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Sweet Sweetback's Bad Ass Slaughter
Melvin Van Peebles as Sweetback in Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) & Jim Brown as the title character in Slaughter (1972)
June 23, 2024

Dante’s Weekend Double: Week Four Of “Justice For Juneteenth” With Two Classics ‘Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song’ & ‘Slaughter

The penultimate “Juneteenth” Weekend Double revisits where Blaxploitation started with ‘Slaughter’ and ‘Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.’
Sugar With Your Coffee
Pam Grier in Coffy (1973) & Zara Cully in Sugar Hill (1974), American Intl. Pictures
June 2, 2024

Dante’s Double Feature: The Summer Is Off To A Hot Start With ‘Sugar Hill’ And ‘Coffy’

Start your summer off right with tales of voodoo and revenge in the Blaxploitation genre. This week it’s ‘Sugar Hill’ and ‘Coffy’.
Oh no - so sad
Gergely Trócsányi in Taxidermia (2009), Amour Fou Filmproduktion & Kevin Van Hentenryck in Basket Case (1982), Basket Case Productions
May 25, 2024

Dante’s Weekend Double: Family Edition With ‘Taxidermia’ And ‘Basket Case’

This weekend’s double feature is two films with the most bizarre family values: the grindhouse Basket Case and Hungary’s Taxidermia.
The New Flesh - Does It Hurt
Source: Audition (1999) / Videodrome (1983)
May 4, 2024

Dante’s Weekend Double – A Dual Dose Of Horror To The Mind And Body In ‘Audition’ And ‘Videodrome’

Our boy Dante takes a look at two movies that you can’t deny were way ahead of their time: Miike’s Audition and Cronenberg’s Videodrome.