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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson 2004
A trailblazer if their ever was one. Way before Muhammad Ali would "Float like a butterfly, sting like a Bee", there Jack Johnson. Amidst racism, segregation, Jim Crow laws, Johnson became the first Black Heavyweight Champion...
This 3-hour plus documentary, directed and produced by Ken Burns is a jazz infused, revelation of photographs, video, and interviews about Jack Johnson's early life, his proclivities for white woman and cars, and of course his quest to become Heavyweight champ. All of this…
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Jackie Brown 1997
I've seen this film a few times, and I just realized Sam Jackson was saying "My Nigga" before Denzel in "Training Day". I'm just saying...
Still an underrated gem from Tarantino, "Jackie Brown" is a straight up drama, with a little crime, and a little romance, with very good acting from the likes of Jackson, Grier, DeNiro, and Robert Forester...
In her 40's, Pam Grier was still one "foxy" lady, and this movie is her one defining and somewhat redemptive…
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I Saw the Devil 2010
Hooptober Film#3
Engaging, grisly, gross, bloody, inventive, horrifying, for the first hour or so...
I loved the car scene where the killer appears to be in the car with a couple of other killers or bad guys. Incredible!
Masterly directed. There's no doubt that Director Woon, can create provocative scenery and intense drama. I would definitely watch another film from him...
But, "I Saw the Devil" devolves into something other than a revenge flick. It becomes a senseless, mano a…
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space 1988
Hooptober Film#5
The First and only flick directed by the Chiodo Brothers, Bronx natives, and special effects wizards for films like "Team America" and "Critters".
There's a "Critters" like bathroom scene in "Killer Klowns from Outer Space", a wacky, loony, inventive, "popcorn" flick...
These massive klowns, hail from outer space, in a spaceship, which is colorfully designed, sorta Star Trek like, different floors, compartments, and cocoons of humans stored. Its an Alien Invasion!
So, not really an original story, but,…