Wednesday night at 10PM, the Independent Film Channel presents an IFC original documentary film called BaadAsssss Cinema. Larry Mantle talks with the film's director, Isaac Julien, and one of the film ...

"Black Dynamite" opens with a TV ad for Anaconda Malt Liquor, the hottest new brew in America's ghettos. "When you pop the top," promises the virile African-American guy holding a can up to the camera ...

Blaxploitation, a film genre that started in the early ‘70s, was known for sex, violence, and ACTION. Some people know it because of the music (cue the timeless “Super Fly” soundtrack by Curtis ...

As a preteen growing up in New Jersey, Odie Henderson saw a tremendous number of wildly inappropriate movies. Take age 4, an especially big, bad year for Henderson and inarguably too young to be ...

When Halle Berry and Denzel Washington won Oscars in this year’s much discussed Black Hollywood moment, they paid their respects to Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier, not to Pam Grier and Richard ...

Indicative of their time and place, movies of the 1970s had some of the most memorable characters of all time. While many - and we mean many - of them were violent antiheroes who made a mockery of ...

Scores of films and documentaries about Muhammad Ali have spotlighted his historic 1970 comeback fight, which took place more than three years after he was stripped of his heavyweight title for ...

Jim Kelly is one of the most undersung martial arts stars of the '70s, encapsulating much of the decade through his varied and wild action movie filmography. More than just an actor, Jim Kelly began ...