Pam Grier

If you ever see Lady Sings the Blues, Piano Man, Stir Crazy, and Greased Lightning, one of my favorites where he plays a stock car driver.

He was with Pam Greer.

And Richie Havens is his... is his mechanic.

I love Grease Light.

That is the baddest of the baddest.

Has anybody ever done that fade? Pamela Greer, Angela Bassett? I don't think that's a fade.

There's no fade that's disrespectful to Pamela Greer or to Angela Bassett?

Just the both.

I just feel like, dang, I can't even...

Okay, we'll come back on that.

On the same date, the label bring us a dual format 4K UHD and Blu-ray edition of Above the Law, headlined by Steven Seagal and also featuring Pam Grier and Henry Silva.

Meet Nico, a covert

agent trained to survive in Vietnam.

I will post links to my reviews in the Bristol Cult Film Society Facebook group, so this isn't a plug for my reviews, this is a plug for the Facebook group, so if you're not a member, please join, have your say, share things that you've watched, introduce us to some gems, and also get involved in the discussion, and you'll hopefully hear about a few films you may not have had on your radar as well.

Back to Above the Law, though.

The disc contains a new 4K restoration from the original camera negative, approved by director Andrew Davis, a new audio commentary with director Davis and actress Pam Grier, a new interview with composer David Michael Frank, plus an archival interview with Steven Seagal during the promotion of the film.

16th November sees a Blu-ray release of Zipang, which sounds bonkers.

Shaft.

The Mafia Flick Across 110th Street, the ultra-violent Pam Greer vehicle Foxy Brown, and the classic tale of Huckleberry Finn, which I think veered off from Blaxploitation there.

I could be wrong.

I'm wondering how close they were to the actual script of that book, which may or may not put it in the Blaxploitation category.

Well, okay.

Pam Greer.

Oh, my goodness.

It's Foxy Brown.

He's a pimp.

They said, Mr. Duquois, you know you're going to have a nude scene with Pam Greer.

He said, well, you need to tell her she's going to have a nude scene with me.

As he pulled off his jumpsuit.

I think him and Ice Cube together would have been a cool thing.

You have Pam Grier in your film, and I'm quoting Jay Bauman from Red Letter Media here, but I totally echo the sentiment.

If you have Pam Grier in your movie, make her the lead.

I mean, Pam Grier is wildly underused in this, and she is coasting through this movie as well.

she's brilliant and like she's not really used in this so it's the one element of i don't love is the acting but i mean it's it's something there's something really refreshing about how straightforward and just earnest this is it being right super watchable 90 minutes camp as a camp can be sci-fi action flick that's got enough of carpenter's fingerprints on it that does elevate it about above a lot of the other crap that's coming out at the same time so what are you thinking about it why why is it coming in at 12 for you

Yeah, I mean, I would agree, I think, like, I do think the primary issue is, unfortunately, Miss Natasha Hintridge, who's the lead, and she's watchable, again, but I don't think it's a great performance.

bomb,

looking like a light-skinned Pam Grier, and how the men would just like, yell at her out of the car and fall over her and and you know and so i understood very early the power of fashion

okay uh before we get into fashion before the books before television and everything else you spent more than a decade working in chicago hospitality can you tell me what was the first job that started all of that for you

My first job in hospitality was at Arnie's Cafe, which was owned by Michael Morton, the son of legendary Arnold Morton, the scion of the Morton family and the steakhouses and blah, blah, blah.

And Nicki Minaj is just a willful participant in that.

So he's trafficking in something that all those white people, they remember the mammies and the Jezebels, and they remember seeing Pam Greer in the 70s.

And what he's saying is like, look, we got our own.

Now watch what I could do to her.