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Sunday, December 18, 2016

Passion Plantation [a.k.a. Black Emanuelle, White Emanuelle] (1976)














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In the pre-civil war American south, Emanuelle, a plantation owner's daughter, while outwardly a dainty southern belle, brutally abuses the slaves in her charge. When her fiance is bitten by a snake, he falls for Emanuelle's beautiful African-American maid who's kindness and skill saved his life. Insanely jealous, Emanuelle continues her sadistic behaviour towards her charges, and when her fiance announces he plans to wed the maid, Emanuelle "gives" her to her even more brutal hired men, and her fiance is powerless to stop them. Can Emanuelle learn an important lesson in love before it's too late for everyone?

Livin Large (1991)
















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His entire life, Atlanta native Dexter Jackson has dreamt of one thing: breaking into the world of TV news. So when, by freak coincidence, he lands a job as Channel 4's "Man About Town," he finally thinks he's made it. But in order to compete on the ladder of success, Dexter soon beings to change his image and sell out his friends on TV! Before long, he finds himself shunned and alone, and faced with a not so black-and-white choice: save his career or soul.

Umbango (1986)















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When Kay Kay, a powerful, ruthless businessman sets out on a mission of revenge against two men accused of killing his brother, he strong-arms the local sheriff into forming a posse of thugs to aid in his vendetta. But when Jet and Owen, the two easy going friends, learn of the gang out for their blood, they prepare to stand their ground and fight back. It all comes to a head in a final gun-fight, a showdown in the small western town where blood will have to be spilled if the friends wish to come out of this alive.

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

A Ton of Grass Goes To Pot [a.k.a. The Big Score] (1972)

















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When a group of friends plan to smuggle a ton of marijuana from Mexico to the US, they don't realize the size of the job ahead of them. It seems that the group has to contend with the crooked double crosser who sold the weed to them, the harsh environment of the Mexican desert, a group of black bikers who have laid claim to their load of weed, and the Mexican police who are hot on their tail.