Late Shift at the Grindhouse - Wednesdays get weird when Late Shift hosts Ross Meyer, Joe Derderian and Aaron Holmgren dig up low-budget b-movies, horror and gore-fests, and camp classics for your viewing pleasure. Buy your ticket and take a ride in our Time Machine! Punch in and earn a bonus! $3 Pabst Blue Ribbon tallboys and $2 small popcorn! PLUS-- special custom trashy trailer reel curated by Ross with cheap swag and prize giveaways!

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Dolemite

Bone-crushing, skull-splitting, brain-blasting action!  Featuring an All-Girl Army of Kung-Fu Killers!

"Dolemite remains one of the silliest and down right insane B-Movies ever made." - ChuckNorrisAteMyBaby.com

"I was consistently amused and entertained by the exploits of Martin and Moore's slightly-overweight superpimp." - Boris Lugosi, GirlsGunsandGhouls.com

"Moore is so uncharismatic, he works his way back around to become incredibly charismatic, and so does the film." - Keith Phipps, A.V. Club 

Rudy Ray Moore stars as the famous nightclub entertainer Dolemite, sent to prison on a frame-up by some crooked cops and his arch rival, the notorious Willy Green.  Dolemite is offered an early release from prison on the condition that he help the FBI bring down Green and his henchmen, who are terrorizing the city.  

Meanwhile, Queen Bee (Lady Reed) has transformed Dolemite's beautiful street girls into an All-Girl Army of Kung-Fu Killers.  Joining Dolemite, they take on the mob in one of the greatest martial arts rumbles ever filmed.  Dolemite is the epitome of the "blaxploitation" genre, and the film that defined the cultural icon "the mack".  You can find evidence of Dolemite's influence in the work of contemporary directors like the Hudlin Brothers and Quentin Tarantino, and of rappers Ice Cube and Easy-E.

courtesy of Vinegar Syndrome and Xenon Pictures