by David F. Walker | Oct 25, 2019 | BadAzz MoFo, BLAXPLOITATION Archive
The more I think about it, the more that Variety article on blaxploitation films infuriates me. I’ve always defined blaxploitation two ways. First, is as an era. Blaxploitation lasted from 1970 to 1979, and if you wanted to get a bit liberal with the timeline, you...
by David F. Walker | Oct 25, 2019 | BadAzz MoFo, BLAXPLOITATION Archive, News & Updates, Random Nonsense, RANTS & RAVES
I don’t want to be that person…I really don’t. I don’t want to be the writer who publicly shames another writer, the publication they work for, and the editor they answer to…but I’m gonna do it anyway…because…well…some things just need to called out. With the release...
by David F. Walker | Jun 13, 2019 | BadAzz MoFo, BLAXPLOITATION Archive
For many years there has been a myth surrounding the origins of the classic blaxploitation film Shaft. A long-running story has laid claim to the fact that Shaft had been in development at MGM with a white actor in the lead role, and that Richard Roundtree wasn’t cast...
by David F. Walker | May 15, 2019 | BAMF Film Review Archive, BLAXPLOITATION Archive, Film Review, News & Updates
THE LANDLORD 1970 director: Hal Ashby; starring: Beau Bridges, Diana Sands, Lou Gossett, Jr., Pearl Bailey, Marki Bey, Lee Grant Before the blaxploitation revolution kicked off with an explosion in 1971, there were films in the late 1960s and 1970 that helped to lay...
by David F. Walker | Jun 15, 2018 | BadAzz MoFo, BLAXPLOITATION Archive
SUPER FLY – 1972 director: Gordon Parks Jr.; starring: Ron O’Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier, Julius Harris, Charles MacGregor When you think of the best films of early 70s American cinema, you think of THE GODFATHER and THE FRENCH CONNECTION. You think...
by David F. Walker | Feb 14, 2018 | BadAzz MoFo, BAMF Film Review Archive, BLAXPLOITATION Archive
NIGGER LOVER (a.k.a. The Bad Bunch,Tom, The Brothers) 1973 director: Greydon Clark; starring: Greydon Clark, Tom Johnigarn, Aldo Ray, Jock Mahoney More than twenty years had passed since I watched director Greydon Clark’s NIGGER LOVER, and written my scathing review....
