Sentences with phrase «of blaxploitation»

All have an overriding visual language drawn from an audacious combination of Blaxploitation film and Renaissance art history.

Her models are kittenish vixens, vamps dressed in retro, gaudy outfits reminiscent of blaxploitation heroines like Foxy Brown and Cleopatra Jones.

His 2010 wall painting Credit Roll reproduced the names of blaxploitation films of the 1970s in white text over brown paint.

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

Another cultural contribution of blaxploitation movies was its music - a brand of funk, jazz and soul that provided much of the backbone for the narratives and became the genre's calling card.

One of the blaxploitation movies» most sexy sirens, Pam Grier, starred in the genre's classics, Foxy Brown and Coffy.

Sprung more from a tradition of blaxploitation than from Coppola's cosa nostra, it has a certain Seventies retro charm to it.

Watchmen scribe Alex Tse has been hired to write the script for this update of the blaxploitation classic, and while no actor has been cast yet, we have a couple ideas.

Todd Boyd, professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, pointed to the explosion of blaxploitation films in the 1970 which were cheap to produce and financial hit.

I'm quite looking forward to MJW's BLACK DYNAMITE re-creation of an blaxploitation flick a la «Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid»

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.

«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.»

«Black Dynamite,» which stars Michael Jai White in the titular role, is a send - up of Blaxploitation movies that, unlike the parodies from schlock masters Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg (the guys behind «Meet The Spartans,» «Disaster Movie,» et al), actually reveres its source material.

This crossover film, along with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971), helped launch the 1970s explosion of the blaxploitation genre.

One could argue that Boyz n the Hood participated in the genre of blaxploitation, but Singleton's classic was really an attempt to make the «hood tale an American tale, and to incite positive social change in doing so.

The track evokes the pastness of Blaxploitation while simultaneously recalling the following verse from Gaye's «Trouble Man»: «I come up hard / I had to fight / Took care of my business / With all my might».

After a series of so - called «nudie cuties» in the early 1960s, Lewis paved a bloody road of exploitation cinema, connecting the age of the drive - ins with the later advent of the blaxploitation era.

And though the Black Panther first appeared during the Civil Rights era, the main wave of black superheroes that followed — think Luke Cage, Black Lightning, the Falcon, Storm of the X-Men — were children of the Blaxploitation age.

The dialogue is more naturalistic, the characters believable and well written, and the statuesque queen of blaxploitation, Pam Grier proves that the years have in no way diminished her charisma and sex appeal.

With the brief and fascinating exception of the blaxploitation movies and a few other works of radical or renegade art, vengeance in the American imagination has been the virtually exclusive prerogative of white men.

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.

Not exact matches

(The notion of a German bounty hunter in the Old West only makes sense, I think, in relation to the several spaghetti western roles played by German actor Klaus Kinski; the surname of Django's wife pays homage to blaxploitation hero John Shaft, a rather brilliant means of bridging the gap between the far - reaching genre traditions that Tarantino loves).

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.

Though informed by the blaxploitation soundtracks of the «70s and the label - driven hip - hop soundtracks of the «90s, Black Panther: The Album is very much of its time: a well - produced and incredibly cohesive album with the loose swagger of a curated playlist.

It's just about the only quiet part of Quentin Tarantino «s «Django Unchained,» a boisterous, bloody blaxploitation / Western hybrid.

2» pays homage to a variety of genres — spaghetti Western, film noir, blaxploitation (after all, this is Tarantino we're talking about), kung fu — while actually managing to hammer home a pretty solid, heartfelt story.

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.

Pam Grier is at her best recapturing the type of role that made her a bonafide star in»70s blaxploitation movies like Foxy Brown...

It is no surprise that the master of cinematic homage's makes a film that is part Western part blaxploitation film about a slave in search of his wife and revenge.

This is a «remake» of the 1972 blaxploitation film Super Fly, about a cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.

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.

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There are many moments when the true demeanor of the original and other blaxploitation films come in — that is when the film works.

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.

Everyone saw this movie, leading to a series of rip - offs like the Italian - produced Beyond The Door and Abby, a blaxploitation version of the story co-starring Blacula himself, William Marshall.

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.

Akin to Marvin Gaye and The Isley Brothers, who openly declared their association with Blaxploitation cinema, Lamar's commitment to emotive, political storytelling is arguably the driving force of his musical output.

The grittiness of the crime drama and action, along with the overriding sense of slick style, feels very much like the John Singleton movie, Four Brothers, which also features a menacing villain and retribution storyline lifted right out of 1970s blaxploitation films.

The Blaxploitation films of the 1970s starred relatively unknown black actors playing new kinds of...

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.

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.

Blaxploitation got its own vampire in a pair of films starring Shakespearean actor William Marshall.

Bones also borrows liberally from the blaxploitation flicks of the Seventies in Snoop's period pimp outfit and the presence of Pam Grier in her Foxy Brown attire, yet it lacks the camp appeal that excuses miniscule budgets and a lack of craft.

In an age where remakes and reboots are par for the course, the new version of 1972 Blaxploitation thriller Superfly is looking to stand out.

Directed by legendary director Director X, the movie is a remake of the world - famous blaxploitation movie that helped define a genre in its characters, sound, and feel.

The world's baddest Blaxploitation sensation uses every deadly trick in his kung fu arsenal and unravels a shocking web of conspiracies that are bigger than professional sports, and two brand new size thirteens put together!

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.

The plot that follows features plenty of nonsensical twists and turns that give White and director Scott Sanders an excuse to pack in every memorable element from Blaxploitation's heyday.