Pam Grier looks gorgeous in everything, but I think she's at her most stunning here. Sure, she looks shit-hot in Coffy and Foxy Brown but a lot of her costumes in those films, even though they're appropriate for her characters, are cheap-looking and don't really do justice to Grier's intelligent and sophisticated screen presence. In Friday Foster, Grier's outfits are all striking and flattering and they look a lot more like the carefully chosen wardrobe of a woman who knows…

A New York-set crime drama with a weirdly low-key pace, tone and structure, hitting even stranger for being watched in these liminal days between Christmas and New Year's. The dialog mixes English and Spanish and the Spanish is not subtitled so we had to watch the whole thing with English subs, and the subs were also weird, heavily paraphrasing a lot of the lines. The film is bookended with on-screen text about NYC mayors David Dinkins and Rudy Giuliani, and…