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Friday, January 9, 2009

How To Eat Your Watermelon In White Company (And Enjoy It) (2005)









Starring:
  • Mario Van Peebles
  • Spike Lee
  • Gordon Parks
  • Gil-Scott Heron
  • Woodie King, Jr.

I thought about it for a minute....... nah! I could conjure some clever unique style of critique of this film but I won't even do it.

The genuine article at best talks about his exploits better than anyone could but his children, business partners and key women in his life account for a few pivotal moments that is sure to blow your mind to what "MVP" has accomplished beyond what the general public acknowledges him for.

For any of you who do check this out, please share your amazement at how much of a fearless maverick, revolutionary artist and master marketer this Man was and is to this "Blaxploitation" movement we document and towards "The Movement of movement" in general. This doc is a Baaadaaassss Song of an equally incomparable badass Brother.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004)












Starring:
  • Shirley Chisholm
  • Ronald Dellums
  • Susan Brownmiller
  • Amiri Baraka
  • Reverend Walter Fauntroy and
  • Octavia Butler
In 1968, Shirley Chisholm becomes the first black woman elected to Congress. In 1972, she becomes the first black woman to run for president. Shunned by the political establishment, she's supported by a motley crew of blacks, feminists, and young voters. Their campaign-trail adventures are frenzied, fierce, and fundamentally right on!

Featuring stirring archival footage, period music, interviews with supporters, opponents and observers, and Chisholm's own commentary — then and now — "CHISHOLM '72" is a remarkable recollection of a campaign that broke new ground in politics, and truly reached out to 'the people.'

That Man Bolt (1973)




































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Before "that man" from Jamaica Usain Bolt took over the track & field scene in China last year, there was another Bolt.......... Jefferson Bolt. Fred Williamson chop-sockeys his way through this popular blaxploitation adventure as Jefferson Bolt, a Kung Fu expert assigned to deliver a cool $1 million to Mexico City from Hong Kong with a stop in Los Angeles. When Bolt discovers the cash is dirty mob money and his gal has been killed, he heads back to the Far East to get even.