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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Joe Bullet (1973)



















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The banned South African Blaxploitation film has now made it to DVD for our viewing pleasure. 

When local soccer team The Eagles fall prey to a series of onslaughts from a mysterious gangster only a week before the championship final, the team turns to the one man that can help save their chances at victory - Joe Bullet (Ken Gampu). Joe will have to battle against villainous henchmen, escape booby-trap bombs and bring his martial arts expertise to the fore in order to survive an attack from a deadly assassin. In the end he will have to infiltrate the mysterious gangster's hide-out in a dangerous cat-and-mouse rescue mission to save not only The Eagles' two kidnapped star players, but that of his beautiful love interest, Beauty (Abigail Kubeka). The odds will be stacked against him, but he's the man that fights crime, the man that no one can tie down! Joe Bullet! 

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Death of a Snowman [a.k.a. Soul Patrol] (1976)





































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Master criminals meet violent death in Johannesburg, South Africa, a city wrought with organized crime. Steve Chaka (Ken Gampu), an ambitious news reporter,learns that these deaths are from the hands of an all-black vigilante group known only as "War on Crime." Teaming up with Lt. Ben Deel (Nigel Davenport) of the local police department, Chaka investigates anonymous tips regarding future "hits"and ends up fighting for his life to uncover the truth behind the vigilante killings.