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 […]
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 […]