"A
Hard Day's Night meets Star Wars": this is how Bill Aucoin,
manager of Kiss, pitched the t.v. film Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park to
the band. What they...
If you love cinema in that orgiastic, "explore all
avenues" way that defines cult movie obsession, there's an above average
chance that you also love the art o...
It's ironic that Kiss, the most visuals-conscious hard
rock act of their era, had taken off their famous makeup by the time MTV really
got rolling. During the ...
If you were directing exploitation movies between 1972
and 1976, there was an above-average chance you would make at least one
blaxploitation movie. Tons of to...
In 1975, Rudy Ray Moore became an unlikely success at the boxoffice with Dolemite. Three years later, he made Disco Godfather: he considers this to be th...
If you're lucky, you will have a "road to
Damascus" moment as a cult fan where you realize that a film's
entertainment value matters as much as whether it is o...
Police
Story's third season offered a number of standout episodes
that explore police work from unique angles, showing off both the flaws and
positive elements...
Dolemite had a lot going for it: kung fu prostitutes, a killer funk score and the inimitable presence of comedian-turned-inner-city-movie-star Rudy Ray Moore. ...
The third season of Police
Story was broadcast between September of 1975 and March of 1976, racking up
another 22 episodes for this well-liked anthology series...
The triumph of blaxploitation cinema was representation.
Some viewers and critics quibbled with the validity/positivity of characters
and plotlines involved in...
As stated in the first half of this overview, Police Story brought a new realism to
the depiction of police officers. However, that did not mean the show ever
...
Youthsploitation was at its finest in the first half of
the 1980's. It seemed like every week, at least one new comedy full of young
people, slapstick comedy a...
