Writer/producer/director John Evans tries for some substance rather than mere violence in the Blaxploitation genre, and it’s an admirable attempt – but Evans’ laggardly pacing…
Browsing: Blaxploitation
Producer and star John Daniels played the lead in several Blaxploitation potboilers in the mid-70s – including The Black Godfather and The Candy Tangerine Man (1975).…
This sleazy slice of Blaxploitation introduces safari suit-wearing. Mercedes-driving, super-stud hairdresser Mr Jonathan (John Daniels) who wields a mean blowdryer and services his rich, blonde,…
Harlem girl Laura Lewis (Diana Sands) is nicknamed “Honey Baby” by the brothers and sisters of the ghetto because of her polished diction and middle-class…
Ron Lewis (John Daniels) is a mild-mannered suburban LA businessman who, unknown to his family, is also the “Black Baron,” a Hollywood pimp with a…
A close-knit group of black employees at a Los Angeles car wash have all manner of strange visitors coming onto their forecourt one day, including…
A slick, smooth-talking, womanising young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he’s just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when…
Disjointed, perverse, and surreal, this sequel to Dolemite (1975) is a blaxploitation movie on acid. The plot has something to do with Dolemite (Rudy Ray…
When fellow narcotics agents (and brothers) Matthew (Albert Popwell) and Melvin Johnson (Caro Kenyatta) disappear during an undercover mission in Hong Kong, ass-kicking secret agent…
Harlem hustler Priest (Ron O’Neal) is back in a sequel to the hit Superfly (1972). This time, he is persuaded to leave his Rome hideout, where…
Black bounty hunter, Boss (Blaxploitation stalwart Fred Williamson) and his comic-relief sidekick, Amos (D’Urville Martin) ride into a small frightened frontier town out West in…
“She’ll Put You in Traction,” said the New World ads. Because her brother is missing, young karate expert Diana “TNT” Jackson from Harlem (beautiful Jeanne…
Shep Stone (Fred Williamson) is a cheap, affable, and forever in debt Los Angeles-area private eye and former Los Angeles cop. After the funeral of a silent…
This absurd, nasty, amateurish movie looks like it was shot in 16mm on a shoestring budget and has almost the same plot as Bucktown (from…
Shot in four weeks and directed by Matt Climber (Jayne Mansfield’s husband at the time of her tragic death), Lady Cocoa starred Lola Falana in…
Richard Roundtree and Moses Gunn returned in the sequel to the huge blockbuster Shaft (1971), which kicked off the early 1970s blaxploitation craze – and later…
Having pulled off a major box-office coup with Enter the Dragon (1973), producers Fred Weintraub and Paul Heller were denied the services of their recently deceased…
Richard Roundtree returned once more as the super-cool black private eye in this second sequel to the Blaxploitation classic Shaft (1971). With a screenplay by Stirling Silliphant – who…
Fearless magazine photographer Friday Foster (Pam Grier) discovers a plot to assassinate one of her subjects – Blake Tarr (Thalmus Rasulala), the wealthiest black man…
A fun blaxploitation-comedy-musical about the fortunes of a motorcycling black female vocal group as their leader, Syreena (Trina Parks,) investigates the disappearance of her mother,…
