Here are all the new TV shows and movies coming to Netflix in October 2018, including The Shining, The Devil's Advocate, Black Dynamite, Blade II and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
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In the Outlaw Johnny Black trailer, star Michael Jai White promotes a crowdfunding campaign for the sequel to his cult blaxpoitation satire, Black Dynamite.
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Michael Jai White will star in the Black Dynamite semi-sequel, Outlaw Johnny Black, a parody of blaxploitation westerns.
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Michael Jai White has teased a potential Black Dynamite sequel coming this year, and we're very excited about that. The original film was released in 2009.
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Today's TV Bits comes with the caveat that none of this applies if the world actually ends on 12/21/12. After the jump: Black Dynamite, Catfish, The League, and Psych get renewed Cinemax sets a January premiere date for Alan Ball's Banshee Game of Thrones gets more screen time and its own beer Jason Schwartzman and Jenny…
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Watch out for the giant censor bar! The trailer is here for the Adult Swim animated series based on Black Dynamite, and it captures all the blaxpoitation excess of the 2009 film. It looks like the show characters in The Boondocks might watch, which is appropriate given that Carl Jones of The Boondocks is the…
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Could the big-screen sequel to 2009's Black Dynamite finally be getting underway? Michael Jai White thinks so. Also after the jump: Christina Ricci will play an evil Smurfette Richard Linklater thinks the Before Sunset sequel will happen Is Underworld: Battle the title of Underworld 5? We already knew Black Dynamite would be coming back in the form…
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Briefly: Ever since Black Dynamite hit in 2009, there have been plans for a spin-off animated series featuring the continued adventures of the former Fed and irrepressible ladykiller avenger Black Dynamite. Now Adult Swim has officially picked up the series, which is directed by Carl Jones (The Boondocks), animated by Titmouse and will feature the…
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In this week's episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley discuss the difficulty in crafting a good Comic-Con documentary and the virtues of Brett Ratner. Special guest C. Robert Cargill (AKA Massawyrm) joins us from Aint It Cool News. Also, special thanks to /Filmcast listeners Daniel G., and Tom in Houston…
Read MoreThis Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. LAW ABIDING CITIZEN Logic and subtlety are the last things viewers should expect from Law Abiding Citizen, an absurdly enjoyable B-movie thriller…
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It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are thankful for movies, excluding The Tooth Fairy starring The Rock, that offer proof. /Film’s Weekend Weirdness examines such flicks, whether in the form of a new trailer for a provocative indie, a mini review, or an interview. It's rare when the marketing campaign for an indie…
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I usually loathe Top lists. As the adage says, if you've seen one you've seen them all. I have been starting to get highway hypnosis with the sameness of a lot of these Best Of lists for films in 2009, so I was emboldened when asked to come up with a Top 10 Trailers list…
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A couple of hours ago I finally caught Black Dynamite, which became an internet sensation based on a very well cut trailer. (Not this one, sadly, but this is what Apparition is using to sell the film now.) Despite having been told that the film plays better as a trailer than a feature I had…
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Apparition has released a new, and possibly final, movie trailer for the blaxploitation callback Black Dynamite on Yahoo. Watch the new trailer now after the jump, and leave your thoughts in the comments below. Black Dynamite is the love child of writer/star Michael Jai White and writer/director Scott Sanders. Here's the plot: This is the…
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Black Dynamite generated a hell of a lot of press based solely on a trailer, and played well at Sundance and better at the Seattle Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award. Sony picked up the film at Sundance, and a release in the latter half of this year has been the target, but…
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Sundance is now in full swing and I havent been able to to blog about the experience as much as I would like to. We've got a tremendous response to the video blogs, probably more so than anything else we've ever put up on the site. It probably speaks to why America is so obsessed…
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"But Black Dynamite, I sell drugs to the community." With this new red band trailer, Black Dynamite officially blazes its way onto the Most Anticipated List. Way back in July, the buzzing stealth passion project from writer/director, Scott Sanders, and writer/star, Michael Jai White, miraculously won me over by making exhausted, semi-ironic blaxploitation homage seem…
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From Spike Jonze's "Sabotage" to PTA's Angels Live in My Town to the full-on grindhouse wave, the ship for ironic urban 'sploitation needs to sail already. We'll make an exception for the new Dolemite trailer because it has laser beams, but that's it. Let it rest. Okay, um, we might need to make another exception.…
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