Posts Tagged ‘Pam Grier’
Episode 106 – Firestarter
This week, we review the latest adaptation of Stephen King‘s sci-fi thriller, Firestarter, starring Zac Efron. We also test Keith’s knowledge of films that take place in Seattle. For our streaming homework, we review John Carpenter‘s Ghosts of Mars, released in 2002. Download the episode…
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Audacious Dames – Pam Grier – Jackie Brown (1997)
For all of Quentin Tarantino’s female characters, there are none that his camera insists we love and champion more than 1997’s Jackie Brown, played by Pam Grier. The film is a tightly focused homage to Grier and her career as an action heroine with all the…
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Can You Dig It?: The Culture and Importance of Blaxploitation Films
“Am I Black enough for you?” Reverend Deke O’Mailey shouts to a crowd in Harlem. “Are you Black enough to hear me?” he asks back. It’s a moniker that becomes a self referential joke throughout the Blaxploitation movie Cotton Comes to Harlem, as other characters…
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Episode 163 – Female Leads
In honor of the release of Brave, Spencer and Greg discuss female leads.
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Action Junkie – Trouble Man, and the trouble with men.
“His friends call him Mr. T. His enemies call for mercy!” In the summer of 1971, the seminal action film Shaft smoothed its way onto the silver screen and exploded at the box office. Made for a budget of one and a quarter million dollars,…
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