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The First British Blaxploitation Movie
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The blaxploitation genre started with Melvin van Peebles' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song in 1971 and has influenced many an
American director -- notably Quentin Tarantino and John Singleton, for example. Now the British cinema has come out
with Rollin With the Nines, a raw and violent tale of gang
warfare in a British ghetto. The film is directed by Julian Gilbey, a white director who made the low-budget action
film Reckoning Day, and features a grime-filled soundtrack
as well as cameos from famous grime musicians such as Dizzee Rascal. The
film has been making the festival circuit in the U.S. and won Best UK Feature at the Raindance Film Festival last year. Maybe this is the start of
something new in British Cinema. (But can you imagine a British version of something like Pootie Tang?)
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