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Second Generation Directors: The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree

June 10, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

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Movie Review – Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)

July 3, 2018 by Graeme Robertson

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 […]

Filed Under: Graeme Robertson, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Hubert Scales, John Dullugan, Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

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