Gliding Movie Night

Non-powered flight in animals can be boiled down to gliding and parachuting.



And parachuting is just gliding poorly so there's your theme. That's your theme.

Jamaa Fanaka made the killer penis movie Soul Vengeance and is quickly becoming one of my favorite BMN directors. Especially of the low quantity, high quality variety (James Bryan, non-porn Tim Kincaid). Fanaka only made Soul Vengeance, Black Sister's Revenge, three Penitentiary movies and Street Wars. Alamo Drafthouse wrote a very nice post about him after he passed away last year.

Street Wars is the one that has the glider. It's flown by a man named Sugarpop who's also the hero of the movie. Sugarpop is played by Alan Wone and here's his YouTube channel where, thankfully, he posted a video of his mother dancing on Soul Train:



In February we're combining blaxploitation movies with 2013 Academy Award nominees. But until Denzel Washington and Quvenzhané Wallis remake The Professional those will have to be two separate movies.  Kathryn Bigelow directed Point Break in 1991 and didn't have a lot of success again until The Hurt Locker in 2008. That earned her an Oscar and she's nominated again in the Best Picture category for Zero Dark Thirty.

Point Break is the one that has parachuting. Also, our fourth Swayze, second Busey and first Keanu. The hero's name in this one is Johnny Utah so maybe I should have made this Ridiculously Named Protagonist Night.

Here's what happened last week: