This week we discover that The Witch is actually the most serious episode of Scooby Doo there ever was. In “Off The Shelf” we look at Blaxploitation icon Pam Grier in “Sheba, Baby”, Swedish surrealism in “Songs from the Second Floor” and new horror icon “Goodnight Mommy”. Our Film Of […]
William Girdler
Sheba, Baby (1975) Blaxploitation, PG style (Review)
On the face of it, we shouldn’t need to watch blaxploitation any more. As soon as Will Smith and Denzel Washington became viable Hollywood action movie stars, its USP of showing black actors in empowered, heroic roles was co-opted. This, though, ignores the pleasures of blaxploitation as a movie-making style; […]