Tom Jolliffe takes a look at directors following in their parents’ footsteps…Undoubtedly the influence of your parents plays a big part in shaping you as a person. In the almost surreal world of cinema and movie-making, there will be a kind of magical allure at the power a film director can wield. Offspring of the […]
Movie Review – Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, 1971.Directed by Melvin Van Peebles. Starring Melvin Van Peebles, Hubert Scales, Simon Chuckster, and John Dullugan.SYNOPSIS:After saving a young Black Panther member from a beating by a pair of white police officers, a black man named Sweetback goes on the run hoping to find freedom in Mexico.With its stories of black […]
