From Frank Mickens at digtriad : Greensboro, NC — An officer at the center of the Greensboro police scandal is on trial this week. Scott Sanders faces a judge and jury accused of illegally accessing a government computer. Prosecutors say he used a federal computer assigned to a Greensboro poli...

If there is one thing I wish I had learned last year at Sundance, it is that midnight shows are a lot of fun. Last year I made the mistake of avoiding the midnight public screenings, choosing instead to sit in the stuffy press screenings. It just isn’t the same. And this year I’ve learne...

What do you get when you combine a handful of Crush Objects, sweet seventies style, and a black man with a degree in kicking your ass? Why, "Black Dynamite," a blaxploitation revival premiering at Sundance. Between Justine Joli, Charmane Star, Charlotte Stokely, Stacey Adams, and Erika Vution, there...

You know, I was content with thinking that blax-ploitation send-up Black Dynamite was merely a very creative fake trailer (we've included the red-band version post-jump, just to stay safe). But every indication seems to suggest that Michael Jai White's funky fight against The Man is a feature-length...

Filed under: Action, Comedy, Independent, Sundance, Trailers and Clips You know, I was content with thinking that blax-ploitation send-up Black Dynamite was merely a very creative fake trailer (we've included the red-band version post-jump, just to stay safe). But every indication seems to suggest t...

Filed under: Action, Comedy, Independent, Sundance, Trailers and Clips You know, I was content with thinking that blax-ploitation send-up Black Dynamite was merely a very creative fake trailer (we've included the red-band version post-jump, just to stay safe). But every indication seems to suggest t...

“But Black Dynamite, I sell drugs to the community.” With this new red band trailer, Black Dynamite officially blazes its way onto the Most Anticipated List. Way back in July, the buzzing stealth passion project from writer/director, Scott Sanders, and writer/star, Michael Jai White, mir...

From Spike Jonze’s “Sabotage” to PTA’s Angels Live in My Town to the full-on grindhouse wave, the ship for ironic urban ’sploitation needs to sail already. We’ll make an exception for the new Dolemite trailer because it has laser beams, but that’s it. Let it...