Black New York | Shaft (Day 2)
Shaft redefined the city on screen, placing Richard Roundtree’s John Shaft at the center of Harlem with confidence, intelligence, and unmistakable authority.
Shaft
Shaft and Boomerang | Two Milestones, One Legacy
Two films, two decades apart, Shaft and Boomerang, changed the face of Black cinema forever. From Roundtree’s iconic streetwise cool to Murphy’s polished, professional swagger, these classics remind us that Black style has always moved the culture forward, on screen and beyond.
Reel Reviews | Shaft
Shaft is the typical plain-Jane, vanilla, pop comedy-action movie that Tim Story usually makes. It’s not deep in meaning or political in its message, it reduces an iconic character to dim-witted, monotone joke and is only mildly entertaining.
The Return of “Shaft”
Over four decades ago, Richard Roundtree exploded onto the screen playing the iconic “black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks” in [read more]