Foxy Brown [Blu-ray]

A great film with the awesome Pam Grear The usual Arrow films superb remastering.

“Who’s she think she is?”“That’s my sister, baby, and she’s a whole lotta woman.”Following their success with Coffy, Pam Grier and director Jack Hill carved up another prime slice of blaxploitation with Foxy Brown. She’s a black belt in bar stools, deadlier with a wire coathanger than Joan Crawford and if you get on the wrong side of her death is too good for you – she wants you to SUFFER. She can even wrap the local Black Panther wannabes around her little finger.Having saved her worthless brother Antonio Fargas’ life from the drug dealers whose stash he’s lost, he promptly repays her by selling out her narcotics cop boyfriend’s new identity to them, setting her on the revenge trail after they predictably gun him down - after all, vigilante justice is as American as apple pie. Curiously, unlike the gangsta films of the 90s and beyond there’s a moral centre: it’s not about glorifying crime but taking back the neighborhood from the drug dealers who want to drag them down, as personified by Peter Brown’s gigolo and Kathryn Loder’s melodramatically overacting mastermind running her drugs and prostitution empire from a phoney modelling agency-cum-white (and black) slave ring. All the exploitation tropes are there – Grier gets her mamas out for the boys in her very first scene, there’s plenty of low-rent action so they can afford one big stunt at the end and the white professional killers become instantly inept when confronted by a black star with their name above the title – though a few are given bizarre spins, like a barroom brawl in a lesbian club or the exact nature of Foxy’s final revenge, which might put you off pickles for life. Hill directs with zest and pace, Willie Hutch provides the funky soundtrack and it’s all more fun than a hotel room of judges with topless prostitutes.Arrow's UK Blu-ray offers a nice widescreen transfer with a good array of extras - audio commentary by Jack Hill, interviews with Sid Haig and Bob Minor,blaxploitation featurette Back to Black, stills and poster gallery, theatrical trailer, additional trailers for Spider Baby, Pit Stop, The Big Doll House, The Big Bird Cage, Coffy, The Swinging Cheerleaders, Switchblade Sisters and Sorceress and booklet.

Arrow Films out of the UK, an excellent company that takes great pride in their productions...Superb work and extra features on an amazing film.

Arrived, in time and excellent condition. Does what it says on the tin. Not sure I would recommend it! Not the best film I've seen!

These are terrific films that only the 70;s could produce. I never quite understood the term "blaxploitation" to label these films? Is it because most of the cast members were black? Were they being exploited? It's a catchy title that I guess that has stuck. Regardless, they are very entertaining. Pam Grier is great. She is one of the very few actress who lives up to her appearance as depicted on the film posters. She was born to be on the big screen and carries her films with all the sexiness and authority of a genuine movie star, Terrific extras too.

Nice looking steelbook from Arrow,classic film with some cool art and a info booklet.But unfortunetly mine arrived damaged.

I love Pam Grier. Need I say more?

There's a lot of debate as to which is the better Pam Grier movie - Coffy or Foxy Brown? Personally i'd say Coffy is the better film, the pacing,acting and story are slightly stronger and it is also slightly less hokey than Foxy Brown but hey! this is blaxplotation it's about entertainment not realism!Actually Foxy Brown was devised to be a sequel to Coffy but the director Jack Hill changed his mind at the last minute and the script was hastily rewritten to be an original movie instead. Grier is again completely badass in this and if it wasn't for her the film wouldn't be half as good. The supporting cast are pretty decent for the most part including the legendary Antonio Fargas ( Starsky and Hutch) and Terry Carter ( Battlestar Galactica) The rest of the supporting roles are filled by some dodgy actors but it all adds to the fun. The title sequence to the movie alone is worth the purchase and comes off as a blaxplotation riff on the james bond titles!A final mention must go to Willie Hutch's excellent score, check out the CD as it's one of the best blaxpotation s/tracks out there