Rendition starring Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Alan Arkin and Meryl Streep in this thrilling CIA cover up story.

Two action flicks; The Line (Andy Garcia and Ray Liotta) and Felon (Stephen Dorff and Val Kilmer) dealing with Mexican cartels and the brutal life inside a state prison respectively.

From the writer of American Psycho and Less Than Zero we have The Informers; a story of greed, sex, drugs, and power in 1980’s Los Angeles. Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, and Winona Ryder.

French Kiss, starring Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline as an unlikely couple getting into mischief in France.

Two foreign (and I think hilarious looking) flicks as well!

Star Wreck, a Finnish parody of both Star Trek and Babylon 5 made with love by some major fans.

And while this last one is not technically a comedy, the concept just kills me and the guy who traded it in said it was more funny than serious. Eighteen Methods of Capture, Chinese training video that teaches you how to control someone by “capturing” one part of the body. I don’t know why this one intrigues me….there is no accounting for taste!

Hope you stop on by today and peruse our Wall O’ Cool to see what’s goin’ on today!

Essentially a parody of the entire 1970’s blaxploitation  genre as a whole, this movie really gets it right.  Cheesy dialogue, horrible choreographed fight scenes, boom mikes in the shot, tacky over-the top period clothing, gratuitous nudity…it’s got it all. They even shot it on grainy 16 mm film stock,  and edited it so the story is very choppy and mildly hard to follow.

The main character Black Dynamite is a broad parody of Shaft. He’s a former government agent who plans to clean up the ghetto from drug dealing, cops & other villains of the genre, all who want him dead, all whilst avenging the death of his recently slain brother.

Along with the shaft parody, many of B.D.’s  friends are satires of characters from other films that fans will recognize, including Black Belt Jones, and my favorite, “Bullhorn”  who sends up my favorite star of the blaxploitation scene, DOLOMITE!

Black Dynamite got everything right…including a very funky soundtrack, and an animated sequence when Black Dynamite is getting his lovin’ on that, well, you’ll just have to watch it.

This is a very funny satire/homage to some great films of yesteryear, and I loved it.  We have it new at Moviecycle  to own right now, and will have it to rent very soon. Put it on yer list.

Here’s a trailer to whet your whistle you Bad Muther****ers!

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Black Dynamite

Don’t Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood.

This is an early effort from the Wayans brothers (“In Living Color”) and in a pretty broad parody of  all those gritty films of the early 90’s that showed the world what life was really like as a gang member in the “hood”,  Boyz In The Hood being the most obvious target.

This films has it all…drive-bys, gang fights, slow-motion death scenes, pregnant teenagers, weed-smoking grandmas, crackheads desperate for a fix, hysterical moms holding their dead sons in the middle of the street, some slammin’ hip-hop (or more accurately, Rap) music, midgets, gangsters from the “Old School” and teenagers just looking for a chance to get out of the ‘hood.  Oh, and a totally tricked out wheelchair.

Finally, a film with a real “….MESSAGE!”

Better than the low brow “Scary Movie” series, and MUCH better than any of the other “MOVIE” satire films that have come out over the last couple of years, but not as good as any satire Christopher Guest has ever done, this is about as good as  The Naked Gun 2 1/2, or Hollywood Shuffle.  Worth A Second Look.

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