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Showing posts with label Blaxploitation. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Penitentiary (1979)

























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Hitchhiker Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone (Leon Isaac Kennedy) gets a lift from prostitute Linda (Hazel Spears) in her van and travels with her to meet her clients. After a fight breaks out with the men, Gordone is knocked unconscious and awakens to find he has been wrongly charged with murder. As a way to protect himself in prison, Gordone starts fighting other inmates. This leads him to discover an underground boxing tournament, with the top prize being a prison release.

Friday, March 16, 2018

Child of Resistance (1973)

















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Inspired by a dream director Haile Gerima had after seeing Angela Davis handcuffed on television, Child of Resistance follows a woman (Barbara O. Jones) who has been imprisoned as a result of her fight for social justice.  In a film that challenges linear norms of time and space, Gerima explores the woman’s dreams for liberation and fears for her people through a series of abstractly rendered fantasies.

Friday, May 5, 2017

Super Dude [a.k.a. The Hang Up] (1974)























































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A young prostitute overdose on drugs and narcotics Detective Ken Ramsey (William Elliott) begins to investigate her death. Ramsey's department finds out that the young prostitute is friends with Julie (Mark Bey), in which Ramsey must figure out who is distributing the drugs. However, a romantic relationship evolves between Ramsey and Julie even though he knows that she struggles with a bad drug habit. Julie directs Ken to a wicked dealer name Fred Richards (Michael Lerner), but Ken finds out that Julie's involvement with Richards was more than just narcotics.