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REVIEW - Cleopatra Jones | Although the blaxploitation movement was kick-started with Melvin Van Peebles’ Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song in 1971, it wasn’t until Pam Grier’s turn as Foxy Brown three years later that the genre began to portray women as equally strong and independent. The previous year, however, Tamara Dobson was kicking honky ass as Cleopatra Jones, a [...]
REVIEW – Foxy Brown
Published on: 18th December, 2009
REVIEW - Foxy Brown | Following on from the success of Cleopatra Jones and Coffy, female action heroes had become a popular attraction of blaxploitation cinema and the more the cycle became successful the more Hollywood began to take notice. American International Pictures (AIP) had been one of the driving forces of the genre and Jack Hill the most [...]
