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Pootie Tang
: :Pootie Tang pushes blaxploitation to the point of surrealism. The title character--who first appeared on The Chris Rock Show--speaks a kind of slang on steroids, an incomprehensible stream of nonsense syllables that nonetheless makes him irresistible to women and a threat to evildoers everywhere. Pootie is part movie star, part superhero, righting wrongs with the slap of his daddy's belt. But when an evil corporation uses a super-ho named Ireenie (Jennifer Coolidge from Best in Show and Legally Blonde) to steal this magic belt, Pootie ...
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Coffy
: :She's the ultimate tough and sexy heroine. She's Soul Cinema superstar Pam Grier and whether delivering her justice with a shotgun a razor or just her bare hands she doesn't miss a beat in this 'smashing no-holds-barred tale of retaliation' (Variety)! Nobody ever commandeered the screen quite like Pam Grier...and Coffy 'couldn t be better! [It's] one of the most entertaining movies ever made'(Quentin Tarantino)!Grier is Coffy nurse by day and avenging angel by night. When she discovers that her little sister has been ...
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Foxy Brown
: :Foxy Brown is a sexy black woman who seeks revenge when her government agent boyfriend Michael is shot down by gangsters led by a kinky couple.Genre: Feature Film Urban ActionRating: RRelease Date: 9-JAN-2001Media Type: DVD essential video:Pam Grier, the voluptuous queen of blaxploitation movies (and the foxy title character of Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown) reigns supreme in this kick-ass action flick. Bodacious nurse Foxy takes the law into her own hands after her main squeeze is murdered in cold blood. The standard revenge ...
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Sheba, Baby
:Description:Super sexy soul sister Pam Grier (Jackie Brown) is hotter than dynamite in a role she fills with fiery determination. Proving she's cool, tough and glamorousa female fantasy Wonder Woman (Los Angeles Times), Grier delivers a riveting, gutsy performance in this hard-hitting thriller that leaps from one death-defying scene to the next. Sheba Shayne is a private eye summoned to her hometown to help her father stop the mob from moving in on his loan business. But she gets too close to the fire, narrowly ...
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Slaughter
:Description:Ex-pro football hero Jim Brown (The Dirty Dozen, Ice Station Zebra) is El Mucho Macho (Interview) in this fast-paced revenge fest highlighted by 'slick values and direction long on action (Variety)! Featuring hair-raising auto chases and bloody shootings at a lightning pace (Motion Picture Herald) and co-starring Rip Torn, Slaughter is an exercise in unmitigated mayhem (The Hollywood Reporter)! Ex-Green Beret Slaughter (Brown) sets out toget the mafia man who blew up his folks car with them still in it! But when he blows up ...
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Cotton Comes To Harlem
: :One of the most influential Soul Cinema pix ever to shoot onto the screen Cotton Comes To Harlem spawned the blaxploitation boom by delivering a 'refreshingly different detective action yarn with soul and humor' (Cue) and an unbeatable mix of 'fast-paced adventure [and] comic lunacy' (Pacific Film Archive). Detectives 'Gravedigger' Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and 'Coffin Ed' Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) are on the case and in everyone's face when they investigate Rev. Deke O'Malley (Calvin Lockhart) a brother whose 'Back To Africa' campaign is ...
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Shaft
: essential video:Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree) directed this 1971 detective story about John Shaft (Richard Roundtree), an African American private eye who has a rocky relationship with cops, an even rockier one with Harlem gangsters, and a healthy sex life. The script finds Shaft tracking down the kidnapped daughter of a black mobster, but the pleasure of the film is the sum of its attitude, Roundtree's uncompromising performance, and the thrilling, Oscar-winning score by Isaac Hayes. Parks seems fond of certain detective genre clichés ...
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Cleopatra Jones
: :A Turkish poppy field is torched - and a U.S. drug trafficker known as Mommy is feeling pretty burned. She phones the local cops she owns and orders a retaliatory strike on an inner-city antidrug headquarters. Mommy's next call should be to 911. For now she'll have to mess with Cleopatra Jones. Mommy is relentless in her vendetta - but Cleo responds with catlike karate stealth. Year: 1973Running Time: 89 min.System Requirements:Starring: Tamara Dobson et al. Edition Details: Region 1 encoding (for use in ...
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Dolemite Collection: Bigger & Badder (7pc) (Ws)
: :A Turkish poppy field is torched - and a U.S. drug trafficker known as Mommy is feeling pretty burned. She phones the local cops she owns and orders a retaliatory strike on an inner-city antidrug headquarters. Mommy's next call should be to 911. For now she'll have to mess with Cleopatra Jones. Mommy is relentless in her vendetta - but Cleo responds with catlike karate stealth. Year: 1973Running Time: 89 min.System Requirements:Starring: Tamara Dobson et al. Edition Details: Region 1 encoding (for use in ...
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Hell Up In Harlem
:Description:Tougher than Shaft and smoother than Superfly, this high-voltage sequel to Black Caesar explodes with enough action to incinerate New York City. Packed with machine-gun mayhem and riveting adventure, Hell up in Harlem is nothing less than a modern-day tribute to the classic 30s gangster film. Fred Williamson (Original Gangstas) is Tommy Gibbs, a fearless, bulletproof tough guy who blasts his way from the gutter to become the ultimate soul brother boss. When he steals a ledger with the name of every crooked cop and ...
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