“He just didn’t let us go”: the movie Denzel Washington wasn’t allowed to watch and how it shaped him anyway
He watched it secretly.
Blaxploitation
Quentin Tarantino names the greatest opening scene in cinema history: “Knocked my socks off”
Kicking off with a bang.
The “brutal and shocking” movie Denzel Washington will never forget watching
A notoriously unflinching film.
Marlon Wayans names the best movie made by a member of the Wayans family
There’s a lot to choose from…
The one movie that inspired Samuel L Jackson’s career: “This is a dynamite performance”
Watched and was inspired by a gritty drama..
‘Shaft’ and the birth of blaxploitation
‘Shaft’ shifted Blackness into the mainstream and birthed the highly influential blaxploitation genre.
Did Martin Scorsese’s ‘Mean Streets’ almost become a Blaxploitation film?
Martin Scorsese is undoubtedly one of the first filmmakers that springs to mind when considering the greatest directors of all time. Scorsese’s Italian-American upbringing has…
Celebrating 50 years of ‘Blacula’ – William Craine’s blaxploitation masterpiece
A satirical classic.