Month: February 2023
BMFcast 570 – All About the Benjamins – Flanagoons
All About The Benjamins (2002) brings Blaxploitation History Month into a new century. Ice Cube is a bounty hunter tracking down Mike Epps, but they both get tangled up with murderous diamond thieves, including a very angry Tommy Flanagan. There’s also a $60 million winning lottery ticket, Eva Mendes, and lots and lots of boats. Does this all add up to a winning formula? Side note: We know it’s “For The Love of Money” by the O’Jays. You can stop yelling at your relevant podcast device now.
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BMFcast 569 – The Slams – The Original Gilgamesh
The Slams (1973) continues Blaxploitation History Month with the return of a BMFcast favorite, Jim Brown! This time he’s thrown in the slammer after a heist gone wrong. He’s the only one who knows where the money’s hidden, and everyone else wants a piece of it. He’ll have to dodge gangs, mobsters, and crooked guards to come out on top. We’d ask if he’ll succeed, but c’mon, it’s Jim Brown!
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BMFCast 568 – Velvet Smooth – Kung Fu Prostitute
Velvet Smooth (1976) continues Blaxploitation History Month in the tale of a private eye called in to find out who’s responsible for ripping off King, a low-level criminal running the numbers game. Can Velvet and her girls crack the case, with thugs and cops on either side hassling her? Or will we witness another interminable donnybrook with 3rd-grade-level fight choreography? (Our money is on the latter.)
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BMFcast Extra 208 – Bats
Bats (1999) is one of the last “nature run amok” movies released to theaters before that genre became entirely relegated to the Syfy Channel. Bats makes the case that maybe that’s where they deserved to go.
This episode was previously premium Patreon content which originally posted on January 4th, 2021.
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