In the 1970s, African-American filmmakers cranked up the black action movie by adding elements of such genres as the western, kung fu, and horror, as well as soundtracks by the likes of Curtis ...

Film icon Pam Grier is clarifying her take on the blaxploitation genre term itself, 50 years after her Black-led crime films like “Coffy” and “Foxy Brown” emerged as cult classics. “They coined it ...

ComingSoon is excited to team with Shout! TV for a Blaxploitation Classics, Vol. 1 4K giveaway to promote Shout! TV’s upcoming Blaxploitation marathon. On June 14, the streaming channel will run an ...

This year, I’ve been celebrating Black History Month with a Blaxploitation movie marathon. So far, I’ve hit plenty of the classics: Shaft, Foxy Brown, Cleopatra Jones, Superfly, and Dolemite. Although ...

Max Julien, an actor best known for his lead performance in the 1973 blaxploitation classic “The Mack,” died on Saturday. He was 88 years old. An official cause of death was not immediately available.

*Get ready to groove with the baddest films of the ‘70s! We’re thrilled to partner with Shout! TV for an exciting giveaway to celebrate their all-day Blaxploitation marathon streaming on June 14.

Last week I binge watched theGrioTV’s marathon of blaxploitation Pam Grier movies and realized that I know nothing about blaxploitation films and that Pam Grier was pretty amazing. This week, the trek ...

FLASH BACK HALF A CENTURY. New York City is at its grittiest state in years. As our movie opens, a camera hovers above Times Square before slowly panning down and zooming in. Theater marquees show ...

Rewinding our movie memories, “Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist” is a popcorn bucket of split screens, press-and-curls, Galaxie 500s and a “Shaft”-meets-Curtis Mayfield-inspired soundtrack. It is ...

The Webster University Film Series has gathered an interesting group of flicks as it looks at the first boom of black films following the blaxploitation era of the 1970’s in Beyond Blaxploitation, ...

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 ...