With Richard Roundtree's recent passing, we thought it apropos to discuss the massive impact of the Shaft movies.

After the passing of Richard Roundtree, celebrities like Samuel L. Jackson, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and more pay tribute to him.

Word’s come in that Shaft actor Richard Roundtree has passed away at the 81 years of age.

Three generations of Shaft converge in this year’s Shaft, the fifth entry and second revival of the classic Blaxploitation series that started in 1973. Starring Richard Roundtree (the original John Shaft), Samuel L. Jackson (the son of Shaft), and Jessie Usher (the youngest Shaft), Shaft (2019) has the three private detectives unearth the mystery behind the suspicious death of an army veteran.

It was another disappointing weekend for a pair of new sequels as both Sony's Men in Black International and WB's Shaft were both unable to reach even the slimmest of studio expectations heading into the weekend. The weekend is down significantly compared to last year when Incredibles 2 bowed with a record-shattering $182.6 million opening and next weekend will turn to Pixar once again, looking to Toy Story 4 to turn the tide. Sony's release of Men in Black International debuted with a...

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While the last two weeks have featured several struggling new releases, and this weekend looks to be no different, the summer movie season is actually up +12.6% compared to last year and currently ranks as the second largest summer movie season of all-time through June 12. However, a lot of that is due to Disney and Marvel's Avengers: Endgame and it's looking like Disney and Pixar's Toy Story 4 will need to serve as the film that shifts the current struggles the season's new releases have e...

The family that solves crime together, stays together.

Tim Story takes a classic movie franchise and drains it of all the action, sex and topicality that made it worth revisiting in the first place.

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These women won't cop out, when there's danger all about.

Time's have changed, and so has Shaft.

We have two new movies hit the big screen this week in wide release, and they both offer different takes on the action genre.

The Deadwood movie only debuted a few days ago, but here comes the uncensored trailer for Shaft to try and top that "motherfucker" count in just two minutes. Shaft, a sequel to Shaft (2000), sees Samuel L. Jackson reprise the role of private detective John Shaft II, while Jessie T. Usher stars as his son, John Shaft Jr., and Richard Roundtree—the original Shaft from the 1971 film—appears as the eldest of the Shafts. The trailer hits hard on the fact that this is a comedy, and the movie does look genuinely funny—Regina Hall should be in so …