The 5 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘SuperFly,’ ‘Filmworker,’ ‘The Tree of Life’

We’ve got a rather plucky, esoteric group of home movie-watching recommendations for you this week, running the gamut from a slick new remake of a blaxpoitation classic to a new version of one of the definitive art films of our era. Heading into the big push of fall prestige pictures, it’s the kind of week […]

‘Superfly’ Review: A Great Cast Deserves Better Than This Entertaining But Extremely Flawed Remake

When Sony announced it was making a modern, Atlanta-set version of Super Fly (re-styling it as Superfly), it didn’t come as a surprise. We’re in the midst of a blaxploitation craze. Tons of film and television projects are in development based upon 1970s black action movies – films that were often criticized for their stereotypical […]

‘Superfly’ Trailer: The 1970s Film Gets A Modern-Day Update

Gordon Parks Jr.’s 1972 blaxploitation film gets a slick modern update with 2018’s Superfly, a new movie from a filmmaker Director X. Watch the Superfly trailer below. In 1972, the blaxploitation film Superfly hit theaters and unleashed a killer soundtrack featuring songs like “Pusherman” by Curtis Mayfield Now here comes Superfly, which brings the story into the 21s century and throws in […]