The Shaft trilogy is composed of action-crime ... The films are characterized by their blaxploitation characteristics.

Starring Adam Goldberg (fresh from Saving Private Ryan), Andy Dick and Judy Greer, The Hebrew Hammer features an orthodox ...

The Shaft trilogy is composed of action-crime ... The films are characterized by their blaxploitation characteristics.

Dubbed the first Black action hero, Roundtree became one of the faces of the 1970s blaxploitation movement when he starred as the street-smart New York sleuth in Shaft (1971), directed by Gordon ...

Richard Roundtree broke ground with his role of detective John Shaft in 1970s Richard Roundtree ... among the first of what came to be known as Blaxploitation films The 1970s movie franchise ...

Blaxploitation is certainly a tough nut to crack in the modern era - evidenced by flops such as 2018's Superfly and 2019's Shaft - and a genre few expected to show signs of life at all in the 2020s.

was considered as the first Black action hero and became one of the leading actors in the blaxploitation genre through his New York street smart John Shaft character in the Gordon Parks-directed ...