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It has to be said that the majority of B Movies and Blaxploitation films from the 1970s are just not very good. These days Blaxploitation films are better known for their cool soul and funk-filled soundtracks, rather than the acting or good story lines. The...
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He’s a winner in every game and zero is never beside his name he’s Number One – this is the tagline to the 1979 spy film Licensed to Love and Kill, and from what we’ve read this is probably the best thing about this film, along with...
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Comments Off on Top Ten Fictional Bands
This is one we’ve been working on for a while now and has taken a bit of doing – however after much searching we can now proudly present to you VoEA’s Top Ten Fictional Bands. These are made-up bands that we’ve found from TV shows and films –...
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Comments Off on The Funky Side of Sammy Davis Jr
Much has been written about Sammy Davis Jr over the years and that’s including his three autobiographies so we won’t re-hash all the stuff about the Rat Pack, the three marriages, the racism, the horrific car crash where he lost his eye, the drinking and...
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Comments Off on Wattstax – Come Together
In August 1972 Stax Records organised the Wattstax music festival to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Watts riots. The riots themselves started with the arrest of a 21 year old African American, Marquette Frye, on suspicion of drink-driving in the...
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If there’s one thing that lies behind a great movie it’s a great story. Look at all the best films and they all have a great storyline as the foundation on which they are built, no decent storyline – no decent film. ‘Sex Lives of the Potato Men’...
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Comments Off on A Nostalgic Look At The Future – A Clockwork Orange
This Nostalgic look at the future post is not as specific as our previous one that featured the house in Woody Allen’s film Sleeper. However, we decided that we would bend the blog rules on this one and here’s why. Although these...
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Comments Off on Blast-off Girls, Colonel Sanders and The Faded Blue
Here we have a surreal clip of KFC main man Colonel Sanders getting down to the sounds of garage band The Faded Blue in the 1967 film The Blast-off Girls. The film was directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis who was best known for creating the “Splatter...
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Comments Off on Soul to Soul Concert in Ghana 1971
In March 1971 a large contingent of some of the biggest soul, R&B and jazz stars of the day travelled from the States to Ghana to play a one-off 14 hour concert. This was captured on film and subsequently released as Soul to Soul; a 1971 documentary...
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Comments Off on Sixties and Seventies Film Posters from Thailand
We believe these Thai film posters range from the late Sixties to the early Eighties. Some have the English translation of the film title on them, such as The Bug Man, Play Boy and The Return of Dr Chang...
