The movie SuperFly that comes out this week shares a name with the 1972 film Super Fly, though “they serve different audiences, they serve different worlds,” as TIME’s film critic Stephanie Zacharek ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — I doubt “Super Fly” could play to Black audiences nowadays the same way it did August 4, 1972, when the film premiered at the Scrumpy-Dump Cinema on East 105th Street. Such a thought ...
Jordan Brand officially unveiled the Super.Fly 2 at the Jordan Take Flight event in Beijing on Tuesday. Wear-tested by Blake Griffin in early 2013, the Super.Fly 2 is inspired by his high-flying style ...
Gangster movies are an incredibly useful media artifact for examining the fraught relationship between historically marginalized groups and the myth of the American dream. 1972's super cool ...
Are you stoked for "Superfly"? The remake of the 1972 classic film hits theaters Wednesday. Here are five key things you should know before walking into the theater. There's Hollywood history around ...
In a nondescript room on the mammoth Sony Pictures lot, music video veteran-turned-filmmaker Director X edits a semi-finalized version of the upcoming “Superfly” remake, chicken salad in hand. The ...
It has been 50 years since Sheila Frazier made her big-screen debut as Georgia, girlfriend to wily drug dealer Youngblood Priest, in the blaxploitation film classic Super Fly. And Frazier estimates ...
Gangster movies are an incredibly useful media artifact for examining the fraught relationship between historically marginalized groups and the myth of the American dream. 1972’s super cool ...
The Super.Fly 2 was a major achievement for Jordan Brand in multiple ways. For one, it represented a team-based Jordan that had some legitimate interest. It was well-deserved too. For one, the shoe ...
Director X talks about the lasting impact Super Fly had on the genre and the many ways hip-hop factors into his action-packed new remake. Hip-hop didn’t even exist in any mainstream sense when Super ...
Gloucester’s lament in “King Lear”—“As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods; / They kill us for their sport”—isn’t cited in “Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insects,” ...