A Slice of Soul Flavored Awesome

Welcome back, I can tell you that I enjoyed France, and I will have a blog up about it tomorrow when I get some time to put the piece I hand wrote ( yeah, writing still exists) into word formatting.

But for now it's time to bring the awesome as only we do here, and I will putting on my flashy sequins suit and cutting a rug because we are going back to the 70's, kinda.

You see, one of the big film movements in the 70's was a genre called Blaxploitation. For the most part these films followed a set pattern, ghetto neighborhood and black hero/heroine got set to take on "The Man" who had someone brought an evil upon the community.

Some of these films like "Shaft", "Super Fly" and "Foxy Brown" are classics regarded for the viewing of any serious film fan, but aren't about the awesome here, we are all about the guilty pleasures at the Pizzeria, and luckily recent spoofs of the genre have given us our choices for a guilty pleasure.

Perhaps you are set with "Undercover Brother" with Eddie Griffin. It did a decent job of mocking all the hallmarks of the genre, but really is not as funny as the film I much prefer to it, the hilarious send-up known as "Black Dynamite"



"Dynamite" trapezes the spoof line expertly, balancing actual moments of awesome with tongue in cheek references to the genre it loving mocks. The child of Michael Jai White, the titular character is a cross between Bruce Lee and Shaft, a bad mofo with and afro, a black belt and a black militant who according to himself is "blacker than the ace of spades".

Although it clocks in at only 84 minutes, "Dynamite" was the most fun I had watching a movie l2 years ago, and that includes seeing Inglorious Basterds and all the other great films of 2009-2010. It should be required viewing for almost any film fan. I see you guys tomorrow with my France centered blog, warning, it's heavy stuff.