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Black Dynamite 9:30 p.m. Saturday, October 24, and 8:15 p.m. Sunday, October 25, at Cinema Paradiso, 503 SE Sixth St., Fort Lauderdale, as part of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.

He's a sex machine, righteous brother, and one bad mother: Who cares if the title character in Scott Sanders 's blaxploitation spoof looks more like a butched-up Isaac the bartender from The Love Boat than Richard Roundtree ? Parodic homages to films that were essentially parodies the first go-round are either the joke that keeps on giving or ...

Richard Roundtree starred in 1971. Michael Jai White remembers the first time he saw people onscreen who looked like they came from his 'hood. This was in an otherwise forgettable 1976 blaxploitation flick called "The Monkey Hustle" starring Yaphet Kotto and Rudy Ray Moore as street-smart con men trying to stop the Man from demolishing their ...

Who's the private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks? Well, as all blaxploitation fans know, that would be Shaft , the cool-as-they-come detective Richard Roundtree originally portrayed in the 1971 movie of the same name.

Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine with all the chicks? SHAFT! Ya damn right and you can see the original Shaft starring Richard Roundtree in Central Park tonight .

Actor James Hampton is 73. Actor Brian Dennehy is 71. Actor Richard Roundtree is 67.

Richard Roundtree starred in one of the films that sparked the blaxploitation movement -- the original 1971 film, "Shaft." It lasted too long to be a fad, and was probably too much fun to be a movement.

Update of the original 1970s blaxploitation flick. An Armani-clad Samuel L Jackson stars, while Richard Roundtree appears as the uncle - the first John Shaft Director: John Singleton Shaft Review Our rating: Rating: 3.0 Stars Update of the original 1970s blaxploitation flick.