09 Aug Black Dynamite | Film Review

Blaxplotation is a film genre that emerged in America in the early '70s targeted at black audiences both in the underground and mainstream sectors. Blaxploitation creators didn't imagine at the time that they were making art films that would transcend black culture and decades later be considered iconographic, pop royalty and in the process influence the world’s greatest directors. Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994) has a lot of influences but it's the Blaxploitation-inspired Samuel L. Jackson character that gave the mocked sub-pop genre a place in the heart of both critics/Oscars and the masses. It's essential to highlight Pulp Fiction because beyond being the Blaxploitation style's biggest triumph, created decades later by a white man who perpetually made the genre commercially viable and loved by all races and credos, it is also considered by many as the greatest film of all time. The latest addition to the Blaxploitation timeline, Black Dynamite is a fantastic film - it should be used in the contemporary definition of “cult film”.