes, though in the guise of apes instead of our fellow man.

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.

Mainly only of interest for blaxploitation fans and lovers of bad movies, but there's something kind of endearing about a film that tries so hard to entertain despite there being not an ounce of talent among any of the participants.

Trivia: When raising money for the film, Martin Scorsese was offered a healthy sum by his mentor Roger Corman on the condition that he shoot the movie with an all - black cast, giving it a Blaxploitation vibe.

Friday Foster was the last film she made for American International Pictures, and in some ways is the apotheosis of the entire early 1970s «blaxploitation» genre.

With this trio of early - to - mid -»70s blaxploitation films, Pam Grier carved out a unique niche for herself and became one of the biggest stars in America while working entirely outside the studio system.

Sporting sunglasses, an Afro and a mustache, for example, she confronts the clichés of blaxploitation films.

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.