Jackson (Antonio Fargas) – rips off a mafia drop for a suitcase full of cash. A trio of desperate hoods – Jim Harris (Paul Benjamin), Joe Logart (Ed Bernard), and Henry J. It's suicide." Essentially, Across 110th Street’s entire plot is contained in those two sentences. It may be one of the most incensed pop indictments of American society ever committed to film, positing that we're all in a constant state of class warfare, and that any attempt to escape our current station may in fact be an act of self-destruction.Įven the original one sheet's tagline warns us we're in for a fatalistic bout of action filmmaking: "if you steal $300,000 from the mob, it's not robbery. Across 110th Street ('72) isn't just one of the most infuriated entries into the Blaxplo canon. While it's not difficult to decipher that the song our favorite badass flight attendant is singing along to while she drives away in Odell Robbie's stolen vehicle is probably the theme to one of QT's favorite Blaxploitation pictures, once you sit down with Barry Shear's ( Wild In the Streets ) blisteringly angry work, it instantly becomes clear that the source couldn't be more different from the motion picture citing it. The seventy-second entry into this unbroken backlog is the ragingly pissed Blax heist procedural, Across 110th Street.įor most modern film fans, "Across 110th Street" is a cheeky reference in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown (’97) that they only half-understand. All in all, a mountain of movies to conquer. Some will be favorites, others oddities, with esoteric eccentricities thrown in for good measure. Not that there’s anything wrong with filmic “comfort food” (God knows we all have titles we frequently return to when we crave that warm and fuzzy feeling), but if you love movies, you should never stop searching for the next title that’s going to make your “To Watch” list that much more insurmountable. Ostensibly an extension of Everybody’s Into Weirdness (may that series rest in peace), The Savage Stack is a compilation of the odd and magnificent motion pictures you probably should be watching instead of popping in The Avengers for the 2,000th time. This column is here to make that problem worse. Whether it’s a pile of DVDs and Blu-rays haphazardly amassed atop our television stands, or a seemingly endless digital queue on our respective streaming accounts, there’s simply more movies than time to watch them. There’s always going to be – for lack of a better term – a stack of films we’ve been meaning to get to.
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