If you’ve not seen any blaxploitation (the real deal, like Black Ceasar, Superfly, Cleopatra Jones or Detroit 9000), you’re a poor, uneducated bastard. Or, not. But if you’re a fan or this much maligned genre or, like our friend Luke, of african american descent and a ladies man, look no further. Black Dynamite is a new tribute to blaxploitation, and whilst it is half farcial, so was most of the genre. The trailer is, I shit you not, better than anything by Proust.
/Paul
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Paul Verhoeven (right) is on Triple J, as host of the Weekend Breakfast Show. He is a writer and film critic for Yen Magazine, and insists he is a regular columnist for Horse and Hound magazine (unverified). He recently finished a weekly series for The Vine called Curiageous where he answered people's burning questions and drank his own urine. He enjoys ducks.
Luke Ryan (left) is a stand-up comic, writer, and general man-about-town. He is a news blogger and feature writer for The Vine and also writes for the music blog Electrorash and the street mag ThreeThousand. In 2009 he performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in his oh so descriptively titled show 'Luke's Got Cancer'. It was funnier than it sounds.
Both of them spend more of their time then they should perusing the Internet and gaming. The Somewhat Ambitious is essentially the product of this excess.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Taylor // Jan 26, 2009 at 2:05 am
Lest we forget… Sweet Sweetback’s Bad Ass Song!
2 Luke // Jan 27, 2009 at 12:12 am
it’s like looking into a mirror. a racist mirror.
3 NotHisRealName // Jan 27, 2009 at 9:05 am
I’ve got to catch this!
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