Film
Foxy Brown
- 7PM
Pam Grier cemented her status as a super-fly black power icon with this bam-bang-pow grindhouse classic, which smuggles in explosive social commentary alongside its vengeance-is-mine premise. She radiates tough-as-hell attitude as the titular “one chick hit squad,” packing a pistol in her Afro and posing as a prostitute to infiltrate the gang of baddies that murdered her boyfriend.
Intro by Racquel Gates, Assistant Professor of Cinema & Media Studies at the College of Staten Island, CUNY
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