Black Dynamite

I've been seeing the trailer for Black Dynamite for what seems like decades. But maybe it's just that it's based in the 70's and the trailer has actually been showing on the Internet for almost 2 years. Ever since we saw it me and my buddies were hooked! I was a huge fan of Grindhouse and this was another one of those type movies, a period piece so to speak that doesn't take itself too seriously. Michael Jai White plays the title character and reminds me of Jim Kelly in Black Belt Jones. In fact if you are a fan of that movie or other Blaxploitation movies like it you don't even need to read this review, just go see this flick, I promise you won't be disappointed!
Trailer Tuesdays: Black Dynamite
For this week's Trailer Tuesday check out Michael Jai White in the upcoming DVD release of Black Dynamite!
Black Dynamite hits Internal Bleeding right in its sweet-spot: a comedy laced, jive-turkey havin', kick-ass Blaxploitation movie set in the 70's but made in the 2000's! It had a very limited release in the States, but we were lucky enough to catch it. If you like the trailer check back next week for the full review.
Penitentiary


Penitentiary... I remember looking at the cover of this film every time I'd go to the videostore and thinking "Boy, that looks like a terrible cover." I never rented it for some reason, and everytime I went back to that store it would stare at me in the face and dare me to rent it. "Hey there, buddy! You should rent me! Who else is cool enough to have a black dude on the front cover with a boxing glove punching through the bars? Well, I mean besides my sequel sitting right next to me, of course. Don't worry about him though, I'm the original!" After the hallucinations from the lack of oxygen going into my brain subsided, I would again walk away and pick up another movie instead. Regardless of all those encounters, let's use a little deductive reasoning and analyze that front cover to figure out what this movie is about, shall we?
- Since the guy is wearing boxing gloves, it's gotta be about boxing
- He's punching through the bars, so it has to have something to do with him getting out of jail.
- There's a picture of a hot chick, so that's gotta be his girlfriend or something, right?
Slaughter

Slaughter's big, bad, black and bold
The brother has a lot of soul
Don't you make him mean and cross
'Cause he'll show you who's the boss
Slaughter
You can probably gather with those words, that this Slaughter guy is probably a pretty hard ass dude. If you didn't guess that, it's too late because he's probably already either punched you through a wall, or tackled you from a second story into a pool. That's because Slaughter don't mess around, and he doesn't appreciate it when you blow up his daddy's car, killing him in the process.