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Trailer Wars, Part I

  • May 5, 2009 – 10:46 pm
  • Posted in Events
  • Tagged alamo drafthouse, blaxploitation, gore, grindhouse portland, italian, martial arts, trailers
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tIf you missed this month’s installment of Portland’s Grindhouse Film Fest series you didn’t just miss another month og kung fu fighting, dismembered bodies, and tales of bloody revenge. You missed the boys from the Alamo Drafthouse taking on local hero Dan Halstead in a battle of the trailers. If you weren’t there, fear not, Deacon Blues will be adding just as many as he can get his hot little hands on. When they’ve all been posted, I will show you the scores I gave each for their efforts. Without any further ado, I bring you, Trailer Wars, continuing all this weak and starting with Team Grindhouse Portland!

Disco Godfather

Truck Turner

TNT Jackson

Sister Street Fighter

Blood Sucking Freaks

Three On A Meathook

Bloody Pit Of Horror

More tomorrow, kiddies. For those interested, the following films have bee reviewed on Grindhouseland:

Blood Sucking Freaks

Sister Street Fighter

Truck Turner

Black Belt Jones

  • March 31, 2009 – 1:38 am
  • Posted in Review
  • Tagged blaxploitation, jim kelly, karate, scatman crouthers
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A sort of blaxploitation Enter the Dragon, Black Belt Jones is a fun little ride through the 1970s when nothing quite said “soul power” like donning a gi and learning how to do impossibly high kicks. The Mafia is trying to buy the dojo to make a killing when the new civic center gets built. After they kill karate master Scatman Crothers the brothers recruit Jim Kelly aka Black Belt Jones to lead their charge against the forced of The Man-dom. Some pretty kick ass karate scenes, and the power of Jim Kelly’s charisma (and afro) can never be understated. Set off a slew of blaxploitation / kung fu crossovers that were much welcomed in the world.

3/5

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Ebony, Ivory, and Jade

  • March 26, 2009 – 1:59 am
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  • Tagged blaxploitation, cirio santiago, colleen camp, karate
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Ebony, Ivory, & Jade ripe slice of Blaxploitation from Filipino director Cirio Santiago. A team of five female track stars are abducted in Hong Kong and held for ransom. The government, predictably, can’t do anything about it. A lot to offer here with a former boxer with a large afro, an unrecognizable Colleen Camp, and hot women felling anonymous Filipino men with savage karate. Don’t forget a personal favorite of your humble Deacon Blues, the late 1960s Black Power / Maoist revolutionary current which was so maligned in its day and so missed now. A solid action film with three sexy ladies that prefigures the Charlie’s Angels format by almost a decade. The stock footage of girls running track is pretty laughable.

3.5/5

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Cleopatra Jones

  • March 8, 2009 – 3:26 am
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  • Tagged blaxploitation, copsploitation, kung fu, shelley winters
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One of the better, more unsung entry entries into the blaxploitation genre, Cleopatra Jones really stands out from the pack. An international undercover anti-drug agent destroys a massive poppy field in Turkey bringing down the wrath of a drug queenpin known as “Mommy,” played by Shelly Winters at her histrionic best. Lots of kung fu fighting, 70’s Black Nationalism, and other blaxploitation goodies. The final shot of the police captain holding up the Black Power fist is just about one of the most priceless moments ever captured on film.

4.5/5

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Detroit 9000

  • March 2, 2009 – 6:54 pm
  • Posted in Review
  • Tagged alex rocco, blaxploitation, bloody, copsploitation, hari rhodes, rolling thunder pictures
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Detroit 9000 is a serious contender for best in blaxploitation of all time. Alex “Moe Green” Rocco teams up with Hari Rhodes to crack the case of who stole a Black Congressman’s start up fund in his quest for the state house. See a gripping exploration of Detroit racial politics in the 1970s, bloody as all get out gunfights, and a twisting-turning plot that will keep you guessing until the very end. Of interest not only to blaxploitation afficionados, but also fans of the cop movie. Buy transported back to an era where men drove impossibly large Ford cars. You’ll see why QT made this one of the initial releases for his short lived Rolling Thunder Pictures imprint.

6/5

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Friday Foster

  • March 2, 2009 – 5:14 am
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  • Tagged blaxploitation, carl weathers, eartha kitt, pam grier, yaphet kotto
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You’d think a movie with a who’s who of Black actors including Queen of the Genre Pam Grier, the actor’s actor Yaphet Kotto, Catwoman Eartha Kitt, Scatman “You Got The Shines” Crothers, and Mr. Jericho “Action” Jackson himself, Carl “Fucking” Weathers would be epic. Friday Foster fails to live up to what you would expect from such a dynamite cast. The acting is weak, and the script has so many diversionary “twists and turns” to keep you from figuring out what’s going on that… you have a hard time figuring out what’s going on. Some convuluted plot about Black Senators and a white supremacist organization out to keep the brothers down. Worth it if you love Pam Grier.

3/5

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Coffy

  • February 20, 2009 – 10:14 pm
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  • Tagged american international, blaxploitation, jack hill, pam grier
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Pam Grier vehicle Coffy is basically a step-by-step first run on Foxy Brown. It’s hard to say which is better, but both are definitely worth checking out. In Coffy Pam Grier is out for revenge- for her heroin-addicted sister, for her childhood friend beaten nearly to death by mafia thugs, and for herself, set up by Black politicians and the mob. A great throwback to the 70s days of Soul Power, big Afros, earnest talk about drugs in the community, and sticking it to the man. Watch for Pam Grier’s boobs which are apparently oddly asymmetrical. Run a double feature with Foxy Brown and see which one you prefer.

3.5/5

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Darktown Strutters

  • February 20, 2009 – 10:01 pm
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  • Tagged bad girls, bikers, bizarre, blaxploitation, dick miller
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Darktown Strutters is one of the more bizarre movies I’ve ever seen… and I’ve seen Ice Pirates. An all-female, all-Black trike gang hassle police, pick up guys, search for a missing mother, and run around at high speeds, Benny Hill style. This is a really confusing and disorienting movie, along the lines of the aforementioned Ice Pirates. It also has moments of great fun and great style, and is in the public domain. Full length movie below. Enjoy with caution.

3/5

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Foxy Brown

  • February 17, 2009 – 11:26 pm
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  • Tagged american international, blaxploitation, jack hill, pam grier, revenge
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Pam Grier, the “Queen of the Genre,” returns in Foxy Brown, a non-sequel to Coffy. Bordering on a revenge picture, Foxy Brown sets her sights on revenge after the mob kills her lover and brother. Not content to merely gun down everyone that done her wrong, Foxy finds gruesome, unsubtle means of settling the score. Pam Grier is at her foxiest, rocking some great outfits and a big ‘fro. Lots of talk about the Man keeping you down, but Foxy’s behavior shows that the Man can’t keep a good woman down. Some stilted dialogue doesn’t keep this from being a fun, entertaining film. But there isn’t nearly as much Pam Grier boobage as you might expect / want.

3.5/5

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Truck Turner

  • February 14, 2009 – 9:06 pm
  • Posted in Review
  • Tagged american international, blaxploitation, bloody, dick miller, isaac hayes, nichelle nichols, scatman crouthers, yaphet kotto
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The poster says it all, really. Isaac Hayes is Truck Turner. A former football player turned bounty hunter, Truck Turner is not a man with whom to fuck. But after she kills her pimp, bottom bitch Nichelle Nichols is hellbent on revenge and puts Yaphet Kotto up to the job. After Truck’s partner is killed he goes on a revenge rampage to rival anything out of Italy or Wes Craven. One of the best soundtracks (also by Operating Thetan Hayes) I’ve heard in a long time, this movie has everything you’ve come to expect from blaxploitation- afros, players, pimps, gangstas, gun battles, and gratuitous titties.

4.5/5

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