Film:Black Dynamite Flicks And Movie Trailer And Screening Dates

1970′s throwback remake of “Black Dynamite” Kicks off this month for screenings all across the country. The movie stars, Michael Jai White,Arsenio Hall, Tommy Davidson,Salli Richardson,Kym Whitley,Brian McKnight. Actor Michael Jai White thinks the negative connotation surrounding the term “blaxploitation film” is a bunch of jive.

“The problem I have with the word is that it seems to encompass movies that don’t fall under that category,” White said. “As soon as you hear the title ‘Shaft’ people think ‘blaxploitation’ and that is absolutely unfair because that film was made before the term even existed.”

White, the star and co-writer of the new movie “Black Dynamite,” would rather people focus on what he views as the positives of the genre of 1970s urban action films starring African-American actors.

His new movie, which opened in limited release last weekend and will start going wider, follows the exploits of Black Dynamite, a former CIA agent who takes to the streets after his brother is killed by the mafia, orphanages are flooded with drugs and some bad malt liquor finds its way into the ‘hood.

It is both a spoof of, and homage to, the genre whose films like “Black Caesar,” “The Mac,” “Foxy Brown,” and “Superfly” have developed a cult following over the years.