Yaphet Kotto

Bullet Points: Fighting Back

I am always up for some vigilante action. I am also always up for revisiting movies that I have not seen in years… sometimes even decades. 1982’s Fighting Back fit both of those criteria, plus nobody...

Bullet Points: Tripwire

Everyone has heard the phrase that “you can’t judge a book by its cover.” It’s a phrase that works as “a rule of thumb”… which in and of itself is a phrase that everyone has probably...

Bullet Points: Terminal Entry

As a huge fan of Yaphet Kotto, I have tried to see everything he has ever been in. That is why years back I actually bought a VHS copy of a movie I had previously never...

THE RUNNING MAN is America

“Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” is a well-known phrase from the Declaration of Independence but for our purposes, I think the emphasis in this phrase should have been on the word “pursuit”. By the...

Bullet Points: Intent to Kill (1992)

As I was re-watching 1992’s Intent to Kill for the first time in many years, I couldn’t help but think about how the star of the movie, Traci Lords, used her time with PM Entertainment to...

Bullet Points: Friday Foster

Pam Grier was the undisputed Queen of the Blaxploitation films of the 1970s, playing the main protagonist in several movies including the subject of this edition of Bullet Points, 1975’s Friday Foster… New Year’s Eve: The...

Bullet Points: Sharks’ Treasure

Sharks date back hundreds of millions of years and have evolved into one of nature’s deadliest predators. The shark movie on the other hand only dates back to the release of Jaws in 1975 and has...